"Digital Art Will Save Us!" is back! This is a professional development course designed for teachers, by teachers, to develop digital art skills and projects for your classroom with Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express. Digital Art Will Save Us is brought to you in partnership with the NSEAD and Edge Gain Ltd, designers of digital learning and teaching creative digital skills. Our mission is to inspire and educate.
What is it?
This course consists of 5 live-online workshops. This is a great refresher for teachers who took part in previous Digital Art Will Save Us courses, but also a perfect opportunity for teachers who are new to digital art or who want to develop new skills.
When and Where?
Live-online sessions start weekly on Zoom:
- Euro workshop timezone: Tuesday 17th October to Tuesday 14th November @ 6pm - 7:30pm (British Summer Time).
All online sessions will be recorded so you can watch back and catch up in your own time if you can't make the live sessions.
How much does it cost?
Euro workshop:
- NSEAD members = £75 (+VAT) *NSEAD members use promo code: NSEADEG23
- NSEAD non-members = £100 (+VAT)
*membership of NSEAD will be checked on booking. Please email info@nsead.org for more information
For group orders discounts or for invoice payments please contact hello@edgegainltd.com
What do you need to take part?
- A commitment to complete the course!
- A computer that can run Adobe Creative Cloud apps
- Access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express
About the course
No previous knowledge or experience of digital media is required for this course. We aim to give you the skills and inspiration to start your digital journey and build the confidence required to bring engaging digital art projects to your students.
This course will introduce digital tools like Adobe Express, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Character Animator, and Adobe Animate. We'll explore the basics of key digital design concepts like digital collage, digital imaging, AI and animation.
- The course consists of five live-online weekly sessions with an on-demand catch up option for those who can't make the live sessions
- Provides a guided pathway to developing digital skills with Adobe apps and give you digital art projects you can bring into your classroom
- Each live session is based on an assignable short project plus an extension project
- Live sessions will last 90 minutes via Zoom
- This course will be relevant to both primary and secondary educators
- You'll explore a variety of Adobe industry standard apps which are essential tools for digital painting and illustration, animation, video and graphic design including Express, Photoshop, Animate and we'll also introduce your to even more Adobe apps like Aero, Character Animator
- You'll create a digital portfolio and learning journal
- Participants who complete the course will receive a course certificate and digital badge for 10 hours of professional development
Sessions
The course will focus on the theme of "Pop Art" inspired by artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Rosaline Drexler, Peter Blake and Robert Indiana.
Live sessions will last 90 minutes via Zoom:
- Session 1: Digital Collage and Montage with Adobe Express, Adobe Photoshop and Artificial Intelligence. Learn about layers, masking, textures and blending modes. Set up your learning journal and digital portfolio with Adobe Express page.
- Session 2: Text and Graphic Design with Adobe Illustrator manipulating text and images.
- Session 3: Character Animator - investigating artworks - learn about real-time animation with Adobe Character Animator.
- Session 4: Getting started with animation - Create simple frame-by-frame "Lichtenstein" animation with Adobe Animate.
- Session 5: Pop Art augmented reality - exploring Augmented Reality with Adobe Aero.
Surrealist animation created with Adobe Animate.
GIFs an Cinemagraphs created by teachers using Adobe Photoshop
Testimonials
Just a few of the quotes from teachers who attended our previous Digital Art Will Save Us course:
Digital Art Will Save Us has been a total godsend. A* guys - OUTSTANDING. Thank you so so much. LIFE CHANGING.
Loved it, very grateful for everyone’s time and effort in putting it on. I also feel more connected to my Union now I have seen other members and staff.
This has revitalised, resuscitated even, not only my teaching but my own learning too.
Here are some of the amazing digital images created by teachers in the last Digital Art Will Save Us Courses.
Digital Art Will Save Us - Previous Courses
Our May 2023 course focused on the theme of "Digital Dada" exploring nonsense and creative expression.
Digital Art Will Save Us 2021
Contact Us
Edge Gain produce innovative in-person and online training. We design solutions for educators, students, and brands, including bespoke professional development, on-demand learning resources, educational consultancy, content creation and management. To find out more about our professional development opportunities visit our website or contact us:
Email: hello@edgegainltd.com for more information