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So uh thank you all so much for being here today. Uh, today we're going to be talking about the Adobe Skills badges.

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And you will probably have time to also go ahead and start a badge today.

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So that'll be kind of our goal. Uh, but alongside showing you all the badges and how they can be useful to you,

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I'm also going to show you some of the other resources to kind of help you learn about Adobe Creative Cloud,

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kind of alongside those, um, those of you attending in person, if you all have a question as I go,

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just stop me and we can um, I'm happy to answer your question.

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Um, those of you attending online, if you have a question, um, just post it in the chat and I'm happy to watch the chat as well.

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Um, and see if you have any questions and so on. Okay. All right.

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So, um, to kind of get us started,

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what I wanted to start you guys off on was if you would like to follow along with me and let's start at the, um, Auburn Library home page.

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So if we'll go to lib.auburn.edu.

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And I can also post this in the chat. Here we go.

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Perfect. And then once you are at the lib.auburn.edu website.

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I wanted to kind of show you how you can get back to these resources after today,

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including the badges and all of the, uh, additional learning resources and help and so on.

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Um, so, first of all, um, you guys are aware of our workshops, obviously, because you signed up for this one,

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but we have more, so feel free to check back and come to more if you would like.

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We offer um, most of our workshops also online.

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So like if it was like this morning and the weather was bad and so on, then we still offer that.

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Um, but I wanted to show you this little link to the I and our C that's right here in that orange bar.

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So that stands for the Innovation and Research Commons, which is an area on the first floor of the library.

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And if you click it, it will just kind of bump you down the main web page here.

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Um, and on the main web page to the library is the information about the innovation and research comments.

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So first of all, we have lots of, um, facilities that you all are welcome to use that may help you with your media projects and things like that.

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Like, we have an audio studio that you can book and use that has a very nice, uh, microphone already connected and all of that.

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Uh, we have a digital wall display where you can see some current student work, um, on a loop.

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That's really fun to check out. We also have tech lending.

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So if you're interested in like checking out cameras, video cameras for your projects and stuff like that, we have that available.

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But what I wanted to kind of show you all, uh,

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the best way to kind of get back to the resources from today is going to be at the Adobe Creative Space.

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So if we click that, that'll take us to the Adobe Creative Space web page.

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So this is where, uh, this is sort of a, uh, central hub, uh, for all the support, uh,

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that we have on campus for Adobe Creative Cloud, because as students, you all have access to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud.

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You get automatic access to Adobe Express. So I'm going to just go around the page and it kind of explains it right here.

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So you get automatic access to Adobe Express.

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If you want full access to the Adobe Creative Cloud, you just need to go through one more step and request a license.

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It's still completely free to you. Um, and so I just wanted to show you that.

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And then you can also log to Adobe Express right from here.

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And it kind of knows that we're at Auburn and it kind of helps you sign in.

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Um, but you want to put in your current, your Auburn email address and password to get logged in.

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But if you want the full Creative Cloud, and I believe also if you want the badges, you do need to sign up for your full license.

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So if you haven't done that yet, that would be a good thing to do.

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You can sign up for the entire license. Um, you'll get a confirmation email in like about two, uh, hours or so, uh, from OIT,

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two hours or less, and they'll say, hey, you've got your full Adobe Creative Cloud license.

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They will send you some instructions for like, how to download the Adobe Creative Cloud app and all of that.

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Um, and uh, and then also the instructions are also here under learn.

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So I wanted to show you that under the learn page, you've got, uh, how to get a license, how to log in, how to install it.

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So if you want to go further and, you know, with Photoshop and InDesign and illustrator and so on.

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Um, and also probably for the digital pages, you may need to go ahead and sign up for your full license.

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Um, and then there's all kinds of other Creative Cloud tutorials.

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Adobe has a bunch of learning materials that they give away for free.

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And also on this learn page, I've also listed the Adobe badges here as well.

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So this is one way that you can get into the badge program. Link is right here and everything.

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And um, it's got all these badges that you can select from.

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Um, and we'll come back to this page, uh,

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because I also want to show you you have another there's a second opportunity to if you want to be an Adobe student ambassador, that's another option.

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Uh, but let's maybe first just go to the badges so we can get started with that.

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But I wanted to show you the different ways you can get to them.

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So through the adobe.auburn.edu page and on the Adobe Creative Space page, let me get back to that real quick.

