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.
Adobe have recently launched a new partnership with the very talented singer song-writer and director Billie Eilish focused on encouraging us to – Create what’s true to you.
Click here to for the official Adobe blog post to find out more.
Click here for the website and share this with your colleagues and students.
Use this initiative to inspire your students to be digitally creative.
Dr Tim Kitchen's Journal - Creativity in Education 