Adobe Education Leaders (AEL)

If you are an enthusiastic educator who has previously leveraged your abilities and expertise to promote the integration of Adobe solutions in educational institutions or schools, Adobe is interested to recruit you as an Adobe Education Leader!

What is an Adobe Education Leader (AEL)?
Adobe Education Leaders (AEL) are educators who have used their unique abilities and expertise to promote excellence in education through the integration of Adobe solutions in the classroom, school, or district. The Adobe Education Leaders program highlights the successes and contributions of innovative educators involved in primary and secondary education utilizing Adobe tools and applications.

Adobe Education Leaders are dedicated to enhancing creativity, communication, and collaboration and improving the teaching and learning experience. They share their expertise through technology-based projects and at workshops, seminars, and conferences. These leaders develop standards-based curriculums and educational resources that are used worldwide.

When new products are developed or existing products are revised, the Education Leaders are among the first to support learning objectives through effective use of the technology. As leaders in their field, they are dedicated to creating a dynamic learning environment for students and teachers.

Through the Adobe Education Leaders program, a network of outstanding educators inspires each other, share ideas, and collaborates with peers in the education community. Leaders can be classroom teachers, district administrators, technology coordinators, in-service specialists, college faculty working in the field of education, or education consultants.

Once an Adobe Education Leader is accepted into the program, he or she will be an AEL for 2 years and renewal is subjected to active participation and contribution. Drop me a mail @ fgohtzeg@adobe.com if you would like to find out more.

Adobe Connect: Improving Collaboration, Complete work faster & Drive better results

Now more than ever, people need the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues, partners, and customers—around the world and across technical boundaries. More and more organizations, including large enterprises and government agencies, are using Adobe Connect to improve collaboration and get work done faster. Adobe Connect is a market-leading web conferencing solution that enables a variety of uses, ranging  from web meetings to eLearning to webinars.

There’s no other web conferencing solution like it. With Adobe Connect, you can captivate your audience with rich, engaging, and interactive experiences and make them available to virtually anyone, anywhere, on almost any device, with just a click of a button. Adobe Connect is based on Adobe Flash® technology and Adobe Flash Player software is already installed on virtually all Internet-connected computers. So, unlike competitive offerings, Adobe Connect allows invitees to easily attend your meetings without the need for additional downloads.

Adobe Connect for Web Meetings: Significantly improve collaboration within your enterprise
Adobe Connect for Web Meetings enables you to significantly improve collaboration, both inside and outside your organization’s firewalls. You can use Adobe Connect for a full range of online meeting needs, from simple screen-sharing all the way to mission-critical, real-time collaboration. Adobe Connect allows your teams to work more efficiently and effectively, increasing productivity  helping you to reduce costs. With Adobe Connect for Web Meetings, you can:

• Ensure easy meeting access for all participants
• Enable rich, highly collaborative interactions so that your teams can complete work faster
• Manage meetings and content more effectively
• Meet your organization’s security and compliance requirements
• Integrate with your existing systems, and extend core Adobe Connect capabilities to meet specific needs
• Optimize scalability, performance, and usage

Adobe Connect for eLearning: Rapidly create and deliver high-impact online training
Adobe Connect for eLearning provides novices and experts alike with the capabilities needed to create and deliver compelling, self-paced online courses, conduct highly interactive virtual classes, and efficiently manage training programs. With Adobe Connect for eLearning, you can:

• Easily create high-impact online training
• Deliver engaging virtual classes and on-demand courses
• Manage participation, track progress, and assess course effectiveness
• Easily integrate Adobe Connect with third-party systems

Adobe Connect for Webinars: Deliver rich, engaging, and effective online events
Adobe Connect for Webinars enables organizations to increase attendance, boost response rates, and generate more interest through rich and engaging highly interactive online events. With Adobe Connect for Webinars, you can:

• Ensure easy webinar  access and maximize  attendance
• Capture audience attention and keep participants engaged
• Reach thousands with the Adobe Connect Webcast option
• Use event management  services to ensure success

Adobe CS6 Curriculums & Resources in the Education Exchange

Quoted from the Adobe Education Leaders Blog & Written by Joseph Labrecque on April 25, 2012

With the announcement of Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the Creative Cloud, the Adobe Education Exchange is brimming with great new content produced by Adobe, Adobe Education Leaders, and other contributors. Much of this content is featured on a special page dedicated to CS6 for easy access. With CS6 and the supporting resources, you can be fully equipped to engage students in learning, unleash creativity, and prepare them for career success.

