The Inject Creativity Live episode recorded on April 21 featured Steve Kolber sharing about his use of Adobe Stock in the classroom, Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen discussed the Earth Day Mural project, Paul McClean sharing the work he is doing in New Zealand and Angelina, a Year 12 student from Asquith Girls High School who was the winner of the inaugural Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.

I would like to thank Adobe Education Leader Michelle Dennis who stepped in as co-host for this event.

Here are a list of resources shared by Steven during his presentation:

Teaching Online Master Class

How to Teach Online Courses: Training & Pedagogy | Adobe Education Exchange

ClickView – Creating Instructional Video Course

Creating Instructional Video – Watch on ClickView

Creating Instructional Video – Watch on ClickView

Flipped Learning Global – Certification courses

Monash University Online Interactivity Course

https://www.monash.edu/education/professional-continuing-education/teaching-leadership/online-teaching-interactivity

Click here to find out more about the recent Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.

The next episode of Inject Creativity Live will be recorded live on Thursday May 6 at 6.30 PM via the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel and feature Adobe Education Leaders Lauren Sayer and Brett Salakas. 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.

Formally a face to face event at John Paul College

Due to current COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria, this event will now be online

This opens the event for a wider group of educators so click here to register so that you can be sent the online connection details.

Date – Tuesday June 8

Time – 4.15 PM to 6.30 PM

Led by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe and Adobe Education Leaders, this event will share practical ways to use your simple & professional Adobe applications in any curriculum area.

Small group practical workshops will be led by Adobe Education Leaders Michelle Dennis (Head of Digital at Haileybury College) and Justin de Lacey (Woodleigh College) and Dr Tim Kitchen (Adobe).

Plan

• 4.00 – Open online Room
• 4.15 – Adobe in Education session by Dr Tim Kitchen
• 4.40 – Go through Workshop options
• 4.45 – Workshops
• 5.40 – Back in main room for resources, ACE promo and feedback & certificates
• 6.00 – Conclude

Workshop options

• Adobe Spark (Simple posters, videos & online publication via a browser) with Justin
• Adobe Aero (Augmented reality made simple) with Michelle
• Adobe Premiere Rush (Powerful video editing via mobile or laptop) with Tim

Register here

Take part in this hands-on professional learning event for K-12 & Higher Ed educators interested in enhancing digital literacy, communication and creativity skills for themselves and their students.

Click here to find out about the Adobe Creative Educator program

Click here to find out about the Inject Creativity Live show on the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel.

Over 100 students from nearly 40 NSW & Victorian government schools registered for the first ever online Adobe Holiday Video Challenge.

This was a free 2.5-day online workshop by Adobe during the April 2021 school holidays for Vic & NSW Government secondary students (Year 9 and higher) and teachers who were keen develop their video editing skills with Adobe Premiere Pro.

Most of the students and teachers involved in this event were new to Premiere Pro so the first day (Monday April 12) involved learning the basics.

During day 1 we also introduced the students to the challenge/competition side of the event where the first prize was an iPad Air and Apple Pencil as well as a 12 month Adobe Stock license all to the value of over $1500.

The Challenge was to create a 1 minute video based on a set criteria that promotes one of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals to an audience of teenagers.

The students had between the workshop days (Monday & Wednesday) and the morning of Friday April 16 to complete and submit their one-minute videos.

The teachers were the judges and provided a score for the following criteria:

• Originality
• Creativity
• Story structure
• Pacing
• Framing
• Sound quality
• Music score
• Informative
• Message Effectiveness
• Call to Action

The following videos were from the finalists who all presented at a special online showcase event on Friday April 16.

1st Place – Goal 14 by Angelina

2nd Place – Maybe by Riley

3rd Place – Climate by Jimmy

Other finalists

Actual Climate Change by Jannica

Goal 16 by Angus

SDG16 by Leo

Goal 2 by Jakob

There is No Planet B – Taya

The students did a great job putting together these videos.

I would like to thank all the students for their hard work and all the teachers for their support.

A very special thank you to JB Tinker from Certiport who was also a judge and provided all involved in this event with free access to the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Premiere Pro certification examination. He also promoted the coming ACA World Championship event in August.

