On Thursday 13th May, it was great to be back in a primary school classroom again after so many online engagements. Victorian Primary teacher Anna Mills invited me to meet her Year 5 students from Springside Primary School in Caroline Springs Melbourne who were some of the lucky ones to get Adobe Creative Cloud licenses from the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
The students has alreday mastered making video stories with Adobe Spark and I enjoined seeing some of their mathematics stories about different angles around the school.
The students produced some very creative posters and played with lots of teh Adobe Spark features.
Every Vic DET secondary school has access to the Adobe Creative Cloud and many of the students shared how much they are looking foraward to working with Photoshop and other more professional Adobe tools in the future.
Click here for more information on Adobe Spark in education.
Here is Rob the Robot to tell you more about Adobe Spark
Click here for the Vic DET Arc portal to find out more about Adobe in Vic DET, how to access and how to learn more.
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on May 6 featured Adobe Education Leader Lauren Sayer from Melbourne Girls Grammar sharing about how to get started with Adobe Spark in the classroom. Claire Hackett and Tanya Marriott from Massey University in New Zealand told us about their work and the Earth Guardians Character Design Competition and Adobe Education Leader and though leader Brett Salakas shared one of his amazing poems.
Click here to see Lauren’s Spark Page titled Adobe Spark – From the beginning
On Monday May 3 we recorded session 2 of the Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series for Higher Education. Based on the survey during session 1, the apps most in demand for closer attention were Photoshop, Illustartor and Spark Page.
On Wednesday April 28 we recorded session 2 of the Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series. Based on the survey during session 1, the apps most in demand for closer attention were Premiere Rush, Acrobat and Spark Page.
A few hours prior to the recording of these workshop/demos, we did a session with Central Queensland University students and teachers on Adobe Spark and this recording somehow got mixed up in the same BlueJeans recording link. So Chapter 1 of this session is a bonus recording by Dr Tim Kitchen on Adobe Spark for your viewing pleasure.
Chapter 1 – Bonus CQU Adobe Spark session by Tim Kitchen Chapter 2 – Get to know your Adobe Apps intro by Tim Kitchen Chapter 3 – Adobe Premiere Rush workshop/demo by Steve Nichols Chapter 4 – Acrobat DC workshop/demo by Adrian Bruch Chapter 5 – Adobe Spark Page workshop/demo by Tim Kitchen Chapter 6 – Key resources
Session 3 will be – Mon May 17 – 4.30 PM – 6.00 PM AEST and the focus will be on Adobe Character Animator, Illustrator and Audition
Click here to find out more about this and similar sessions for senior secondary & higher education teachers.
Join us live if you possibly can – much more fun!
Click here for the Australasian Adobe in Education Update – April, 2021
It is hard to believe that we are alreday in April. I’m pleased to report that we are gradually getting back into face to face events around parts of Australia. There is no doubt that, following over a year of so many very successful online engagements, we will be doing a blend of online and face to face in the future. Click here to keep in touch with the online and face to face events that are run by the Adobe in Education team.
Adobe Creative Cloud applications are now available in most ANZ secondary schools and universities and also widely available throughout education institutions in the Australasian region. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like some support and guidance in how to utilise these digital creativity tools to help enhance digital literacy, communication and most importantly creativity throughout any curriculum area. The Adobe in Education team would be delighted to help recommend particular resources and on-demand courses or even potentially run customised face to face or online sessions with your colleagues and students.
Since launching halfway through 2020, we are getting close to 20,000 teachers who have started or completed the process of getting their Level 1 Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Credly endorsed badge. This is a free program about creativity in education that any educator will benefit from in any curriculum area. Please promote it amongst your peers. If you prefer to be guided through level 1, I am running the Be a Creative Educator live course each month. The next opportunity will be on May 24.
Finally, I’m saddened to report that on April 16, Adobe lost one of their founders in the passing of Dr. Charles (Chuck) Geschke. He co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock after they created PostScript while both working at Xerox. The PostScript language became a pivotal technology that helped drive the desktop publishing revolution. He was a very well respected leader in the world of digital technologies and had a real heart for education and the importance of teaching digital literacy skills to young people to enhance their future potential.
In a tribute, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said … this is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he [Dr. Charles Geschke] has been a guide and hero for decades … I admired his brilliance, kindness and values that defined his character and am grateful that I had the privilege to know and work with him.