The materials cover an assortment of CS6 products and topics. For example, here is a video overview of the Flash Professional CS6 Mobile Content Simulator:

Rich, topical content like this is typical of what you will find in the Education Exchange. Here are some others:

• Photoshop CS6: The New Content-Aware Move Tool
• Illustrator CS6: Image Trace
• Adobe Edge Preview 5: Publish Settings
• Dreamweaver CS6: Creating a mobile app
• Flash Professional CS6: AIR SDK Management
• Fireworks CS6: Export as Sprites

There are also a variety of product-focused  technical guides to quickly get up to speed on how to use CS6 and links to other great content surrounding this new collection of professional software.

All you need to join the Education Exchange is a free Adobe ID. Anyone can contribute. Let’s go!

Announcing Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud

Quoted from: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2012/04/announcing-cs6-creative-cloud.html
Posted by David Wadhwani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Business Unit on April 22, 2012 9:47 PM in Creatives, Digital Media, Executive Perspectives, Uncategorized

Today we are announcing two remarkable offerings… Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the all new Adobe Creative Cloud.

 

Creative Suite 6 is a killer release with hundreds of new capabilities rolling up to four focus areas:

• Application Performance. The Mercury performance work we started a couple years ago has now made its way to our imaging, video and illustration tools.
• Enhanced User Interface. Our tools are increasingly enabling direct, on-canvas editing of your content.
• Efficient development for Multiple Devices. Our tools are taking a practical approach to creating responsive content, so your web sites or apps look great regardless of the device or orientation they’re viewed in.
• Adobe’s unique secret sauce. The stuff that make things previously impossible suddenly possible.

Our customers helped us shape Creative Suite 6 and with it now in their hands, we will all experience things on the web and with mobile apps that we could never have thought possible. We’re going to see some incredible things.

 

It’s also important to realize we’re in the middle of a transformation in how content is built and delivered. With over 500 million smartphones selling each year, 400 million tablets expected to sell by 2014, nearly 1 billion people on Facebook and over 40 billion apps expected to be downloaded this year – the creative process is undergoing a significant shift. And we believe the Creative Cloud will help our customers go from idea to finished work more efficiently and with better results.

Creative Cloud Members will get:

• Great Tools. Members can download and install all of our CS6 tools and can use them even when disconnected from the internet. Members also get access to Muse (our new HTML5 tool for designers) and Edge Preview (our new HTML5 tool for interaction designers). They also benefit from deep integration with our touch tools like Photoshop Touch and Adobe Ideas.
• Storage and Sharing. Members content can be automatically synchronized across of their PCs, mobile devices and the cloud. The files are accessible from anywhere, on any device and easily shared with colleagues or clients.
• Publishing Web Sites and Apps. Members are able to host up to five websites for free and will be able to create and deploy digital brochures and catalogues to the iPad and iPhone.
• Ongoing Innovation. We view the Creative Cloud as a journey and intend to update its services often. Members will be guaranteed to always have access to the most up-to-date products and services all included as part of their membership.

We hope you’ll join us Monday morning online as we unveil more details about these technologies.

We couldn’t be more excited about both these releases and can’t wait to see what you do with them.

-David

Adobe APAC Education Leadership Forum 2012 ~ Post Events

Hey Everyone, was caught up with the Adobe APAC Education Leadership Forum 2012 held in Singapore’s Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on the 30th March 2012 and it was totally AWESOME. Everyone had a great eye-opener as to how various schools from around the APAC region are adopting and implementing Adobe’s technologies in the classroom and on campus.

It was a jam packed agenda with much knowledge sharing from both the Higher Education (HED) & K-12 markets. If you were not able to attend, feel free to head down to the following URLs to check out the presentation decks & pictures.

