Dear Student,

SMUG(Student Macintosh User Group) is a group formed by Apple Malaysia. The purpose of SMUG is to gather students who are Macintosh user and encourage students who are not Macintosh user to join.

Meanwhile, there is a 3 days workshop held by Apple Malaysia to deepen your fundamental knowledge on Mac. This workshop is open to students of all IPTA and IPTS. Seats are limited.

Date: 13-15 October 2009
Time: 8.30am to 4.30pm
Fees: Free of charge
Venue: Apple Malaysia
Address: Unit 02, Plaza Level, Block A
Wisma Tenggara
No 45, Medan Setia 1, Plaza Damansara
Bukit Damansara
Kuala Lumpur 50490
Malaysia
http://www.applemalaysia.com.my/buy/locationmap.html


Program details:

Day 1
8.30 am Presentation: The Digital Disconnect - Why are kids bored in
school
10.30 am Break
10.45 am Demonstration: Digital learning scenario
- Walkthrough of the entire process:
-- Researching information
-- Assembling source materials
-- Authoring
-- Uploading to a website
-- Subscribing to a podcast
-- Syncing to iPod
11.45 am Basic Mac Skills
-- Creation of individual user accounts
-- Mouse skills, zoom and increasing the cursor size
-- Desktop, Windows and Dock
-- Creating folders
-- Copying files from CDs
-- Creating and saving files
-- Editing files
-- Finding files
-- Copying files to thumbdrives
-- Organizing files
-- Deleting files
-- Printing
12.45 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Internet Skills
-- Using Search and dragging files to desktop
-- Using Email
-- Using Chat
4.30 pm End

Day 2 The dinosaur project
8.30 am Assembling source materials
-- Writing a script
-- Taking photos with PhotoBooth
-- Converting Powerpoint Slides to pictures
-- Importing photos into iPhoto
10.30 am Break
10.45 am -- Creating music with Garageband
-- Importing sounds into iTunes
-- Converting video clips with iSquint
-- Misc
12.45 am Lunch
2.00 pm Creating the Content
-- Capturing video with the iSight
-- Importing video
-- Adding and animating photos
-- Adding transitions
-- Adding titles
-- Adding narration
-- Adding background music
-- Exporting to Media Browser
-- Exporting to iWeb
-- Publishing to a web server
-- Subscribing to a podcast
4.00 pm Review
4.30 pm Identifying objective for tomorrow
-- have learned how to create from existing materials, now how to
create from scratch

Day 3 Introduction to iPhone Development
8.30am - Introduction (slides) - Publishing your app
- Walkthrough of Developer tools - iPhone web browser
- Self paced - Your first iPhone application
12pm Lunch
1pm - Self paced - Your first iPhone application (cont'd)
4pm - End class - Facilitators to note down who has managed to
finish, and contact details of participants

Notes:
- Cost of travel, lodging and sustenance to be borne by participants.
- Computers will be provided
- Soft copies of notes are provided

If are interested in joining the workshop, kindly fill in the online registration form from the link below:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&invite=CPa83sgC&formkey=dEdBekZrMkFDRGc2UEZwLWNaSDRteVE6MA..

Thank you