Check out the innovative teaching and learning materials that garnered laptops, tablets, software and other valuable prizes – as well as worldwide exposure – for an elite group of primary/secondary and higher education professionals.
Adobe‘s 2011 Educators’ Choice Awards competition was an overwhelming success thanks to the entries, ratings, and voting from educators like you. Check out the prize winning entries below, selected by the community, and the honorable mention winners, selected from the top rated entries that were not finalists.
2011 Primary/Secondary Winners
Digital Arts and Media
Grand Prize
- The Shrine Down the Hall
Kris Fontes
Runners-up
- Photoshop Curriculum with Video Tutorials for EACH Lesson
Andrew Drozd - Extreme Home Makeover (Dreamweaver Edition)
Brett Keener
2011 Higher Education Winners
Digital Arts and Media
Grand Prize
- The Battle to Learn Adobe Flash
Thomas Giannattasio
Runners-up
- Dreamweaver Templates: A 6 page site in 10 minutes
Sean Maher - Making a book with InDesign – Part 1 – Planning
Clare Harris
Cross-Curricular
Grand Prize
- Take Action!
Erika Veth
Runners-up
- CSUF – Geology 310: Earthquake Hazards in Southern California,
Tim Abad - Harold B. Lee Library Virtual Tour,
Rita Christensen
Honorable Mention winners from all categories
- Design in Art: Space, Rose Pleninger
- Typography Portrait, Julie Rivard
- Type Picture Design, Jennifer Leff
- Digital Self Portrait Collage, Karen D
- Digital Photography Halloween Project, Brett Perucco
- Surrealist Animation, Janine Campbell
- Music to Image, Rhonda Rhodes
- My Day at School – 6th Grade, Ben Lieberman
- The Flash Legend of Captain Slackbeard, Kristine Kopelke
- Colonial South News, J M Russeau
- Eat Your Veggies, Tricia Fuglestad
- Meal Mix Up! Build a burger and salad in PSE8 with layers,
Bre Mahoney - “The Simpsons” and Photoshop, Sean Baker
- My favorite room: simple vector illustration, Pamela Harris
- Digital Photography_Panoramic Project, Max Blobner
- Introducing variables to non-technical students, Drew Shefman
- Introduction to Kinetic Typography, CJ Yeh
- Dreamweaver Basics Tutorials, Thomas Payne
- When the Illusion is What it Seems, Richard Lewis
- Dividing Fractions Visually (II), Sue Glascoe
- Importing an Illustrator Graphic into InDesign,
Anthony Aromando - Understanding Multimedia, Humanity [Peers] and Oneself,
Tom R. Chambers
Check out all the other exceptional entries
Choosing the Finalists and Winners was no easy task, as participants in The 2011 Adobe Educators’ Choice Awards submitted an abundance of innovative teaching and learning materials.

