Higher Ed projects that make distance learning engaging
Lessons, projects, and activities for college and university faculty and students

Art and Digital Media
Propaganda graphic/photographic
Students use Spark Page to compare propaganda posters with 1930s-1940s photos

Humanities
Analyze a music video
Students use Spark Video to analyze and develop an argument about a music video and its relationship to society, politics, and culture

Science
Stop gap motion
Students use Rush to create a stop motion film on a compelling topic

Social Sciences
Blog for social justice and community engagement
Students use Spark Page to craft a blog related to social justice

Careers
Career genogram and timeline
Students use XD to create a career genogram and timeline to think about familial influence

Humanities
Edit opinions
Students use Acrobat to show their thinking about political and social rhetoric by annotating portions of an op-ed

Art and Digital Media
Remix and match a topic
Students use Rush to select a topic and remix it by creating a video

Humanities
Culture in context
Students use Audition to create a podcast about culture

Careers
Build a Portfolio
Students use InDesign to create a portfolio of their college career

Science
STEM TV
Students use Rush to explore a STEM topic in an engaging television format

Humanities
Scholarly concept video
Students use Premiere Pro to create a video about a concept

Science
Communicate current science
Students use Spark Video to express the findings of a research article in a video

Careers
Understand occupations
Students use Illustrator to create a career infographic

Art and Digital Media
Reanimating historical photographs
Students use Premiere Pro to reanimate Muybridge’s photographs in order to see what they looked like in motion

Social Sciences
Invented necessities
Students use InDesign to create a zine that identifies and traces the effects of a handful of technologies

Humanities
Tell a travel story
Students use Acrobat to bring travel texts to life

Science
The art of science
Students use InDesign to observe and photograph aesthetic phenomena in the natural world and share via a photo essay

Humanities
Anatomy of a podcast
Students use Audition to explore how production impacts narrative

Art and Digital Media
Create a video tour of a work of art
Students use Premiere Pro or Rush to create a personalized video tour of a piece of art

Social Sciences
Archive dive
Students use Spark Page to analyze a folder of primary sources and craft an original historical argument

Art and Digital Media
Create an interactive map
Students use XD to create an interactive map

Science
Science in translation
Students use InDesign to translate specialist scientific discourse for non-specialist audiences

Art and Digital Media
Create an interactive directory
Students use XD to create an interactive directory

Humanities
Literary exploration with mobile app design
Students use XD to design an educational mobile app exploring a literary text

Art and Digital Media
Exhibition brochure
Students use InDesign to design a brochure for an imagined exhibition

Careers
Video resume
Students use Spark Video to create a video resume

Art and Digital Media
Art in perspective
Students use Photoshop to create a composite photograph of their own design to match the original artwork

Humanities
Monumental podcast stories
Students use Audition to create an audio narrative that monumentalizes a object, artifact, event, or idea

Art and Digital Media
Visualize your dream
Students use Photoshop to play with scale and create their own surrealistic “dream” scene

Art and Digital Media
Design your personal brand
Students use Illustrator to create a logo and stationery set to represent their personal brand

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