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Adobe Creative Suite 4
This session provided a quick tour of the software within Adobe Creative Suite 4 and focused mainly in its relevance to education and the possible uses it has with education. This session was presented by Brian Chau.

The presentation gave detailed information on the new software and all the possibilities it has in schools and education. We were told about the ability of cross media publishing across platforms and devices, such as Macs, Windows, Linux and even using the product on mobile technology. The use of Acrobat to make pdf. documents, which are quite easy and efficient to use. Acrobat.com was mentioned which is an online service-centre. This can be used to share documents and communicate in real time with others.

Adobe provides free teaching teaching and learning resources. Adobe comes with 3 pre-made curriculms for various years of students, from K-12. Adobe TV has an education section. With contents such as pre-recorded tutorials and demonstrations. eSeminars which provide live demonstrations/tutorials which let you ask questions to the presenter.

The creative studio lets students create applications like animations, games and interactive videos. This new creative studio is really interesting and has many possibilities to be used in the classroom. There are many ways this can be incorporated into the classroom and the uses are quite amazing.