It was back in October 2015 when I first visited Nakara Primary School in Darwin. Lots of changes have happened since then, but the spirit for digital creativity is still strong.

This trip to the far north of Australia was at very short notice, prompted by the sudden death and funeral of well-known NT education consultant Mark Christie. When Taniel Mckellar (ICT Coordinator) heard that I was flying up, she grabbed the opportunity for me to work with a group of Year 5 & 6 students, even through it was the second day of their academic school year.

Mark Christie had been working with the school in 2024 so a number of the students had created posters and Gen AI images with Adobe Express. In this session, I introduced them to the video, animation & collaboration features and (in small groups), the students created short animations focused on tips to make the world a better place to live.

Video tutorials based on what I taught can be found here.

Click here to see my 2015 post about my first visit to Nakara.