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Adobe Education Exchange Update

We are very pleased to announce that the Adobe Education Exchange recently welcomed its 40,000^th ANZ member. There are over 123,000 APAC members and globally we recently welcomed our 800,000^th member. Thank you for sharing this resource with your colleagues and wider education networks.

New Self-Paced course

The Basic Principles of Design course is the most recent self-paced course on the Adobe Education Exchange. It is about helping teachers and students enrich their creative skillset and deepen their design knowledge.

New Three-Part Webinar Series for Aussie Schools

A new free three-part series of professional learning events for educators is happening online for K12 teachers in Term 3. This will cover a number of Adobe applications that are available for many schools including Spark, Rush, Adobe Sign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dimension, XD, Captivate & Presenter. Find out more and register via – https://bit.ly/adobe-3part-2020a

Inject Creativity Live events

Each Wednesday at 6.30 PM (AEST) the Inject Creativity Live Chat-show is available via YouTube, Twitter and Facebook then at 7.00 PM (AEST) we jump into the Deeper-dive event via BlueJeans. No need to register unless you would like a reminder email and a copy of the recordings. Click here for more information.

New Creative Cloud Products & Features

In response to the recent turmoil around the globe, Adobe have just launched dozens of new tools and features in apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, and XD to help people learn, collaborate, and create more effectively. Click here for Scott Belsky’s recent blog post that explains more.

Adobe Creative Educators Program

At the end of this month, Adobe will be launching 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.

Adobe Education Summit

The 2020 APAC Adobe Education Summit will be held as an online event from September 29 to October 1. Being a holiday period for most educators in ANZ, this event is about digital creativity for all areas and levels of education. The theme will be Improving Education Following COVID-19. Please encourage your colleagues and wider education networks to register for the September 30 sessions.

Australasian Adobe Education Community Facebook Group

Click here to join the Australasian Adobe Education Community Facebook Group and get first hand updates on the Adobe in Education program.

Don’t forget to join us live each Wednesday via http://bit.ly/adobe-inject.

Keep being creative!

Regards

Tim Kitchen (Senior Education Specialist, Adobe – APAC)

Over 50 Year 9 media students from three different campuses (Berwick, City & Bentleigh) at Haileybury College in Melbourne took part in a special all-day virtual version of the Adobe 1 Minute Video Challenge.

The challenge was to work with a group, choose one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and promote it with a 1 minute video story using Adobe Premiere Rush.

The aim of this Challenge was to help the students enhance their video literacy, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills. All recognised internationally as vital to thrive in the future.

We began the day by going through the top five skills required to thrive in the future according to the World Economic Forum and relating them to what the student were about to do.

Then we went through the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and encouraged the students to establish their production groups and decide which one of the goals they would focus on.

Then we ran a short Adobe Premiere Rush workshop.

The criteria for each of the video stories featured the following…

• Students need to work with a group (teachers can be included);
• The completed video needs to be G rated;
• All images & audio need to be either original or royalty free and appropriately credited;
• All students who could be identified in the video need to have an Adobe release form signed by a parent or guardian;
• Each video needs to have an opening title and closing credits (please only include first names in the credits)
• Originality – the uniqueness and originality of the story.
• Creativity – the effective use of imagination and creative thinking.
• Story structure – effective beginning, middle & end.
• Pacing – use of the 7 second rule
• Framing – screen filled and lack of headroom,
• Sound quality – effective use of the microphone
• Music score – is the sound track suited to the clip and does it help tell the story
• Informative – are the facts well researched
• Message Effectiveness – is the story well communicated
• Call to Action – does the clip create a desire in the viewer to make a change

The students then went through a pre-production planning stage where they brainstormed, scripted & story-boarded there way through a plan of their video story.

Then they has time to film and gather all their original and royalty free images and audio files for their story.

The deadline was 2PM to have have the stories editing and exported in preparation for the Showcase and judging at 2.30 PM.

There were 13 video stories created and the overall quality was very good, especially considering most of the students were new to video production and Premiere Rush. The groups that spent the most time planning produced the best results.

Each film went through a peer judging process and the winning films won chocolate and Adobe merchandise prizes.

Congratulations to

1st Place – Brighton Group 3 (474 pts) Zach, Clancy & Isaac
2nd Place – Berwick Group 5 (458 pts) Ruihan, Daniyal, Aaranan & Vlnith
3rd Place – City Group 3 (438 pts) Hongzheng, Aston & Kat

Here are samples of some of the student’s work …

Thank you to Mr Sam Lucas (Head of Haileybury Art) for organising this event.

Feedback from the teachers involved …

Running our first Cross Campus Zoom event was a really exciting and successful experiment. It meant that the students could engage and experience contact with an industry professional without leaving the campus. Great work.

Thanks, Tim for a really successful session. You presented concrete and relevant examples of how these tools will be used in a future workforce. Something that is consistently needed within creative arts studies with young people.

The event was well structured and allowed for students to experience a good amount of theoretical knowledge whilst remaining engaged. The idea to view and judge at the end was a great way to have the students reflect on their knowledge and techniques. It was well managed and enjoyable for the students.

This actually worked really well in the online learning forum, having the students able to interact and engage with other campuses was unique. I could imagine this would be really beneficial if we could do this with other schools or interstate, even internationally!

