Master essential digital skills and cutting-edge AI tools to thrive in the modern digital landscape
This comprehensive 16-day course is designed to equip you with essential digital literacy skills and proficiency in modern AI tools that are transforming industries worldwide. Our curriculum combines foundational digital skills with cutting-edge AI applications to prepare you for the future.
Course Structure: This course spans four weeks (Monday to Thursday), providing intensive training in foundational digital skills, graphic/video design using Canva, and cutting-edge AI content creation.
16 Days
4 Weeks
Online/Interactive
Available
Introduction to touch typing (Home Row), essential keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z etc), Speed & accuracy tests. Ergonomics.
Practice typing for 30 minutes. Focus on high accuracy over speed.
Interface tour, text formatting, paragraphs, saving (.docx vs .pdf). Gmail account creation and setting up professional email signatures.
Create a one-page "Digital Professionalism Guide" document and set up your professional email signature in Gmail.
Using Headers & Footers, Page Numbers, basic Tables. Structuring an effective CV/Resume template and customizing a Cover Letter.
Create a basic, fully formatted CV template and a customizable Cover Letter template in MS Word.
Interface tour, navigating cells, entering different data types, basic formulas (SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT). Formatting cells (currency style, borders).
Build a simple monthly budget planner. Use the SUM formula to calculate totals for different categories.
Goal: Combine basic skills to create a structured professional package.
Task: Create a short report on a career or educational goal.
Relative and Absolute cell references ($), Introduction to Conditional Formatting, basic charts (Bar and Pie charts) for data visualization.
Use your budget planner from Day 4; use conditional formatting to highlight spending over budget, and create a Pie Chart showing category breakdown.
Canva interface tour, using templates, basic design principles (color, font pairing), creating social media posts and banners.
Create three different social media posts in Canva: one for Instagram (square), one for X/Twitter (wide), and one for a YouTube thumbnail.
Working with layers, transparency, effects, removing backgrounds (theory), using Brand Kits (colors, logos), creating professional mockups.
Design a simple logo and a 3-piece brand kit (color palette, two font styles) for a fictional brand using Canva.
Video Editing: Basic cuts and trims, adding music/sound effects, working with stock footage, text overlay animation, and exporting video formats.
Create a 30-second short video clip using Canva, combining at least two video clips and animated text.
Goal: Present data and ideas using compelling visual tools.
Task: Use a dataset (e.g., a simple sales or survey data) to build a presentation.
Effective use of Transitions and basic Animations, inserting video/audio, focusing on visual communication best practices.
Refine your Weekly Project 2 presentation, focusing on visual flow and delivery practice.
What is Generative AI? Ethical use and limitations, Identifying good use cases, The concept of a Prompt (Input = Output).
Find three examples of AI tools and write a short summary of how each works.
The 4-part prompt: Role, Task, Context, Format. Iterative refinement (Prompt Tuning) and chain-of-thought prompting.
Write five prompts for five different tasks using the full 4-part structure.
Using AI for complex web searches (Google Search Grounding), summarizing long documents, fact-checking principles. Using AI to outline, structure, and draft chapters for books or long reports.
Choose a complex topic. Use AI to generate a detailed 5-chapter outline for a short book on that topic.
Goal: Execute a creative project leveraging AI for drafting and structural support.
Task: Write a 500-word informative or fictional piece.
Using AI to generate personalized quizzes, explaining difficult concepts, creating study schedules. Using AI to practice conversation and translation for language learning.
Feed the AI a paragraph of text. Ask it to explain the text to a 5th grader and then translate it into a second language.
Understanding Text-to-Image basics, key parameters (style, aspect ratio), negative prompting, vocabulary for visual description. Merged: Advanced Image Prompting (style transfer, consistency).
Use an AI tool to generate two different images of the same subject using distinct artistic styles and practice one advanced prompt modification technique.
Audio Generation with AI (music, sound effects), Voice Editing with AI (cloning/cleanup), Overview of AI video tools (text-to-video), basics of storyboarding.
Use an AI tool to generate a 10-second piece of background music or a short voice clip with a specific emotion.
Content Creation Basics (hook, value, CTA), Personal Branding essentials, Planning content calendars, Social media and YouTube growth strategies. Course Review & Final Project Showcase Prep.
Map out a 7-day content plan (including topics and platforms) for your personal brand or a fictional small business, and finalize Weekly Project 4 materials.
Goal: Synthesize visual design, content strategy, audio/video AI, and presentation skills.
Task: Create a short (4-6 slide) pitch presentation defining your personal brand or a fictional brand/product.
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