Articles

Creating a dynamic tenure portfolio with Acrobat 8

Dr. Robert J. Leneway, Western Michigan University's educational technology coordinator and assistant professor, discovered Adobe® Acrobat® 8 software to be his answer when he began looking for ways to present a multimedia tenure portfolio. He organized and creatively presented a collection of syllabi, sample learning modules, evaluation sheets, published articles, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, blogs, and online discussions along with links to video, Flash®, and other multimedia files.

Website development using school counseling skills

School counselors have natural and learned skills in building relationships, making connections within their school community, creating links to information for parents and students, organizing and implementing school counseling programs, and working as a team to improve communication.

Technology tools help counselors publish professional web presentations

School counseling teams have long faced the need to develop and present information to large audiences within their school communities. Learn how school counselor and Adobe Education Leader Dave Forrester gave his colleagues in the state of Washington a way to make this task a lot easier with professional results.

Creating a community-based school website

What does it take to involve middle-school students and the community in creating a school website? Sara Martin shares her experience at Hart-Ransom School District in Modesto, California.

Shrinking the world with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Students and teachers in Palm Beach, Florida, and Madrid, Spain, are making a global connection through the International Spanish Academy. Lee Keller shows us how Adobe Acrobat Connect™ software provides the bridge.

Yearbook tips and tricks

For the yearbook staff at Coral Reef Senior High School in Miami, Florida, producing a high-quality design, working efficiently, and staying organized are equally important. Susan O'Connor, Adobe Education Leader and Coral Reef yearbook coordinator, shows how to manage it all.

Classroom transformation — an interview with Renaldo Lawrence

Renaldo Lawrence — Advanced Skills teacher, the head of ICT at St. John the Baptist School in Woking, Surrey, and an ICT consultant for the CLC (Community Learning Centre) in Hounslow (near London), U.K. — is using technology to advance student learning and transform the classroom. We caught up with him at BETT 2006. (October 2006)

Turning collaborative learned web skills into a teaching position

Dr. Robert J. Leneway, Western Michigan University's educational technology unit coordinator overseeing the Educational Technology Masters and Certification program and the Undergraduate Preservice Educational Technology Preparation program, talks about the importance of collaborative technology skills for new teachers. (October 2006)

Website redesign at Deer Park High School

Learn from Harry Williams, technology specialist for Deer Park High School (Texas), how Adobe Dreamweaver® and Contribute® software have improved communication through the use of a data-driven and CSS-based website and the ability for teachers to update their own classroom pages. (October 2006)

Breeze connects students across the Americas

Using Breeze® Meeting (formerly Breeze Live), Thane Williams, Spanish teacher and webmaster at North Charleston High School in South Carolina, enables his students to communicate live online and find commonalities with peers from SEK-Quito school in Quito, Ecuador, and Colegio Bolivar in Cali, Colombia. (October 2005)

Teaching Dreamweaver the web standards way

Sheri German — Macromedia education leader, web technology instructor, and frequent contributor to CommunityMX — explains why it is so important to start out students with proper web development habits. Read her article at CommunityMX.com. (October 2005)

Divide and captivate

Thane Williams, Spanish teacher and webmaster at North Charleston High School in South Carolina, promotes classroom participation and improves Spanish language skills using Macromedia® Captivate® software with images, PowerPoint slides, and audio narration. (October 2005)