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Auburn University & Adobe Fall 2022- Spring 2023

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Fall 2022 Academic Highlights

Scientific Collaboration: two classes work together to illustrate at-risk species

Freshman Honors Biology: Djibo Zanzot

Project overview: Research endangered and at-risk species from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. Compile the research into a digital presentation to be showcased on the I&RC Digital wall in the Auburn University Library. The students then delivered an oral presentation on their findings.

Scientific Illustration: John Beckmann

Course overview: While most of Beckmann’s students do not have a background in art, they learn and practice techniques in digital drawing and layering using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator over the course of a semester in Entomology 6660. Students also created explanatory videos of their designs using Zoom, Adobe Premiere Rush and Adobe Premiere Pro to describe the process they used to create their original artwork.

The Collaboration:

As many of the species being researched by Dr. Zanzot's Biology students are critically endangered and those remaining can number in the single digits, it can be hard to source images that are high enough quality and that are open to use. Dr. Zanzot also wanted his class to highlight different cell types found within these species and it has proven hard to source high resolution images of cells in past semesters of this project.

After seeing the work from the Scientific Illustration class from Fall 2021 in the I&RC, Dr. Zanzot asked to collaborate with Dr. Beckmann. The students in the Scientific Illustration class were assigned a group from the Biology class as a "client" and worked with those students to create original artwork of the endangered species as well as some of the unique cell types found within.

Relaxing, Creative Fun in advance of finals

This Adobe Express Page was created and distributed to students in advance of finals to help bring some creative fun to students who need a break from studying. Copies of the Adobe Coloring Book were also printed and left around the library with crayons and markers to help facilitate a relaxing break. So far, the Express Page has been viewed over 130 times in 3 days since it was published December 5th.

Social Work Infographics

Senior Social Work students in Makeela Wells' class created a research-article based infographic on a social issue topic that the students researched together in groups. Adobe Express was used for this assignment and the 1080 x 1920 resolution fits perfectly on digital signage, making it easy to share student work. Makeela said she’d be happy to talk to other faculty members about this assignment. She did an excellent job of creating milestones for them throughout the semester to do the research (they did an annotated bibliography) and reviewing a draft outline before design work, etc.

social work infographics on display

Business students go viral

Business students in Emory Serviss’ s Digital Marketing course used Adobe Rush to create videos to go viral and Express to create graphics/ thumbnail and social media posts. The assignment required them to use Rush and to create a video on a topic of their choosing, post it on YouTube, and get as many views as possible.

Dr. Chelsy Hooper helped instruct students on the tools as part of the course.

These were the top two videos:

section #2; group 8 – “The real reason for the SEC-son”

section #1; group 7 – “Fall Dinner Party on a Budget”

Agriculture students study Horticulture

Students from various agriculture majors in Melba Salazar-Gutierrez’s Horticulture 3000 course (mostly online) researched a topic in horticulture in groups. Then they used Adobe InDesign to create an academic journal. The class also used Express to create web page presentations and graphics.

Other notable projects

sample pharmacy student service advertisement flyers
  • In-pharmacy promotions. 4th year Pharmacy students in faculty member Kim Garza’s class used Adobe Express to develop a promotional flyer to advertise an in-pharmacy service.
  • Making scientific images using Adobe Illustrator. Laurie Stevison’s undergraduate science class in Auburn’s College of Science and Mathematics, was using Inkscape to create scientific images and Chelsy Hooper helped her convert her assignment to Illustrator for the first time.
  • In another Social Work class, faculty member Jennifer Jettner had her students use Express or Rush for a PSA style video on a social issue they researched.
  • In Katrina Akande’s Human Development and Family Science class, they researched relationship building then used Adobe Audition to create a podcast on a children’s book that included interviews with family members
  • Junior Journalism students in Brian Delaney’s course used Adobe Rush to create Instagram reel videos for sports journalism. A few students who were comfortable with Adobe apps used Premiere Pro and used the Adobe Stock motion graphics with Premiere Pro. They plan to add Express to the assignment in the future to create social media posts, custom video thumbnails, and graphics for the video.
  • Graduate languages students in Jamie Harrison’s Curriculum and Teaching course used InDesign for posters on a researched target language, especially endangered languages. They also used Rush for language videos with specific text graphics added to teach the language.
  • CADS 5770 learned how to use InDesign to create a resume.
  • All art majors beginning with the Fall 2020 cohort began using Adobe Portfolio for their professional online portfolio- sessions to all art majors are taught each fall in Art 1250 in Adobe Portfolio

The Auburn team conducted workshops on Adobe Express for targeted student groups including

Spring Semester

Workshops: Dr. Hooper offered a workshop for faculty and instructors in January in collaboration with the Biggio Center for Teaching and Learning to help faculty get started with implementing Adobe Creative Cloud in their courses. See the details in the flyer linked here

Courses

Dr. Chelsy Hooper, Instructional Technology Specialist, taught an Honors College 1 credit hour elective course called Digital Storytelling. The course filled up in record time and there is a waitlist! Chelsy built the course based on the resources provided by Adobe via Creative Campus and the Adobe Education Exchange. She will teach the course again in Fall 2023 and is exploring the possibility of another course to be offered Spring 2024.

