creative suite intensive course

This course is designed to demonstrate Adobe's creative software and contains topics relating to digital media basics, print, video and web publishing - which are delivered through a project based learning scenario. The course was developed with the Adobe certification platform in mind, providing trainees with a good pathway for accreditation via the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) program for Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Premiere.

Course attendees will get exposure to Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Premiere, and Dreamweaver as well as covering the basics about digital media. All this is wrapped into a project based learning method to deliver an engaging course specifically created for the K-12 Australian school curriculum.

project-based learning

Project based learning in this scenario is designed to allow teachers to experience the delivery of the project topic through a variety of digital media using a range of Adobe Creative Suite products.
Teachers can then utilise similar creative project based learning to achieve their particular syllabus outcomes.

Project based learning will give students the opportunity to learn tasks through researching information, communicating with experts, discussion with others and developing presentations in multiple media formats via non-traditional classroom teaching. Teachers and students will also benefit from learning creative skills, critical thinking techniques, technology literacy in class leading Adobe products and digital media.

course details

The creative suite intensive course is delivered over 2 days onsite at your institution. Course fees are all inclusive - we will provide a trainer to travel to your site, course material and training for up to 10 attendees. We can extend course attendance to 20 attendees if required for an additional fee. Contact us for more information or to organise your training today.

[+] Full course outline for Creative Suite Intensive Course

Day 1
- Project Based Learning and Project introduction.
- Digital Media Basics, Project management and Adobe Bridge basics
- Adobe Photoshop image manipulation and adjustment
- Adobe InDesign - design and layout for print
Day 2
- Adobe Acrobat for pdf output
- Adobe Premiere Pro and digital video production
- Adobe Dreamweaver and website design and construction
- Project review
learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of digital images their collection and types
- Understand file formats and demonstrate image manipulation for web, video and print
- Learn how to access all your creative assets using Adobe Bridge and create and customise your own workspace
- Gain knowledge of Photoshop preferences and create your own workspace. Learn basic photographic manipulation and adjustment
- Ability to create new documents in InDesign, work with graphics, text, colour and other effects and create pdfs for web and print
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Acrobat work area and demonstrate ability to edit various aspects of pdfs
- Learn video editing basics via the use of Premier Pro including addition and edit of a clip, working with audio and using effects
- Demonstrate the ability to create a webpage with Dreamweaver using a combination of the creative software products in the course
- Understand how project learning can be used to demonstrate the use of the Adobe Creative Suite software and apply it to your learning environment
project topic – book week
- Each year, schools all over Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators.
- Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians develop activities, offer competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
- Book Week has a broad reach involving all school years K-12 and often draws on the wider community including libraries and councils.
- Teachers often choose one or two books through which to express the Book Week theme, and this project provides a large creative scope for content and course material.
- The subject used for the project topic is the 2011 theme "One World, Many Stories".