CREATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Creative Digital Technology is a subject offered to our lower school students and aims to equip them with digital skills that will enhance their time at Emmanuel and beyond. Students have access to computer labs that have both generic and specialist cross-platform software. We live in a digital age and Creative Digital Technology allows students to become familiar with and confident using various forms of technology. Our students have been learning Audacity which is an open source digital audio editing and recording software application. They have been overlaying multiple sound bytes to a range of BBC nature videos.

TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION The videos created some hilarious results. Who knew the conversation between two squirrels in the snow could be so funny!

CDT students have also developed skills in using the industry-standard software Photoshop. This software was used to splice different images together to create one seamless image. This required a knowledge of the various features within Photoshop such as layering and masks to create a digital vector image.

The students had great fun with this creating some very unique images, although some were a little bit scary and would ruin an appetite.

Adobe Animate is industry-standard software students had fun with. Students used the authoring and animation software to create animated gifs. It is almost impossible to visit a page online that doesn’t have some sort of end-user interaction or animation, and for our web-developers of the future, these skills are invaluable.

Emmanuel is well-placed to equip our students for the future with regards to technology. With new computers in some labs for 2018, our students will definitely take full advantage of the technical resources we have to offer.

Congratulations to all Creative Digital Technology students for your efforts and hard work this year and the high quality work produced. I look forward to 2018.

Mr Brad Nicholas Head of Technologies