Showing posts with label Adobe Education Exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adobe Education Exchange. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Adobe Photoshop Touch Review - very nice app



Adobe Touch Apps family

Adobe recently released a host of Adobe TouchApps - Photoshop Touch, Ideas, Collage, Debut, Kuler, Proto, and Carousel. Design, edit, and elegantly present your work using six new Adobe® Touch Apps designed for your tablet. Whether you use a stylus or just your fingertip, intuitive touchscreen features provide easy, precise control for a variety of creative tasks. Transfer files through Adobe Creative Cloud for refinement in Adobe Creative Suite® software — or to view, access, and share from almost anywhere.

I have been using Adobe Photoshop Touch for the last couple of weeks on a loaned iPad and a friend has it on his Android tablet. The Photoshop Touch app lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more. If you have used Photoshop, the Touch app will be a breeze for you. If you haven't used Photoshop, don't worry, the Touch app is easy to use, has interactive tutorials, and there are tons of help resources on Adobe's site and for educators on the Adobe Education Exchange, which is a resource site for educators who use Adobe products. Tips, instruction guides, videos, a community of users, lesson examples and much more are all available to help teachers and students using Adobe products.



Adobe's new Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators integrates the Photoshop Touch app so that you can work on your projects seamlessly from mobile to desktop. 

 

The Photoshop Touch app was very easy to learn and get started with. I did use some of the tutorials, and had read a few posts on the education exchange site, but it was very intuitive. Features include layers, effects, filters, tone and edge editing, text, search for images, share images, wireless printing, and much more. The tools are all, literally at your fingertips on the app. Because it's not the full version of Photoshop, it's easier to find the tools that you use the most. It is probably the best image editing app for tablets around and still has all the really important and useful features from the full version of Photoshop. It's easy to bring in an image, edit and manipulate it, and the save it. It's only $9.99, which is super cheap for Photoshop and the Education Volume app store has it for $4.99, which makes it very affordable for education.

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I had some fun playing with different pictures I took with the iPad, although the quality of them wasn't great using the iPad's camera, so I also brought in some other pictures and graphics files to play with. It was very easy to clean up images and there is even a gallery of styles and effects that you can look at and then see a step-by-step tutorial on how to achieve those effects.

This is a great app for education. It's inexpensive, easy to use, full featured, and a tool that students should learn to use as it will help them in college and careers.

Here are some screenshots from Adobe's site:
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Adobe Announces Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators
Link to Photoshop Touch page on Adobe's site: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-touch.html

Original Announcement of app: Adobe PhotoShop Touch for iPad2 now available
Photoshop Touch for iOS. $9.99 


Photoshop Touch for Android. $9.99 




DISCLAIMER: I received a free copy of the Adobe Photoshop Touch app to do this review. I have been using it, and the Adobe Education Exchange, as part of this review.








Monday, April 23, 2012

Adobe Announces Creative Cloud/Suite 6 for Students and Educators


Adobe Creative Cloud, Creative Suite 6 Deliver Professional Grade Features for Students and Educators


On Monday, April 23rd, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Cloud Student and Teacher Edition, and Creative Suite 6 Student and Teacher Edition for institutions, educators and students worldwide.


In addition to 14 new CS6 point products and four Creative Suites, Adobe is now delivering its first cloud offering for students and educators. Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub where students and educators can explore, share and deliver creative content using any of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 desktop applications, as well as new tools for HTML5 such as Adobe Muse™ and Adobe Edge Preview. By offering integration with Adobe Touch Apps, headlined by Photoshop® Touch, Adobe Creative Cloud enables new mobile workflows, from ideation to publishing, that bring the power of Adobe innovation to the classroom via iPad and Android tablets.



Prepare Students for Careers

With new capabilities designed to help students across all disciplines create stunning digital content that stands out, Adobe Creative Suite 6 gives students the ability to learn the skills needed in today’s competitive workforce:

Gain digital content creation skills across video, animations, 3D and photos with major updates to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6, Adobe After Effects ® CS6, and Adobe Audition® CS6. With the new Adobe Photoshop CS6, students can express themselves by leveraging the powerful new 3D and video editing tools for media they have captured across multiple devices.

Create on any device with Adobe Creative Cloud Connection which enables the syncing, sharing and storing of files from Adobe Touch Apps® for download and use with CS6 desktop products. For example, educators and students can work with a file in Photoshop Touch on iPad and use Adobe Creative Cloud Connect to sync and share that file on the desktop for refinement using Photoshop CS6.

