I'm curious about this topic as well. I don't think Behance is designed for quite the same thing as Acrobat e-portfolios. A Behance portfolio is really designed to promote yourself and the work you do as the primary audience for it is creative professionals who are looking for work or to set themselves apart in a crowded field.

Also, check out the Work in progress functionality which allows a user to upload different iterations of a project to showcase their process. And the Student Show is a curated gallery of student work on Behance.

That being said, I think Behance is a great tool for a K12 student to get started using to catalog their work over time. Their Behance profile can show their work as they progress from high school to college/art school to the workplace. And I especially like Matt's idea of using a Behance account to showcase the work that students are doing in your course/program. Then it becomes almost a "creative teaching portfolio" since other educators are most interested in what another educator's students can produce.

Please keep sharing your thoughts and ideas on Behance and how you think it could be useful in Education. Thanks!

Having just listened to a presentation on infographics, I think science is an awesome subject to have students create infographics for. They could use Illustrator or Photoshop to visualize abstract concepts or present information in a compelling way.

In my former life as a science educator, I used Adobe software to create infographic posters like this one and this one. I entered one of them in the National Science Foundation Science Visualization Challenge which is a cool gallery of examples to inspire students.

Connie - it looks like the content on the site that this post linked to is now gone. I wasn't able to find it anywhere, so it looks like this link will be forever broken

Sorry about that...

For those in science and engineering who are into visualization, the National Science Foundation International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge is a great contest.

Has anyone else read this article? I found it very interesting and I am wondering if anyone here has experience with this kind of a learning environment. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what worked and what didn't.

The most interesting part of the article to me was the discussion on a possible paradigm shift in the way kids are learning. The teacher in the article made the statement that "his role was moving from teaching toward facilitating, building upon learning being done outside school." If part of that learning outside of school included learning how to use technology, then teachers can do things like podcasting without having to spend so much time teaching how to use the technology. As I develop Adobe's curriculum for our software products, I also assume that teachers have to spend time teaching the software and that causes us to be cautious about how advanced we can really get with the kinds of software features students can realistically learn in a given period of time. Perhaps that is changing?

It was also encouraging to see that the teacher profiled in the article made some great statements about the need to prepare students to be "producers of media". That is something that we are passionate about at Adobe - helping students gain the 21st century skills they need to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

“The goal is that they’re comfortable expressing themselves in any media, whether it’s video, audio, podcast, the written word, the spoken word or the animated feature.” He added: “Game design is the platform that we can hook them into because this is where they live. Video games are more important to them than film, than broadcast television, than journalism. This is their medium. Games are this generation’s rock and roll.”

Has anyone here on the Exchange found that statement to be true?

This is amazing YueLing! Thank you so much for sharing! It's great that you are willing to share so much valuable information. Others here on the Exchange could use this as a great basis for doing something similar in their computer science or gaming courses.

I love what you say about ActionScript being a great language for beginners and how it is similar to other programming languages. Is this a common sentiment among computer science faculty? What do your students focus on after this course? Do they move onto other programming languages or keep working in ActionScript? Does Flash or ActionScript show up anywhere else in your curriculum?

Sorry for all the questions - this is really interesting to me!

This is a really neat way to collaborate with a number of other schools. I see that you're working with a number of other members of the Adobe Education Exchange.

I encourage other members to check out this project and if you're interested, join in on the fun.

Thanks for sharing David!

I still haven't quite mastered CSS, but I am slowly learning.

These sites will help!

Thanks Mark!

Dawn - you might also check out this Podcasting resource on how to podcast to Podbean directly from Premiere Elements 8.

Let us know how the podcasting goes with your new class!

Would love to see more stock photo and video sites shared on the Exchange. I agree with you Mike that it's always best for students to create images and videos themselves, but especially when creating a documentary, stock footage can be useful. Might be difficult to get underwater footage if you don't live near the ocean, for example ;)

Nice tutorial David - I thought it was a text tutorial until I opened it and saw an Captivate movie embedded in a PDF! Nice use of Adobe technology! I love that feature of Acrobat 9.

I think more and more people are taking videos with DSLRs and other super portable devices like Flip cameras and mobile phones.

Do you run into the same problems with the portrait mode when shooting video on mobile phones?

Cool idea Ellen!

I remember seeing a video about the credit crisis that used animation and visual effects to explain the economic crisis. The graphics and visualizations made it much easier to understand.

I found it - here the link:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized
by Jonathan Jarvis

It's amazing how much easier complex issues like this are to understand when you add some visualizations. And these project ideas could be used in a lot of other subject areas.