Overview of the A3 Adobe Faculty Ambassador Program
The A3 Adobe Faculty Ambassador Program's mission is to utilize SDSU faculty and instructors to advance the Adobe AzTech Alliance's mission of championing digital literacy by increasing the adoption of Adobe Creative Cloud applications. The program selects an annual cohort of SDSU Faculty and instructors to participate in the program and implement at least one Adobe Creative Cloud application within an assignment during the respective semester of their teaching. Participants were asked to complete a training process that included asynchronous modules, online synchronous meetings, and an online workshop. Following the completion of the program, participants shared a brief presentation of their experiences and their pedagogical interventions with their respective departments/schools, as well as with their A3 Faculty Ambassador cohort. Details of their assignments and select student work were aggregated and uploaded to an Adobe Creative Cloud assignment collection to serve as a valuable resource to other faculty, instructors, and staff across SDSU, which is housed here in this Adobe Portfolio. The projects are aggregated by Adobe application and by participant. Please use the menu on the left to navigate the site or begin with the the "Projects" as a browsing point.
About the Adobe AzTech Alliance (A3)The Adobe AzTech Alliance (A3) initiative promotes the use of Creative Cloud tools among SDSU students, faculty, and staff. Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, user experience, and more. Through the use of the Creative Cloud, A3 endeavors to develop a technical and pedagogical plan to teach creative digital communication and literacy skills to help our students gain an edge in the highly competitive modern workplace.
As an Adobe Creative Campus, SDSU is part of a select group of colleges and universities that are driving the future of digital literacy within the global higher education community. In addition to making industry-leading Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services available to our students, SDSU collaborates with other Adobe Creative Campuses to share ideas and innovations that expand digital literacy and help ensure student success.
A3 Goals / Deliverables:
-Increase campus-wide adoption of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
-Develop a promotional plan to promote Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps to student population.
-Develop a promotional plan to raise awareness of digital literacy and creative software tools within the global higher education community through Adobe Creative Cloud.
-Review current support models for students, faculty, and staff. Focus efforts on supporting an Adobe Creative Cloud module. Establish a “creative content peer” group to review training module curriculum, and to help with providing examples of course activities that leverage different Adobe products.
-Train the SDSU community on how to use four basic/foundational Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Portfolio, Spark, InDesign, and Audition).
-Establish plans and processes for integrating Adobe Creative Cloud into course assignments. Create pedagogical templates for use and/or customization by the global higher education community.
-Develop a communication plan that will disseminate information about the Adobe AzTech Alliance and Adobe training module to the SDSU community.