Level 3 Digital Information Technology
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: T. Chisholm.
This course involves planning, designing and prototyping an ePub and implementing a website. The outcomes will include artwork that has been found in the public domain and then edited using Photoshop and it will be fit for purpose in the broadest sense. Along the way we will learn how to use complex techniques to edit images. The completed ePub will be viewable on a range of devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. The completed website will be viewed on a desktop only. This course builds on the skills acquired in DTI201.
Our external involves undertaking an analysis of the development of either the eBook or website.
If you are taking COM301 as well as DTI301, you will be able to do an additional Achievement standard worth 6 credits (Conceptual Design) as there is overlap in the courses (ie: COM301 students also do the database standard).
[This course is on the approved University Entrance list]
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
This course is solely Achievement Standards which includes one external assessment.
Recommended Prior Learning
Priority is given to students who have successfully passed DTI201 or who have a proven excellent work ethic. Other students may apply with agreement of the Head of Department.
NOTE - If a student has NOT taken Digital Technology before they must be prepared to complete catch-up work outside of class time to familiarise themselves with the software applications and technological process.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Headphones which plug into a standard headphone jack (not Apple) for accessing sound in tutorial videos.
Pathway
Digital technologies is a fantastic stepping stone to a huge range of careers beyond school in information technology, graphic and web design, animation, software development, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality. Many of the jobs in highest demand are concentrated in these design and technology-related sectors.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
Total Credits Available: 17 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 3 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 14 credits.
External
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