I had the pleasure of doing an Adobe Day with the Year 6 classes at Kardinia International College in Geelong, Victoria on Monday 25th March, 2024.

Kardinia is an IB school, which means it follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum. The PYP (Primary Years Program) focuses on nurturing young minds through inquiry-based learning, encouraging students to explore, question, and understand the world around them. Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and creativity is at the heart of Kardina and all of these skills were on display during this Adobe Day.

The aim of this Adobe Day was to have the students work in small groups to create a 1-minute promotional video for one of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals using Adobe Express.

Rather than filming individual students, the groups were asked to use the Animate from audio feature within Adobe Express to get digital puppets to do the bulk of the presenting.

I was very impressed with how the groups worked so well together to get the project completed in time for the showcase at the end of the day. It was obvious that the Kardina teachers had spent a lot of time and care teaching the student how to collaborate and problem solve.

Each group created a script for their production then proceeded to record each section of the script using an Adobe Express character. Then they worked through the process of adding video content, still images, music as well as other elements found within the Adobe Express access to the K-12 friendly version of Adobe Stock.

Considering the students has not used Adobe Express before, what they produced in such a short time frame was outstanding. Have a looks at some of the samples below.

After school, all the Junior School staff as well as some members of the Senior School joined me for a professional learning session focused on getting to know some of the tools they had within the Adobe Creative Cloud set of applications, with a focus on Adobe Express.

Feedback highlights included:

• Being able to play and trial things ourselves during the session.
• Staff engagement
• How engaging the presenter was and incorporating staff in the presentation.
• Creating after each demo.
• Hands on learning
• Learning about Adobe Express and all of its incredible potential for our students
• Adding music to the video
• The free pens for volunteering
• The ease with which backgrounds could be removed and film making
• Watching students engage with the product and share their knowledge
• Getting up and having a go. Helps me connect to how children might feel when using something new.
• Learning about character animator as I can see where it can be applied for year 10 media immediately.

Other comments:

• Great session.. have ideas forming for curriculum content.
• I would love to learn more specific to my learning age group
• Thanks for an amazing day Tim!

I would like to thank Aisha Kristiansen (Head of Innovation & Technology K-12), Matt Baron (Head of Junior School) and all the Year 6 teachers for helping to make this day such a success.

Have a look at some samples of what the students produced …