2021-2022, CDM Adobe Portfolio

#design-thinking #adobe-creative-cloud #workshop #adobe-portfolio #mito #digital-fluency > [!summary]+ Summary > This page explains a workshop designed to introduce university faculty to Adobe Portfolio. Although planned, this workshop ultimately did not run. I provide background on the design, discuss how the workshop would have been run, and some reflections on why it did not run. # Communicating with Digital Media (CDM): Bringing Together an Adobe Portfolio **Delivery details:** Dates: n/a Target audience: University faculty Delivery format: Remote/Zoom Duration: 90 minutes ## About the workshop This workshop was fully created and prepared to run, but I never ran it. The reason was due to two converging lessons. The first was what I learned about the digital skill level of faculty attending the workshops, and the second was the range of challenges I experienced while working with the Adobe Portfolio interface. It was not a pleasant experience to build the [CDM series hub](https://sdli-cdm-series.myportfolio.com/welcome). I have worked with a number of learning management systems (LMSs) and webpage builders, and I found Adobe Portfolio too problematic. I wasn’t confident faculty could work with it without feeling frustrated. Regardless, if it would have run the workshop had the following description and learning objectives. ### Description > Do you like to use online portfolios for yourself? Have you tried online portfolios with your students, but just haven't found the right one? Are you interested in an online portfolio that easily integrates powerful creative software such as Adobe Creative Cloud? In this workshop, you will learn about and begin to set up a framework for an online portfolio. Borrowing from a design thinking framework, you will collaborate with LAI experts and peers to ideate a plan for communicating a range of content effectively. You'll be provided guidance in communications, media and learning design, and and gain an understanding of how to integrate different Adobe products into an Adobe Portfolio. ### 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 an online portfolio prototype from the student perspective using domain-specific content, imagery and both learning and media communications principles. ### Workshop goal **The goal was for participants to first decide whether to develop a portfolio for themselves or a demonstration portfolio for students, and then work with the workshop staff to start to build it.** I wanted faculty to think about what they currently use to bring all for their ideas together. Is it an online course in the learning management system (LMS), a folder in cloud storage, a personal website, a GitHub link, or something else? From here we would get to work making a portfolio. ## Using a digital whiteboard: Miro I planned to use the Liedtka framework — What Is?, What If?, What Wows? — to guide this workshop. The key question that I wanted participants to answer was, "*What would you love the portfolio to accomplish?*" I am a firm believer in starting with a goal. With this in mind, participants were asked to imagine a new future and then work with a digital whiteboard in [Miro](https://miro.com/) to create a portfolio framework. I suspected most participants would want to create something for their students, so this is how it was framed. ![[CDM-Adobe-Portfolio.png]] Participants were to have worked from left-to-right on their board filling in virtual stickies reflecting on their audience, considering what the outline and navigation might be, and beginning to think through the different media assets they may need. Like with the workshop using Adobe Rush ([[2021-2022, CDM Adobe Rush]]) the participants were provided a full set of online resources for copyright-friendly images, as well as guiding principles on learning and media design. ### Unused resource - 1 Something not planned to be used, but could have been useful BEFORE the *"What if anything were possible?"* activity, might have been the following table. ![[IL-IW-WI_Table.png]] The idea would have been to ask participants to identify what aspects of their current digital communication plan they like, what they wish they could be doing better or more in this plan, and what they would do if they could do anything. ### Unused resource - 2 Another resource prepared but not incorporated into the plan was the following decision-tree for having students create a portfolio as part of teaching. ![[CDM-Portfolio-Brainstorming-1.png]] Looking back, it is unclear what the intended use was years ago. But this could be a good roadmap for having an initial discussion about why to create a portfolio using the Liedtka framework. ## 🎯 Results Ultimately, this workshop did not run. Despite the effort put into building it, the decision was made not to proceed due to the difficulty of using Adobe Portfolio relative to other content management systems (CMSs).