Western & Adobe Digital Uplift Engagement Program
Join Learning Futures and Digital U and let's get everyone excited about learning!
Come and learn how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud tools as part of the Adobe Partnership Program.
Are you looking for new and exciting ways to create engaging resources activities and learning experiences?
Do you want to …
- Increase the comprehension of the messages you are delivering?
- Gain insight into what they are thinking and how they are learning?
- See and hear the student voice in a variety of ways?
- Promote self-reflection and cognition?
- Create opportunities for collaboration and communication?
- Support students and develop agency in their learning?
Want to know more? Keep reading…
Adobe Creative Cloud will enable:
- Visual thinking in creative ways.
- Use of icons and images to assist s diverse learning needs.
- Communication of ideas in multimodal ways.
- And most importantly, everyone gets excited about their learning!
What are other higher education institutions saying about Adobe Creative Cloud as an educational tool?
“It is very important that we focus on what our students learn and how they are positioned when they leave. Schools that have Creative Cloud have a competitive advantage in what they offer to students.” Melissa Vito, PhD, vice provost for Academic Innovation, University of Texas San Antonio
“We want to provide these tools at the ground level for our students. We want to empower our faculty to do the great things they do every day to be able to change the lives of our students. We want our students to be able to create a voice, create a brand, create energy around them so that when they go out in the marketplace, they can do great things and achieve their abilities.” Timothy E. Moore, PhD, president of Indian River State College.
What is Adobe Creative Cloud?
Creative Cloud is a collection of connected software applications. Think of it as a toolbox for making learning content. It’s a synergistic networked platform — a system of applications that are engineered and designed to work together seamlessly — which makes the individual tools that much more powerful collectively.
Check out this Adobe textbook on Adobe Creative Cloud across the Curriculum A Guide for Students and Teachers
Here is a sneak peek of one tool available in Adobe Creative Cloud.
How do I get access to Adobe Creative Cloud?
- Request access to Adobe Creative Cloud access via the WesternNow form (log in using your Western credentials). You will receive an email from Adobe within 24hrs with instructions to log in to Creative Cloud using your western credentials. (Staff ID Number@westernsydney.edu.au).
- Download the Creative Cloud app to your desktop from the software centre.
Current Workshops
May
May - Adobe Creative Cloud Month
Across 4 sessions (1-hour workshops per week) during the month of May academics will discover how a particular digital tool can support them in creating content/media that either addresses a challenge that they have or enhance an aspect of T&L in the classroom. This will empower them to gain more confidence to explore what is possible to be created with a particular digital tool and inspire colleagues as technology advocates.| Workshop | Date | Time | Delivery mode | Zoom |
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Workshop 1 How to create a video – exploring possibilities within the Adobe Creative Cloud | Wed 3 May | 1 pm | Online | Watch the recorded session(opens in a new window) Adobe how to guide(opens in a new window) |
Workshop 2 How to quickly create an infographic – innovating in minutes with Adobe Express | Wed 10 May | 10am | Online | Watch the recorded session(opens in a new window) Adobe how to guide (opens in a new window) |
Workshop 3 How to create a podcast – teaching, learning and assessing with sound | Wed 17 May | 10am | Online | Watch the recorded session(opens in a new window) Adobe how to guide (opens in a new window) |
Workshop 4 How to create a portfolio – building your own personalised repository with Adobe Portfolio | Wed 24May | 1pm | Online | Watch the recorded session(opens in a new window) |
June
Unlocking the power of Adobe Creative Cloud to create solutions to educational challenges
Academics and student partners work together in pairs with the assistance of Adobe education experts and Learning Futures to investigate and develop innovative teaching and learning strategies and artefacts, using Adobe digital tools as mediums to solve specific learning challenges. This hands-on session will be a diagnosis/solutions-focused think-tank where each academic brings a problem/task/challenge to be solved using an Adobe Creative Cloud tool.| Workshop | Date | Time | Delivery mode | Registration |
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Unlocking the power of Adobe Creative Cloud to create solutions to educational challenges |
June (Date to be confirmed) | TBA | Face to Face | Expression of Interest form |
July
Western & Adobe Creative Cloud Showcase
As a closing session to the Western & Adobe Engagement Program, WSU executive leaders and the Adobe Education team welcome academics and students as partners to showcase their work and talk about the process of collaboration. The session will be facilitated by the Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist and LF, as a conversation, to share insights, learning points and challenges that were faced during their learning journey and a celebration of experiences and outcomes. Upon completion of sessions #4 & #5, participants will receive a Western Digital Certificate of Completion| Workshop | Date | Time | Delivery mode | Registration |
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Western & Adobe Creative Cloud Showcase Prerequisite: Completion of Unlocking the power of Adobe Creative Cloud to create solutions to educational challenges session in June. |
July (Date to be confirmed) | TBA | Hybrid | This event is by invitation only |
Previous Workshops
March
Adobe Showcase Reel
Launching the upcoming Western & Adobe Digital Uplift Engagement Program. This 30-minute online session will highlight the objectives of the program and provide a spotlight on the ADOBE suite of products supported at Western and their potential to create engaging teaching and learning experiences.| Workshop | Date | Time | Delivery Mode | Registration |
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Adobe Showcase Reel | Friday, 31 March 2023 | 12:00PM- 13:30PM | Online | Register |
April
Masterclass - Unleashing creative learning experiences using Adobe Creative Cloud
The objective of this session is to deconstruct pre-assumptions about creative digital tools being used in different areas of the curriculum and leave the session feeling confident and inspired to explore the affordances of ADOBE to create engaging, aesthetic, and accessible teaching and learning content. This interactive session will enable academics to access the Creative Cloud suite and leave the session having a foundational understanding of two digital tools, i.e., Adobe Express and Adobe Rush.| Workshop | Date | Time | Delivery mode | Recordings |
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Masterclass - Unleashing creative learning experiences using Adobe Creative Cloud This session is facilitated by Adobe | Wednesday, 12 April 2023 | 10am to 12pm | Hybrid Bankstown City Campus (30 pax on campus) & Online | Watch the recorded session(opens in a new window) |
Resources
Professional Learning
- Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT)(Opens in a new window)
- Learning and Teaching Workshops(Opens in a new window)
- Professional Learning Modules(Opens in a new window)
- Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching(Opens in a new window)
T&L Research
- How to Research your Teaching(Opens in a new window)
- START Program of Research(Opens in a new window)
- TEL Program of Research(Opens in a new window)
- FLEX Program of Research(Opens in a new window)
- AIR Program of Research(Opens in a new window)
T&L Excellence
- Badugulang - Centre for Teaching and Learning Excellence(Opens in a new window)
- Western Education Fellowship Scheme(Opens in a new window)
- Reward and Recognition(Opens in a new window)
- Evidencing your Teaching Practice(Opens in a new window)
T&L Resources
- Smart Assessment Toolkit(Opens in a new window)
- FLIPCurric - Global Online Practitioners Guide(Opens in a new window)
- Online Engagement and Teaching Hub(Opens in a new window)
Communities of Practice
- Program Leaders Forum(Opens in a new window)
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