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Workshop Theme: Digital Content - Production and Manipulation

Faculty Development workshops within this theme provide hands-on activities for creating, editing and managing digital content for instructional purposes.

The five main topic areas are; Audio, Graphics and Images, Media Integration, Production Planning and Video. Introductory Fall and Spring Workshops are offered in mini-series format to cover Audio, Images and Video. Additional Fall and Spring workshops provided coverage of intermediate or advanced topics. Summer 3-day workshops provide an opportunity to start personal projects for Course Enhancement.

Workshops in this theme are organized by topic area and participant skill level or proficiency with tasks necessary to perform the workshop's activities.

The table below indicates a range of skills that are presented in the FDI Summer Tracks C, D, E and H.

Digital Content Topic	Participant seeks the ability to:	Skill Level
Graphics and Images
Creation	Produce digital image files from; images captured on a digital still camera print-based images using an image scanner pre-exsisting digital image sources digital video camera to capture stills from a live event computer graphics applications
Editing	Digitally manipulate digtal image files by; performing standard image manipulations (cropping, adjusting brightness & contrast, adjusting color, sharpening image, etc.) combining text onto the graphic combining several graphic elements together changing file size changing image file formats for web graphics (gif, jpg) changing image file formats for presentation or multimedia programs (pict, tiff, bmp, eps)
Audio
Creation	Produce digital audio files from; pre-existing analog audio sources pre-exsisting digital audio sources live events
Editing	Digitally manipulate digital audio file by; cutting segments from the file adding other audio segments to the file altering the sound (removing noise, increasing or decreasing volume, etc.) changing file attributes (resolution, compression, etc.) changing the file type (wav, aif, au, etc.)
Video
Creation	Produce digital video files from; pre-existing analog video sources pre-exsisting digital video sources live events
Editing	Digitally manipulate digital video file by; cutting segments from the file adding other video segments to the file combining audio, video and digital transitions changing file attributes (frame rate, window size, compression, & color depth) changing the file type (mov, avi, etc.)
Production Planning	Create a flowchart for integrating several media types into a single program
Media Integration	Create a computer application with integrated media

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For additional information, please contact:
Ed McPherson, 540-231-8029 Training and Development Coordinator Faculty Development Institute, Virginia Tech Copyright 2001. All rights reserved.	John F. Moore Director, Faculty Development Institute Director, Educational Technologies John.Moore@vt.edu, 540-231-8991