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     Electronic and Digital
    Media Program


    Ursuline’s Technology Program is founded on the principles of Technical and Scientific Communications. These principles involve developing print or multimedia products for an intended audience, either a service-learning client or a client in industry. UA offers two tracks that students can take courses in: Electronic Media and Digital Media

    In both tracks, students learn how to analyze their project’s audience by researching the project’s purpose, the information the audience needs to know, and the educational backgrounds and experience levels of the audience. Once they have identified the purpose and audience for a project, the students collect information, study design principles, organize and outline information, draft their project in either a multimedia or print media format, test their projects on a sample audience, and produce a final product for their client.

     

    Technology Faculty 


    Ann Brinkmann, abrinkmann@fuse.net

    • Introduction to Technical Communication
    • Introduction to Media Production
    • Video Production I
    • Video Production II
    • Introduction to Web Design
    • Print Media and Design
    • Journalism (Yearbook)

    Maureen Rettig, (mrettig@ursulineacademy.org)

    • Technology Applications

     

    Technology Curriculum


    For the 2009-2010 school year, Ursuline is offering courses in Technology Applications, Introduction to Technical Communications, Print Media and Design, Introduction to Media Production, Video Production I, and Graphic Design.

     

    In the News!!!! 



    The Promise of Things to Come…Ursuline Unveils a New Film Studio

    On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, the Technology Department unveiled Ursuline’s new film studio to the Board of Trustees at its March meeting. The new studio replaces the mobile studio that the department has used the last two years and creates a permanent location for Media Production students to film their video projects. The film studio is located in the former office of Athletic Director, Diane Redmond, who has relocated to the new gym.

    The new studio features a large green screen, painted green screen floor, six studio lights, and a control center. Using chroma key technology, Media Production students will be able to make actors appear in any interior or exterior location without leaving the studio. This green screen technology is the same technology that is used to make Superman fly as well as enable newscasters to give weather and traffic reports.

    As the Technology Department continues grow, future classes will be developed in visual journalism, visual and special effects, lighting for film and video, and reporting broadcast news. Within the next two years, the department’s goal is to establish a live video magazine that would be broadcast once a month during long homeroom. Students taking television production courses would be responsible for the television network.

    Video Production II Students Help ESL Children and Parents Get Acclimated to the English Classroom
     
    The Video Production II students studied the Informational and Educational film types during the second semester. After viewing and analyzing numerous professional films, the students began working on a film project with the Shawnee Early Childhood Center in the Lakota school district. For the project, the students researched the struggles ESL students and families experience while getting acclimated and immersed into the United States school system.
    For the project, the students wrote a script, designed a storyboard, and pitched their ideas to Shawnee’s ESL Coordinator and Principal. After receiving client approval, junior Allie Rayome created a film for Shawnee students illustrating simple tasks to help the students respect themselves, respect others, and respect the environment.

    Junior Tess White created a film for Shawnee’s ESL parents illustrating such tasks as how to register a child for kindergarten, how to call in a child’s absence, how to get involved in the PTA, etc. Both films were spoken in English but included Spanish subtitles at the bottom of the screen. Ursuline’s Spanish IV class helped to translate the scripts for the video production students.

    Tech Apps Students Provide Service at Ursuline and to Local Organizations
     
    Technology Applications introduces students to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The course focuses completely on projects, and last year, the Tech Apps students provided service for the following events:
    • Slide Show for the Live Auction portion of UA’s Ultimate Auction – using skills learned in PowerPoint, students created a presentation to assist the live auctioneer in presenting items up for bid at the school’s annual auction fundraiser
    • Program for UA’s Artist in Residence presentation – using skills learned in Word, students created a program for the performance that concluded the Artist in Residence program at Ursuline in December 2008. Students from several disciplines and grade levels, as well as faculty and staff members, wrote monologues from the perspective of modern day women or women from history and performed their creations. The program enhanced the evening’s events.
    • Brochure for a client promoting their Urban Farm - using skills learned in Word, students created a tri-fold brochure to promote an inner city agency’s program to assist young people in growing and maintaining a garden in their inner city neighborhood. After meeting initially with the client, students created drafts and then met with the client again for feedback and revisions.
    • Posters for a client promoting their new after school music program for local 7-12 graders - using skills learned in Word, students created 11” x 17” posters to advertise a new, after-school music center open to any interested 7-12 grader. After meeting with the client, students developed two separate posters – one for the suburban teenage crowd and one for inner city youth.

     

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