Last night, I ran another Be a Creative Educator course webinar. Over 120 teachers registered for this event which is aimed to help guild teachers in K12 & HED through the Creativity for All course – a requirement to becoming a Level 1 Adobe Creative Educator (ACE).

Click here for the recording

Chapter 1 – Introduction & welcome
Chapter 2 – Making the case for creativity
Chapter 3 – Defining creativity
Chapter 4 – World Economic Forum research & How creativity enhances other critical skills
Chapter 5 – How to develop creativity.
Chapter 6 – The power of creative tools
Chapter 7 – How to foster a creative learning culture
Chapter 8 – Strategies to infuse creative thinking into any subject & How can you assess Creativity
Chapter 9 – Adobe’s creativity tools

The next Be a Creative Educator course will be on Monday May 24 at 4 PM (AEST) and (just announced) Wednesday 9th June, 4 PM to 6.30 PM (AEST) and Wednesday 7th July (holiday period for most Aussie states) 10.30 AM to 1PM (AEST).

Register here and let your colleagues know about it.

Note that you don’t need to do this course to get your ACE badge. You can do the Creativity for All course On-Demand any time.

Last week’s episode of Inject Creativity Live featured two Adobe Education Leaders from Melbourne. Adrian Bruch from SAE presented a wonderful demo of how Acrobat DC is so useful for teachers and Michelle Dennis from Haileybury produced an insightful thought piece on design thinking.

Click here to see Erin Raethke’s Spark Page summary of this episode. She made this during the event, while co-hosting.

The next episode will be on Wednesday 21st April at 6.30 PM AEST and will feature Adobe Education Leaders Steven Kolber from Victoria and Paul McClean from New Zealand. Join us live via the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel.

It has been an exciting and busy start to 2021 with over 30 events so far this year involving about 7000 teachers and students, include my first face to face engagement for 12 months. I recently calculated the numbers and since the beginning of the COVID lock-downs, I have personally run over 200 online events, directly impacting over 24,000 teachers and students in Australasia.

I would especially like to thank all the Adobe Education Leaders from this region who have helped present many of the online events over the past 12 months. Your contributions have been outstanding and very much appreciated.

There is still such a need for sharing simple digital literacy and creativity skills to teachers and students and it is a privilege to be managing so many great free creativity events and programs for teachers and students in Australasian region.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to see what our team can do for your school or university and please share the programs that most relate to you with your colleagues and wider education networks.

Dr Tim Kitchen – Senior Education Specialist, Adobe (APAC)

Do you have your Adobe Creative Educator Badge yet?

So far, over 17K teachers have enrolled in Level 1 of the Adobe Creative Educator Program. This is a great program with the focuses on creativity in education rather than Adobe skills. All educators in any subject area and level can benefit from this program. To achieve Level 1 you need to do the On Demand Creativity for All course on the Adobe Education Exchange. If you would like help, we are running another Be a Creative Educator course April 13 (school holidays) and May 24. Click here for more information and registration.

Get to know your Adobe apps – webinar series

Session 1 of the three Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series have now been completed and we have a great set of recordings featuring short demos of a wide range of Adobe applications in education from Adobe Education Leaders and other Adobe experts.

• For Year 4 to 9 teachers
• For Year 10 to 12 teachers
• For Higher Education educators

Session 2 for each category is well underway with more time on the apps highlighted as the most popular during the first sessions. Please do register for these events, let your colleagues know and join the live sessions.

Inject Creativity Live – highlights

So far in 2021, we have run four Inject Creativity Live events with lots of great content from Adobe Education Leaders and other inspiring educators such as Clara Galan, Erin Raethke, Jason Lane, Dan Haesler, Chris Betcher, Paul McClean, Juliette Bentley, Michelle Dennis and Peter Hutton.

All of these events and more can be viewed on-demand via the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel.

Register here to get reminders of future live sessions and a copy of the recording. The next episode will be on Wed March 31 with AEL Adrian Bruch from SEA Melbourne and AEL Michelle Dennis from Haileybury College.

ACCE Conference

The Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference was a great success. It was run each afternoon from 4 PM to 6 PM (AEDT) throughout the week of March 15 to 19.

Adobe was a major sponsor and featured throughout the week of events with a range of workshops as well as the closing keynote. Have a look at the sponsor video we posted. It has some material that you may like to share with your colleagues and wider networks …

Here is the closing keynote session from the 2021 ACCE Conference.