Course Description: “This course will introduce visual design and will advance students’ digital creation skills. Students will be able to communicate in a variety of modalities through media production. Using Adobe Creative Cloud applications, which are available to students at no additional cost through Auburn’s Adobe Creative Campus initiative, students will represent a narrative in different modalities such as: an audio podcast using Adobe Audition, a print flyer, digital graphics, and web page using Adobe Creative Cloud Express, and a video using Adobe Premiere Rush. Narratives may include the history of the Honors College, Library Special Collections, or other instructor-approved topics. The digital literacy skills students will learn in this course and demonstrate via a web portfolio have broad applications across all fields of study, empowering students with creative communication skills that will be useful in any career.”
Portfolio examples:

Students' work was displayed on the Digital Wall at the end of the semester:

Conference on Student Success

Auburn hosted the Elevated Education Exchange, an internal conference highlighting stories of student success across campus. Chelsy recommended Dr. Justin Hodgson, Adobe Education Thought Leader. He presented on the topic of digital literacy in a variety of disciplines and methods: view Justin's presentation to Auburn

Several of the collaborations listed in this presentation were represented at the conference, including Horticulture (below), Social Work (Dr. Makeela Wells) and Marketing (Dr. Emory Serviss).

Dr. Melba Salazar-Gutierrez and Dr. Chelsy Hooper presenting at the Elevated Education Exchange

Spring Courses with Adobe integrated

In the social work course Sports in America taught by Dr. Makeela J. Wells, students used Adobe Express to create infographics based on their research of sociological perspectives on sports in the social system. Adjusting from last semester, we spread out the class visits to the library further over the semester.

  • Visit 1 (beginning of semester): Meet in library computer lab, get Adobe ID, intro demo to Adobe Express
  • Visit 2 (mid-semester): Meet in library computer lab, set up file with correct resolution, meet with group, begin infographic, create draft, time to work, ask questions
  • Visit 3 (2 weeks before end of semester): Meet in library computer lab, finish draft, send to IRC staff to post on Digital Wall, view draft on Wall and make adjustments

Dr. Felicia Tuggle's social work Policy Practice and Social Justice students used Express to make Call to Action videos. We began by doing class visits, now she has instructional videos she uses and she is taking the lead on the assignment, with our Consultants available to help as needed.

English 3080 students (Dr. Ellen Campbell) used Express to create a web page or a 3-panel flyer displaying info about a university major. 10 minute part of a class visit to Library included getting Adobe ID, demo on web page and flyer with videos to support students later.

Journalism students in Brian Delaney’s course added Express to their video assignment to create social media posts, custom video thumbnails, and graphics for the video, spending 1 class period in the library computer lab instead of 2 last semester.

Human Sciences Marriage and the Family students were taught digital storytelling using Rush and Express for their storytelling projects through a 20-min presentation in their classroom in Haley.

Chemistry 3000 students (Isabel Altimirano) used Adobe Express web pages as their presentation for their research projects of various topics. Isabel attended several Adobe Education events and took the lead on this assignment.

Social work masters students (Dr. Julie Wells, Dr. Danilea Werner) presented their capstone projects on the Digital Wall, using Express for their graphics and for some of the panels' custom graphics. This was a conversion of a presentation from paper poster to digital poster. They conducted this with a small pilot group that had 1 class visit in the library computer lab. The pilot had success, they are planning to have all of their summer graduates present digitally with some time adjustments, and they plan on using Express/ Digital Wall moving forward.

Business majors (Emory Serviss) created viral videos using Rush and using Express for graphics (same course as in fall, MKTG 5500) and 2 groups signed Adobe forms so their work will be profiled by Adobe, videos were also put on Digital Wall.

Intro to Interior Design students learned Adobe Illustrator and then created a file for the lasercutter in our makerspace. Students were taught basics of Illustrator as well as given instructions for setting up a file for the lasercutter to create a pattern in matboard.

Jonah Lasley demo'ing pieces of matboard cut with the lasercutter using an Illustrator file
Intro to interior design student

Adobe Consultant Kaitlyn Reedy was nominated for Student Employee of the Year

Join the Adobe Auburn Community!

email Chelsy at hooperc@auburn.edu and ask to be added to the email list! Chelsy shares multimedia lesson ideas and Adobe updates monthly. You can also join the community of faculty in semesterly meetings of open group work time, where we discuss implementation, brainstorm ways to engage students with multimedia, and share.

Dr. Hooper, Aubie, and Kaitlyn at the SEOY celebration event at the Red Barn

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