by Christopher Dawson, ZD Net Education
An increasing number of schools (particular trade schools at the secondary level and communications-oriented schools in higher ed) are adopting Premiere and effectively using it to teach those concepts I was talking about at the beginning of this post. Premiere is a bit different. It’s not only ubiquitous in TV and video production but contains a rich enough feature set that I’d be pretty happy to see “Filmmaking with Adobe Premiere” or “Introduction to Marketing with Adobe Premiere” in a course catalog. There aren’t many concepts that you couldn’t effectively teach by just starting at the top with the application. Of course, you could teach filmmaking or whatever else with Kino, Avidemux, or iMovie. But you could teach it a lot better with Premiere. All it took was an afternoon with the product for me to understand many aspects of video production than I ever did with iMovie, which, understandably, shields users from a lot of the nitty gritty. That nitty gritty, though, encourages creativity and experimentation which, quite frankly, are some of the most valuable 21st Century Skills we could impart to our students. And Premiere CS5.5 exposes the nitty in all its gritty glory without being overly complicated or clunky.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/adobe-premiere-when-the-tool-is-the-skill/4686?tag=nl.e623
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