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As part of some summer work I'm doing, I am looking at the Adobe Education Exchange and the Adobe Youth Voices Essentials sites. I am looking at points of intersection, overlap, and application mostly for the secondary education level, but definitely how it also connects to advanced level skills and work. What I'm wondering, if you have a moment, and any thoughts, is how many of you use both and/or are familiar with AYV curriculum. I know many of you have expressed interest in AYV, but because of grant conditions, are unable to participate in AYV proper (but now Aspire is open to all), but do you make use of any of the curriculum? If so, what do you use and why? And if not, perhaps thoughts on why you haven't? If you haven't looked at Essentials in awhile you might go back and revisit, because as of last summer all the curriculum is available to anyone who has signed up on the site. As a member of Adobe Ed Exchange, what keeps you coming back to the site? What does it offer you that you can't find elsewhere? Are there things you would like to see more of on either site? As an educator I find both sites to be extremely valuable for different aspects of teaching digital media and career technical education, and am hoping to hear your thoughts?

The creative process has many forms, but most have these general steps in common:

1. Framing or identifying the problem, question or challenge to solve;
   
2. Gathering information about it;
   
3. Providing time to incubate the material;
   
4. Exploring variations of existing ideas and generating new ones;
   
5. Filtering, ranking or combining ideas to find the best candidates;
   
6. Elaborating and refining the solution; and,
   
7. Communicating and receiving feedback.
   

How many of these steps do you already follow in your classroom projects? In what ways? What other steps do you take?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development workshop, Creativity in Today’s Classrooms: Designing Creativity in the Upper Grades Curriculum.

Have you noticed the difference between students’ engagement using inquiry- or project-based learning? Share stories and examples of the difference it has made in your classroom.

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development workshop, Creativity in Today’s Classrooms: Designing Creativity in the Upper Grades Curriculum.

Post a link to your video that depicts the creative classroom environment you will create.

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Creativity in Today’s Classroom: Managing the Creative Classroom.

Where do I start to find lessons on beginning photoshop?

What is your comfort level with creativity? Are you able to inspire and lead others in fostering their own comfort with creativity in the classroom?

What successes have you had in pushing yourself to grow even more and encouraging others to promote creativity?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

Take a look at this infographic on the Global Creativity Gap for a detailed perspective.

What information surprised you? Does the data match your experience?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

Discuss your reaction (or beliefs) prompted by the findings from recent research by 1000 working professionals.

Specifically:

• 57% of college educated professionals believe creativity is a learned skill that can be learned in their career, while 65% believe it is a personality trait that is innate
  
• 88% agree creativity should be built into education curriculums, and 72% agree they were more focused on subject matter than creative thinking in school
  
• 85% agree creative thinking is critical for problem solving in their career but nearly one-third (32%) do not feel comfortable thinking creatively at work
  

What can you infer from the research finding? What matters about this research finding? Why is it important?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop called Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

In the fall of 2013, we're piloting a student-centered, multidisciplinary learning environment at my high school. The folks from WASC will be conducting their review of our school at the same time (we're approaching the end of our six-year accreditation cycle). In that context, I find the following excerpt from this Wired article as troubling as it is ironic:

What of [Singularity University's] own future? It certainly does not plan to become an accredited university. "You need to fix your curriculum for that," says Salim Ismail. "We change ours five times a year! One of the deans at Stanford proudly told me they update theirs every six years. But if you're doing a master's degree today in neuroscience or advanced robotics or biotech, by the time you finish you're out of date. And we've never seen that before in the history of the world."

Our western education model isn't adapting to 21st century demands quickly or nimbly enough. It's trapped by its own system.

What's a mere teacher to do?

Is there an easy list of the effects for the high school level that students can read and understand all of the effects and what they do?

Looking for effective resources to teach Dreamweaver & Premiere Pro CS 6 at the high school level. Looking for projects and self paced lessons that would be used after new techniques are presnted in class. Thanks for yiour ideas!

Hello All!!!