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We'll go back to the Adobe. Yeah, I'll just do it this way.

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Uncheck. We'll go to.

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We'll go back to the this one. So the IRC and then Adobe create a space.

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Um, also on the Adobe Creative Space page, if you scroll down.

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Um, then you'll see events and opportunities.

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And we have the badge, the ambassador student ambassador opportunity as well as there's an official student club.

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So if you're interested in joining the student club,

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they do a great job of offering fun workshops where they teach you skills like they did a poster, a Photoshop poster.

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One, uh, last week. They're doing a Valentine's Day themed one next week, I think.

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So that might be fun to check out, but they do a great job doing that.

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Um, and then there's the ambassador program, and the skills are listed here too.

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So let's check out these digital badges that are offered from Adobe.

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So I'm going to go ahead and click that. You can also just go to adobe.com/learn/students.

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And that takes you to kind of the same the same thing. But I wanted to show you the multiple ways that you can get back to these badges.

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So you kind of know how to do that.

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And uh, what is so cool is we have access, free access to, uh, all these badges from Adobe, and they come directly from Adobe.

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So what y'all will want to do is to sign in.

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Once you're on this, uh, badges screen and you'll click the little sign in here,

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and then you would put in your full Auburn email address and then hit continue.

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And then you want to always choose company or school account if you get asked that question.

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So a company or school account. And it might ask you to sign in with your Auburn username and password.

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So that's fine if it does that. I already signed into this browser today, so that's why it's not prompting me.

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Um, and then you can also just double check that you're signed in and you can click your name,

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uh, picture over here and see that you're signed in and everything.

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Okay. All right.

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That working for you all? You'll get signed in. Yeah. Okay.

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Perfect. Mhm. And so once you're signed in here, um, this is very much like, uh, canvas,

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where it'll kind of like, save your progress as you go and that sort of thing.

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Um, it's on a smaller scale. These courses are not in years long.

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Each of these, uh, course badges maybe takes about like an hour, hour and a half total.

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And as you go through them, you'll click on each page and so on.

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And then they'll be like a short video to watch after you when you watch the video to,

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like, teach you how to use that particular application to complete a project.

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And they typically give you a lot of choice in these projects.

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So what I would recommend doing is if you have to create something for a class anyway,

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like a presentation, then you've got a badge for presentation design right here.

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If you have to make a podcast for a class, you've got Podcasting Essentials badge that's available right here.

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If you're in a professional practice class and you have to like, show that you're making some career, uh, prep materials, you could do that.

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If you're in a PR class and you're making social media.

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Um, there's a health and science communication one, if you have to make a video, there's a story to telling through short form video.

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Um, if you're in marketing, there's a couple of different ones, several different ones for marketing.

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There's even one for sports marketing, too. Um, and data storytelling.

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That would be great for any sort of like infographic or research graphic or presentation

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that you have to make where you're creating some sort of graphic to show data.

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So maybe kind of skim through these and see which one, you know, might be interesting to you and so on.

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Um, and it will save your progress as you go.

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You can do as many or as little of these as you want, and you get issued a badge for each one.

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So, um, I've taken the intro to generative AI one before, so I'm going to go into that one,

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because then it'll probably let me like show you the different pages and so on.

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So I might choose that one first. And then once you're inside, uh, the badging module, it essentially has an introduction.

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It tells you to practice in the app, you know, and gives you a link to Adobe Express.

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And then this one has a short overview. It's got a little video here, of course.

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I'm not sharing my sound online, but she's talking.

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You can see those captions or whatever down here. And then you do have to, like, play the video to kind of get through the modules.

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Um, you know, but they are pretty short. Like this one's three, three minutes and 50s or so.

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And then once you get through the, the, um, video, then there's a course that'll tell you,

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hey, this is what you're going to do in this particular course.

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In this one, it essentially like walks you through using Adobe Express to create an AI generated image.

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Um, and then you also add like some text to it in Adobe Express.

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So it's just saying, hey, make sure you've got access and all of that, which you guys do, of course.

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And then I've already gone through it.

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So I should be able to jump around, but it'll have like a next thing for you where you have to kind of go in order, um, until you finish it.

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Then you can always come back to it if you wanted to.

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But then this one, it shows you how to use generative AI a little bit, kind of explains it and so on.

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And also in this one, um, it's uh, does a really nice job of explaining to how generative AI is created responsibly in Adobe.

