Adventures in Web Design Grades 5–9
Imagine a website created by you, for you, showcasing all of the things that you love. Using professional web-design programs and your artistic skills, you will design colorful, informative, and interesting web pages with pictures, music, and animation. The possibilities are endless!
Computer Animation Grades 3–9
Learn how to produce simple (and not-so-simple) computer animations, ranging from two-dimensional cartoon sequences to more exotic three-dimensional masterpieces. Unleash your creative energies as you sample some of the hottest computer applications around!
Digital Photography Grades 3–9
Computers and photography go hand in hand as you learn the principles of digital photography in this exciting course. Discover how to use a digital camera (provided by Summer Place), download your pictures, manipulate your photos using Adobe Photoshop, and print out finished copies that will impress even the best photographer.
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Digital Scrapbooking Grades 5–9
Put all of your precious photos of friends and family to good use by creating a scrapbook on the computer. Using professional design tools and templates, insert backgrounds, frames, and images from the internet to design a perfectly personalized scrapbook. What a fantastic way to display, share, and save your favorite photographs!
Game MakerNew! Grades 5–9
Have you ever wanted to create your own computer game? Build and design your own 2-dimensional arcade-style video game with animated graphics, background, and sounds. Start out with simple games built from a template, and advance to creating your own game to bring home and share with your friends. Let the games begin!
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Game Show Marathon Grades 5–9
Whether your favorite game show is Jeopardy, Deal or No Deal, or Who Wants to be a Millionaire, you’ll not only play old favorites online, but you’ll also create game shows to challenge your friends. You’ll use advanced features of PowerPoint to produce impressive game boards with all the bells and whistles of real game shows. Use game-show buzzers to earn points for your team while playing your self-created game shows projected on a big screen, before taking home your projects on a memory stick. Deal or No Deal?
Great Graphics Galore New! Grades 1–2
Go ga-ga for graphics! Draw pictures and have them come to life right on the screen! Choose a character and watch as it magically interacts with your drawing! Illustrate various themes like Underwater Adventures, “I Spy” activities, Home Sweet Home, and much more. Let your imagination go when using different tools and features to create with lines, shapes, colors, stamps, and more. Round out the fun with craft projects that go along with the computer activities.
Green-Screen Adventures New! Grades 3-4
Climb Mount Everest, swim the depths of the ocean, or battle dinosaurs! Using a green screen and special photo-editing techniques, you will venture into real or imaginary locations and film the trip to share with friends. Experiment with photos and unique drawing software to set the scene for fantastic adventures. Don’t stay at home—jump into a green screen and find yourself some fun!
Mind Twisters Grades 5–9
Are you ready to flex your mental muscles? Can you focus your attention enough to move a ball through an obstacle course using only the power of your mind? Stay sharp by working with many challenging and clever puzzles, games, and riddles. Develop your “out of the box” thinking while having fun with 3-D puzzles, Rubik’s Cubes, trick photography, mazes, labyrinths, illusions, and more!
Podcast Pizzazz New! Grades 1-2
Move over iCarly, it’s your turn to podcast! Learn to create your own slide show full of your favorite things and have it posted on the Internet! You will use computer art tools to draw, design, and stamp your way into creating a slide show about yourself. The slide show will become a podcast when posted to an Internet website. Get creative, get confident, get podcasting today and see what the buzz is all about! Note: Parents will be provided with instructions on how to view the podcasts from home. Only graphic images are used in the podcasts; NO pictures or videos of the campers are used.
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