Get noticed with multimedia-rich portfolios, websites and applications. InDesign CS6 extends its lead in digital publishing, streamlining the creation of multiple layouts from a single set of content, helping to deliver interactive campus publications for iPad, Kindle Fire and Android devices. Dreamweaver CS6 enables students to create high-impact school or personal websites.


Engage Students, Empower Faculty and Advance Teaching

The new Creative Suite 6 release gives faculty and students the tools to easily visualize, understand, and communicate information in creative ways across print, web, video, and mobile devices.

Create digital education content ranging from digital storytelling for history and languages, and gaming and animations for math, to data visualization in the sciences – all in a way that engages students and creates rich learning experiences. Adobe Creative Suite 6 provides the features and flexibility to produce interactive presentations and explore the boundaries of creativity and critical thinking.

Expand the delivery of education content with multi-screen publishing across multiple platforms and devices using HTML5 and the very latest standards for web, mobile, eBooks, and tablets.

Improve productivity and efficiency in the classroom with simplified workflows, speed and performance enhancements, and a new, more intuitive user interface across the CS6 product set.

Empower educators with ISTE-aligned curricula with the release of three newly-updated year-long, project based curriculums for graphic design and print production, web design and development, and video production. These curricula are available on the Adobe Education Exchange (http://edexchange.adobe.com), along with resources from the education community.

Certify industry-centric technical and communication skills with Adobe certifications. More than 300,000 students worldwide have been certified through the Adobe Certified Associate examination. With CS6, Adobe and CertiPort are offering new, updated curricula and certification for this major release. Educators and students can get certified for both entry-level skills as an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA), and professional-level skills as an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).



Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud are scheduled to be available within 30 days. The Student and Teacher Edition of Adobe Creative Cloud is available for US$29.99/month. Volume licensing for Creative Cloud “team-ready” is available via the Adobe Transactional Licensing Program. More information on Adobe licensing can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/volumelicensing/education/.

Adobe is also offering a new Adobe K-12 Enterprise Agreement designed for the needs of school districts in the United States and Canada. Customers can purchase Creative Suite 6 via Adobe.com and through select retail and online stores. More product information is available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite.html.

For more detailed information about educational upgrade policies and pricing, as well as the full portfolio of suites, please visit http://www.adobe.com/education.edu.html.




Related:

Adobe Digital School Collection - supporting creativity and digital literacy

Adobe Education Exchange - tips, training, help, resources, lesson ideas, community forum and more for using Adobe products in education.










Adobe Launches Creative Cloud - make, share, deliver creative work



Adobe Launches Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud is Adobe's way of bringing their software to the cloud. For a monthly fee, you get access to all of Adobe's products, get the most updated versions, and can access them from home or work. Your files are also available through the cloud.

The subscription fee for this service is cheaper than purchasing licenses for every computer and it will make updates easier on your IT department. The products have been updated with great new features and run faster, you can work on your files in a web browser, and you can work from any device, including an iPad.

The Student and Teacher Edition of Adobe Creative Cloud is available for US$29.99/month. Volume licensing for Creative Cloud “team-ready” is available via the Adobe Transactional Licensing Program. More information on Adobe licensing can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/volumelicensing/education/.

Adobe is also offering a new Adobe K-12 Enterprise Agreement designed for the needs of school districts in the United States and Canada. Customers can purchase Creative Suite 6 via Adobe.com and through select retail and online stores. More product information is available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite.html. 

One of the nice things with this is that districts will always be able to have the most up to date product, and teachers will be able to access the Creative Cloud from home and school. 

For more detailed informationabout educational upgrade policies and pricing, as well as the full portfolio of suites, please visit http://www.adobe.com/education.edu.html.



Adobe® Creative Cloud, a radical new way of providing tools and services that will change the game for creatives worldwide. A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing, and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, packed with innovation across its industry-defining design, web, video and digital imaging tools.



Adobe Creative Cloud Highlights

Creative Cloud membership provides users with access to download and install every new Adobe CS6 application announced today and two new HTML5 products, Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge Preview.

Creative Cloud integrates Adobe’s creative tablet applications, such as Photoshop Touch, into everyday work - seamlessly synchronizing and storing files in the cloud, for sharing and access on any device.

Creative Cloud members will be able to easily deliver mobile apps to iOS and Android marketplaces and publish, manage and host web sites.

Adobe Creative Cloud members will have access to application upgrades, including new CS point-product features, before they are launched as part of major CS updates, as well as inventive new products and services as they emerge.