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So Adobe's, um, Firefly, which is the image model, is trained only on Adobe Stock images and public domain.

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So therefore it doesn't violate copyright. So you can use AI generated images.

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If you choose to like in your assignments you can use them in publications and so on.

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You just need a site that you created it using Firefly.

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So just like you would say, if you pulled an image from, you know, a book or an, uh, website or something like that, you would cite it.

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Um, and then you just cite that you created it using Firefly. Um, and because of that, it's commercial safe, which is really huge.

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Most other image models are not. So this is a great tool to use.

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And this is a great badge to kind of get started with.

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Um, because it's really great to show that you have some knowledge on AI,

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whether you choose to use it in the creative field or not is completely your choice.

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Absolutely. And if you choose to create your own art instead, that's great,

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but it's a very good idea to make that choice from a point of knowledge and to have an idea and show people that you have,

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uh, you know, about how it works, right? And you have an idea of how to do it.

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Um, and then it'll give you some, uh, examples and practice and so on.

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So it'll say create. How do you create images using AI?

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For example, in this one.

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Um, so I'm just going to kind of skim through and show you in general how one of the badges looks, and then it'll say reference images.

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And then notice for each of these, it kind of tells you about how much time these take.

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So it will save your progress as you go, which is really nice.

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I would just click back on the Adobe Digital Academy to kind of close that for that particular course out.

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So it says as you go. And so we can skip through all these.

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And then it'll basically conclude and then it'll give you an assignment.

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So let's look at the an example assignment. So here's an example assignment that they give you at the end after you go through their mini

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course again which might take about an hour and a half or so or an hour just kind of depends.

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And they have these I might have sample files for you to download to to use.

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There's also a template in this case um, if you need if you need it.

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Or you can start from scratch. So it's giving you an idea.

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So it wants us to first of all create an image from a prompt and then add elements to our image,

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like um, design assets like icons or brushes or anything like that.

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And all of that is available for free in Adobe Express.

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It's all within our license and everything, which is great.

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And then they want you to add some text and then you, uh, typically you share the link to your project.

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Um, in express, it's super easy to do that. You just hit share and then view only link, and then you would submit that link to this assignment.

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So it teaches you kind of how to do that. Um, and then you just kind of follow the instructions there.

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Um, and then you submit it and then once you get it submitted, it says it gets reviewed within 5 to 9 business days.

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So somebody actually reviews it.

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And then, uh, at Adobe, and if it meets the parameters of the project, which all you gotta do is follow the directions and it'll be fine.

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Um, then you receive a verified digital badge from credibly.

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Um, has anybody gotten a badge from credibly before? Okay, so Lee is sort of a well known, like, badging system.

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Um, you know, any sort of organization can set their own instance up and then issue badges that way.

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So like for example, when you take the how to AI course through Auburn that teaches you about student AI literacy,

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which is available through the library, for example, you get a badge via credibly.

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So it basically just um, adds legitimacy to the credential.

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Okay. So it means somebody at this organization has reviewed this content and has made sure that it's badge worthy,

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as opposed to you just kind of saying, I did this or whatever, which is great to do too, but you get a badge from credibly.

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So then you'll receive an email to your Auburn email address with the digital badge, and then you can download that.

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You can add that to LinkedIn. Um, you can add it to your resume.

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Um, and then another thing I'd recommend to is the thing that you created.

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It's also a great idea to share that out too. If you're comfortable doing that right.

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Share what you created out on LinkedIn, like the actual image itself.

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And, um, you can also share the fact that you earned a badge.

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Um, and that's essentially it. So getting started. And then see right here it says this is how you submit your assignment.

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So I went through this one to make sure it worked and all of that.

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So now I can go back and revisit it. But the other ones should have you kind of go in order.

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Um, and that's essentially how it works. And then if I wasn't done or whatever.

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Yeah. Question. Yeah. Transition time.

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Like we won't have access to our other email or we won't have access to Creative Cloud.

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You know, the learning system in order to, you know, uh, do the badges.

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Um, so the response is like, once you get, uh, do what you need to do to get the badge, they will send you an email.

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And in that email is an attachment so that you can save separately.

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And that way you'll have continue to have access to that badge after you leave Auburn.

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That's a great question. Very, very good question. While we're kind of talking about graduation and stuff like that, um, a couple of things.

