Training at Tollbar Academy

At Tollbar we have weekly training sessions on using Adobe's Creative Studio 4, the leading industry standard multimedia package. We have sessions on everything from basic usage to advanced techniques in all the packages. All staff are welcome to attend the sessions and we encourage other departments to attend the sessions as all the skills we cover have applications across the curriculum. We tailor the advanced training to be relevant to the ICT syllabus and all skills learned by staff are directly transferable to the classroom. ICT usage and techniques change at a rapid pace and we stay as up to date as possible with industry trends to give our staff and students the most up to date and efficient skill set possible when creating digital media.

Dreamweaver

• Basic layout and tools
• Advanced usage and tools - spry menus
• .html
• .css
• Importing images and flash
• Liquid layout in .css
• AP Div layout
• Semantic markup in .html

Page Flip

• Transparency
• Contents page AS
• XML
• Pages folder

Flash

• Layers
• Motion tweens
• Importing Video
• Complex animations
• Bone tools
• Tranparency and Importing assets from Fireworks

Fireworks

• Basic usage and tools
• Web design layout - .css and exporting
• File formats
• Transparency
• Vector/Bitmap
• Gradient fills
• Navigation buttons (states)
• Photo album for work presentation in eportfolio
• Media Converter

Illustrator

• Magazine project overview
• Layer in Illustrator
• Pantone solid coated palette
• Vectors only!
• Copyright free
• T-shirt mock ups and resources

Photoshop

• Air brushing
• Brushes and layers
• Filters