#design-thinking #adobe-creative-cloud #workshop #adobe-express #multimedia-production #miro #digital-fluency > [!summary]+ Summary > This page explains a workshop designed to introduce university faculty to Adobe Express combined with a design thinking process. Unlike others in the series, this workshop leaned heavily into the application itself. I provide background on the design, highlight a central digital tool used in the workshop, and provide some reflective notes. # Communicating with Digital Media (CDM): Creating a Space to Inspire **Delivery details:** <u>Dates</u>: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Fall 2022 <u>Target audience</u>: University faculty <u>Delivery format</u>: Remote/Zoom <u>Duration</u>: 90 minutes ## About the workshop This workshop offered a little bit of everything for faculty participants. It was some design thinking, some reflection on how they are communicating in their teaching, some exploration of digital assets and resources, and some prototyping. I wanted participants to explore what was happening in their classrooms and how they might improve in digital communications. In particular, participants were asked to consider something they needed to step away from or change in their communication practices. As with other workshops in this series, it followed a **design thinking** framework. The workshop had the following description and learning objectives. ### Description > Do you find yourself brainstorming ways to communicate with learners and inspire their communication of ideas? Are there papers, videos, graphics or other media that you want to share with them in a linear and visually engaging story? In this workshop, we will work with you to begin creating a custom online space for the purpose of communicating to and inspiring your students with a custom visual story. Borrowing from a design thinking framework, you will follow a simple approach to empathizing with your students’ perspective and pull together a visual communication concept to prototype using Adobe Creative Cloud Express. In doing this, you will collaborate with learning and media design experts to apply concepts in learning design and media design in ways that complement your pedagogical practice. ### Learning objectives 1. Express points of interest and reflection in relation to crafting communications with multimodal digital media. 2. Practice applying steps of empathy, ideation, and prototyping in the context of a design thinking framework. 3. Create the foundations of Adobe Creative Cloud Express pages for a portfolio around their research interests that inspires student engagement. ### Workshop goal **The goal was for participants to genuinely get started with Adobe Express.** As with other CDM workshops, participants were challenged through the Liedtka design thinking framework, but we quickly got into identifying (copyright-friendly) media assets to communicate an idea, and then quickly move into working with Adobe Express. ## 🎯 Results This workshop was repeated multiple times as participants reported liking how it gave them a solid start with Adobe Express along with one-on-one guidance. Additionally, it helped my unit to build effective partnerships with another team addressing student digital fluency with Adobe tools. Participation was consistently around ten participants, which was well above the average for departmental workshops.