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Worle Community School has been an Apple Regional Training Centre since 2008, and the training opportunities this offers ties in perfectly with our Media Arts Specialist status. We provide regular courses for our staff, students, local schools and anyone else who like to expand their knowledge and experience. Courses are run regularly and always have a strong curriculum based educational bias, often relevant across all Key Stages. Training sessions are almost always offered free of charge, though we cannot unfortunately meet any supply or travel costs! Details of our upcoming events are below, and are included on the school calendar. Email us at admin@worle-school.org.uk for more information or to book a place on any course that interest you.
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2009 - 2010 IT Training
Welcome to our programme of IT Training in the Apple Regional Training Centre at Worle Community School. Day workshops costs £5 which will cover refreshments and lunch if required. Half day workshops cost £2:00. Please complete the booking form below and return it to Jane Dickson at Worle Community School.
MONDAY 19th October 2009 1:00pm—3:30pm
Literacy fun with ‘Comic Life’
This program offers a novel approach to digital literacy and gives students numerous ways to explore and develop their creativity. Brilliant at combining images and words, this software can be used for a variety of publications from comic books to ‘how to’ guides and posters.
WEDNESDAY 2nd December 2009 9:30am—3:00pm
‘Make more of your Digital Images’
Do you want to improve your photography skills? We are offering a ‘hands on’ approach to improving your photography skills with an introduction to some simple software to enhance the images. You can then print images to impress you friends and family or to support work related projects.
MONDAY 11th January 2010 1:00pm—3:30pm
Starting Animation
This session will introduce you to the concept of storyboarding and how animation can be used to support learning both within a subject and across the curriculum. If not a teacher, these ideas can be used to provide an activity to get the message across in an innovative way.
FRIDAY 29th January 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
‘Getting Animated’
This workshop will be fully hands on building on the storyboard idea to create your own animation for use in the classroom or at home. Come and see how ‘Wallace and Grommit’ ideas can be created and learn the basic techniques to get your project moving.
WEDNESDAY 24th February 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
Enhancing your photographs with Photoshop
Want a more in depth look at what ‘Photoshop’ can do for your photographs? This opportunity will enable you to enhance your photographs to produce high quality prints for your albums or creative displays.
TUESDAY 9th March 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
Digital music in the classroom
Aimed at those interested in creating digital music in the classroom with ‘Garage Band – your own recording studio. If you want to learn how to play an instrument, write music, record a song – Garage Band can help whether you are a rookie or a rock star!
THURSDAY 25th March 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
Using digital video to engage students
Digital video hardware is available to most schools and video-editing software is some of the easiest computer software to learn to use. This session will help you to make the most of the resources you have and you will be able to organise, edit, add detail and share content to create great audio-visual stories.
MONDAY 10th May 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
Introduction to Podcasting
Learn to use Garage Band’s amazing built in tools to create rich and professional sounding podcasts; creating shows that people will be eager to listen to again and again. Learn how to utilise them for regular broadcasts that people can subscribe to for free.
THURSDAY 17th June 2010 9:30am—3:00pm
Digital music using Logic
An introduction to the program ‘Logic’ and how you can use it to enhance your audio materials.
Jane Dickson,
Director of Community Arts and Extended Schools,
Worle Community School,
Redwing Drive, Worle,
Weston-super-Mare, BS22 8XX.
Tel: 01934 529538
Email - jdickson@worle-school.org.uk