Creative Suite 6, Innovative HTML5 Tools Anchor Creative Cloud

CS6 includes landmark releases of industry icons such as Adobe Photoshop® CS6, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Illustrator® CS6, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and more. With Creative Cloud membership creatives can download and install all of the 14 new Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications.

Creative Cloud membership also includes access to Adobe Muse® and Adobe Edge® Preview, new tools for HTML5 design and development that demonstrate Adobe’s commitment to the latest web standards.


Creative Cloud Links Adobe Touch Apps to CS6 Desktop Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud integrates Adobe’s line of creative touch tools with CS6 desktop applications.

Adobe Touch Apps bring professional-level creativity to tablet devices and address multiple areas of the creative process: image editing; ideation; sketching; mood board creation; website and mobile app prototyping; and the presentation of finished work.

Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas have already proved runaway hits on the iPad and Android tablets. Three additional tools, available on Android today, will be coming to iPad soon: Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, and Adobe Proto.

A new desktop app, Adobe Creative Cloud Connection, enables the syncing, sharing and storing of files across mobile devices and desktop.

Creative Cloud membership includes up to 20GB of cloud storage, with additional storage purchase options coming soon.

Creative Cloud Publishing Services Streamline Website and App Creation

Creative Cloud publishing services will include the ability to easily publish apps, magazines and catalogues to iPad, iPhone and Android devices.

Members have immediate access to Adobe Typekit, the web-based font library that pioneered the use of real fonts on websites, delivering more than 700 typefaces from leading foundries.

New Web hosting capabilities, integrated as part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership, allow users to easily create and host high-impact web sites. The Integration between Adobe Muse, Typekit and the web hosting capabilities power a new simplified workflow for delivering high-impact web sites.


Members Receive Ongoing Delivery of New Applications, Services and Features

Creative Cloud members will receive ongoing updates to Creative Suite applications as well as other new products and services as they emerge. Coming soon to Adobe Creative Cloud are:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, the desktop software tool that enables photographic perfection from shoot to finish; the first complete release of Adobe Edge, a ground-breaking HTML5 development tool; and Digital Publishing Suite (Single Edition), the technology behind the delivery of digital magazines on iPad.

Creative Cloud will also include training, support and community features that drive meaningful connections between creatives worldwide.

Learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud at www.adobe.com/go/creativecloud.




Related:

Adobe Digital School Collection - supporting creativity and digital literacy

Adobe Education Exchange - tips, training, help, resources, lesson ideas, community forum and more for using Adobe products in education.









Thursday, December 15, 2011

Adobe - wrap up of their recent product releases - great tools for education


Adobe has released some new products this year and they all have applications in education.



Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 - software for developing rich interactive apps for Android™, BlackBerry®, and iOS. Design engaging browser content in HTML5, and create immersive digital magazines. Mobilize your creative vision with the suite edition that's right for you




Adobe Digital School Collection - bundle for education that includes Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and Acrobat. This is a great product for education, support digital literacy, creativity, e-portfolios, and more.
Read more here: Digital Storytelling with ADSC, Address 21st Century Skills with ADSC, Creativity and Digital Literacy with ADSC,


Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition - provides an intuitive and affordable way to create, develop, and deliver iPad apps such as brochures, portfolios, and highly visual books without writing code or relying on developers. Use familiar Adobe InDesign® CS5.5 skills to explore your creativity and develop content that inspires and engages.



Adobe Creative Cloud - a comprehensive offering of creative services, Adobe Creative Suite® desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and community features that together will radically redefine the content creation process. Some features are available today. The full offering will be available in 2012.


Adobe Touch Apps family

Adobe TouchApps - Photoshop Touch, Ideas, Collage, Debut, Kuler, Proto, Carousel
Design, edit, and elegantly present your work using six new Adobe® Touch Apps designed for your tablet. Whether you use a stylus or just your fingertip, intuitive touchscreen features provide easy, precise control for a variety of creative tasks. Transfer files through Adobe Creative Cloud for refinement in Adobe Creative Suite® software — or to view, access, and share from almost anywhere.






The Adobe Education Exchange is a resource site for educators who use Adobe products. Tips, instruction guides, videos, a community of users, lesson examples and much more are all available to help teachers and students using Adobe products.



These are all very good products for education and can help students learn 21st century skills, creativity, design, digital storytelling and allow them to create media rich projects for school. They will also learn how to use industry standard software.


