New Digital Multi Media Program Coming to Brighton High School
20.05.12
Brighton High School is getting a new career technical education program, thanks to Michelle Costa, an 8-year veteran teacher who is busy designing a new social media course to create a Digital Multimedia Program for students.
The Brighton Area Schools Board of Education approved adding advanced web social media to the many courses students can choose from during its Jan. 23 meeting. The new course will join two existing classes - game development programming and web design - to round out the Digital Multimedia Program at the high school.
Costa created the web design class three years ago.
Web design will become the prerequisite students are required to take before taking advanced web social media. The web design course covers four different parts: creating graphics, manipulating photos, publishing webpages and learning flash animation.
The new course will take students to the next level - social media.
"It's always nice to have a next level for students," Costa said. "Social media is huge right now. It's one of the big things that are happening in technology that they should know about it. And not just for personal use to search around on YouTube, but to use for promotion of a business and understand how to publish a website online that has a connection to Linked In, a business Facebook page, a blog and all those different social media tools. That's the goal, the end result."
Source: Patch.com