Topic outline

  • General

    • I recently started this area as it is the first year I've been able to fit in teaching Illustrator as well as Photoshop. Watch this space for more free and low-cost resources!

  • Key Skills

    • Lessons

      • Adobe Illustrator 2023 Lesson Bundle (£) URL

        • Five lessons to teach students the basics of Adobe Illustrator plus the AiiQ #1 - Christmas Pudding
        • Please note: lesson created using 2023 version. Whilst almost all tools will be the same, there may be a few that are not present in earlier versions.e.g. Duplicate, History.

      • Adobe Illustrator CC Practice - Lesson 1 - Getting Started (£) URL

        • First lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version)
        • The main focus of the lesson is to help students get used the workspace and perform basic operations such as open, place, align, distribute, group, colour swatches, save, export.
        • If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success.
        • Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter task, interactive self-marking one; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with files if required, teacher answer files and Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Image included for one task.
        • Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo.

      • Adobe Illustrator CC Practice - Lesson 2 - Shapes (£) URL

        • Second lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version)
        • The focus of the lesson is to help students to learn how to use the basic shape tools as well as create their own
        • If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success.
        • Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter activity; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video.
        • Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo.

      • Adobe Illustrator CC Practice - Lesson 3 - Tracing & Drawing (£) URL

        • Third lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version)
        • Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); starter activity; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video.

      • Adobe Illustrator CC Practice - Lesson 4 - Text (£) URL

        • Fourth lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version)
        • The focus of the lesson is to help students to learn how to add and format text, add a gradient to text and write text on a path
        • If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success.
        • Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter revision recap; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Image included for one task.
        • Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo.



      • Adobe Illustrator CC Practice - Lesson 5 - Masking (£) URL

        • Fifth lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version)
        • The main focus of the lesson is to help students to learn how to use masking to create text with an image behind and shapes with images in.
        • If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success.
        • Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter task with file; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Image included for one task.
        • Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo.



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