Florida Department of Education
STUDENT PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Program Title: New Media Technology
Course Title: New Media And Digital Imaging Fundamentals

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course provides an overview of presentation guidelines and design elements associated with various presentation types. Effective digital photography composition and digital imaging software features including optimizing digital photographs for Web publication are covered. Students will create an electronic slide presentation using presentation software. After successful completion, students will have met Occupational Completion Point – Data Code B, Presentation Specialist, SOC Code 27-2012.01.

PRESENTATION PRODUCTION

200.0 DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF PRESENTATION PRODUCTION ISSUES—The student will be able to:

200.01 Identify characteristics of various types of presentations informing, selling, teaching, entertaining).
200.02 Identify presentation materials (e.g.. handouts, seminar notebooks, business cards, coupons, etc.) and presentation marketing mediums (ex. print media such as newspaper, magazines; TV; movies; computer presentations; interactive CD ROM; kiosks, and Web pages, etc.).
200.03 Identify design characteristics (fonts, size and styles, backgrounds, etc.) that are suited for each type of presentation format and material.
200.04 Demonstrate knowledge of copyright laws including copyright statue, disclaimers, and filing procedures.
200.05 Research and identify skills needed for career positions in multimedia.
200.06 Demonstrate an understanding of graphic and other file formats (e.g., EPS, TIFF, JPEG, ASCII, MPEG, MIDI, AVI, WAV, etc.) and knowledge of image size when scanning and saving files for use in different presentation types (Web, computer, print, etc.).
200.07 Demonstrate knowledge of presentation vocabulary/terms.

201.0 DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY IN USING PRESENTATION SOFTWARE AND EQUIPMENT - The student will be able to:

201.01 Produce a simple presentation that includes handouts and present it using a projection system.

205.0 DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY IN USING A WYSIWG EDITOR, WEB DESIGN, OR WEB ANIMATION SOFTWARE FOR WEB PAGE CREATION - The student will be able to:

205.04 Create and edit images, photographs for Web pages using digital imaging software (e.g. ImageReady in Photoshop).
205.14 Optimize images to make them “Web ready”.
205.15 Demonstrate knowledge of image formats related to photos and graphics on the Internet (e.g. Graphic formats (Tiff & EPS), Web formats (JEPG, GIF, PNG), etc.).
205.16 Demonstrate an understanding of photograph compression factors such as transmission speed, color reduction, and browser support.
205.17 Save and export a photograph to the Web in the format best for image quality and file size.

206.0 DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY IN USING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL IMAGING - The student will be able to:

206.01 Demonstrate knowledge of ethics related to digital imaging, and legal and consent issues.
206.02 Apply effective design principles in digital photography compositions.
206.03 Illustrate the essence of an event, quote, or slogan through digital photography/imaging.
206.04 Demonstrate skill in using digital imaging software for image manipulation, color correction, and special effects to creatively convey a message or literary interpretation.
206.05 Demonstrate skill in scanning and cropping photographs.
206.06 Incorporate scanned or digitally taken photographs into documents (poster, brochure, card, photo journalism story, report or book covers, letterhead, etc.) that have been designed using desktop publishing software or the desktop publishing features of word processing software.