DISCLAIMER: I received a free copy of the Adobe Digital Schools Collection to do this review. I have been using it, and the Adobe Education Exchange, as part of this review.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Adobe Announces Digital School Collection - great bundle of software for education



Adobe has just announced the release of the Adobe Digital School Collection (ADSC). This collection is a bundle of software for K-12 students and educators and is available for Windows and Mac OS.

Included in the bundle is Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, Adobe Premiere Elements 10 and Adobe Acrobat X Pro. The “Elements” versions of the software are easier to use than the “Pro” versions. They have less features than the Pro versions but most of the missing features are very advanced and rarely used in the K-12 arena. The new version of Acrobat can include audio and video in a PDF file making PDF Porftolios easy to create. It can also be used to create  web site.

With this software, students can create projects and presentations that combine photos, movies with effects, and multi-media documents. They can also use the ADSC for media rich ePortfolios.

Adobe is also providing resources for educators to help them use the ADSC in their classrooms. The Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators and has curriculum and lesson plans for using the ADSC in class along with teacher resources and a community of users. There are 23 lesson plans, tech guides, user guides, teacher guides, and completed examples to view. There are over 36,000 members in the community and that number continues to grow.

The ADSC is available as 50 or 100 pack K-12 site licenses and teacher home license is included.

The ADSC is a great resource for educators to use to engage students and let them be creative and use technology in their class projects. These tools are used throughout the business world also and will help prepare students. Using the ADSC can help address technology literacy, creativity, and the use of digital media tools.

Over the next couple of months, I’ll be using and reviewing the ADSC and sharing my experiences.




Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Adobe Education Educator's Choice Awards Winners Announced


The 2011 EducatorsÂ’ Choice Awards Winners


Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.


The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards is an awards program for educators with the winners selected by educators. And the envelope please!.....



Announcing: The winners and their innovative teaching materials

Congratulations to the winners of The 2011 Educators’ Choice Awards, and thanks to all the Adobe Education Exchange members who participated. Your entries, ratings, and votes helped make this contest an overwhelming success. Check out all the winning work from the contest (including the honorable mention winners), and gain inspiration for using Adobe software in your teaching.

Check out the innovative teaching and learning materials that garnered laptops, tablets, software and other valuable prizes - as well as worldwide exposure - for an elite group of primary/secondary and higher education professionals. The 2011 Educators' Choice Awards competition was an overwhelming success thanks to the entries, ratings, and voting from educators like you. Check out the prize winning entries, selected by the community, and the honorable mention winners, selected from the top rated entries that were not finalists.

2011 Primary/Secondary Winners



2011 Higher Education Winners




Cross-Curricular

Grand Prize

Take Action!Take Action!,
Erika Veth

Runners-up





Monday, October 17, 2011

Finalists for Adobe Educators' Choice Awards Announced - cast your votes!

Vote in The 2011 EducatorsÂ’ Choice Awards


Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.


The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards is an awards program for educators. Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice prizes. Submit your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted. There are four categories: Primary/Secondary Cross-Curricular, Primary/Secondary Digital Arts and Media, Higher Education Cross-Curricular, Higher Education Digital Arts and Media.

The finalists have been announced!!

Check out the finalists — and cast your votes by October 28


Congratulations to the finalists in The 2011 Educators' Choice Awards, and thanks to all the Adobe Education Exchange members who helped select them. Now, it's time to select the winners, so please check out the finalists' innovative teaching and learning materials closely. 

Then choose your favorite in each category. Voting ends October 28, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST, and winners will be announced by November 9.



Primary/Secondary Finalists
Digital Arts and Media
Cross-Curricular

























Higher Education Finalists
Digital Arts and Media
The Battle to Learn Adobe Flash, Thomas Giannattasio
Cross-Curricular
Take Action!, Erika Veth


Select a winner in each category — sign-in and vote today.


Friday, October 7, 2011

One Week Left in Adobe's Educator Choice Awards




There is only one week left in the Adobe The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards awards program for educators.
Submissions will only be accepted up until next Friday, October 14th, so get yours in now!

Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice prizes. Submit  your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted. There are four categories: Primary/Secondary Cross-Curricular, Primary/Secondary Digital Arts and Media, Higher Education Cross-Curricular, Higher Education Digital Arts and Media.

Don't forget to check out the projects that have been submitted and vote for your favorite ones!



Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Contests and Awards for Educators - great resources for all



Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators. They are sponsoring a contest for educators - The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards that I've been blogging about lately, showcasing some of the projects educators have submitted.


