Hi everyone,

I am not sure if this is the right place for this topic (if it's not, please move it to the appropriate section).

My company (a local college) has asked me to organize a multimedia workshop to spark students' interest to join our courses and introduce our newly built facility.

I'm still undecided about what topics would be interesting. It can be anything related to multimedia, video editing, photo editing, web designing and etc, but I would like to provide the learners with knowledge that they could apply regularly in future (edit home videos, create own web page, touch up own photos)..

We have all the facilities here (G5s, mixer, video cameras and etc) hence technical issue is not a problem. Now it's just a matter of what the kids would be most interested to learn. My target audience for now is secondary school students. It must be fun, interesting so that students will feel worthwhile to be there. Oh, and this workshop thing should be like a 1/2 day to 1 day kinda thing.

Any inputs will be greatly appreciated. Just list 'em out!

I think what kids (7-12) are interested in at that age are games games games..edutainment.

What teens (13-19) or young adults (20-25) are interested are more like video editing, creating their own comics, digital painting, professional photography, programming and etc.

With so many topics to cover, it'll be easy to run a long workshop in coordination as a marketing effort for your local college.

i think not much secondary school students know how to use those high tech gadgets like G5 or something (or perhaps i outdated ), maybe some guidance really needed.

i joined a workshop back in my school last year, and the kids (i mean high school graduates la), when they touch the Apple mouse, they was like "huhhhhh???? 1 button only????" hehehe

is a good thing to explore them with these kind of gadgets, perhaps some "photo manipulation session", or something audio mixing (record their own voice then manipulate) to spark up their interest...

special effects will do

maybe organize like a intro to XXX by having all the participants to make a short animation/movie (<24 h) and have them to work in groups...

what about web usability + accesibility ???
though many will not understand a bit, but i am sure interested..

school students love stuff that move around, but not all this web standard, usability,

nod nod.. that's why I'd go against teaching 'kids' website design and programming actually..

what about teaching them to use softwares.. frontpage..
just pretend its cool + great to be able to make websites using them...