Tap dancing is a popular dance style all around the world. This audible style of dance comes from the tapping sound made when the metal discs on the soles of the shoes hit a hard surface. The dancer is a percussive instrument, as the feet tap out intricate and lively rhythms. This program is an introduction to simple tap steps which promote a sense of co-ordination and rhythm. By following the simple step instructions, students can gain an experience and understanding of the fundamentals of tap dancing movements.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Designing Multimedia
Designing and Understanding Multimedia uses interviews and practical demonstrations to explain exactly what ‘multimedia’ is, and how this exciting new technology is being used to solve a variety of practical information delivery problems: to inform, educate and entertain. This examination covers all stages of the production – from the initial client brief, through to the storyboarding of content and paths of interactivity, to the design of the user-interface, the digitising of the content, the authoring of the finished product, CD-ROM mastering and duplication.
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Commercial Printing Processes
With comments from experts in the industry and clear illustrations, this program examines some of the most common processes in use today including offset lithographic printing, digital printing, flexography, screen printing, binding and finishing.
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Sunbeam Café Aromatic
Appliance company Sunbeam responded to the Australian love affair with the café latte, by creating a new espresso machine for the home market. This program examines the role of the design, marketing and technology departments of this well known company, in developing a product that will meet market needs and expectations, as well as safety and manufacturing considerations. It emphasises the manner in which designers work in collaboration with other aspects of a business to ensure that a product is a success, as well as exploring the complete design process.
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The Tandou Brief
Focusing of the activities of the internationally recognised studio of Hoyne Design, this program introduces students to the way in which a professional design company approaches creating a solution to a design brief, for a multi-million dollar agri-business client. It also examines the way in which script and photographic personnel contribute to the process of creating a corporate brand from scratch; and we see the results of their efforts.
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Trail of the Elephants
Creating a new purpose built enclosure for the elephants of Melbourne Zoo, that gave visitors to the exhibit a cultural experience of the animals native homeland, and also met the unique housing needs of the elephants; was a collaborative exercise between specialist environmental designers and zoo staff. The program examines how the project progressed, the personnel involved, and responses to the completed design solution.
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Introducing Tobacco – Risks, Laws, and Habits
For over 50 years now we have known that smoking kills – yet millions of people continue to court disease and death. Why? Tobacco is big business – insidious, wily and determined to hook the vulnerable, and to obscure the devastating effects of their deadly merchandise. This program delivers the facts about tobacco smoking and the effects it has on both users and non-users. Featuring international experts and a dramatized story of a young girl who loses her father to lung cancer, this program is a sobering, informative and persuasive program that addresses the root causes, laws, and short and long-term effects of this killer product.
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Where the Bloody Hell Are You? – An Introduction to Tourism in Australia
Tourism is a major economic force in Australia. It generates immense economic benefits and significant employment for communities but it can also have a severe negative impact when environmental and social considerations are not carefully planned for. To ensure a balanced and healthy sustainability, rigorous planning, development and management needs to occur. This program explores what those processes are and how they take account of many stakeholders. Featuring interviews with some of Australia’s foremost tourism experts, this is an absorbing, richly illustrated and up-to-date examination of the issues vital to this powerful industry.
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Tourism Planning and Development – A Case Study in Sustainability
This lab pack, for classroom use, brings the physical and natural world to life for young explorers. Clicking on different objects gives them access to pop-up screens and animations.
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The Information Age
This program is about life in the information age. We?ll look at the availability of different on-line services, their benefits and drawbacks, the global and local scenes of life in the information age and the digital divide. We?ll talk to a number of experts and ICT users along the way. On-line services, life in the information age, the digital divide and how to breach the gap between those who do and don?t access the wealth of knowledge, entertainment and services provided on-line are all investigated and explained in clear, simple terms. Viewers learn about the extent to which life in the Information Age is affected by access to networks and in particular the Internet.