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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Don’t miss out on these events. <span style='color:blue'>Register now!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>VITTA presents<span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Visual Literacy: Adobe Photoshop - Part 1 </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Engage your students with the exciting visual literacy techniques taught and explored by Chemere Birkensleigh in this session. Chemere brings her skills and experience as a Melbourne digital artist developer into the classroom to show you some basic and more advanced techniques used in the media industry with Adobe Photoshop. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In this first of two workshops, you will learn about image size and resolution; how to use masks to reveal and hide different parts of a layer in a non-destructive way to edit your images; adjust image properties so layers look like they belong together; how to colour match and tone using hue and saturation; transform objects with scale, flip and skew; and pushing the design to add emotion to your images by exaggerating colour, size or perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This is for secondary teachers and is an introduction to the 6in6 Adobe design competition coming up for students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Part 2: May 2, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When: 21 March, 2012 4.30-6.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Where: Victoria University, Flinders Street, Melbourne CBD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Presenter: Chemère Birkensleigh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/events/event/visual-literacy-adobe-photoshop">Register now</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Game Maker Gurus</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Why Game Maker? Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun and allows you to create professional looking games within very little time. Do you want to gain confidence in programming skills, graphics, music and create engaging gameplay to help your students (and you) showcase your talents?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>VITTA and experienced teacher Nat Bradshaw present a practical session of learning where you will explore Game Maker in order to learn, inspire and engage. This workshop will assume no prior knowledge but will introduce any teacher with previous experience to some new techniques. Game Maker's simple drag and drop interface is friendly enough to use with as young as Year 3, but through its powerful scripting language, it is suitable right up to Year 12 and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This workshop will assume no prior knowledge but will introduce any teacher with previous experience to some new techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Presenter: Nat Bradshaw<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WHEN: Wednesday, 21st March 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WHERE: Venue: Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Melway Map Ref: 2L J 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/events/event/game-maker-gurus">Registrations</a> open<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Looking forward to seeing you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>VITTA Office</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>