A highlight was the structure and resources for the day also the skill level of Dr Kitchen as a presenter

My highlight was seeing the kids having fun making films. As they ventured outside of the classroom, each group found a quiet spot to capture footage for their short film. Everyone got involved and enjoyed the process of creating films using Adobe Rush.

It was an enjoyable day. Thank you.

This interview is with Lauren Sayer the Director of Digital Learning at Haileybury College.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Simon Scales the owner of CDW Studios School of Visual Effects and Entertainment Design during the Inject Creativity Live event last Wednesday. He very generously did the following outstanding demonstration of how he uses and teaches Adobe Photoshop to students who are preparing for the visual effects and entertaining industry.

This is a great example of how developing Adobe Photoshop skills can take you to amazing levels of creativity and achievement.

Here is a podcast of Simon being interviewed for EduChats

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This interview is with Paul McClean, Education Consultant and Director of Rare Innovation in New Zealand.

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It was an honour to be the opening keynote speaker at the first ever Virtual Big Day In event run by the Australian Computer Society Foundation.

Over 1,600 students were involved in this session from around Australia and it was a delight to share the stage with Genevieve Ash from Technology One who presented the topic New School Cool : The Fun & Creative Side of Working For A Tech Firm

This interview is with Kevin Cummins, E-Learning Coach with the Catholic Education Office Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Kevin works with over 60 F – 12 Schools across Western Victoria instructing teachers how to use technology in innovative and constructive ways in the classroom.

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This interview is with Ross Johnson, Head Teacher Information Technology Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College Tumbi Umbi, NSW, Australia.

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This update features news about:

• the 2020 APAC Adobe Education Summit
• the new Adobe Creative Educators Program
• new look weekly Inject Creativity Live webinars and more

Hi folks

Digital literacy skills among the general teaching population have improved dramatically due to most teachers being forced to teach online during COVID-19. I like this quote from Steven Kolber in his recent EducationHQ article Don’t rush teachers back to the ‘old normal’ – they’ve propped up the flawed system for years:

…‘remote learning’ is causing a dramatic improvement in the familiarity of most teachers to the range of digital pedagogies that exist. For the majority of teachers this is a titanic shift in what is possible. The metaphor of a teaching toolbox is being extended with new ‘power tools’ being added to teacher’s repertoires.

Adobe Creative Educators Program

To help teachers continue to develop their digital communication and creativity skills, at the end of June, Adobe will be launching the Adobe Creative Educators program. 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 in-person and online events with other like-minded educators and the Adobe team.

Note that this program will be replacing the Adobe Campus Leaders program.

Adobe Education Summit

The 2020 APAC Adobe Education Summit is going online on September 29 to October 1. Being a holiday period for most educators in ANZ, this event is about digital creativity all areas and levels of education. The theme will be Improving Education Following COVID-19

• Tue Sept 29 – Adobe Education Leaders (AELs) only
• Wed Sept 30 – all educators
• Thursday Oct 1 – Adobe Creative Educators & AELs only

Find out more and register via – http://bit.ly/adobe-edu-summit20

Inject Creativity Live

As of the first week of June, the weekly Adobe Inject Creativity Live events will be going live every Wednesday at 6.30 PM (AEST) on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. They will also be shorter and in two different formats. Click here to find out more and encourage your colleagues and wider education networks to tune in each week and register if they would like a reminder email and a copy of the recordings.

Note that these events are NESA endorsed for NSW teachers.

Adobe Max 2020

The Adobe Max conference is Adobe largest Digital Media event and this year it will be going online from Oct. 19–21. Usually you need to travel to LA to be part of this event but this year it will be available for everyone across the globe to enjoy. Find out more Find out more and join the email list to keep posted via https://max.adobe.com/

Adobe Distance Learning Resources

The Adobe Distance Learning Resources site is being updated each week with a range of new courses, articles and blogs. Take note of the collaboration Adobe now has with the Khan Academy and with Time Magazine.

Adobe for Education YouTube Channel

The Adobe for Education YouTube Channel is also being regularly updated with video resources, talks and webinars.

Keep Being Creative site

The Keep Being Creative site is a resource for parents, teachers and students working & studying from home.

EduTips

Have a look at the great Adobe in Education tutorials that are found on the Adobe EduTips Vimeo channel which is part of CreateEdu TV.

EduChats

Open the new EduChats site to see and hear in-depth vodcast & podcasts with teachers and parents who have opened up about what has been working and not working for them, their students and their children during the COVID-19 isolation period.

Book an Adobe Expert

Adobe are offering their enterprise education customers the opportunity for some time online with one of their experts. This could be for an online session with a group of students and their teacher/s or it could be an online professional development event for teachers. Click here to find out more and book in your class and/or colleagues.

Free access to Adobe Creative Cloud at home during COVID -19

Many school systems and universities have taken advantage of the extended complementary access to Adobe CC for BYOD. This offer has now been extended to the end of July.

Adobe Captivate – free for 90 days

Take advantage of the current free access to Adobe Captivate for teachers

Adobe Connect – free for 90 days

Take advantage of the current free access to Adobe Connect for 90 days

As schools around Australasia are now gradually moving back to some form of normality, let’s keep driving the benefits of the new digital communication skills that all teachers and students have been developing during COVID-19. Let’s not rush back to the ‘old normal’.

Keep safe and keep being creative.

Regards

Tim Kitchen (Adobe Education)

This interview is with Leigh Howser, Head of Department ICT and eLearning at Cairns School of Distance Education and Adobe Education Trainer.

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