SJSU Adobe Digital Literacy Day

In collaboration with Adobe, eCampus and the Center for Faculty Development hosted a hybrid event for faculty and staff to discover and discuss topics that impact curricular activities and best practices in the use of Adobe Creative Cloud solutions in the classroom. The 2024 event took place on March 5th. It was open to faculty and staff from all CSU campuses. Review the agenda below to explore topics of interest. Session recordings are available from several presentations.

Agenda

9:00 a.m. Welcome from the Provost, Center for Faculty Development, eCampus, and Adobe

9:15 a.m. Panel with faculty from CSU Creative Campuses - Topic: The Impact of AI: Social Responsibility/Bias/Ethics and Creativity

10:00 a.m. Series of brief presentations by faculty and Adobe

12:30 p.m. Collaborative Adobe Design Activity and Laser Printing 

Presentations

• Panel with faculty from CSU Creative Campuses

  • Panel with faculty from CSU Creative Campuses - Topic: The Impact of AI: Social Responsibility/Bias/Ethics and Creativity

    Moderator: Kate Miffitt, CSU Office of the Chancellor
    Panelists: Nada Attar (SJSU), Leslie Bruce (Fullerton), Lourdes Miriam Cueva Chacon (SDSU), John Delacruz (SJSU), Ashley Foster (Fresno)

    Session Recording: The Impact of AI

    The panel explores how creativity can get impacted by the ever-changing AI infused digital landscape. Faculty share their perspectives about AI with a focus on social responsibility, bias, and ethics.

• Tina Korani -  SJSU

  • Tina Korani, Journalism and Mass Communications, SJSU

    Session Recording: Exploring Generative AI in Design

    Tina Korani presents "Exploring Generative AI in Design: Generative AI in Photoshop and Firefly"

• Donna Caldwell - Adobe

  • Donna Caldwell, Adobe

    Session Recording: Content Authenticity

    Donna Caldwell presents "Adobe and AI: Create, Explore and Push Boundaries like Never Before"

• Christopher Paolini - SDSU

  • Christopher Paolini, Electrical and Computer Engineering, SDSU

    Topic: Introducing undergraduate students to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, using Adobe Audition together with FFTW/C and SciPy/Python

    Sesson Recording: Adobe Audition in Computer Programming

• Marjan Khatibi - SJSU

  • Marjan Khatibi, Department of Design, SJSU

    Topic: Multimodal Visual Storytelling on Identity, Belonging, and Community Beyond Borders

    Session Recording: Multimodal Visual Storytelling

• Raymond Lam - SJSU

  • Raymond Lam, Library, SJSU

    Topic: Collaborative Adobe Design Activity and Laser Printing

    Led by Raymond Lam, SJSU Adobe Trainer and Instructional Designer, attendees collaborate to design Adobe vector artwork that get printed using the laser printer in the Prototyping Lab.