The Inject Creativity Live show recorded on September 22 was episode No. 50 and featured Adobe Education Leader Drew Mayhills from WA with recent All Saints’ College graduate Ayran Mohanty and the thought leader for this episode was Peter Hutton from the Future Schools Alliance. Clara Galan from Adobe also made an appearance. In this episode, we shared more information about the APAC Adobe Education Summit, Adobe Max and lots more.
Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the Australasia Adobe in Education Update Newsletter.
This edition will be covering:
the coming APAC Adobe Education Summit;
Adobe MAX;
a Creativity Challenge for NSW schools;
Inject Creativity Live – 50th show;
a video update from Dr Tim Kitchen;
Adobe Edu Blog posts;
new Education Exchange course material;
an Adobe Edu Resources Spark Page; and
lots of classroom resources and ideas for K12 & Higher Ed.
Only days to go until the 2021 APAC Adobe Education Summit
So far, about 550 teachers have registered for the open day of the 2021 APAC Adobe Education Summit – Wednesday 29th September. This is a free and virtual event for all teachers at any level and any curriculum area that will involve presentations and inspiration from the global Adobe Education Team, Adobe Solution Consultants and Adobe Education Leaders.
The Summit will commence at 9 AM AEST with 30 min breaks each hour. Note that the first and last session of this day will be broadcast live on the official Adobe for Education YouTube Channel and the whole day will be live via Vimeo Livestream. Please register to access the Vimeo Livestream link.
Invite your colleagues to join in this amazing professional learning opportunity by sending them the link – https://adobe.ly/edu-summit21
Note that if you have at least enrolled in the Adobe Creative Educator program, you are welcome to take part in the Adobe Creatively Challenge Day which is part of this Summit event.
Have you registered for the free & virtual Adobe Max conference?
Adobe Max – The Creativity Conference – is Adobe’s largest community event to be held 28–29 October (APAC dates) with over 5 million global creatives being involved last year.
Join us for an extraordinary virtual experience to find inspiration, connect with creatives from around the world, and learn the best ways to bring your best ideas to life. Open to all, at no cost.
Be inspired by expert speakers in design, photography, illustration, social media, 3D, video, and register for the special education track.
This year’s Adobe Max will be featuring a session from Tim Kitchen (Adobe Education) and Craig Daalmeijer-Power (TAFE NSW) on student voice with Character Animator so book into session S292 – Giving Students a Voice with Character Animator.
It will also be featuring Australia’s own Juliette Bentley (Adobe Education Leader and Adobe Master Teacher) from Mt St Michael’s College – session S291 – Fostering Digital Literacy in the K–12 Creative Classroom.
Swinburne University Deputy Vice-Chancellor Sarah Maddison will also be presenting – session S807 – Transforming Education with Creative and Digital Skills
Let your colleagues know and get involved.
Creativity Challenge for NSW schools
A number of talented Year 7-9 students from a variety of NSW schools took on a recent Adobe Creativity Challenge and worked in virtual teams to create short video clips that promoted good hand hygiene.
Wednesday 22nd September was the recording of the fiftieth episode of Inject Creativity Live. What started as an initiative from the Adobe Education Team during lock-down 2020, Inject Creativity Live is now a regular part of Adobe’s adoption program for the APAC region. Over 60 presenters have contributed to the 50 shows and an average of over 660 teachers have watched each episode via the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel. Have a look at this fiftieth episode …
Over 33,000 teachers have joined the Adobe Creative Educator Program
The Adobe Creative Educator Program is all about creativity in education, you don’t need to be an Adobe export or even a regular Adobe user to get your level 1 badge. We encourage all who have enrolled to complete level 1 and have a go at level 2.
If you would like to be supported through level 1, you may like to do the Be a Creative Educator course. Next opportunities are 18th October and 16th November.
Update from Dr Tim Kitchen about recent APAC Adobe in Education programs
Recent Adobe Education Blog posts
Swinburne University — Learning and adapting in a changing world
Have a look at how Australia’s first Adobe Creative Campus, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is making the most of their university-wide access to the Adobe Creative Cloud.
How Wales brings digital literacy to every student in the country with Adobe
Have a look at this blog post see how Adobe Spark is helping learning & teaching in Wales.