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With Adobe Express, there is a free instance of Adobe Express available to everyone.

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So like after you graduate, it's a tool that you can continue to use, which is great.

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And it also isn't that expensive. It might be like $10 a month or something.

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And typically an organization that you go and work for, they probably will have access to either express or something similar like Canva.

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And then those skills are very transferable, right? Um, Adobe is better for us because we have the ecosystem here.

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We have support. It's embedded software. It's also they the way they approach AI is much more responsible than other entities.

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So they do a really good job, uh, keeping it within copyright and everything, which is fantastic.

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Um, and then when you do graduate, um, with Adobe Express, you'll get there's like a whole, um, oh it service article on graduation,

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by the way, where you can see all the stuff that you lose access to and like how you can transfer all your stuff.

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Um, and there is a section for Adobe on there, basically any files that you create with Adobe, if it's in express, you can share.

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illustrator you and make sure you're downloading the original package file or the original PSD file, any of those master files.

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If you choose to get an Adobe license later, most of the time if you go work somewhere and they know you know how to use Adobe,

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like they'll get it for you because they're like, oh, you already have the skills.

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And even, like I mentioned, even if you go on to use something different, these digital design skills are all transferable, which is great.

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So you can already know how to create things, which is good. Yeah.

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Fantastic question. Thank you. Um, other badges that you can do.

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So if you were if we were done with this badge, we can absolutely just and you don't have to wait to receive the first badge before doing another one.

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Okay. So you can keep going and do as many as you want.

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I'm going to click back on that Adobe Digital Academy up here so I can see all the badges again.

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Yeah. So, um, what are y'all's, um, areas of study?

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Um, other things that I wanted to show you on the Adobe Creative Space page that are right next to the badging info under Events and Opportunities.

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Um, we mentioned the club. Um, here is another option to get more involved with Adobe if you're interested.

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Um, there is an opportunity to be an Adobe student ambassador.

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They have a website here, so we'll just visit that real quick. Um.

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The Adobe Student Ambassador program is a program with Adobe that we get to participate in because we're an Adobe Creative campus.

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So not all universities get this, just the ones that, like us, who give access to all students for free.

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And it's a kind of a very light internship with Adobe.

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Um, so if you are into design and you're creating a lot of these things anyway, this can be a great resume booster.

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you basically just apply to be an ambassador and you agree to share on campus about Adobe Creative Cloud.

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because if you are an Adobe student ambassador, you can be an officer in the club.

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But you can also just be an ambassador and not do anything with the club if you don't want to.

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Um, but it's easy. It makes it easier because you kind of get points for like say, participating in club activities and stuff like that,

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and they do fun stuff like make your own game day pins and things like that.

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Valentine's day, we're working. They're working on a, uh, make your own bracket for March Madness, you know, uh, later, which would be fun.

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So they've done all kinds of fun things like that.

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You also get to put, um, um, you know, the fact that you're an Adobe student ambassador on your resume, um, which is nice.

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So like our ambassadors who run the club they do this and then, uh,

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they can earn like these gift cards where they can go purchase stuff for the club and things like that.

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So like purchase treats and stuff like that for everybody to enjoy and also purchase like, equipment.

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And then let's see, I'm going to click back to go back to the Adobe Space page.

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And then also under Events and Opportunities. Um okay.

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So we get to the ambassador program. We went to the skills. Oh here's a couple of other things that they have put out for free.

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If you do a couple of these badges and you're like, okay, I'm ready for like the next level, you know, I want something a bit more.

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They do have these new certifications that they're offering currently for free through Coursera.

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It's just a little bit more. It's more involved. It would take more time.

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Um, but that would maybe be a little bit higher quality.

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Um, you know, takes a little bit more time to create. You get a certificate instead of just a badge via Credly .

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So that is an option. Yeah. Question.

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And yeah, it's through their platform. Um, which is neat.

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Yep. So that is an option. So that's kind of like level two of, you know, sort of getting badges and certificates.

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And then the highest level of certification that Adobe offers is the Adobe Certified Professional.

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The cost is like I think it's around $150 per test, but this is how you can get like the certified professional in Photoshop.

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And then if you get like three of them, like if you get Photoshop, InDesign and illustrator, then you get like the you also get a fourth one.

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They call it visual design, uh, certificate, professional certificate.

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So this is the highest level of certification that Adobe offers.

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Um, and you can take that on your own, um, and everything.

