I had the pleasure of working with Microsoft Education Specialist, Steven Payne, Adobe Education Leader Jason Lane and the Datta#3 team to put this new resource together that focuses on Adobe Spark, OneNote and MS Teams integration.
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On Thursday 17th June, I (virtually) joined Rashan Senanayake and his team at Inspired Education for a session on Adobe in Education with a group of educators from the Rockhampton & Yeppoon region in Queensland.
The aim of these sessions is to focus on design thinking with the help of a range of Adobe’s design tools.
I had the pleasure of facilitating an Adobe Spark and Adobe XD workshop. For many of the educators, it was their first experience with these communication and design tools.
I’d like to thank Rashan and his team for these sessions he is running for QLD teachers. It’s worth noting that Adobe Spark is now available to Education QLD schools without having to get special permission to use it. Click here for more information.
Also note that Adobe will be involved in i-Educate 2021 on August 26 & 27. Make sure you register for the Adobe Spark workshop and visit the Adobe booth.
All QLD K12 teachers – On Wednesday July 14, The Australian Computer Society and Adobe are running a free all day PL event based on level 1 of the Adobe Creative Educator badge. Click here for more information.
Have a look at some of the responses from teachers on the day …
Here is clip that provides more information about theses session by Inspired Education
It was a delight to be back in front of a group of secondary school students again face-to-face, or should I say face to mask.
The media teacher at Kew High School in Melbourne invited me to kick-start the Media Studies Unit Two program with a conversation about the importance of creativity and how Adobe tools can you help prepare students for a brighter future.
The students had experience with some of Adobe professional tools but we’re not aware of the full range of applications that were available to them as provided by the Victorian Government.
I’m looking forward to staying in touch with this class and seeing what creative work they are able to produce in this subject with Adobe tools.
This was my first face-to-face event with secondary students since March 2020. I’m looking forward to many more.
Click here if you would like to organise either a face or face or online Adobe adoption related event for your student or colleagues.
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In this June edition of the Australasian Adobe in Education Update we celebrate reaching over 40,000 Australian members of the Adobe Education Exchange, nearly 45,500 ANZ members, over 166,000 in the APAC region and just over 981,500 members globally. Thank you for supporting this amazing education resource and please keep sharing it to your colleagues and wider education networks. You will find lots of new updates as well as links to a number of exciting professional learning opportunities for you and your colleagues.
There is still a misconception that Adobe tools are only for high-end users studying or teaching media, arts and design subjects. The following image demonstrates that there are in fact more low-lift apps available within the Creative Cloud.
When you are promoting the use of Adobe tools at your school/university, divide the Creative Cloud set of apps into:
Low-lift & high impact apps for everyone in all curriculum areas, and
Professional & high impact apps
Share this image with your colleagues and encourage them to learn more about the apps via:
The 2021 APAC Adobe Education Summit will be held on Wednesday September 29. This will be a virtual all-day event open during the school holidays for any educators in any sector. It will feature presentations from the local and global Adobe in Education team, Adobe Education Leaders, Adobe Creative Educators and other guests – all aimed to inspire teachers to enhance their digital creatively skills.
The Summit will also include a day exclusively for Adobe Education Leaders (Sept 28) as well as a day for Adobe Creative Educators (Sept 30). If you don’t yet have at least your level 1 ACE badge, now is the time to earn it via the Creativity for All course on the Adobe Education Exchange.
Registration is now officially open for the global Adobe for Education Summit, where we’ll celebrate creativity across the curriculum for educators in every subject area and grade level. We’ll discuss how to build skills for digital literacy, empower student learning experiences, and nurture the next generation of lifelong creators.
Note that this event is live within northern hemisphere time zones but there will be some convenient cross over and session will be recorded. Click here to register and discover more.
Victorian DET teachers can access the Adobe sections within the Vic DET Arc site to find out more about the following opportunities:
All Victorian teachers – stay tuned to the DLTV workshop & webinar site for some coming PL opportunities for later in the year.
NSW DoE teachers – stay tuned to the T4L Adobe Resources site for a range of events that will help you to connect with access to Adobe Creative Cloud applications
For all NSW teachers – Adobe and CathWest are running a face to face Adobe 1 min Video Challenge for any stage 4 or 5 students at any school in Sydney’s west – Catholic, Independent or Department schools.
This challenge is all about working with a team of students and teachers to create a 1 minute video in a day with the use of Adobe Premiere Rush to help promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Register here
Have a look at this Adobe 1 min Video Challenge with students from Mercy Catholic College
Education QLD teachers – note that Adobe Spark is now available to your schools without the need to request student access on the department’s network. Spark for Education is available through the Adobe Creative Cloud licence. Click here for more information. Also note that Adobe will be involved in i-Educate 2021 on August 26 & 27. Make sure you register for the Adobe Spark workshop and visit the Adobe booth.
All QLD K12 teachers – On Wednesday July 14, The Australian Computer Society and Adobe are running a free all day PL event based on level 1 of the Adobe Creative Educator badge. Click here for more information.
SA DfE teachers, click here to access information about a series of Adobe in Education webinars we are doing exclusively for you.
Click here to see the range of professional learning opportunities that available to all educators.
Adobe is excited to announce new integrations with popular educational apps like Canvas, Blackboard, Flipgrid, Wakelet, and more — all designed to make self-expression seamless for both teachers and students. Click here to discover how to use these tools in your classroom.
