- trakAxPC included in IT/Science Week Media Day
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Hi everyone,
Last Thursday, Cormac and I were invited along by the nice people at Norkom Technologies to take part in the IT/Science Week’s Media Day for 4th year transition students from Schools (Belvedere College, Stanhope St, Mount Carmel, and Synge Street) around the inner city Dublin area.
The event was being held in Belvedere College and I have to admit (being a past pupil of St.Mary’s College) that the facilities were superb. We were taking charge of the afternoon session, while in the morning Izakun Echezarreta and Colm MacCaba from Norkom, helped the students understand how to use Camcorders, create storyboards, record content and then upload them to their computers. The event being held was a week long computer and media program for students, and was designed to help them understand how to create basic webpages and websites, edit photos using Fireworks, understand file management, how to use multimedia creation and editing software, etc.
After the morning session and their lunch, I gave a 15-20 minute presentation on how to use trakAxPC, so that the students would be able to edited the own videos and create some interesting content. I have to admit being a former pupil and a slight joker, I was very impressed with the silence during my presentation and the pupils must be applauded for that.
After the presentation, the students broke up into groups around five different PCs and began to edit their videos and create some music content using some our trakPacks that we provided. All the students took an active interest and they also created some really interesting videos. The videos that they created were going to be uploaded to their webpages that they had created the previous day.
All in all, it was a very enjoyable afternoon and it was great to see young people first hand using and enjoying trakAxPC. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Izakun and Colm, the people at Norkom Technologies, the students (who were excellent and well behaved) and finally, Tom Lundy from Belvedere College for providing the superb facilities.
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hey im paul one of the guys from synge street i really enjoyed this IT/science week it is also benifitial.