My name is Jason Wrench and I'm a long term fan of Adobe and specifically Adobe's eLearning Suite. Recently my textbook, Quantitative Research for Communication: A Hands-On Approach, went into its second edition and I used the eLearning Suite to completely overhaul the website that accompanies the book. From the beginning, the website that accompanies the book has been in my hands and not in the hands of the publisher (Oxford University Press). I wanted the website to be a user friendly source for research. As such, I did a lot of work with Adobe Aftereffects, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Captivate to create a series of training videos to walk students through basic calculations in SPSS, PSPP, Excel, and R. I know a lot of schools who are using my book are requiring students to use the accompanying website, so I'm pretty happy with making my book more interactive in a virtual space.

I'm curious if anyone else is using Adobe products to enhance your textbook's market or creating a stronger internet market?

Jason

PS My website is http://www.communicationresearch.info />

Looking for CS3 tutorials (especially Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash). Very little resources due to outdated software we use. Needed for new class introductions.

Anyone out there teaching AS3 as an introductory language? Even better if you are starting in Flash Builder. I would love to talk about teaching strategies and share introductory resources.

Anyone know of any beginner resources for using adobe photoshop in a classroom setting?

I am looking for new teaching methods that will help my students connect better. Any ideas?

What are your thoughts on Adobe RoboHelp? Do you see this being an solution that can be done in the classroom?

Become an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI)

STEP 1: SUBMIT AN APPLICATION AND A SIGNED AGREEMENT

Review, complete, and submit an https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/partnerportal/index.cfm?event=aboutPartnerships&loc=en_xap&showMyTa_1";return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true">Adobe Certified Instructor Application and agree to the ACI terms and conditions.

If you are certifying for Flex, Flash Lite, Breeze, LiveCycle or ColdFusion, https://www.adobe.com/support/certification/enterprise_aci.html_1";return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true">click here* for additional requirements

STEP 2: PROVIDE VERIFICATION

Provide verification that you have:

• 1. Passed the appropriate certification exams, and,
• 2. Hold either one of the following instructor skill verifications:

• http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/ctt.aspx_1";return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true">CompTIA CTT+ credential
• Government-issued teaching certificate

STEP 3: RECERTIFY WHEN NECESSARY

Once obtained, your ACI certification is valid until 90 days after a designated product upgrade is released. Adobe will e-mail you a reminder when your certification is due for renewal and will let you know when you need to take another exam.

I am looking for green screen for my students to use with taking videos. Are there any high quality green screens for a low price that would be recommended for me? Thanks!

Just looking for resources to teach In Design CS 6 at the high school level. My style of teaching is to show an example, let the students experiment and then assign a practical application. Any suggestions are very much appreciated! Thanks.

Just looking for resources to teach Dreamweaver CS 6 at the high school level. My style of teaching is to show an example, let the students experiment and then assign a practical application. Any suggestions are very much appreciated! Thanks.

Just looking for resources to teach Premiere Pro CS 6 at the high school level. My style of teaching is to show an example, let the students experiment and then assign a practical application. Any suggestions are very much appreciated! Thanks.

We recently launched a new marketplace called Adobe Exchange (not to be confused with the Ed Exchange) and we'd love to get feedback on it from the Education community. Right now it's available as a panel in 9 different CS6 applications but soon it will be available via the Web and mobile. It has lots of free and paid products but it also allows private sharing of products that are installed quickly and easily via Adobe Extension Manager. So for example you could package up the files for a class and the students would see the product and install it from within the M yStuff section of the panel, you can easily update the email group and even the product and all users would be see the product has been updated and be able to download it.

We have tools to help you create products like Adobe Exchange Packager and Adobe Configurator 3, or you can just download products like the Photoshop and InDesign Features Panels for teaching purposes. We have a prerelease program that's free and easy to join. Just complete the short form here:

https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=TrpBhXaHScDuvTj0vuwZcA

Also download the panel here: https://www.adobeexchange.com/download

We hope to get see you on the forums.

Thanks,

Jonathan Ferman | Product Manager, the new Adobe Exchange

Friday, October 5th is World Teachers' Day. it's a day to honor all those teachers who make a daily difference in the lives of students all over the world.

Let's use this discussion topic to share stories or words of wisdom from a teacher that has made a difference in your life. It's always inspiring to hear from others about the ways that teachers have shaped our lives and helped us get to where we are today. And it will help remind us all why we do what we do.