It was a pleasure to host a panel of distinguished educators including Marise McConaghy – Principal of Strathcona, Adobe Education Leader Michelle Dennis and Arti Chopra Principal of the Amity International School in Noida, India. This session was with over 1,800 K-12 teachers at the India Adobe Education Summit.
Special thanks to Garima Babbar from Adobe for organising this amazing professional learning event for Indian educators.
We had a wonderful Inject Creativity Live event last night with Tanya Moran form Mentone Girls Grammar and Mark Christie form the Northern Territory Department of Education.
You can access the chat-show from the YouTube link above and watch the Deeper-dive event via:
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.
Eden Carey
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.
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 …
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
Peter Hutton (Convenor at Future Schools Alliance), Dan Haesler (well known Education Consultant), Clara Galan (Global Adobe Education team) and a number of other education leaders will be joining Erin and myself (Tim Kitchen) as we remember this great man.
Join us live at 6.30 PM (AEST) via any of the following social channels:
Then at 7 PM (AEST) we will be moving to the following BlueJeans room for the Deeper-dive event where you will get a chance to listen and share your memories.