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Adobe Creative Cloud Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Students and TeachersMain MenuAdobe Creative Cloud: What Is It? How Does It Work?Adobe Creative Cloud Across the CurriculumImages: Photographs, Illustrations, GraphicsAdobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Spark PostPrint: Magazines, Books, Documents, ResumesAdobe InDesign, AcrobatAudiovisual: Video, Film, AnimationAdobe Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects, Premiere Clip, and Spark VideoSound: Podcast, Soundtrack, Voice-over, MusicAdobe Audition, Premiere ProWebs: Website, Mobile App, ebookAdobe Muse, Dreamweaver, Spark Page, XD, InDesignPresentation: Speech, Lecture, Talk, PitchAdobe Spark Page, InDesignPortfolio: Showcase, Dossier, CollectionAdobe Portfolio and BehanceTodd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb34450
Chapter One: What Do You Want to Create Today?
1media/ADO_Webjpg_InDesign.jpg2017-07-10T11:07:44-07:00Todd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb34450201645Chapter One: Descriptionimage_header2017-07-11T22:12:21-07:00Todd Taylor040585dacbb7e1caa116d4fd9bc26ee5feb34450Everywhere, All of the Time helps you use powerful digital literacy tools to create and share outstanding academic work in any class, in any discipline, anywhere across the curriculum. As discussed in the Introduction, the best way to accomplish this, the best way to get your work done, is to focus first on questions such as:
What problem do I need to help solve?
What does my community, organization, classmates, or collaborators need?
What do I want to learn?
What knowedge do I want to produce and share?
Once you have a sense of what you want to accomplish, then you need to consider the best way to get your work done. What genre or format might be best? What mode or media to use to develop and communicate your ideas effectively? What are the expectations of my audience, readers, or viewers? Can you find models or examples of other work that have succeeded in what you are trying to accomplish?
These fundamental questions begin with a focus on goals and outcomes -- this approach focuses on the ends before the means, on the results before the approach. Once you have an initial sense of your destination, next you can plan a route to arrive there.
Notice how the first column in the adjacent table is organized according to the kinds of publications or products you might create, rather than according to the names of an Adobe application you might use. This table is designed to help you select the right tool for the job, after you have figured out the job in the first place.
As you will discover throughout this book and particularly in Chapter Two, the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications is enormously powerful and diverse -- these tools can do almost anything you can imagine, and many things you won’t even begin to imagine until you begin actively creating with Adobe Creative Cloud. You do not have to use the applications as listed in the table, because there so many ways to use them. But, as a way to get started, the table matches each application with its most common use -- to produce creative solutions to assignments in any class and everywhere across the curriculum.