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And they give you the learning materials for free. So it's not like you have to just figure it out yourself.

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They teach they they have study guides for each exam.

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So how do you do things in Photoshop. But they also ask you things like, um, you have a client and you know, they want this, this and this.

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What's the best way to respond? You know, so I'll ask you the sort of soft skills questions like that too.

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So it'll say, hey, you know, this image needs, um, you know, clean up and editing.

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You know, it's like, it's, um, part of it is missing. How would you go about replacing that?

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Things like that. Like you'll still get points if you get it eventually, but you get more points if you like.

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Do it faster or do with like the better tools and so on. Um, so that's an option.

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That's totally this, uh, offered externally. You can totally take that on your own and pursue that on your own if you would like.

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Those are sort of the three tiers of badging that you can do of qualifying flying things that you can get with Adobe.

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And then the last thing I want to show you before we hop back into the badges and maybe you guys go ahead and start one is these Adobe internships.

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And what you would do is you would click there and then CC intern and graduate roles.

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And some of them are also remote. So it's it's a cool idea to maybe check that out.

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They I mean they have a lot of engineers obviously that work on the code for their applications that's needed sales marketing and strategy.

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Finance and operations, information technology, employee experience research.

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which is binding and that has there's Adobe sign that has a whole workflow that's secure and all of that.

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So they have lots of different areas. And then you can also like refine it by saying, hey, it needs to be remote only or like, what country is it in?

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You know, like if you are a graduate student or non graduate student, you could just select that.

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What type of profession is it? What type of employment full time or part time?

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What type of role? And we have had a few students go on to be, um, interns at Adobe.

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I think both of them were in some sort of like computer programing area, and they worked with them over the summer.

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Um, and I think both of them maybe were remote. So, you know, that was kind of a cool thing.

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So if you do apply to this, then maybe let me know, because sometimes what I can do is be like, hey,

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I can tell our Adobe contact, hey, so-and-so from Auburn applied to this internship and it might help.

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So we'll, we'll we can always try. Yeah. But they've let me know that.

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Yeah. Hey, let us know if y'all if y'all apply to that. So that's the, uh, upper level.

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That's like true internship with Adobe. Whereas the ambassadorship is like sort of a very light version of doing an internship with them.

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This is totally more doable. You can totally do this as an undergrad student, um, and be able to put it on a resume and all of that.

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So it's it's a lot of fun. Okay, so those are the main things I wanted to show y'all.

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Um, and, um, uh, are there any questions about, um, anything I've talked about so far?

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Um, totally up to you guys. If you would like to start one of these badges, you are welcome to do that.

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Um, if you think that you've kind of got what you needed, you know, sort of info wise.

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Uh, you're welcome to just, you know, take this content and do it later or whatever you feel like doing.

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Um, tomorrow you guys will receive a follow up email from the library registration system with the links that I've mentioned here.

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So you don't feel like you have to, like, grab all these links and save them and all that kind of stuff.

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You'll get a follow up email tomorrow with the links. Um, but highly recommend at least checking out the badges.

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Um, because again, it's likely that you are already completing something or creating something for a class that you can also get a badge for.

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So it's like you might as well do both. And even if not, these are totally doable and easy to get into.

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I'm sure you have to do a presentation for a class at some point, so that would probably be a good one to check out too.

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So yeah, but thanks guys. Y'all are welcome to stay and work on the badge.

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But I appreciate you all, uh, coming today to. Yeah, absolutely.

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Thanks. In the absence of magic. Right. And everything.

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Cause, see, mine says it's in progress down here. It says this one's in progress.

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In progress. And now it'll pick up right where you left off.

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Let me show you that real quick. So under the Adobe Creative Space web page let me get the zoom controls.

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Yeah. Let me just go back. Let's see.

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Yeah, I'll just do it this way. So if we go back to the Adobe Creative space.

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Page. There's a link right here to instructional content.

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And when you click that, then it's got all of the recordings of all of our workshops here, including like the Photoshop one.

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I don't have the newest Photoshop one posted yet, but it'll probably get posted sometime soon.

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But this one is valid. It gets you through, you know, gets you started.

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And then we also see we have intermediate Photoshop and so on. So if you want to go further with it.

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So we also have some recordings here of ones we don't necessarily offer every single semester.

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So yeah. Yeah thanks for asking. Yeah absolutely.