Talk about visual literacy! This excellent site from Adobe offers many hands-on step-by-step lessons in digital still photography (using Adobe photoshop Elements 3.0 ) or digital film-making (using Adobe Premiere Elements). Adobe has done an excellent job picking topics sure to interest students, and the step-by-step directions will teach them to master these incredibly powerful programs. In fact, teachers and other adults will probably learn a few tricks just by reading through these easy-to-follow lessons. Although the lessons are geared to the Adobe products, the concepts are transportable, with appropriate adjustments, to many other photo-editing and film-editing programs. These lessons are sure to engage your students' creative drive.
Adobe Digital Kids Club
• Pictures and/or Illustrations
• High School Middle School Elementary School
Janie McNichols