Dr Tim Kitchen – Senior Education Specialist, Adobe (APAC)
Adobe Holiday Video Challenge – review
During the April school holiday period, we ran our first ever Adobe Holiday Video Challenge for NSW and Victorian government school students in Years 9 to 12 and their teachers. Over 140 students and teachers from nearly 40 schools registered for this free 2.5-day online workshop. Most of the students had very little to no experience with Premiere Pro and it was very impressive to see how much they learned and the final products they produced for the showcase at the end of the week.
Special congratulations to Year 12 student Angelina from Asquith Girls High School for entering what was judged as the winning entry. She won an iPad Air, Apple Pencil and a 12-month subscription to Adobe Stock.
Feedback from teachers involved in this event included the following:
The videos created by the students were fantastic and a great way to engage the students.
I really enjoyed the building of knowledge and the progression of the course.
Well-paced presentations for school holidays. Lots of shortcuts and hints were given. I listed in my notes 8 hints/tips from the first day that i did not know. There were about 6 hints/tips on the second day. The students’ work on the last day was amazing and all different. They are to be congratulated.
Click here to see what the students produced and stay tuned for future similar events.
STEM 2021
Adobe is pleased to be involved in the on-demand STEM 2021 conference. This is being run by the NSW Department of Education but open to all educators and available throughout 2021.
The Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series continues following a short break over the Easter holiday period. If you can’t attend live, make sure to check the great set of recordings featuring short demos of a wide range of Adobe applications in education from Adobe Education Leaders and other Adobe experts.
Inject Creativity Live
The Inject Creativity Live show continues to be a very popular way for teachers to get some mid-week inspiration either live or on-demand via the Adobe in Education YouTube channel. The March 3 episode featuring Chris Betcher (Program Manager, Google for Education) and Paul McClean (Director, Rare Innovations) gained well over 1000 hits soon after it went to air.
Here is the recent April 21 episode:
Note that the planned May 5 event will now be recorded live on Thursday May 6. Join us live at 6.30 PM AEST. It is much more fun and interactive live.
For Victorian educators – a Melbourne based face to face PL opportunity
John Paul College in Frankston will be hosting the first official Adobe in Education face to face event in Australia for over 12 months. It will be on Tuesday June 8 from 4.15 PM to 6.30 PM and will feature hands on workshops from Adobe Education Leaders. Click here to find out more and register your interest.
DATTA Victoria members are welcome to join a special webinar series titled Adobe Digital Tools for Teaching D&Ton June 10 (focusing on Adobe Dimension), June 17 (focusing on Premiere Rush) and June 23 focusing on (Adobe XD)
For NSW DoE Teachers
On Friday 30 April, Dr Kitchen will be running 7.30 AM webinar titled Teaching and Learning with Adobe Tools with the T4L team. Let your DoE colleagues know about it.
For QLD Teachers (K12 & Higher Ed)
Adobe is partnering up with TAFE QLD for DIGITREK 2021 and running a special AdobeCreative Jameventfor focused on designing with Adobe XD. The kick off is on Tuesday 18th May at 10 AM and the finale will be on Thursday 27th May at 10 AM. Recommended for senior high school (yrs 11 & 12), higher education and tertiary students. Click here to register.
Making the Case for Creativity
One of my favourite videos in the Creativity for All course of the Adobe Education Exchange is titled Making the Case for Creativity. It features education experts from around the globe sharing how they encourage creativity at their schools and universities and provides a great platform for all teachers to take back to their schools.
We are particularly proud that Australian Adobe Education Leader Dr Karen Sutherland (Best Social Media Educator of the Year 2020) from the University of the Sunshine Coast in QLD features in this clip.
It has been great to hear about the progress Paul is making during his regular appearance as an education thought leader on the Inject Creativity Live show.
Go Mobile, Stay Sustainable
The Mobile Storytelling Congress 2021 is scheduled for the 13-15 November 2021 (as online and physical event) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
They invite submissions of pre-constituted panels, workshops and individual paper and project showcase Submission Deadline: 1st May 2021proposals.