Dr. Ben Scott – bringing creativity into a traditional UK science classroom
Find out how one of the world’s oldest schools is using Adobe tools to bring creativity into the science classroom through the passion of Dr Ben Scott at St Albans School in Hertfordshire, England.
New Adobe Education Exchange Course
Digital Painting and Drawing in the Classroom
Engage your students with creative visual learning
Visual learning is a powerful compliment to instruction on any topic, and painting and drawing has been linked to improvements in key essential skills like communication, creativity, and problem solving. Have a look at this new course.
In this lesson from expert educator Michael Cohen, aka the Tech Rabbi, students use Adobe Spark to produce short videos exploring hypothetical or imaginary scenarios.
In this project from expert educator Max Suechting, students use Adobe Spark to consider how their views of the world are shaped by the news sources they consume.
Have a look at this Spark Page that outlines key Adobe in Education resources and share this site with your colleagues each time to run a Adobe related professional learning event or discussion.
Share how you’re bringing creativity into the classroom using the #AdobeEduCreative hashtag for a chance to win a Creativity Kit full of swag! We pick one winner every Friday!
Even while battling the restrictions of lock-down, as part of an Adobe Creativity Challenge event, a number of talented NSW Year 7-9 students were able to work in virtual teams to create short video clips that promoted good hand hygiene.
Adobe Creative Challenges are all about working with a team to design & share a digital solution to a problem. In this case, the problem was that many people tend to rush the important process of good hand hygiene. The solution was to work in a team of between 3 and 5 to produce a video (no longer that 1 minute) made with either Adobe Spark, Premiere Rush; Character Animator, After Effects &/or Premiere Pro.
The NSW Department of Education provide Adobe applications for all of their schools for teachers and students to enhanec their digital literacy, communication and creativity skills.
This challenge was for NSW Year 7-9 students and over 260 were initially registered from 9 schools. In the end, 20 short films were showcased from 5 schools. Even though not everyone was able to complete a film in the time required, the process of working in a team, planning, filming and editing a short film is always a valuable exercise and lots can be learned through the process.
A key highlight with this Adobe Creativity Challenge was the involvement of Marcus Bolton from Cutting Edge, a leading provider of sound and picture post production for the advertising, features & television industries, both in Australia and internationally.
Marcus Bolton, Head of Features & Television with CUTTING EDGE
Marcus’ career spans over a quarter of a century in the Australian feature film, television and advertising industry as a senior compositor, post-production manager, and visual effects supervisor. Having Marcus to help provide guidance and inspiration to the students was outstanding and a wonderful opportunity for all the students and teachers involved.
A special thank you also goes to Peter O’Doherty, Senior Project Officer of the NSW DoE Regional Industry Education Partnerships, for his help to organise and manage this event.
Here are some of the entries that we are allowed to make public …
Common Sense
by Charlie, Olivia & Summer (Sydney Girls High School)
Washing Hands
by Leighton, Levi & Xavier (Marist College Eastwood)
Crisis Prevented
by Byron, Michael & Michael (Robert Townson High School)
How to wash your hands: a step by step guide
by Arda, Dominic & Petar (Hoxton Park High School)
The Secret Life of Germs
by Annie, Lila, Lucy & Olive (Sydney Girls High School)
Clean Cash
by Mitchell, Lachlan & Hendrix (Robert Townson High School)
The Epic Soap Battle
by Melissa, Negin & Tatiana (Sydney Girls High School)
Washing Your Hands
by Annisha, Amarnie & Natasha (Robert Townson High School)
Staying Safe
by Tristan, Anton & Ryan (Marist College Eastwood)
How to wash hands
by Chloe, Liliana & Oriana (Hoxton Park High School)
Staying Safe, Saying Healthy – COVID Style
by Michael, Isaiah, Daniel, Sam & Alex (Marist College Eastwood)
Stay COVID Safe – Washing Hands Safely
by Sabri, Rumman & Kaine (Hoxton Park High School)
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on September 8 featured Adobe Master Teacher Juliette Bentley from Queensland who was our co-host and thought leader and Adobe Education Leader Mark Christie from Northern Territory who demonstrated some very creative use of Adobe Character Animator. In this episode, we shared more information about the APAC Adobe Education Summit and lots more.
