Teaching and learning across the curriculum

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Learn more about extending digital communication across the curriculum

Fun, easy-to-use digital tools can make all the difference as teachers empower students to express ideas effectively — through words, images, videos, and sound — while building strong interpersonal and communication skills. Adobe provides software tools and resources that can make this integration of digital technology a natural process — and help teachers create a dynamic learning environment.

Resources

Digital Communication Resource Center

Find resources to help you get started developing your students' — and your own — digital communication skills.

Adobe Digital Kids Club

Integrate digital photography and video into daily classroom activities. This special website features free tips, tutorials, lessons, and showcases.

Digital storytelling tutorial

Empower students to express themselves through digital-imaging projects created with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 software and digital-video projects created with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software.

Digital Design Curriculum Guide

This yearlong curriculum guide develops digital communication skills in web design and production using Studio 8 tools by Adobe. Digital Design can be used in career and technical education courses as well as in general web design classes.

Featured

Samsula Elementary School

Adobe Photoshop Elements helps instructors address multiple learning styles and make subjects more accessible for students.

Coral Reef Elementary School

Coral Reef High School

Coral Reef uses Adobe products to enhance traditional methods of teaching through creative visual imaging.

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Insight from experts

Leading literacy experts express the importance of teaching 21st century skills and extol the effectiveness and great potential of today's digital media tools.

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A Global Imperative

Read this 24-page report on the 21st Century Literacy Summit, held April 26-28, 2005, in San Jose, California. The report includes a list of strategic priorities for educators and policymakers.

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