Submission for Abstracts for Research Paper, Workshops, Project Presentations and/or Showcase via https://bit.ly/MobileSC2021
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on April 21 featured Steve Kolber sharing about his use of Adobe Stock in the classroom, Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen discussed the Earth Day Mural project, Paul McClean sharing the work he is doing in New Zealand and Angelina, a Year 12 student from Asquith Girls High School who was the winner of the inaugural Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.
I would like to thank Adobe Education Leader Michelle Dennis who stepped in as co-host for this event.
Hosts for this episode – Tim Kitchen & Michelle Dennis
Adobe Education Leader Presenters
Here are a list of resources shared by Steven during his presentation:
Click here to find out more about the recent Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.
The next episode of Inject Creativity Live will be recorded live on Thursday May 6 at 6.30 PM via the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel and feature Adobe Education Leaders Lauren Sayer and Brett Salakas. Join us live if you can.
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.
The first official face to face Adobe in Education professional learning event for over 12 months is happening in Melbourne at John Paul College in Frankston.
Date – Tuesday June 8
Time – 4.15 PM to 6.30 PM
Location – John Paul College, 161 Mcmahons Rd, Frankston (Google Map)
Take part in this hands-on professional learning event for K-12 & Higher Ed educators interested in enhancing digital literacy, communication and creativity skills for themselves and their students.
Led by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe and Adobe Education Leaders from Victoria, this event will share practical ways to use your simple & professional Adobe applications in any curriculum area.
Small group practical workshops will be led by Adobe Education Leaders Michelle Dennis (Head of Digital at Haileybury College) and Justin de Lacey (Woodleigh College) as well as Tanyan Moran (John Paul College) and Dr Tim Kitchen (Adobe).
Click here for a PDF poster about this event that you may like to share with colleagues.
Click here to find out about the Adobe Creative Educator program
Click here to find out about the Inject Creativity Live show on the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel.
Over 100 students from nearly 40 NSW & Victorian government schools registered for the first ever online Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.
This was a free 2.5-day online workshop by Adobe during the April 2021 school holidays for Vic & NSW Government secondary students (Year 9 and higher) and teachers who were keen develop their video editing skills with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Most of the students and teachers involved in this event were new to Premiere Pro so the first day (Monday April 12) involved learning the basics.
During day 1 we also introduced the students to the challenge/competition side of the event where the first prize was an iPad Air and Apple Pencil as well as a 12 month Adobe Stock license all to the value of over $1500.
The Challenge was to create a 1 minute video based on a set criteria that promotes one of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals to an audience of teenagers.
The students had between the workshop days (Monday & Wednesday) and the morning of Friday April 16 to complete and submit their one-minute videos.
The teachers were the judges and provided a score for the following criteria:
Originality
Creativity
Story structure
Pacing
Framing
Sound quality
Music score
Informative
Message Effectiveness
Call to Action
The following videos were from the finalists who all presented at a special online showcase event on Friday April 16.
1st Place – Goal 14 by Angelina
2nd Place – Maybe by Riley
3rd Place – Climate by Jimmy
Other finalists
Actual Climate Change by Jannica
Goal 16 by Angus
SDG16 by Leo
Goal 2 by Jakob
There is No Planet B – Taya
The students did a great job putting together these videos.
I would like to thank all the students for their hard work and all the teachers for their support.
A very special thank you to JB Tinker from Certiport who was also a judge and provided all involved in this event with free access to the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Premiere Pro certification examination. He also promoted the coming ACA World Championship event in August.
Chapter 1 – Introduction & welcome Chapter 2 – Making the case for creativity Chapter 3 – Defining creativity Chapter 4 – World Economic Forum research & How creativity enhances other critical skills Chapter 5 – How to develop creativity. Chapter 6 – The power of creative tools Chapter 7 – How to foster a creative learning culture Chapter 8 – Strategies to infuse creative thinking into any subject & How can you assess Creativity Chapter 9 – Adobe’s creativity tools
The next Be a Creative Educator course will be on Monday May 24 at 4 PM (AEST) and (just announced) Wednesday 9th June, 4 PM to 6.30 PM (AEST) and Wednesday 7th July (holiday period for most Aussie states) 10.30 AM to 1PM (AEST).
Register here and let your colleagues know about it.
Note that you don’t need to do this course to get your ACE badge. You can do the Creativity for All course On-Demand any time.