Earth Day Mural Project

Use Adobe Fresco to get involved with the world’s largest digital mural in collaboration with Macquarie University, Venture Café Sydney & Adobe. See this video.

For QLD teachers

DIGITREK 21

TAFE Queensland is proud to be Queensland’s largest and most experienced training provider. They have drawn on their industry networks and event experience to curate DIGITREK 21 to provide information and experiences in digital technologies.

One of these experiences is the Adobe 1 min Video Challenge to be held on Thursday, 22 April. This is open to any QLD school student and aims at working with a team of students and teachers to create a 1-minute video in a day with the use of Adobe Premiere Rush (or Premiere Pro) to help promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Click here to register.

Inspired Education – Injecting Creativity into QLD Education

Adobe is partnering with Inspired Education for a series of Adobe related masterclasses around Queensland. Check the video below to get an idea of they offer and contact get@inspiredgrp.com.au if you are either interested in hosting or attending a future event.

For Vic DET & NSW DoE Secondary Schools –

The Adobe Holiday Video Challenge is a free 2.5 day online workshop during the April 2021 school holidays for Vic & NSW Government secondary students (Year 9 and higher) and teachers who are keen develop their video editing skills with Adobe Premiere Pro. Students could win an iPad Air & Apple Pencil and other prizes by being involved.

Go Mobile, Stay Sustainable

The Mobile Storytelling Congress 2021 is scheduled for the 13-15 November 2021 (as online and physical event) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. 

They invite submissions of pre-constituted panels, workshops and individual paper and project showcase
Submission Deadline: 1st May 2021proposals. 

Submission for Abstracts for Research Paper, Workshops, Project Presentations and/or Showcase via https://bit.ly/MobileSC2021

Submission for smartphone films via https://filmfreeway.com/mina

All information about the categories for the 10th edition of the International Mobile Innovation Screening online (www.mina.pro)

Submission for Video Essays via https://www.videoessay.org/upload-your-submission/

Australasian Adobe Education Community on Facebook

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.

Make sure you catch this week’s episode of Inject Creativity Live featuring award winning English & RE teacher Juliette Bentley and Peter Hutton, Director of Future Schools.

We also celebrated AEL Michelle Dennis wining the DLTV Women Teachers of Technology Award.

Click here to see co-host Erin Raethke’s amazing Spark Page summary of this episode.

The next episode of Inject Creativity Live is on Wednesday March 31 with Adrian Bruch from SAE and Michelle Dennis from Haileybury. Register here to get a reminder email.

This week we ran session 2 from the Year 4 to 9 teachers Get to know your Adobe apps webinar series with a focus on Character Animator, Acrobat DC & Photoshop.

Click here for the recording

Chapter 1 – Introductions
Chapter 2 – Character Animator workshop with Tim Kitchen
Chapter 3 – Acrobat DC workshop with Steve Nichols
Chapter 4 – Photoshop workshop with Tim Kitchen
Chapter 5 – Resources

Session 3 – Tue May 11 (4.30 PM AEDT) or Wed May 12 (6.30 PM AEDT)

Click here to find out more about this and similar sessions for senior secondary & higher education teachers.

Join us live if you possibly can – much more fun!

Check out Dr Kitchen’s EduTips

Last night, I ran another Be a Creative Educator course webinar. Over 115 teachers registered for this event which is aimed to help guild teachers in K12 & HED through the Creativity for All course – a requirement to becoming a Level 1 Adobe Creative Educator (ACE).

Click here for the recording

Chapter 1 – Introduction & welcome
Chapter 2 – Making the case for creativity
Chapter 3 – Defining creativity
Chapter 4 – World Economic Forum research & How creativity enhances other critical skills
Chapter 5 – How to develop creativity.
Chapter 6 – The power of creative tools
Chapter 7 – How to foster a creative learning culture 
Chapter 8 – Strategies to infuse creative thinking into any subject & How can you assess Creativity
Chapter 9 – Adobe’s creativity tools

The next Be a Creative Educator course will be on April 13 at 11 AM (AEST) during the school holidays for K12 and (just announced) Monday 24th May, 4 PM (AEST).

Register here and let your colleagues know about it.

Note that you don’t need to do this course to get your ACE badge. You can do the Creativity for All course On-Demand any time.