Career and Technology Studies Grades 10-12

How can we make information barrier-free for everyone? One this we can do is make the print we produce as clear and readable as possible.

Users won’t read web content unless the text is clear, the words and sentences are simple, and the information is easy to understand. There are ways for you to check that your content is all of that.

Learn the difference between readability and legibility, then you can make sure your work is both.

To learn about the role of visual communication in the marketing ecosystem, check out a neat infographic a lead copywriter and design team created.

Have you ever presented an idea to a group, and it’s met with utter confusion? What’s going on here? Katherine Hampsten describes why miscommunication occurs so frequently, and how we can minimize frustration while expressing ourselves better.

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach?

This video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work.

A copyright fact sheet produced by the Canadian government that explains copyright in Canada.

Copyright information from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

The University of Alberta created the Opening Up Copyright (OUC) instructional videos to make copyright law more easy, engaging, and accessible to everyone. Check out their many videos, including "Copyright In A K-12 Context."

This 3 minute video explains the basics of copyright. It will help students (and teachers) to understand how source attribution works in the real-world.

This page has tips and illustrations for creating run and walk cycle animations, from both the front and side view. There are also tips for becoming an animator.

A short and sweet overview of every part of the filmmaking process! Work through the units or jump to the specific video you need.

Crash Course has a playlist of videos that delve into film history. Learn about the history of one of our most powerful mediums. Episode topics include: the first movie camera, the language of film, the silent era, world cinema and documentaries. There are also episodes about the technical side of filmmaking.

This Crash Course playlist is an engaging exploration of film production. Learn about scriptwriting, the filmmaker's army, sound production, the role of producers, the cinematographer, the grip and more.

Teach important visual literacy analysis skills for Film, Art, and Language Arts.

From Filmsourcing you can find useful, original film industry related content from filmmaking tutorials to web's best filmmaking templates.

In this beginner’s guide, we’ll break down the definition of what a frame rate is and why it matters.

Listen to selected conversations with innovative and influential creative figures in film, TV, and digital media -- including Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Tommy Lee Jones, and many others.

An extensive collection of online resources that cover the many demands and skills required of aspiring and working filmmakers.

Enjoy this interactive movie/story. The characters on the screen require your interaction. Click around quickly or slowly, all over the screen to see what happens.

As a filmmaker or YouTuber, composing your shot is one of the most important things you'll do whether you are shooting a movie or for YouTube video. Here are some basic rules to follow to make your best shot even better. Now rules can be broken, but master the rules and then you can break them.

This post is an overview of live streaming video resolution. We talk about standard-definition (480p + 480i), high-definition (720p, 1080i, + 1080p) and 4K video resolutions.

A collection of 14 very short films from the National Film Board that introduce the basic concepts and skills needed to create your own stop-motion animation film.

How far have visual effects come in the past 100 years? In this TED talk, Don Levy takes us on a visual journey through special effects, from the fakery of early technology to the seamless marvels of modern filmmaking.

This four minute video is a fun look at how a tablet and app can create homemade special effects. Learn how you can make creative movies of moving from Point A to Point B.

This video explains the optical illusion that helps us understand motion in animation. How do animators make still images come to life? Are the images really moving, or are they merely an optical illusion?

This video explores how colors, camera angles and logos in the media can all prompt viewers to make associations with their own emotions and memories. Learn to decode this intricate system of symbols from advertising messages to traffic signs.

A playlist of videos from film-maker Matti Haapoja to help learn many aspects of filmmaking

A great series of videos from PBS about the production of documentaries and the need for strong writing skills.

A handy low-budget documentary filmmaking gear check-list.

This 3:26 minute animated video gives an overview of some of the different jobs on a movie crew. Below the video, you will see a written description of the jobs.

Who decides what information you see and what you know? It's not who you think!

What are news agencies and how do they contribute to the news we get on TV, in newspapers and online? This article explains how news agencies contribute to our news feeds.

Disinformation is false or misleading information that is shared deliberately to cause harm. Learn about how disinformation producers use knowledge of human emotions and technology to spread disinformation.

To combat false and misleading information, it useful to recognize the different forms it can take. Here are five common varieties of mis and disinformation to look out for.

When anyone can post anything online, the result is a lot of information. To understand the problem of false and misleading information, it helps to define and categorize it.

The Crash Course YouTube channel has a playlist for their series about media literacy. There is a quick preview video plus twelve videos that address various topics related to media literacy.

This is a YouTube playlist from Crash Course and MediaWise. The playlist has videos that can help students evaluate the information they find online.

The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

In medicine, there’s often a disconnect between news headlines and the scientific research they cover. While headlines are designed to catch attention, many studies produce meaningful results when they focus on a narrow, specific question. So how can you figure out what’s a genuine health concern and what’s less conclusive?

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach?

Teach important visual literacy analysis skills for Film, Art, and Language Arts.

When I was in my childhood years, our math teacher used to say that math is used everywhere. And of course, we were laughing at this. But it's true!

More than a 1000 fonts that students can freely use in their art projects

Hundreds of free fonts that can be used in art and design projects

Can you tell if something is square or level? This game shows shapes that need a slight adjustment. Use the mouse to drag the blue square or arrowhead where you feel it is 'right'. Once you let go of the mouse, the computer evaluates your accuracy.

An extensive collection of online resources that cover the many demands and skills required of aspiring and working filmmakers.

Search for icons that can be downloaded and used in student and teacher creations. There is also the ability to create and share your own unique icons.

Scroll through some of these amazing open use photos. All of the photos have been public domain dedicated and are free for you to use. New photos are added regularly.

The Story of Electronics is an animated video that explores the high-tech industry’s millions of tons of e-waste.

Filmmakers historically have played an important role in raising critical issues for society, including environmental threats from climate change and over-exploitation of resources. Increasingly, filmmakers have adopted pro-environmental practices in their own production. This code provides tools for filmmakers to measure whether their practices are as sustainable as they can be throughout the production process.

This article explore the environmental impact of film productions and how they can be reduced.

This is a tool for making animated videos or explainer videos.

Free, open source, cross-platform audio software.

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite.

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

This is a "community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you like". (site description)

Inkscape is free professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers.

Open source compositing software for VFX and motion graphics.

Photopea is an advanced image editor, which can work with both raster and vector graphics. You can use it for simple tasks, such as resizing images, as well as complex tasks, such as designing webpages, creating illustrations, processing photographs and more.

This website will teach you how to use Photopea step by step. We will start with basic tasks and gradually progress to more complex features.

RawTherapee is a powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing system, released as Free Software (GPLv3). It is designed for developing raw files from a broad range of digital cameras and targeted at users ranging from enthusiast newcomers who wish to broaden their understanding of how digital imaging works to professional photographers.