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JSchoolTech News March 2022 Edition

Your monthly source for learning opportunities, tech updates and lesson ideas.

On Our Calendar

Remind students they can meet with me and labbies via Zoom, in person, through the Virtual JBar and learn with our tutorials! We would love for you to add this info to your course spaces.

Learn online

Resource Center coverage with labbies

  • Sunday 1-5
  • Monday 10-8
  • Tuesday 9-8
  • Wednesday 9-12; 1-8
  • Thursday 9-8
  • Friday 10-2

Make an appointment with Heather https://calendly.com/halawrenz-1

Virtual JBar still open: https://rockcha.lk/VirtualJBar

Adobe events

Help me promote these extension activities to our students!

College + The Futur Creative Jam with Adobe Stock

Want to sell an idea, side hustle, or product concept? Learn how to pitch like a pro at the College + The Futur Creative Jam! Join hundreds of college students around the globe for an opportunity to showcase your talent and win a competition that will advance your career on March 8. Register for free at https://cjam.in/thefutur

College + Hulu Creative Jam with Adobe Rush

For students: You’re invited to Jam with Hulu. Learn new storytelling skills. Be inspired and challenged, creatively. Work on your own or with a friend on a video project for the chance to win prizes! College students can register for free at https://cjam.in/hulu

Get ON our calendar

If you are assessing your class and need new material for fall, now is a great time to reach out to me. In addition to appearing in class, I can create tutorial content for you, curate resources, hold workshops.

ON JSchooltech.org

I am working on some new Premiere content so stay turned for some tricks to fix audio.

March Photo Challenge

JSchool Tech presents the March Photography Challenge! The theme for this month is "Get Close"! We are looking for photos that use a camera to physically "get close" to a subject. DM your best work to @jschooltech on Instagram by March 31 for a chance to be featured. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

Presesentation Tools

I will be presenting this to our J150 course next week, but I thought it had some good content we could all use - new presentation tools and resources.

Cool stuff, Apps & Lessons

On the importance of digital content writing

Too often when we are making we forget the importance of our words, especially in the land of prototyping and mockups, but this article really talks about how the two go hand in hand. This also reflects what I am seeing in job listings that ask our students to have strong writing and editing skills along with the ability to be content creators.

Lesson / Tutorials

As many of our students are beginning to think (we hope) about their final project, I thought it would be nice to share this great HOW TO on creating a moodboard. (Substitute the word moodboard with infographic, plansbook, etc. - it's all about planning before doing.

This gives students (or you) some great examples and a step by step way to plan a project. They also can learn some new software skills.

Creative Trends

You know I love a trend forecast and am especially excited about this one : Optimism and Defiance. Also jewel tones are back - did they ever leave? And brown and all its tones will be the IN color for Fall.

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Heather Lawrenz
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Created with an image by RonBerg - "ladybugs insects pair"