Summer+1,+2011+Courses

 This course focuses on hands-on lessons that demonstrate advanced techniques including mastering selections, working with channels, utilizing the pen tool, complex compositing, advanced layer masking, challenging color corrections, recording actions and more. Creative projects include experimenting with artistic brushes, inventing photographic illustrations, applying creative type treatments and using the scanner in innovative ways. Mondays, 3:30 P.M., **April 25-June 1, 2011**. Course #Comm 9000E.
 * Community Relations **

**Digital Game-Based Learning** Basic course applying the elements of graphic design to the development of learning resources for the inclusion and ELL classroom settings. Students apply their acquired graphic skills to prepare overhead transparencies, visuals for display, and other graphic materials in instructional settings. Mondays, 3:30 p.m., **April 25-June 1, 2011**. Course #EDPR583.

 **Teaching Digital Natives in the 21****st** **Century**  The role of the administrator as a decision maker and an instructional leader is explored. Emphasis is placed on program development and evaluation, which reflects the various cultural and ethnic minority groups students represent. Practical applications of programs as well as the application of evaluation models and techniques are investigated. Tuesdays beginning at 3:30 p.m., **April 26-June 2, 2011**. Course #EDCS 526.

 **Using the Computer as a Tool for Thinking Skills**  Focuses on the educational uses of the computer and its roles in the educational environment. This practical course balances fact, theory and application as it examines the computer's role in education as a tool of the mind. It presents theories and models relating to computer-assisted instruction and discusses strategies for using computers in education settings, demonstrates practical applications and closes with a discussion of management and administrative concerns.. Tuesdays 3:30 p.m., **April 26-June 2, 2011**. Course #Comm 9000E. 