Click here to access Mark Christie’s resource – Character Animator – Bring School Posters to Life
Click here for Juliette’s Global Project Spark Page
Click here for Juliette’s Student Camera Action site
Click here to see a summary of this episode by long term participant Tim Cosgrove from Toronto, Canada
The next episode will be recorded on Wed 22nd September at 6.30 PM AEST. Click here to register for the next episode and other planned Adobe Education events for the APAC region.
Click here to find out more about the Adobe Creative Educator program.
Click here to keep up to date with coming Adobe in Education events.
Last week, I was delighted to be involved in a couple of events for South East Asian teachers and students. The biggest of these featured nearly 3,000 registrations from Indonesia.
A great mix of higher education & K12 teachers and students were involved in this event. It was an honour to share the virtual stage with Dr Hilmer Farid, the Director General of Culture with the Indonesian Ministry of Education as well as Professor Abdul Haris, the Vice Rector of Academics and Students Affairs at the University of Indonesia.
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on August 25 featured Adobe Education Leader (AEL) Joel Aarons from Victoria who demonstrated how he and his students are creatively working with Photoshop Mix. In this episode, we share part of the recent Adobe Seminar at the EduTECH conference and lots more.
The next episode will be recorded on Wed 8th September at 6.30 PM AEST. Click here to register for the next episode and other planned Adobe Education events for the APAC region.
Click here to find out more about the Adobe Creative Educator program.
Click here to keep up to date with coming Adobe in Education events.
Welcome to the August 2021 edition of the Australasia Adobe in Education Update Newsletter.
This edition will be covering:
the coming APAC Adobe Education Summit
Adobe MAX
the new look Adobe Education Exchange
Adobe’s involvement in EduTECH 2021
a recent Adobe Creativity Challenge for NSW Students
and lots of classroom resources and ideas
Video summary of this update
Have you registered for the APAC Adobe Education Summit?
The APAC Adobe Education Summit is happening on Wednesday 29th September and is open to all educators in all sectors. It is free and virtual, so please invite your colleagues to join in this amazing professional learning opportunity by sending them the link – https://adobe.ly/edu-summit21
Have a look at who is coming …
Are you one of the nearly 30,000 teachers who have joined the Adobe Creative Educator Program?
The Adobe Creative Educator Program is all about creativity in education, you don’t need to be an Adobe export or even a regular Adobe user to get your level 1 badge. We encourage all who have enrolled to complete level 1 and have a go at level 2.
If you would like to be supported through level 1, you may like to do the Be a Creative Educator course. Next opportunities are 30th August and 15th September.
Here are some APAC Adobe Education Leaders sharing the importance of the Adobe Creative Educator program:
Adobe Max is back as a virtual event for 2021
A free virtual event 28–29 October (APAC dates). Find out more and register here
This year’s Adobe Max will be featuring a session from Tim Kitchen (Adobe Education) and Craig Daalmeijer-Power (TAFE NSW) on student voice with Character Animator so book into session S292 – Giving Students a Voice with Character Animator.
It will also be featuring Australia’s own Juliette Bentley Adobe Education Leader and Master Teacher, Mt St Michael’s College – session S291 – Fostering Digital Literacy in the K–12 Creative Classroom.
Swinburne University Deputy Vice-Chancellor Sarah Maddison will also be presenting – session S807 – Transforming Education with Creative and Digital Skills
Let your colleagues know and get involved.
Have a look at Adobe’s most recent partnership with Billie Eilish
Click here to see the official Adobe blog post about this new partnership with Billie.
Adobe Creativity Challenge with NSW Students
Earlier this month, the Adobe Education team had the pleasure of working with about 200 NSW students (all virtually) as they attempted an Adobe 1 minute Video Challenge based on promoting the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. Part of the challenge required the students working with a team, even though they were stuck at their own homes. The results were spectacular. Click here to see Tim Kitchen’s post about this event and contact the Adobe Education team if you are keen to organise a similar event for your region.
Speaking of the Adobe Education Exchange, have you noticed the new look and feel and (most importantly) a much easier way to search for courses and resources.
Adobe at EduTECH
Over 10,000 teachers registered for the EduTECH conference that was held this month as a virtual event. Here is Adobe’s pre-recorded seminar session.
Toowoomba State High School in QLD is hosting the 2021 Queensland Society for IT in Education (QSITE) State Conference in the September school holidays. Adobe will be running two workshops and Dr Kitchen will be one of the keynote speakers. If you are a QLD teacher, you should be there.
