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Learn how to create a button, work with basic functions, link a button to a webpage, link a button to a frame, work with scenes and create a basic scene selection menu. This tutorial is good if you are completely new to Actionscript.

A birthday card created in Photoshop (I'm assuming) that uses texturing in its creation. Should be an easy assignment for TGJ Comm Tech students. Links to original photo and texture are included. 

Transparency can be both empowering and inhibiting. Ask some of my students who try to make excuses for work not being done. Since my classes are fully digital, the Internet catches these folks every time...date stamping, digital attendance notes, permanent links. Plausible deniability just doesn't cut it. Because of this, youth need to learn a whole new accountability. Fortunately, many of my students are stepping up...and they're going places with this whole new mindset.

Not sure if this link will always work. This is an excellent eBook for photography, outlining the basics of cameras, exposure, and composition. 

An excellent series of lessons giving an overview of web-based graphics. Also includes some links to tutorials for Inkscape.

An interesting case of copyright infringement. Also follow the link near the bottom of the article to see the NY Times' article about the issue.

If you're a digital storyteller or podcaster, you know the value of having sound clips in the middle of your creation.

Here's the link again to the shared Google Doc of resources for any Comm Tech teachers to view and add to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRXzqrIEIyNDiOFxqklmNxESVg814-OqL9c85UVFoSI/edit

Research and interviews with the top experts around the world on youth and new media appear on janemitchinson.ca, along with excerpts from Jane's documentaries on the subject area. Appearing on the site are David Buckingham, Danah Boyd, Linda Stone, Neil Andersen, Dr. David Meyer, and Dr. Tracey Alloway.

There's a link on my webpage to some excerpts from the documentary I produced recently on teens and texting, called "Conditioned to be On Call".

Bar codes scanned by a cell cam or web cam can link to multi-media, text, and employ GPS.

Exploring copyright issues and fair use. An NFB endorsed documentary. The NFB site splits the film into 13 segments...great for on-going classroom discussion!

Here's the NFB link to those segments. Highly recommended! http://www.nfb.ca/playlist/rip-remix-manifesto/

Great little sidebar for searching tutorials. Links into Adobe site as well.

Zen garden an excellent site to demonstrate the separation of content and design using CSS. The links on the left change the layout without affecting content. HTML and CSS are downloadable.