On Monday 2nd December, Newington College was the venue for the final Big Day In event for 2019.
My sessions involved working with Adobe Aero to create an Augmented Reality video experience with a dinosaur then include that video in a video stork made by each student with Spark video on an iPad.
A special thank you to the Australian Computer Society Foundation for organising another great year of Big Day In events.
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On Thursday 28th November, it was an honour to be part of the graduation event (Grad X) for the Design Faculty at Swinburne University.
During this special event, it was publicly announced that Swinburne has become Australia’s first Adobe Creative Campus. This means that every student and teacher at the university gets access to the Adobe Creative Cloud applications for their personal devices.
Swinburne has joined an exclusive group of over 20 universities and colleges globally who share a commitment to ensuring their students have the digital literacy skills required in today’s digital world.
Click here to see the official press release.
It was a delight to hand out a number of awards to design graduates during various stages and venues at this graduation.
Part of the graduation event also included giving the students an opportunity to to do a drawing competition with the new Adobe Fresco app where the winners could win a $250 gift voucher. Special thank you to Adobe Solution Consultant Brian Chau for help running this competition.
Find out more about the value of the Adobe Creative Campus program via this video case study from the first university to take up this program – The University of Nth Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The NSW Institute of Technology Education (ITE) held it’s annual conference this week and one of the industry workshop options was a day at the Adobe Sydney office on Wednesday 27th November.
This event was run by myself and Adobe Education Leader Jason Carthew (IT Manager, Technology teacher at Korowal School, NSW.
Following a brief welcome and demo of the new Adobe Aero app, the educators were divided into two rotated workshops. Jason’s was focused on Animation with After Effects, Photoshop and Adobe Animate. My workshop was based on video editing with Spark Video, Character Animator, Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro.
Feedback comments from this event included:
The resources for this event can be found on the Adobe Education Exchange via – http://bit.ly/adobe27Nov19
On Tuesday 26th November, the Year 9 Media class from Davidson High School visited the Adobe Sydney Office for an Adobe Day.
The focus of this day was video literacy. We started by creating video with simple tools like Spark Video, Character Animator and the new augmented reality experience app, Adobe Aero.
Then we moved to the next level with Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro.
One of the usual highlights of an Adobe Day at the Sydney office is a tour of the office to see how a number of the Adobe employees do their work.
Special thank you to Adobe Campus Leader Jessica Peade for organising this event.
On Monday 25th November, a group of teachers from rural NSW travelled to Sydney for a special Adobe in Education training day. These educators help run the NSW Rural STEM Industry School Partnerships (SISP) program.
SISP is an education model that partners with industry with an aim of inspiring students to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics). It focusses on growing students’ job readiness skills and contributing to the international competitiveness of regional NSW.
The aim of this event was to train these trainers and enhance their skills and confidence with a range of Adobe’s industry standard creativity applications.
Having the whole day together enabled us to work through a number of Adobe tools with a focus on how they can be used in the classroom to enhance the creativity and productivity of students and teachers. Examples of applications that were workshopped and demonstrated included:
Feedback comments from the event included:
A special thank you to Dr Scott Sleap (Project Leader SISPProgram, Secondary Education, Learning and Teaching Directorate, NSW Department of Education) and his team for helping to fund and organise this event.
The resources shared for this event can be found on the Adobe Education Exchange via http://bit.ly/adobe25Nov19
On Friday 22nd November, I had the pleasure of working with about 50 media students at St Helena Secondary College to help them develop their video editing skills with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Before we got stuck into tips & tricks with Premiere Pro, some of the students helped me demonstrate the value of Adobe Character Animator and the new Adobe Aero as additional video tools. Character Animator is a quick way to create animated puppets for a video story and Aero is a great was to create 3D augmented realty video experiences.
It was a great pleasure to work with these talented students as they commence the VCE Media Year 12 subject for 2020.
