12/15/10: Full Day Adobe Workshop Scheduled for Thursday, January 6, 2011

You are invited to join the UIT Training and Documentation Department and an expert from Adobe for a full-day workshop that will cover the ins and outs of some of Adobe’s most popular tools, including Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Elements, Adobe Connect, and Adobe Photoshop CS5. Each of the products featured in the workshop is supported at Tufts. This could be your introduction to a tool you’ve always wanted to use or your opportunity to learn something new about a software you use every day.
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (or any individual session you wish to attend)
Location: Sophia Gordon Hall, Medford
Register by visiting the UIT Training and Documentation website at http://training.uit.tufts.edu/calendar.asp?month=1&year=2011
If you have questions, please call or email David Bragg at 617-627-4057 or david.bragg@tufts.edu.
Adobe Day Program
10:00 -11:00 a.m.: Acrobat X in Education
Adobe Acrobat PDF for the business of educating
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is more than just a digital piece of paper. With Acrobat, you can create a fully-interactive documents that contain both PDF and non-PDF files as a way to show off your work, tell a digital story, or collect documents for a class—all without any coding or Flash skills. This session will show some examples of portfolios and demonstrate the ease with which you can create your own. Plus, as a data-collection tool Acrobat X allows you to create a data collection workflow—from form to spreadsheet—right from your desktop using Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and the free Adobe Reader.
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Adobe Connect for Virtual and eLearning
Adobe Connect 8 and eLearning
Distance and eLearning is a great way to augment in-class and traditional learning methods, and Adobe has a robust toolset that allows you to create and distribute eLearning projects. Adobe Connect, our real-time meeting and portal solution allows you to present to any student any where. All they need is a browser and the Flash player and they are ready to learn. What is more, you can bring them into the experience and allow them to participate in ways that will make the eLearning project more than just a way to replicate the in-class experience but allow it to augment or even surpass it.
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.: Lunch break
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.: Photoshop Elements
Photoshop for the beginner with Elements 9
Even though you might not be a professional photographer, Adobe has a solution for you. If you want to join the crush of people using images to communicate, then Adobe Photoshop Elements is for you. Although you’ll see how to create amazing compositing effects like the pros make, you’ll also see how to create a finished project. You can create slide shows to make your point, eCards to send an invite to an event, or burn a DVD to share with colleagues right from within this affordable tool. Whether you are using images in a scholarly paper or creating projects for fun, you’ll learn how to look like a guru.
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Photoshop CS5 Extended
Photoshop for novice—speak volumes with imagery
Learn the five quick techniques that you can use to get the most from the world’s favorite image-editing software. Whether you are a forensic scientist or an historian, if you can create a compelling image to accompany the story you want to tell, then you can increase the impact of that story. This session will unlock the secrets Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended has to offer.