Education Exchange Connect with a worldwide network of your peers, and gain the skills to design and deliver effective, engaging Adobe professional development sessions that empower and inspire students, teachers, and faculty to create innovative digital media. Enrollment ending soon: Jul 14, 2014 This six-week online course aims to develop teacher knowledge and understanding of animation using the latest Adobe tools. Connect with a worldwide network of your peers and gain the skills to design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development sessions that empower and inspire students, teachers, and faculty to create innovative digital media.
iPads In Education – How’s It Going So Far? A growing number of schools have launched programs to provide iPads to students. What returns is this investment yielding? There’s no doubt the iPad is a hot topic in education technology today. Just about every week, my preconfigured Google Alerts deliver stories about schools that have decided to provide iPads to their students. With this trend on the rise, the question arises as to how well this investment is paying off at schools that have taken the plunge. Picture from article about iPad adoption at Naselle High School This week I decided to do a little web research to learn more about this topic. Naselle High School – teachers and students motivated and engagedThe first article I came across was this one, about the rollout of iPads at Naselle High School in Washington state in the US. They put some solid effort into into implementation planning. Higher Education – a more balanced perspective? The article contains a lengthy and informative section discussing “Pluses and Minuses”.
How to design rubrics Rubrics take many different forms. Some rubrics describe only three levels of performance; others have more. Sometimes the terminology used to describe the various parts of the rubric will differ. None of this really matters. The important thing is that the purpose of the rubric remains the same: it is used to make levels of performance explicit for both teacher and student. The first step in designing a rubric is to identify the skills, knowledge and understanding that the teacher wishes the students to demonstrate. For example:An ability to …Knowledge of …Understanding of how/why/the ways in which … The next step is to decide how many levels are to be described and then to write the performance descriptors for each of those criteria. Some people find it easiest to start with the medium level, which should represent a satisfactory level of performance, and proceed from there to write the higher and lower level descriptors. Writing performance descriptors
Education Exchange About the Train the Trainer Course Overview The Train the Trainer course is a ten-week online course designed to equip education trainers worldwide with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development workshops. Throughout the course, participants will examine the importance of creativity in education and hear from fellow educators who are successfully using technology to foster creativity with their students.explore Adobe Education’s free online resources, Adobe's industry-leading products, and engaging Adobe product training activities.review best practices in professional development design. Weekly Self-Paced Lessons Course participants will progress through weekly self-paced asynchronous lessons and online discussion forums. Sample Weekly Schedule (4-5 hours/week)* *This schedule serves as a model and a guide. Webinars Requirements Final Assignment Credentials
Education Exchange About the Train the Trainer Course Overview The Train the Trainer course is a ten-week online course designed to equip education trainers worldwide with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development workshops. Throughout the course, participants will examine the importance of creativity in education and hear from fellow educators who are successfully using technology to foster creativity with their students.explore Adobe Education’s free online resources, Adobe's industry-leading products, and engaging Adobe product training activities.review best practices in professional development design. Weekly Self-Paced Lessons Course participants will progress through weekly self-paced asynchronous lessons and online discussion forums. Sample Weekly Schedule (4-5 hours/week)* *This schedule serves as a model and a guide. Webinars Requirements Final Assignment Credentials
Image resolution for printing - LPI vs DPI a.k.a. LPI vs PPI a.k.a. LPI vs SPI Background - pixels make the original image A digital "raster" image acquired from a scanner, a digital camera, or created directly in a "paint" application like Adobe Photoshop is made up of a mosaic of "pixels" (picture elements)." Here is an original image at actual size: Here is a close up view showing the actual pixels that form the image: The physical size of the image is described by two numbers which can be expressed two ways: 1) The number of pixels per inch/centimeter.and 2) The number of pixels in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Or: 1) The number of pixels per inch/centimeter.and 2) The horizontal and vertical dimensions expressed in inches/centimeters. Those are just two ways of saying the same thing. Note that the dimensions have a "lock" icon beside them. Note that I use the term "pixels per inch" - ppi. Interestingly, digital cameras typically do not have a resolution assigned to them. Background - halftone dots make the image reproduction 40 lpi halftone:
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