Techquest

Workshops

iMovie- Lights, Camera, Action!
Tutors- Beth Lamb and Dave Boswell
Using video cameras and iMovie, create your own movie showing Whangarei’s
great outdoors during one of our endless summers. Add your own music and
sound effects.

Digital Photography/ iPhoto Snap, Shot, Shoot!!!
Tutor- Ben Soole
At the digital photography day you will...
Learn the secrets for taking great photos
Discover some special features of digital cameras
Learn about composition, texture, perspective, the rule of thirds and other photographic   mumbo jumbo
Take lots of great photos
Set your photographs to music

Animation- Bendos Rule! Claymation Galore!
Tutor- Ben Soole
Using bendy “people” toys, learn how to build an animated scene based around the city centre.  Create characters with play dough and use them to make an animated movie.

Blue/ Green Screening- Around the world in a day!
Tutors- Jo Ellis
Create a photo album of a trip around the world using keynote, i-photo, printshop and maybe comic life. Choose an "album" of world famous landmarks, take action shots of yourself in front of a green screen, alpha-key the backgrounds out in keynote and then superimpose your action shots into your album. If there is time we will add captions etc. in comic life.

Photo Morphing- Seeing is Believing!!
Tutor- Yaron Overeem
We will be using "Sqirlz Morph" to morph photos togeather. You will be using a photo of yourself and morph it into various animals and objects. Then you will put these into Microsoft MovieMaker and add music. The end result will be a really cool movie showing you turning into differnt animals and objects.
See here for some examples: http://yaron.overeem.co.nz/index.php/morphing-photos

Kahootz- Kahootz Capers!
Tutor- Shelley Gosse
Kahootzville is under threat from overcrowding! From the scenario that will be given to you, your team will need to use your higher order problem solving skills to identify the issues, offer some solutions and then create your own dream city using the 3d, animation programme. Kahootz. During this workshop you may also need to use Inspiration, Word or Publisher.

Podcasting- Announcing Whangarei!!!
Tutor- Mark Buckland
So many people come to Whangarei in the summer time, and there's a lot for them to see and do. But how can we tell them about it? In this workshop you'll make a podcast that tells visitors to our city (and the locals) about what they can see and do while they are here. We will make our recordings available to the world on the internet once they are finished.

Keynote Presentation Magic- All is Not as it Seems !
Tutor- Brenda Lewis
Using Keynote, Garageband, iPhoto and Quicktime, you will create amazing little presentations allowing you to show off your creative and computer savvy skills.

3D Fascination- Computer Magic !
Tutor- Ken Ward
‘In this workshop you will be learning to model 3D objects and characters using CB Model Pro. CB Model Pro allows you to discover the world of 3D, and it is particularly user friendly for students."CB Model Pro was developed by the creators of Cosmic Blobs, the award-winning entry-level 3D graphics software. Unleash your creative power!!!

"2D Animation"
Tutors- Marilyn Small
At this workshop you will learn to combine your story telling and drawing skills to create your own 2D animation story using I Can Animate.

Voice Thread- Storytelling for the Future
Tutor- Donna Smith
Are you interested in making Digital Stories using moving and still images? Would you like to be able to doodle pictures or words over those images? And use your voice or text to comment about yours and other’s work? This workshop will introduce you to the web 2.0 tool VoiceThread. We will be creating our own Digital Stories and asking other to comment on them.

ACTIVboard-
Tutor- Clare Ross

Clickview
Tutor- Mike Donaldson - ClickView NZ
Using Clickviews amazing video library students will do a basic inquiry on a topic supplied to them and present using video snippets extracted from our video library.  Example – compare three ancient civilizations  across four different areas such as home life, work , technology, education. Present using video, images and text in PowerPoint.

 

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