*Note: This blog was originally posted on the Adobe Education Blog – 3/2/2016
As an Adobe Education Leader, Dan Armstrong is constantly looking for new ways to foster his students’ creative growth at Skyview High School. A few days ago, Dan was kind enough to sit down to discuss how he integrates Adobe Creative Cloud into his everyday curriculum, and how it enables him and his students to stay on top of current industry best practices
Dan cautions that “technology changes so quickly if you use the older versions of software it makes students less employable and gives them challenges competing when they get to university”. By always being able to use the latest versions of the software through the Creative Cloud, Dan feels as though he and the rest of the Skyview High School staff are sending students into the world prepared to better face design and creativity challenges in the years to come.
Specifically, Dan shared his excitement that once Fuse–an Adobe product the enables creation of custom 3D characters for Photoshop projects–was released, he was able to have the software up and running in his classroom just two days later. He was then able to include projects created with this software when working with his students to help them build portfolio websites to showcase their work.
Stressing the importance of students having a wide variety of different tools available to them–from Illustrator and Photoshop to Premiere Pro–Dan feels that in the end, it’s all about allowing students to properly tell their story while working to advance their creative careers.
“Maybe they are an audio learner or are more into video. Creative Cloud gives students all the tools for how they want to create and tell their story”. – Dan Armstrong, Skyview High School, Nampa Idaho
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