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Academic Essentials: Deeper Dive Adobe HED Professional Development

Join us to explore how you can supercharge your creativity in Higher Education and learn the essentials of digital creativity, focussing on presentations, podcasting, video, data visualization, and how Adobe tools can support student outcomes.

Through Edge Gain virtual workshops, teachers, trainers, and education leaders develop their skills for converging creativity with 21st Century digital media literacy skills using Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express.

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Academic Faculty Starter Session

Join us this February 2023 for a deep dive into 90-minute interactive sessions when you'll incorporate hands-on learning and live feedback.

Below is a glimpse from our learning - and this February, we'll continue growing our skills.

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In this introductory session you'll explore how you can supercharge your creativity in Higher Education and learn the essentials of digital creativity, focusing on presentations, podcasting, video, data visualization, and how Adobe tools can support student outcomes.

Create Graphs, Graphics and Data Visualization

Effectively communicating complex academic and technical processes and concepts relies on sound design principles and the ability to render them using industry-standard tools. Discover essential tools and workflows in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Express that will help you develop clear and powerful visual representations for your presentations, papers and research.

Featured apps: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Express

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Publish Academic Papers, Journals and Essays

Discover professional page layout application Adobe InDesign and revolutionise the way you prepare and publish academic material. Design for print or for digital publication, incorporate interactive elements and media, and export to universally recognised formats such as PDF and ePub. Learn how to handle everything from short essays to thesis or book length documents.

Feature apps: Adobe InDesign and Adobe Express

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Create Academic Portfolios and Resumes

Creating a professional portfolio and resume of substance is the vital starting point for ensuring graduates’ enter the careers they have set their sights upon. Use existing templates or start from scratch to build high quality, high impact representations of your work and progress over time.

Featured apps: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Portfolio and Adobe Express

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Podcast for Academics

Podcasting is a great forum for academic discussion which captures the nuances of debate and analysis without the need for time-consuming video editing or set-up.

Master the essentials of Adobe Audition to create branded series of podcasts that capture the essence of your studies, thinking, and field of expertise. Great for building communities of learning around your specialism.

Feature apps: Adobe Audition and Adobe Express

Storytelling with Video for Educators

Understanding how to transform a field of study into a compelling narrative presents opportunities for instructors and students to reach the right audiences. Using storytelling principles and visual language can help break down and translate complex ideas, or argue a strategy, philosophy or method which, in turn, can generate support, extra funding or further advocacy. Learn how Adobe’s video tools can help academics tell the story of their research and work.

Featured apps: Adobe Premiere Rush and Adobe Express