I had the pleasure of working with a class of Year 9 students from Our Lady of Mercy Catholic College in Cronulla, NSW to help improve their video editing skills with Adobe Premiere Pro.

I wasn’t able to visit the school due to COVID-19 restrictions but we we organised a video link and, over two sessions, we went through the following video editing techniques:

1 – File Management
2 – Importing & working with bins
3 – In & Out editing (7 second rule)
4 – Transitions
5 – Titles
6 – Adding & editing audio (voice over & music)
7 – Audio effects
8 – Video animation (key framing)
9 – Colour Grading
10 – Green Screen keying
11 – Exporting for online & High Def

Video editing is a modern literacy that all students should learn. Just about every industry that involves communication is looking for people with video production skills. Adobe Premiere Pro is the ultimate video editing solution. It is used at the highest level of multimedia, TV and film making. A more simple solution is Premiere Rush and the simplest video editing application is Adobe Spark Video.

On Thursday 10th September Adobe Education Leader Eden Carey from Perth and I ran an event for schools who used iPads & iPhones called All things iOS and Adobe.

This event involved about 60 members of the Apple Distinguished Educators network, Apple Professional Learning Specialists, Adobe Education Leaders and Adobe Creative Educators who teach with iOS devices.

The aim was to share the value of the main Adobe iOS applications being used by teachers to enhance creativity and digital literacy in classrooms around the globe.

Click here to access the recording.

Key apps demonstrated during this event included:

• Spark Video
• Photoshop Camera
• Aero
• Fresco
• Spark Post
• Rush

Last Friday 4th September, about 30 students representing Year 8 to Year 12 at St Leo’s Catholic College took part in an Adobe 1-Minute Video Challenge.

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 software (such as Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, After Effects, Character Animator, Aero & Photoshop) to help promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

In 2015, the United Nations established 17 interconnected Sustainable Development Goals that need to be achieved by 2030 achieve a better future for our globe. Each goal addresses the following global challenges:

• Poverty
• Inequality
• Climate change
• Environmental degradation
• Peace and
• Justice

The St Leo’s students formed 5 groups and after I went over the criteria and some basic film making techniques, they created five x 1 minute films to help raise awareness of these goals.

Here is a video made by St Leo’s teacher Louie Tiglao about the students in action …

The last hour of the day involved exporting, sharing and judging the films. The judging involved a mix of peer judging and me judging. Here are the winning films …

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

Here is the YouTube link to yesterday’s Inject Creativity Live Chat-show.

Click here to access the Deeper-dive event recording

• Chapter 1 – Introductions
• Chapter 2 – Mark Woszczalski (After Effects basics)
• Chapter 3 – APAC Summit promo
• Chapter 4 – Clara Galan (Adobe Edu Community Programs)
• Chapter 5 – Resources

It was a pleasure to be the opening keynote at the virtual Big Day In Wangaratta event yesterday with one of my pet topics – Turn Your Passion into a Job

This special edition Inject Creativity Live is a tribute to Sir Ken Robinson who sadly passed away on 21st August.

Click here the Deeper-dive event that was recorded after the above chat-show session.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – Interview with Sir Ken
• Chapter 3 – Dan Haesler
• Chapter 4 – Peter Hutton
• Chapter 5 – Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen & Luke Kerr
• Chapter 6 – Joel Aarons & Juliette Bentley

It was a pleasure to put this tribute together to honour such a legend in the world of education and creativity.

Obituaries

• The Guardian
• The Washington Post