In our newest self-paced online course for educators, you’ll learn how to integrate audio storytelling in your classroom and empower your students to tell compelling stories. Click here to find out more and enroll.
Offered for both educators and youth ages 16–25, these short, free, self-paced online courses are designed to guide learners to visualize and communicate powerful stories that inspire action. Click here to find out more.
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The Australian Curriculum is currently under review and feedback is welcome. The new name for ICT Capability in the General Capability section of the Australian Curriculum, is Digital Literacy. This should eventually be reflected in all state based curriculum. As a general capability it is designed to be addressed through the content of all learning areas. It is pleasing to see a continued focus on communication, collaboration and creativity throughout the digital literacy general capability. Click here to find out more and have your say.
The Inject Creativity Live show continues to be a very popular way for teachers to get some mid-week inspiration either live or on-demand via the Adobe in Education YouTube channel. Here is the recent June 16 episode:
Past episodes can be found here.
This global challenge combines STEM with creativity and storytelling to give students the opportunity to design and build worlds in Minecraft and create videos with Adobe Spark. Click here to discover more.
Since we launched our partnership with Khan Academy last month, over 10,000 educators have used our partner teaching resources and PD. Join a community of like-minded creative educators and explore our free course and lesson plans for all subjects and grade levels.
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If you haven’t already, please do join the Australasian Adobe Education Community Facebook group to keep regularly up to date with the world of Adobe in Education for the Australasian region.
Don’t hesitate to contact the Adobe Education team for any support.
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on June 16 featured Adobe Education Leader Craig Daalmeijer-Power from TAFE NSW as well Adobe Education Leader Steven Kolber from Bruswick Secondary College in Melbourne. Craig shared some very creative ways he and his students use Adobe XD and Steven shared his reflection from the recent International Labour Organisation where he represented Australia.
We are having a break from Inject Creartivity Live for a few weeks and will return on July 14 where Erin, Tim & Jerry will all be broadcasting from Brisbane, Australia (assuming boarders are open). Guest presenters will be Dr Karen Sutherland from the University of Sunshine Coast and Dan Haesler from Cut Through Coaching & Consultancy.
Topics will be – Adobe Stock in Education and Student Engagement
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.
On Tuesday, 8 June we converted what was to be a face-to-face professional learning event at John Paul College in Melbourne to an online event focused on Adobe’s low lift and high impact applications. It was a pleasure to have Adobe Education Leaders Michelle Dennis from Haileybury College and Justin de Lacy from Woodleigh School join me for this event.
Click here to access the recording of the main sessions.
The Adobe Creative Educator Program
Inject Creativity Live – YouTube show
Here are some of the comments about the highlights:
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Click here to find out more and get involved with other similar events
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on June 2 featured Clara Galan from Adobe as well Adobe Education Leader Dr Max Schleser from Swinburne University sharing some very creative use of Aero, Photoshop & Premiere Pro.
Dr Max’s resources
Have a look at this AR experience created by some of Dr Max’s students at Swinburne University
Click here to see Erin’s summary of the event
The next episode will be recorded live on Wednesday June 16 and feature AEL Craig Daalmeijer-Power from TAFE NSW and thought leader Steven Kolber from Melbourne. Join us live if you can.
Topics will be – Innovation and creativity in the classroom using Adobe XD & Creating front line education reform
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.
All the Year 8 students from Sydney’s Mercy Catholic College took part in an a recent Adobe 1 minute Video Challenge. This challenge was about encouraging students to work with a group to create a 1 minute video with an Adobe video tool to help promote the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal No. 3.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
The Adobe video application the students needed to use was Premiere Rush.
Following an introduction and a Premiere Rush boot-camp tutorial, the students formed their production groups and had four days to complete their stories. All the video stories had a theme based on good hand hygiene. There were 26 creative entries and here are the top three finalists …
1st Place – Kill the Germs
2nd Place – Washing Hands The Difference It Makes
3rd place – Stay healthy
Other great entries included …
Germbusters- Adventures of Soaper Woman
Dora the Explorer
Germalcious
Hand Wash
Congratulations to all the students and teachers involved in this challenge. Keep developing your video literacy skills and use them to help you communicate in all sorts of curriculum and non-school areas in the future.
On Tuesday May 25 we recorded session 3 of the Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series for Higher Education. Based on the survey during session 1, the apps we focused on for closer attention were Adobe XD, Premiere Rush and InDesign.
Click here for the recordings
Chapter 1 – Introduction & Adobe in Edi video
Chapter 2 – Adobe XD workshop/demo by Steve Nichols
Chapter 3 – Premiere Rush workshop/demo by Tim Kitchen
Chapter 4 – InDesign workshop/demo by Adrian Bruch
Chapter 5 – Key resources
If you haven’t already, please join the new Adobe Creative Educator program
The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on May 19 featured Adobe Education Leader Steve Nichols from Perth sharing about the use of Adobe Audition in his multimedia classes. The thought leader for this episode was Dan Haesler, Director of Cut Through Coaching and Consulting talking about authentic student engagement.
Click here to see Erin’s summary of the event
The next episode will be recorded live on Wednesday June 2 and feature AEL Dr Max Schleser from Swinburne University and thought leader Paul McClean from New Zealand. Join us live if you can.
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.
