We all know that video editing, photo editing, drawing, and animation tools are critical high school computer science skills -- and with this course, you can get learning with Adobe Creative Cloud. Note: Students must purchase/have the Adobe software; see below for materials requirements so you can join in the fun and get ahead in the field of Computer Animation.
How to get the most out of Introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud (Photo, Video, Drawing, and Animation Tools) with Margaret (Peggy) Morrow, Ph.D.:
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First, read the course materials below before the first class meeting.
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Then have a notebook ready and available for class notes each live session.
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Read assignments before class meetings
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Watch that week’s recording if you need to revisit information from our live session.
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Do the assignments, quizzes, and any extra work assigned for that week.
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Once the course is completed to the parent's and professor’s satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records.
Total class meetings: 12
Duration: 35-minute live Q&A plus 25-minute pre-recorded lecture per class meeting
Suggested credit: One full semester Computer Science
Instructor: Margaret (Peggy) Morrow, Ph.D.
Instructor Email: peggymorrow@protonmail.com
Course description: Learn to use the most popular Photo and Video, Drawing, and Animation tools while making fun and creative projects. The skills mastered in the course will help students to successfully produce materials for their other courses both in middle school, high school, and on into college. Additionally, they can use their skills to fulfill the Great Commission by creating videos for their church or youth group. Students will learn how to import sound, video, and image files and blend them together to create video productions. To accentuate their video productions, they will learn how to crop, layer, blend, touch-up, and filter images. Finally, they will learn to draw and create their own images and animations. Through the course, students will also learn how to analyze images that they encounter, and question how they were created and manipulated. to view student-created movies.
Course outline:
Class 1 – Introduction, Fixing and Enhancing Images
Class 2 – Storyboard, Adding Media
Class 3 – Adding Shapes and Text, Editing
Class 4 – Filters, Colors, Selections, Layers
Class 5 – Transitions and Special Effects, Final Video/Photo Composition
Class 6 – Final Video/Photo Composition
Class 7 – Drawing
Class 8 – Tweening
Class 9 – Animating
Class 10 – Sound
Class 11 – Final Animated Composition
Class 12 – Final Animated Composition
Course materials:
Students will need to purchase a one-year Adobe Creative Cloud license for $19.99/month available from Adobe here, https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html, or approximately $240 for the first year.
This is PC or MAC based and will not install on a Chromebook. Please check the system requirements to ensure that you have the needed hardware. You can learn more about system requirements here, https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html
Homework: Students can expect to spend between 30 to 90 minutes 4 days per week working on their film, photo, and animated creations. Students will work each week towards creating a video and animation productions that incorporate all the skills learned throughout the course. Three mini-movies will be created during the course with a length of one to 5 minutes. Additionally, students will create four photo collages that include images that may be incorporated into their movies, a set of drawings, and animations. Homework will be graded and feedback will be provided. A daily schedule will be provided.
- Teacher: Peggy Morrow