DMS Faculty Workshops

How can I participate or learn more about Adobe?

Throughout the year, UofL and Adobe will offer a wide variety of tutorials, development sessions, and more in both in-person and virtual settings.  Below, you will find a full listing of these opportunities with links to more information and registration info.  

UofL offerings

Cardinal Core Adobe Faculty Fellows 

  • Who: Anyone teaching in the Cardinal Core, limited to 8-12 faculty each semester.
  • When: Spring 2023
  • Faculty teaching in the Cardinal Core can learn about and work with Adobe tools in the classroom.  With development sessions introducing media production for the classroom, faculty work with previous participants to develop their media assignment.   Throughout the semester support is provided by the Digital Media Suite and Adobe, with a culminating showcase of the assignments and student works.  

Adobe app tutorials

  • Who: All faculty, students, and staff at UofL
  • When: Multiple in-person sessions fall and spring
  • Providing introductions and deep dives into the use of many of the apps available in the Creative Cloud, these tutorial sessions will be run through Teams for ease of viewing live or from recordings.

Digital Media Suite faculty and staff development sessions 

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Multiple face to face sessions fall and spring
  • Faculty will explore various aspects of teaching with media and the possibilities of student media assignments.  Participants will leave with practical skills and ideas on how to integrate media into the classroom, including assignment prompts, assessment tools, and example student works.  

UofL Creative Educator Faculty Learning Community

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Fall 2022
  • In this learning community, faculty will explore teaching strategies that utilize the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of media production tools. Faculty participants will use various Adobe Creative Cloud applications to design classroom activities to improve student digital literacy skills.  Participants will also complete levels one and two of the Adobe Creative Educator badge program as part of the FLC.

Digital Media Academy

  • Who: Faculty and graduate assistants
  • When: Spring 2023
  • In the Digital Media Academy, graduate students and faculty will learn key principles and frameworks for utilizing digital media to facilitate student learning, communicate research, demonstrate growth and development, and network with the university community and beyond. Additionally, they will be introduced to generally available resources and tools as well as those specifically accessible at the University of Louisville.

Adobe Offerings

Adobe Education Summit
  • Who: Any faculty, staff, or GTA
  • When: Every summer
  • This 3-day mini-conferences includes sessions on how to implement Adobe apps into your teaching and classroom activities.  Sessions range from entry level single tutorials to full-day advanced deep dives.  

Creative Campus Collaboration

  • Who: Creative Campus administration (Provosts, CIOs, Deans, etc.)
  • When: Every quarter
  • These 3-day mini-conferences give Creative Campuses the chance to share and discuss programs, initiatives, and success stories for their uses of Adobe tools for teaching and learning.  

Creative Educators badge program

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: asynchronous, year round
  • Offered by Adobe, each of the two levels of this badge program requires completing an asynchronous, online course.  Each of these courses provides instruction in the uses of Adobe products in the classroom, showcases various example assignments and student works, and requires the participant to submit a short digital media product to receive the badge.  
  • For more information and to register for the Creative Educator program, go to this site.

EduMax

  • Who: Limited to 5-8 faculty each year
  • When: Every fall
  • A 3-day mini-conference for faculty looking to explore the role of digital literacy and media production in the classroom.

Faculty Development Institute 

  • Who: Limited to 5-8 faculty each year
  • When: Every summer
  • This week-long virtual conference includes various app tutorials, discussion of digital literacy and media production in the classroom, and meetings with Adobe Thought Leaders, education and industry experts with experience in academic use of Adobe media tools.

Max