Introducing the Adobe Education Exchange

The new Adobe Education Exchange is a web-based community that allows people to collaborate, share resources, network, and generate ideas and discussions around using Adobe solutions in and around the classroom.

Members of the Adobe education team, along with input from a group of Adobe Education Leaders, have been working on this project for months and are thrilled to announce that the project has now been officially launched and is available for anyone to access and use!

This is a resource for all facets of education: K-12, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities… admins, faculty, staff… whoever is working with Adobe technologies in education.

You can see a small subset of materials and resources available by visiting http://edexchange.adobe.com/, but to truly get the most out of this resource, you will want to sign up with your Adobe ID and fill out your personal profile.


Archives: Adobe Education Seminar Series

The archived presentations from the recent Adobe Education Seminar Series are now available for viewing.

Join Adobe in this three-part seminar series to learn how you can create and stream engaging video on the web.


Session 1: Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video

Discover new and exciting ways to increase the exposure, enrollment, and fundraising potential of your university through the use of video on your university’s website. From distance learning, to the broadcast of live athletic events and artistic performances, to campus tours and new student orientation, all of this and more can be brought to life on your website, increasing the interest of potential students, keeping alumni engaged in their alma mater, and thereby bringing more revenue to your institution.

Hear from representatives from the University of Denver about their successes with Flash video on their campus!

Presenters:

Joseph Labrecque
Senior Multimedia Application Developer
Adobe Higher Education Leader
University of Denver

Leslie Trumble
Director Visual Media Center
University of Denver


Session 2: From Concept to Distribution: Products that will help you capture, edit, and distribute your video online

Learn about the Adobe video workflow from end-to-end. We will start with authoring content in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium and follow the process to Adobe Flash® Media Server for secure streaming of video content to your website. John will talk about some of the workflow options that are particularly relevant to educational usage of streaming video including the robust options that are available for Digital Rights Management of Adobe Flash Video.

Presenter:

John Schuman
Solution Architect
Digital Video Solutions
Adobe


Session 3: Making it all happen: A discussion of how to implement a video solution at your institution

In this final session, you will learn how to implement a video solution on your campus, using the tools and technologies previously presented in this series. Nick and John will go deeper into the technology behind a complete video solution, steps for implementation and decisions to be made in your implementation, all the way through getting video live on your website.

Presenters:

John Schuman
Solution Architect
Digital Video Solutions
Adobe

Joseph Labrecque
Senior Multimedia Application Developer
Adobe Higher Education Leader
University of Denver

Nick Hippe
Sales Engineer
Digital Media
Adobe

Announcing: Adobe Education Seminar Series

At the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute this past July, I gave a presentation entitled Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus which dealt with what the University of Denver is working on in regard to the Flash Platform, focusing upon our work with CourseMedia™. I received a good deal of positive feedback from both Adobe employees and fellow AELs (Adobe Education Leaders) in attendance.

AEL Preso

A few weeks after the event, I was contacted by the Adobe Education team to gauge my interest in being part of a seminar series they were putting together around how universities are implementing video solutions across campus. DU CourseMedia™ will be one of the points of focus in the upcoming seminar series.

Please learn more and register for the event to join us through Adobe Connect for the following sessions:

  1. SESSION 1 – Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video (September 9)
  2. SESSION 2 – From Concept to Distribution: Products that will help you capture, edit, and distribute your video online (September 16)
  3. SESSION 3 – Making it all happen: A discussion of how to implement a video solution at your institution (September 23)

I’ll be presenting on both the 1st and 3rd sessions along with Sandy Balzer, John Schuman, and Nick Hippe from Adobe. DU’s Leslie Trumble will also be joining us in presenting Session 1 to contribute her unique perspective on faculty usage through her work at the Visual Media Center.


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Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus

I recently gave a presentation at the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute on what the University of Denver is doing in regard to the Flash Platform focusing on our work on the CourseMedia™ project.

Presentation Slides

The slides can be downloaded as a PDF and the recording should be available on AdobeTV later on.