The second half of the 4-day 2024 Adobe Educators’ Conference was held at Abbotsleigh Senior School in Sydney on 9th and 10th October.

Dr Catherins Ball’s keynote recording

The first day was exclusively for members of the Adobe Creative Educators Community and involved connecting with the global Adobe Education Team based in the US, Adobe product managers, creative catalyst talks by Brett Kent and Chris Betcher and well as a range of workshop opportunities.

Day 2

Day 2 was the main day with lots more teachers attending and highlights including keynote presenter Dr Catherine Ball, creative catalyst talks by Michelle Dennis & Brett Salakas, Teacher Feature session, a curly questions panel session feature students from Abbostleigh, lots of workshop options and lots more.

Feedback highlights from the Sydney events

• The keynote speaker and hearing from the year 10 Photography and Digital Media students I teach present in the Curly Questions segment.
• Prizes and interactive activities for the bingo were fun to accomplish!
• The presenters were so friendly
• Dr Ball’s presentation
• Keynote speakers
• Learning about the features of Express
• Learning firefly from Craig, Keynotes were so inspirational
• Hands on approach!
• Dr Catherine Ball’s keynote was outstanding
• Presentations by Catherine Ball and Michelle Dennis
• Dr. Catherine Ball
• Express was impressive
• Dr Catherine Ball – guest speaker
• Networking with others and learning new Adobe programs- Firefly, ADOBE Express, Podcast
• The mix of the keynote presentations and how little snippets of using Adobe Express were integrated into the talks.
• What was presented today was relevant, meaningful and easily applicable to my teaching practice.
• Podcast with Brett
• Future of tech. Thanks for a productive day!
• The learning in the breakout sessions and having time to practise
• Hands on opportunities
• The accessibility of Adobe Express and being hands on in diving into it further.
• Learning Adobe Express
• It’s always great to see what the wider creative community are up to.
• Catherine Ball and the workshops with Eric
• Becoming level 1 educator
• Getting new ideas for how to use these products in the classroom
• Really enjoyed the podcast session with Brett Salakas
• Connecting with highly motivated educators from across multiple sectors to enhance digital pedagogy.
• Each workshop was authentic and relevant to various current practices that effectively equip students.
• Mixture of presentations and workshops
• The workshops were excellent. Dr Christine Ball was awesome
• Amazing to see Adobes amazing developments with Express and AI
• Seeing the capability of the software and applications in the classroom
• Bingo Challenge
• The interactive workshops
• ACE Level 1 course and Dr Catherine Ball.
• AI talk!
• Dr Catherine Ball’s presentation was particularly eye opening – thank you!
• The break out sessions were outstanding and I have so many ideas how to integrate Adobe Express in the classroom. I will be sharing this with my team!
• Thank you for hands on practical sessions and paddlet
• Dr Catherine’s presentation was amazing!
• The keynote speakers
• Getting my level 1
• Opportunity to complete the badge
• Dr Catherine Ball was amazing.
• Creativity in the Round: Collaborative Student/Teacher Group Projects in Adobe Express.
• Adobe Express
• How easy it will be to use the Generative A.I. content in Adobe Express with my classes in the future, especially for Video Editing.\
• The supportive presenters Erin Raethke and Ben Eyles in the breakout sessions

Image Gallery Day 1

Image Gallery Day 2