This fall we brought back Asia Eidson to lead a hands-on workshop introducing ACU students to photography for social media branding.

In the all-day workshop, she introduced the visual decisions professional photographers make when taking pictures that affect the way viewers feel/think/experience a product. Technical choices of specific lighting, props, and depth of field can affect the way others feel about a brand.

Asia worked with local businesses to provide students real-world projects to tackle: “I think the strongest part of the workshop was that the images these student photographers designed, shot, and edited went straight into the hands of small businesses to use.”

If you’d like to hear about future student workshops, email us at learningstudio@acu.edu to get on our mailing list.

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Image Credits: Karina Hernandez, Meagan McBride

This fall we took faculty to Albany for our first Outdoor Drawing workshop as part of the 20/20 Teaching Innovation program. Dan McGregor, Art & Design, introduced the basics of contour drawing, one and two-point perspective through a series of drawing challenges faculty completed in pencil and ink. Participants were challenged to look closely and draw what they see rather than the stereotypes that are in our head. As Dan said, “Drawing is an act of love, seeing the subject as they are not as you want them to be.”

ACU 20/20: Envisioning the Future of Education is a 5-year program of Teaching Innovation Grants that “builds on the skills and insight of our excellent faculty, strategically exploring new models of teaching . . . in order to impact student learning across campus.”

The Learning Studio will continue to partner with the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning to support individual grant recipients and to offer additional faculty development workshops that spark new approaches to familiar classroom challenges. Thank you, Dan McGregor, for your patience, energy and expertise.

If you missed out this semester, email us at learningstudio@acu.edu to get on the waitlist for future workshops.

We kicked off the semester with our first faculty workshop for the 20/20 Teaching Innovation program. Mike Wiggins, Art & Design, and Kyle Dickson, director of the Learning Studio, introduced a range of approaches to creativity to faculty from across campus. Participants worked together in a series of hands-on projects to consider creative processes from entertainment and design with potential applications to research, teaching and learning.

ACU 20/20: Envisioning the Future of Education is a 5-year program of Teaching Innovation Grants “builds on the skills and insight of our excellent faculty, strategically exploring new models of teaching and drawing from existing bodies of research in order to impact student learning across campus.”

The Learning Studio will partner with the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning to support individual grant recipients and to offer a series of faculty development workshops for the campus. Thanks to Mike Wiggins for helping us kick things off this fall.

If you missed out this semester, email us at learningstudio@acu.edu to get on the waitlist for future workshops.