August 25 with special guest Joel Aarons, Adobe Education Leader from Victoria
Sept 8 with Mark Christie (Adobe Education Leader from NT) & Juliette Bentley (Adobe Master Teachers from QLD)
Sept 22 with Drew Mayhills (Adobe Education Leader from WA)
Oct 6 with Brett Kent (Adobe Education Leader from NSW) and Paul McClen (Adobe Education Leader from NZ
Have a look at the August 11 episode with Michelle Dennis (Adobe Education Leader from Victoria) and Chris Betcher (Adobe Education Leader Emeritus from NSW).
This free self-paced course outlines the basics of painting and drawing with Adobe Fresco, a digital painting app designed to provide an intuitive medium for creation and self-expression. You’ll also learn novel and exciting strategies for using Adobe Fresco in the classroom.
Writing classes on the Education Exchange
Inspire students to express themselves in new and exciting ways with these activities.
The EduTECH conference is the largest technology in education event in Australia with over 10,000 teachers registering this year. It was meant to be a face-to-face event hosted in Melbourne (for the first time) on 17th & 18th August however, due to Covid restrictions, it was again a virtual event – similar to last year.
Adobe was pleased to again be sponsoring this event and hosted a one hour seminar session on day two.
Here is the pre-recorded session that made up the bulk of that seminar. It features about 25 Adobe Education Leaders from around ANZ, members of the Global Adobe Education team as Rob the Robot (Character Animator puppet).
It was a delight to have Lauren Sayer Executive Director Research and Innovation at Melbourne Girls Grammar and Michelle Dennis, Head of Digital at Haileybury College. Also joining us was be Jerry Wong Customer success manager at Adobe, Jane Chen and Steven Nichols who are both Adobe Solution Consultants.
About 200 NSW students from 18 schools registered for a special Adobe 1 Minute Video Challenge event that was run early in August, 2021 while they were in lock-down. This involved the students working with a team (even though they were not allowed to meet face to face) and following a set of criteria to produce a 1 minute video story that helped to promote one of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Development Goals.
They were briefed with the challenge on Tuesday 10th August and they had until 10AM on Monday 16th to submit their video story for a special online showcase event that happened later that same day.
Out of the 18 schools who registered, I’d like to congratulate the following 7 schools who ended up submitting stories:
Cathwest Innovation College
The King’s School
Parramatta Marist High
Patrician Brothers College
St Luke’s Catholics College
St Mark’s Catholics College
Newcastle Grammar
Overall, there were about 30 stories submitted and 20 of them were showcased. Out of the 20, below are the stories that I would like to highlight and share.
A special thank you goes to Luke Dela Cruz Technology Leader at CathWest Innovation College who help to initiate and promote this event within his network for schools in Sydney’s west. I would also like to thank all the teachers who helped motivate their students to be involved and (most importantly) all the students who took part.
During the briefing I stressed to the students that the end product is not as important at the process and the learning that takes place during the production phases. I shared with them the most in demand soft-skills according to research by the World Economic Forum and Microsoft LinkedIn such as creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and time management. All of these skills were important in the production of the video stories and I congratulate the students for the way they displayed each of them.
Climate Change by Kevin, Rian, Thanh, Zayne, Bill & Bailey – Patrician Brothers’ College Fairfield
I love the fast paced editing to help share an important message
Climate Action by Alex & Achyuth – The King’s School
I loved the link of Minecraft & Adobe Premiere Rush as a tool for telling a story
Change – by Aesha, Tanvi & Malka – St Luke’s Catholic College
This is a creative example of collaboration on a project while in lock-down.
Climate Change by Cameron and Aredith – The Kings School
Gender Equality by Kaitlan & Sophie – CathWest Innovation College
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on August 11 featured Adobe Education Leader (AEL) Michelle Dennis from Victoria as well AEL-Emeritus Chris Betcher from NSW. Michelle demonstrated the desktop version of Aero and Chris inspired us to think positively about failure.
The next episode will be recorded on Wed 25th August at 6.30 PM AEST. Click here to register for the next episode and other planned Adobe Education events for the APAC region.
Click here to find out more about the Adobe Creative Educator program.
Click here to keep up to date with coming Adobe in Education events.
