Monthly Archives: January 2017

Tim Kitchen 4:57 pm on January 27, 2017  

Adobe Apps for Chromebooks

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Adobe announced this week that a range of their mobile apps are now available on Google Chromebook laptops that allow the use of Android apps. This is great news for teachers and students who rely on Chromebooks and have been frustrated by a lack of access to Adobe’s great creativity tools.

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Chromebook users  will now be able to download the following mobile apps for free on their devices if they allow the use of Android apps:

This is the beginning of a long-term plan for Adobe applications and Chromebooks in partnership with Google. Adobe will be releasing details about future products as they are available.

Students of all ages can benefit from these apps, but if they’re logging in on their own device they will need to be 13 or older to sign up for an Adobe ID.

Students don’t need to be online all the time to access the apps on their Chrombooks. The only times a student needs to be connected to the internet are to receive updates and to sync their Creative Cloud account to other devices.

The mobile apps are a great way to introduce students to design concepts and design tools, but they’re best used as a supplement to Adobe Creative Cloud, not a replacement. The mobile apps have key features from the Creative Cloud products, but users are limited in what they can accomplish using the mobile apps alone.

Click here to see a range of helpful tutorials

Click here to see the Adobe Blog about this annoucement

Join the now over 350,000 teachers on the free Adobe Education Exchange to get lots of ideas on how to work with these apps in the classroom.

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Stay informed about future Adobe in Education professional learning opportunities for teachers in Australasia via: http://bit.ly/adobeEDU-events

Join the Australasian Adobe Professional Learning Group on EdEx to say in touch with Adobe in Education https://edex.adobe.com/group/apac-pl/

Check past Adobe in Education active use activities via this journal and CreateEdu TV http://bit.ly/CreateEduTV

 

Tim Kitchen 5:31 pm on January 24, 2017  

Creativity at Brigidine College, Brisbane

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Brigidine College is a delightful Independent Catholic Girls School in the hills of Indooroopilly, near the centre of Brisbane, Australia. I had the pleasure of keynoting one of their opening staff days for 2017 and also running some Adobe related workshops.

The keynote topic was Creativity in Education is no longer an option, it’s an absolute necessity : Preparing GenZ for the real world. It was an honour to introduce many of the staff to the work and messaging of Mitch Resnick, Seymour Papert, Sir Ken Robinson, Edward de Bono, Professor Yong Zhao, Alfie Kohn, Dan Haesler, Marc Prensky and other education thought leaders.

I also used this opportunity to share the most recent research from Adobe titled: GEN Z in the Classroom: Creating the Future. This involved 2,521 students and 1,016 teachers from Australia, US, UK & Germany. Key objectives of this study are:

  • Understand how students view creativity and its impact/application across all different types of classes and potential careers;
  • Explore what creative tools students and educators see as most helpful in developing their online brands;
  • Uncover the synergies and gaps within the student/educator experience today when it comes to creativity, as well as what each group sees as the future of learning and working; and
  • Identify which regions “shine” in how they are preparing for the future workforce when it comes to creativity, and which fall behind.

More information & findings can be found via adobeeducate.com/genz

My keynote slides are available via: http://bit.ly/adobe-brigidine17

Following the keynote, Brian Chau (Adobe Solution Consultant) and I ran a series of hands-on workshops with a focus on Adobe Spark and Adobe Acrobat DC.

 

 

Tim Kitchen 5:56 pm on January 14, 2017  

How & why Adobe tools are making a creative difference in Aussie classrooms

As the 2017 school year approaches, teachers and students all over this part of the world are making the most of the last week or so of the holiday break but also starting to prepare for the academic year ahead.

This is a great time of year to look at some of the Adobe applications that teachers and students all over the world are using in the learning and teaching process.

The following video may help inspire you. It was filmed at the Adobe Education Community Leadership Summit in Sydney last October and feature a range of educators from all areas of Australia sharing how and why they use Adobe products in their classrooms to enhance the creative construction of learning and communication.

 

You can stay informed about future Adobe in Education professional learning opportunities for teachers in Australasia via: http://bit.ly/adobeEDU-events
Join the Australasian Adobe Professional Learning Group on EdEx to say in touch with Adobe in Education https://edex.adobe.com/group/apac-pl/

Check past Adobe in Education active use activities via this journal and CreateEdu TV http://bit.ly/CreateEduTV