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 are about 1 week away from the 2020 APAC Adobe in Education Summit and we would like to highlight Day 2 (Wednesday 30th September) a free and online event for all educators in K-12 and Higher. Click here for information on this day. Click here for information on the whole Summit event.
Join us live this Wednesday 23rd September for an Inject Creativity Live event that will feature Peter Hutton and Jen Buchanan from the Future Schools Alliance.
This will be the last Inject Creativity Live event until Oct 21 when we move to a fortnightly format.
Usually a very expensive event in LA, this year Adobe Max is free and online from October 21 – 23 (APAC dates). Make plans to join us for a uniquely immersive and engaging digital experience, guaranteed to inspire. Three full days of luminary speakers, celebrity appearances, musical performances, global collaborative art projects, and 350+ sessions — and all at no cost.
In July, Adobe launched the Adobe Creative Educators program which is aimed to help teachers continue to develop their digital communication and creativity skills. Designed for educators in every subject area and sector, members will receive free lessons and resources to spark creativity with students, in addition to special events with other like-minded educators and the Adobe team. Encourage your colleagues to join.
The new Creativity for All course on the Adobe Education Exchange is a prerequisite for the Adobe Creative Educators Program, especially if you were not already an active member of the AEL or ACL program. This free course is about understanding the power of creativity, why it matters, and how to leverage it in your teaching helps prepare students with 21st Century skills they need to succeed.
Adobe is an industry partner with Digital learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV).
Click here to access the current DLTV Member’s Journal, due to COVID they are providing it to educators as a free resource focused on remote learning. Take special note of the article on pages 16-19.
DLTV are also offering free membership and DigiTech Community Grants just visit their website.
All DLTV’s webinars are free and available at their YouTube channel
Australasian Adobe Education Community Facebook Group
Click here to join the Australasian Adobe Education Community Facebook Groupand get first hand updates on the Adobe in Education program.
Keep being creative!
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:
https://bluejeans.com/s/o7Rwhj0gQ@L/
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Spark at Mentone Girls Grammar with Tanya Moran
Chapter 3 – APAC Summit Ad
Chapter 4 – Adobe in Northern Territory with Mark Christie
Chapter 5 – Adobe Character Animator demo
Chapter 6 – Resources
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:
Here is the YouTube link to this week’s Inject Creativity Live Chat-show with Michael Turner and Paul McClean.
Click here to access the Deeper-dive event recording
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:
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
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.
It was a pleasure to put this tribute together to honour such a legend in the world of education and creativity.
Dr Tim Kitchen 