Adobe Week @ VCU Unleashes Student Creativity with Free Digital Tools, Workshops and a Creative Jam Video Competition
Adobe Week @ VCU, hosted by the da Vinci Center, is October 31 to November, with 17 workshops for students, faculty, and staff and three featured events. The workshops focus on using Adobe Creative Cloud apps, which are free to all students, for creating graphics, videos, podcasts, presentations, and more.
The featured events include the Creative Jam Video competition which kicks-off with an interest session on Monday, October 21. There is also a Hallow-Screen Green Screen Selfies on Monday, October 31. And, Print Your Own VCU SWAG events at The Commons Ram Horns Plaza from 10 am to 6 pm on Nov. 2 and 3.
>> Browse the schedule and register for Adobe Week workshops and Creative Jam on RamsConnect.
VCU offers students free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud, comprehensive platform of 20+ desktop and mobile apps for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more. Think of Creative Cloud as a toolbox for making media. It includes Photoshop, which is for editing photographs; Illustrator for creating graphics and drawings; Premiere Pro to edit and generate video; and, Spark to create simple pieces of social media, web stories, and videos. Plus Adobe's Creative Cloud Express app is provides tools for beginners and non-designers to quickly create social media content, posters, videos and more.
"The world is increasingly defined by exponentially growing technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence," says Fotis Sotiropoulos, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at VCU. "People's current experiences are also being re-defined as technology impacts everything people do. Our vision is to enable our students to become skilled in the basics of computational thinking, but also develop skills that machines cannot acquire, such as compassion, understanding, and creative design."