The 2023-2024 Northwood semester will be getting new CTE classes for students. Adobe Visual Design I and Adobe Digital Design I will be classes that will be taught by Melissa Bristol, a business education teacher at Northwood. The Adobe classes will teach students how to use those Adobe applications to enhance communications either with images or web development.
When it comes to Adobe Visual Design I, the class will involve learning skills for putting down the foundations for parts of Adobe design. “Students will develop skills that lay the foundation for photography and producing print-ready communications,” Bristol said. “Project activities focus on developing effective communications that can be deployed in print, web, or video. Students will develop a variety of images, such as raster-based graphics, logos, advertisements, posters, and illustrations. Students can be Adobe Certified in Associate Photoshop and Associate Illustrator.”
For Adobe Digital Design I, students will develop skills with an application known as Dreamweaver. “This course is a project-based course that develops career and communication skills in Web design using Dreamweaver,” Bristol said. “Students can be Adobe Certified in Professional Dreamweaver.”
Bristol elaborated on the certifications for the class.
“The certification is a hands on certification where students prove their skills. It is a simulation program where students are given projects with specific tasks to complete using the knowledge they have learned in class.”
In order to pass the class, students will have had to pass the certifications. The class will act as an elective for students to choose.