The 2011 Educators’ Choice Awards



What I like about these contests is that while they are a way for a company to get exposure for itself and it's products, it also allows teachers to get exposure for the kind of great work they do.

Teachers work very hard to come up with creative and engaging lessons for their classes and they should be recognized for this. There is no reason for them to work in isolation any more. In this day of Web 2.0 and Social Networking, sharing your lessons and projects is easier than ever. Your efforts can help another teacher who has been struggling to come up with a lesson on that same topic. I'm all for sharing materials and lesson ideas across education.

However, I do believe that educators who want to use someone else's ideas should ask for permission or at the very least give credit. I have many labs and activities that I've either used directly or modified somewhat that I have gotten from another teacher. I've asked permission for any that I can contact the owner of and give credit for all of them. "Modified from a lab by ________ " will be on the page.

Many other companies have educator forums and sites like Adobe does and the whole point of these is to bring educators together and help them learn from and support each other.

Take a look at some of the great projects in the Adobe Educator's Choice Awards and submit your own ideas.





Other Educational Sites sponsored by companies:

Microsoft Education
HP - Teacher Experience Exchange

Even more great educator projects in the Adobe Educators Choice Awards




There are only a few weeks left in the Adobe The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards awards program for educators. Any educator can enter.

Submissions are excepted until October 14th so get yours in today. Don't forget to check out the projects that have been submitted and vote for your favorite ones!

Here are some more of the great projects that have been submitted. These projects are all by educators and show how creative educators can be in finding great projects for their students. These projects can also be used by other educators in their classroom.


Creature Creation - Photoshop - Pretend you were on a hike deep in the rain forest and a mysterious creature came up to you, what would this creature look like? How would they act? What features do they have? Are they tall, short, plump, skinny, etc…. Nothing about this creature is predetermined. In this lesson students will be asked to sketch out anoriginal creature and scan their images into Photoshop to apply the finishing touches.

Movie Poster Parody Project - Photoshop - A fun project for students who have little to moderate experience using Photoshop. Students search the web to find a movie poster (or DVD cover) to make a parody of.
The important part of this project as a teacher is to stress that "students must create a new document from scratch and emulate the movie to the best of their ability to make it recognizable".

The Zoo Website - Dreamweaver, Photoshop - In this project, students use Dreamweaver to create and advertise their own zoo website. Apart from the design aspect, students must use critical thinking skills in planning the location, operating hours, price, and attractions/animals that they will have in their zoo.
Students will create a custom CSS template with divs and create rollover menu buttons using Photoshop.

Intermediate knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop needed.


Look around the site and check out all of the projects and vote for your favorite.









Thursday, September 22, 2011

Some more great projects from the Adobe Educators' Choice Awards



There are only a few weeks left in the Adobe The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards awards program for educators. Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice prizes. Submit  your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted. There are four categories: Primary/Secondary Cross-Curricular, Primary/Secondary Digital Arts and Media, Higher Education Cross-Curricular, Higher Education Digital Arts and Media.

Submissions are excepted until October 14th so get yours in today. Don't forget to check out the projects that have been submitted and vote for your favorite ones!

Here are some more of the great projects that have been submitted:

Photoshop for Kids: Digital Tangrams - Photoshop, Photoshop Elements - Here's a tutorial explaining how to use "digital tangrams" to copy or create beautiful shapes with 7 geometric pieces. With a little imagination, the newly created shapes can then be used for storyboarding to put together a digital storytelling project, which can also be animated.
Note: Tangram shapes were created with Photsohop, and animated in Photoshop CS5Extended.

Making a book with InDesign - PART1 - PLANNING - InDesign - How to make a book -step 1 planning.
Plan making your book- file management- flatplan- making a dummy

Dividing Fractions Visually (II) - Flash Professional - I created this Flash animated tutorial to help my students understand operations on fractions by seeing them done visually.

Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Only a few weeks left in Adobe Educator's Choice Awards




There are only a few weeks left in the Adobe The 2011 Educator's Choice Awards awards program for educators. Any educator can enter. You submit your innovative teaching and learning materials and you could win some really nice prizes. Submit  your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted. There are four categories: Primary/Secondary Cross-Curricular, Primary/Secondary Digital Arts and Media, Higher Education Cross-Curricular, Higher Education Digital Arts and Media.

Submissions are excepted until October 14th so get yours in today. Don't forget to check out the projects that have been submitted and vote for your favorite ones!



Adobe Education Exchange is a great resource for educators, with resources, lesson ideas, lesson plans, and a place to collaborate with other educators.