Photoshop is an art production tool that is greatly used in the computer graphics world as an image manipulator. With the use of the program Avid Video Shop pictures of the students were taken and manipulated in photoshop. This exposes the students to concepts such as resolution, color depth, file types and their differences and their ultimate influence on the images put up on a web site. A classical example are the differences between the file types giffs and jpegs. Director Director was also taught oriented to it s possible relations to the construction of a web site.
Director is a multimedia tool used to create animations.
Hence in the teaching of Director emphasis was given in the differences between the types of animations whether it be giff animations of small size but non interactive and lacking sound and the possibility of interaction through shockwaves. The students used Director to animate the procedure studied in the Molecular Laboratory they take in this program, then made giff animations to add it to the web site. The Computer Lab also emphasized the in the teaching of some programs with scientific orientation. These programs concentrated on lessons and workshops on biological modeling, biochemistry, microbiology and data acquisition. Stella Stella is a mathematical modeling program.