On Wednesday, 13 March 2024, I had the pleasure of running an Adobe Day, as well as an Adobe Creative Educator level 1 course to the students and teaches at Matthew Flinders Anglican College on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

The school provides the Adobe Creative Cloud set of applications to its students and teachers, so it was a delight to be able to share the value of these tools and how they can be used to enhance teaching and learning.

Many students showed keen interest in Adobe Express, a user-friendly browser-based tool for designing videos, animations, and more. Throughout the day, I collaborated with various classes, seamlessly incorporating Adobe Express, Adobe Character Animator, and Photoshop into their ongoing projects. Witnessing the numerous “aha” moments among students as they discovered the creative potential of these tools was truly gratifying.

After school, I ran the Adobe Creative Educator level 1 course with about 36 Teacher. This course is a mix of the theory of why creativity is important in education as well as some practical applications using Adobe Express.

According to the feedback, highlights of this session included:

• Everything
• Learning about the 4 C’s of creativity, the ease of using Adobe Express
• Animation and AI aspects of Adobe
• Realising how much the students can create through this. And also making me realise how much I want to get creative myself.
• Voice to animation
• Others coming up and doing some things – hilarious
• All of it!
• Learning creativity
• Great presentation – thank you so much for coming in person.
• Understanding the types of creativity and the hands on nature of creativity the webpage.
• Creating a webpage
• Using AI to create
• The highlight of the event was looking at the credentials of an image, in particular where the image is being created from and the date of its origin.
• Sharing links

Other comments

• Fabulous
• Engaging and feeling inspired
• Loved today’s session. Can’t wait to implement some of these things into the classroom
• I enjoyed the networking with other Adobe creative educators.

I would like to thank, Chris Topp (Technology Services and Innovation Manager) and his team organising this special day at his school.

On Tuesday, 12th March, I had the pleasure of being the opening keynote speaker at the Big Day In event on the Sunshine Coast.

Hosted by the Australian Computer Society Foundation, the Big Day In is a series of events around Australia to encourage students to consider a future career in the Information Technology industry.

About 400 students from a range of Queensland schools were involved in this event.

This year, Data#3 is helping Adobe with a number of Big Day in events around Australia. It was lovely to have Isabel Grisales from Data#3 support the Adobe stand and promote a special activity where students were encouraged to use Adobe Express to depict their dream job.

Here are a couple of the images they came up with …

On Thursday 22nd February I had the honour of being a guest presenter for a webinar targeting teachers in India. We used MS Teams and linked it to YouTube Live and when we got started, the numbers of participants max out on Teams at 1,183 before a notification said that the total participants is too high to measure. It turns out that nearly 5000 Indian teachers watched live and we are currently well over 3000 who have watched the recording so far. This is expected to get higher as over 30,000 registered for the event.

Here is the YouTube link to what was recorded starting with my session …

There is a lot of interest in Adobe Express in India and my colleagues in the Indian Adobe Edu team Garima Babbar, Jasmeet Kaur Kang and their team are doing an amazing job raising awareness.

If you are looking for quick Adobe Express tutorials for teachers and students, click here.

It was a pleasure to spend Monday 26th Feb, 2004 with a number of RMIT Adobe coaches at the start of their orientation week. The main mission was to share with new students that RMIT is an Adobe Creative Campus which provides all students & teachers full access to all the applications within the Adobe Creative Cloud.

The main activity we had for the new RMIT students was to use Adobe Express to create a sticker that featured their own image. The stickers were printed out and the students loved working with Adobe Express.

On Tuesday 20th Feb, 2024 I had the pleasure of guiding a class of Student Teachers from RMIT through the Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Level 1 micro-credential course on the Adobe Education Exchange.

Thembi Mason, Lecturer at the RMIT School of Education did the course with me last year and organised for her students to get this qualification.

ACE Level 1 is all about the importance of creativity in education. It features content from leading international experts, as well as a practical component involving each participant creating an online journal and poster using Adobe Express.

Now that these budding teachers have gained this knowledge and developed some new Adobe Express skills, they will be able to apply & share them when they are in charge of their own classrooms.

If you are interested in doing this course, or if you have completed Level 1 and want to move up to Level 2, click here to see the next opportunity.

Check out this short Adobe Express tutorial on how to make video introductions with a digital puppet …

The first of Adobe Wednesday Webinar series was recorded this week focused on making video with Adobe Express.

Find out more about Wednesday Webinars

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Find out what teachers are saying about Adobe Express