This website provides information about the various Digital Technologies courses available at New Plymouth Girls' High School. View the Pathways Diagram
Year 9 Digital Technology
Topic: Logo Design, Marketing and Branding
Students will learn to use the tools within the Adobe Firework CS4 software to design, create, modify, and optimize a variety of digital images to meet the specifications of a brief. Students will also use the programmes within the Microsoft Office Suite 2007 to manage and record data.
This course is based on levels 3, 4 and 5 of the new Technology Curriculum. Students will follow the Technology process to design and create a logo and web banner to meet the specifications of a given brief.
· Project management skills to plan work and meet deadlines
· Storyboarding skills to plan and develop design concepts
· Critical analysis skills to evaluate theirs and others work
· The copyright laws to their work
· File format techniques to ensure all work is fit for the purpose
· The design principles to create effective digital media
· Marketing strategies to influence an audience
· Their current knowledge and skills to the learning of new techniques and technologies