Adobe Digital Portfolio Project

Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2020

Client	Adobe
Professor(s)	Melanie Farquhar, Gerry Paquette
Program	Graphic Design, Photography, Advertising, Journalism, Human Centred Design, Project Management
Students	Adam Starkey (Advertising), Camilla Sola (Journalism) , Kim MIredin (Human Centred Design), Genevieve Lepine (Graphic Design), Christine Volden (Graphic Design), Shreeja Bais Project Management), Sarah Aldousary (Human Centred Design), and Victoria Crawley (Photography)

Project Description:

This project was a collaboration with Adobe to develop workshops for students using Adobe Spark. These workshops were designed to improve students’ digital literacy skills by training them how to create visually attractive personal portfolios of their academic and industry experience. Two professors worked with a team of eight students recruited from various design programs at the college – Graphic Design, Photography, Advertising, Journalism, and Human Centred Design.
In addition to live workshops, online ‘Playbook’ versions of the workshops were also developed, available on the Algonquin College Library website at https://algonquincollege.libguides.com/digital-portfolios.
This project reinforced the college’s strategic goal of preparing students for work in an increasingly digitized working environment. Adobe benefitted from the improved awareness and usage of their software at Algonquin College and other post-secondary institutions. The number of Adobe Creative Cloud license activations at Algonquin College increased by 100% from 5,000 to over 10,000 activations over duration of project.