QLD Adobe Campus Leader is Educator of the Year

Congratulations to Leigh Howser (Adobe Campus Leader) from Cairns, Queensland who was recently announced as the 2015 ACCE/ACS Educator of the Year Award Winner.

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Leigh Howser with me at the AEL/ACL Bootcamp in Melbourne – April, 2015

This award is a collaboration between the Australian Council for Computers in Education and the Australian Computer Society.  The winner is selected from all of ACCE’s  affiliated state based association award winners.

Leigh is the eLearn Mentor at the Cairns School of Distance Education. She has a strong passion for creativity in education and has been a great advocate for the use of creative Adobe products in the classroom during her time as an Adobe Campus Leader.

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Leigh with Margaret Young (Victorian AEL – Adobe Education Leader)

Click here to see the official ACCE Awards site to find out more about Leigh and why she has received this much coveted education award.

Leigh has been instrumental in organising the Adobe in QLD Classrooms roadshow event in Cairns planned for August 6, 2015 at her school, the Cairns School of Distance Education.

Let me encourage you to follow in Leigh’s footsteps and get involved with your local state based chapter of the ACCE. The full list is available via:

http://acce.edu.au/about-acce/members-and-affiliations

Also consider becoming an Adobe Campus Leader like Leigh.