Course
Description title: Adobe Photoshop elements online training course
Course website is available on www.ahmedfallatah.com
Course description: Adobe Photoshop elements
is a photo editing software. It is little brother of Photoshop CC. it contains
lots of powerful image-manipulation tools, excellent output options, printing,
online, photo books. The course will be three weeks long, two lessons per week.
The reason for that is Adobe provide one month free trial version so student
who cannot buy a version they can use a trial version for this course.
Course audience
The course is designed for audiences
who are high school and university students, graphic
design, media, art students, people who work in the field of press and
journalism, and people who are interesting in photography and design. All
trainees must have basic computer skills and permanent access to the internet.
They must be 15 years old or older.
Media and technology
description
Text file: instructor will provide textual information as a
resource for this course.. These file could be in pdf or world format, it could
be read from computer monitor or printed paper. Textual information support one
way communication. According to media richness theory textual information is
not that very rich medium, but it consider a main reading recourse that is
needed to transit information.
Email: in this course email will be the main communication
tool between all participants of the course whether instructor-students
communication or student- student communication. Email supports two way
communication and feedback response. Due to the popularity of the email, it
will be used to send announcements, updated news, and grades to the entire
class. Using email ensure timely information transition whether to individual
participant or to the entire class. Because the different and rich service that
Google provides, participants will be asked to sign up for Google email
account.
Google hangout: Google hangout is a free video chat service from
Google that enables both one-on-one chats and group chats. Google Hangouts can be
accessed via laptop and desktop computers as well as with smart phone devices.
In addition to video chatting, Google Hangouts users can share documents,
images and videos with other users. Google hangout one of the richest media
because it has the availability of
instant feedback, the capacity to transmit cues such as facial expression thought
video chat, tone of voice, and the personal focus of the medium.
During this course Hangout will be
used two times; first to conduct a course orientation which will be the first
online meeting. Second, it will be used to present and discus the trainee’
final assignment . Google hangout has a feature that allows screen sharing, this
will allows each trainee share his or her screen to present the final project.
Good Start
I conducted set
of good start activities to meet the following objectives:
1.
Get the trainees involve in the course.
2.
Present the course introduction.
3.
Get trainees knows each other’s.
4.
Explain the course syllabus and
policies.
5.
Present Adobe Photoshop Element introduction, and explain Photoshop
Element Workplace.
Good
start activities:
I did
the following activates to begin this course
1. I send welcome email.
2. I request filling up Trainee profile.
3. We conducted an online Course orientation via Google Hangout.
4. Online Course orientation took place On November 27th.
5. Three day after the orientation
I send a survey to the trainee to get feedback about our start. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BCFR7XB
This are the document I used
to deliver Good Start
Course Syllabus :
Online Discussion
This activities took place between November 28th and
finish on midnight November 30th.
Course Goals/Objectives
These are
the course objectives, in this activities we focus on objective 3.4.
At the end of this course trainees will be
able to :
1. Getting and
Organizing Photos.
2. Printing,
Sharing, and Exporting photos.
3.
Adjusting Color in Images.
4.
Fixing Exposure Problems.
5. Repairing and
Retouching Images
6. Working with
Text.
7. Combining
Multiple Images.
8. Working on editing
Techniques.
This online discussion activity is designed to
meet 2 objectives: first is to motivate student to look up for online sources
and material to enhance their learning, second is to meet some of the course
objectives. For these activities we will work on objectives number 3 and 4
which are Adjusting Color in Images, Fixing Exposure Problems. In these
activities trainees will improve their critical thinking and solving problem
skills. And they will experience common Adobe Photoshop application and color
systems that applied in Photoshop Element and they will learn basic photo
corrections.
Discussion Handout
This week we are going to conduct an online
discussion, the discussion is comprised with work activates. The discussion
will focus on objectives number 3 and 4 which are Adjusting Color in Images,
Fixing Exposure Problems. In addition to that we will respond to each other
post which will increase our critical thinking.
Discussion
instruction
1.
Review
this video to get an idea about the technology that we will use in this
activity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROaSCpifCY
2.
A
discussion will last for 3 days.
3.
Discussion
activity will begin on November 28th and finish on midnight November
30th.
4.
Your
first post must be your answer to the given questions.
5.
Make
sure to identify yourself by writing your name before any post.
6.
Include
in your post graphics, photos, videos and, links.
7.
You
are supposed to response to at least two classmates post.
Guidelines
and policies for the discussion.
§ Use respectful and appropriate language in your responses.
§ You are expected to respond to each other post and give your
opinion about your classmate post.
§ Use email to send a private message.
§ Inappropriate post or responses are not acceptable that might lead
to a grade decline.
Respond to the following question:
1.
What are Adobe Photoshop color modes?
2.
What are the common Photo problems that can be
fixed by Adobe Phosphor Element?
3.
Specify two Photos that have photo problems
4.
Provide online resource link to your answer
including video tutorial.
5.
Include in your post graphics and photos.
We used Google document to conduct the online
discussion
Discussion Transcript:
Rubric for online discussion
3
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2
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1
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Quality
of Post
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Appropriate
posts and
comments
thoughtful and
Reflective
of good effort.
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Appropriate
posts and comments thoughtful and
Reflective
of acceptable effort
|
Responds,
but with minimum effort.
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Relevance
Of
Post
|
Posts
topics that fully related To discussion topic
prompts further discussion of topic.
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Posts
topics that are mostly related to discussion content
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Posts
topics that do not relate to the discussion
|
Engagement
with others
|
Shows
significant effort to engage with
others
Responds.
|
Shows
attention to
other
posts in the
discussion.
|
Offers
little
Interaction
with other posts.
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Language
|
There is no
misspelled word or grammatical error in the postings.
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There are few
misspellings and/or grammatical errors.
|
There are
many misspellings and/or grammatical errors
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Discussion instruction
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The posts completely follow
instructions and time requirements
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The majority of the posts completely follow instructions and time requirements
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The majority of the posts completely follow instructions and time requirements
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Online discussion evaluation and feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BTM5X7B
Lessons learned from the delivery/evaluation
experience:
1. I think
instructor better depend on a reliable LMS/CMS and do not use different
technology that are not designed for course management.
2. Google
Docs does not have the feature that makes it a good technology to deliver an
online discussion.
3. Google
Hangout has a good feature to deliver and online meeting or class.
4. It is
difficult to come up with an appropriate time for all participants to conduct
an online meeting especially if they are in different time zone. One of the
trainee is in Saudi Arabia, it was difficult to find an appropriate time for
all of us.
5. Instructor
must clearly identify and explain the technology that supposed to be used in
the course at the beginning of the course.
6. If the
course is not part of program curriculum
or paid course, students will not be highly motivated to participate effectively
in the course activities.
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