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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if you're doing a master's degree today in neuroscience or advanced robotics or biotech, by the time you finish you're out of date.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.

How do you flip your classroom? I create my own screen casts and use Edmodo. The flipped classroom is the concept of enabling instruction and communication outside of the classroom and then working together in the classroom. Using this method when teaching Adobe software is an excellent way of utilizing class time to work on projects. At the ISTE Conference in San Diego this year there were many ideas and models to absorb and I want to utilize this method this school year. I would love to hear how others are using the flipped classroom model.

I'm really struggling with a way to bring industry-standard code to my middle school kids. It's such an incredibly dry subject, but I don't want to water it down to the point that it's just filler. Any suggestions for making code relevant? I know there must be a simpler way to explain it, to make a real-life correlation to SOMETHING. I'm just drawing a blank here.

Who uses Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements? In what grades? How well do students transition from the "Elements" programs into the Creative Suite versions?

Do you think it would be helpful for Adobe to offer their free trial versions of software for 90 days instead of 30 days? Would that be long enough for a college student to have access to that software for a sememster or quarter?

With so many of the Adobe project being a single user tool, other than video projects are teachers using other Adobe products in group, partner or team projects in the classroom? How are you modeling "real world" work flow?

What aplication is the best to create a webpage? For new users it is so difficult. Maybe a flowchart is the solution.

When teaching students the Adobe Products, are you teaching your students the tools or are you teaching your students about a subject and using an Adobe tool to complete an assignment? How much time is spent on teaching the Application/tool versus the subject ie the lesson, if you are teaching another subject? If you are teaching a tool why? Is there a reason for example, Your class is "Adobe Photoshop".

What do you teach first in Photoshop?

What is your progression for kids who are seeing it for the first time?