POST EVENT PRESENTATIONS
http://www.adobe-eduforum.com/sg/post.html

POST EVENT PICTURES
http://www.adobe-eduforum.com/sg/postpics.html

Adobe Shadow: Optimizing Web Experiences Across Mobile Browsers

Quoted from blogs.adobe.com, posted by Vanessa Rios

Today we’re thrilled to introduce to you a brand new offering – Adobe Shadow Labs Release 1, which enables Web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining preview and customization of websites for mobile devices.

Adobe Shadow aims to alleviate the time and stress of working on websites across mobile browsers. Web pros can wirelessly pair multiple smartphones and tablets with their computer and simultaneously view real-time previews of Web content across multiple iOS and Android devices, quickly seeing refreshed website designs with live updates.  Adobe Shadow’s synchronized browsing nearly eliminates the need to touch the device, but still provides a true, on-device experience.

We’re really excited to deliver Shadow and start simplifying the pain points of previewing, inspecting and presenting mobile Web content. We encourage Web Pros to download the free Labs Release 1 of Adobe Shadow available now at http://adobe.com/go/shadow and provide the team with feedback. To learn more about Adobe Shadow, visit the blog.

Catch Adobe Shadow in action below.

Photoshop CS6 beta Available Now!

Quoted from the Photoshop.com Blog | Entry By: David Howe

After 20 years of delivering Photoshop, you might think that developing new versions has become a predictable, turn-key process.

You would think…

While there are aspects of each release that are the same, such as hitting key milestones, every version brings with it something new. The technology, industry, and our customers’ needs are always changing, and so we try to approach things with a fresh perspective. Nothing is status quo. And so we’ll do user research, fill conference room white boards with new ideas from the team, review customer requests, and generally try to “out-do” what we did last time. In the process – we lobby, debate, brainstorm in the halls, burn the midnight oil, and on occasion, welcome a little quality time with “our friend” Don Julio…all in order to give you the very best.

And once in a great while, an Engineering team comes across a release that’s like no other. A release where you wonder whether you’ll really be able to pull things off like you have in the past.  Luckily, this release didn’t present the same challenge Photoshop CS5 did.

For the Engineering team, Photoshop CS6 was a smooth release, insofar as software development projects go. There are always unknowns, ups and downs, and slight changes in direction, but also, pleasant surprises along the way. We laid out a plan, tweaked it as needed, and executed. It felt good.

And though Photoshop CS5 put many of us to the test, it did bring with it a silver lining. It gave us the opportunity to look at things differently, and make a new start. Photoshop CS6 is a release where we took some lessons from the past and began more aggressively laying down the foundations for the future – a more proactive stance on architecture, widespread use of the GPU and a renewed emphasis on UI and design. We also took some time to revitalize existing feature areas, increase our focus on quality, productivity, and stability, and of course, continue innovating and incorporating your feedback.

Photoshop CS6 is not the culmination, but the beginning of a journey to further improve, modernize and transform Photoshop for the future.

You can probably tell from the number of “sneak peeks” we shared with you that we’re proud of Photoshop CS6, and excited by the opportunity to get this beta into your hands now, as an advance preview. Working on Photoshop is a very personal thing for myself and everyone else on the team. We’re users of the product, just like all of you (though perhaps not quite as talented!). And when we’re not using the product, we’re spending long hours making Photoshop better, hopefully enabling all of you to be even more productive and creative. But there comes a time when we must call it a day and let the release out into the world. Now is that time.

You might notice there’s a new process for activating the beta. You must log-in using your Adobe ID. Jeff Tranberry, our Chief Customer Advocate, drafted a blog post recently about all the ways this ID will help protect you and your software purchase. We hope that it will become a way for you to easily access your serial numbers at any time and ensure the Photoshop you purchase is a valid one. And for you designers out there, Photoshop CS6 will also be a part of the Adobe Creative Cloud offering.

Thanks for all the input and inspiration you have provided the team over the years. The team and I value your loyal support and look forward to hearing what you think of the beta!