Tim Kitchen 8:56 pm on October 13, 2015

Sydney Boys High comes to Adobe

On Tuesday October 13, a group of talented Year 9 students from Sydney Boys High School visited the Adobe office in Darling Harbour for an Adobe Day focusing on video production.

Before getting stuck into their video projects, the boys had a tour of the Adobe office.

The boys enjoyed the facilities in the Adobe lunch room.

They met with Adobe Solution Consultant Jamie Ragen.

After the office tour, the boys were given a challenge to produce a 2 minute video or short film within the confines of the Adobe office that followed the seven second rule, where the visuals change at least every seven seconds to keep the interest of an audience.

The Year 9 students working on their pre-production planning.

The boys worked well as a production crew to film their stories.

The students used Adobe Premier to edit their stories.

Here is a sample of what one of the groups achieved in only a few hours …

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/142229726%5D

Tim Kitchen 9:08 pm on October 12, 2015

YGAP 2015 Polished Man Campaign

The 2015 YGAP Polished Man Campaign is in the last few days. Here is Elliot Costello (YGAP CEO – and my cousin) to tell more …

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/142086169%5D

I’m proud to me a Polished Man. If you would like to sponsor me, go to https://au.polishedman.com/timkitchen

Tim Kitchen 3:59 pm on October 8, 2015
Tags: Adobe education ( 17 ), Tim Kitchen ( 9 ), ulearn, ulearn15

uLearn 2015

uLearn is one of the largest education conferences in New Zealand and this year it was held in Auckland at the Skycity Convention Centre with close to 2000 teachers involved.

I had the privileged of running some presentations and workshops for about 150 teachers. Many of them were exposed to Adobe software and resources for the very first time.

The resources I shared at this conference are available on the Adobe Education Exchange via:

http://bit.ly/adobe-ulearn15

Special congratulations to NZ Teacher Hamish Ross who won a 12month subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud during one of my sessions.

Tim Kitchen 1:38 pm on October 6, 2015
Tags: AYV, HTY

Adobe Youth Voices in Auckland

It was delightful meeting with the team at High Tech Youth (HTY) in Auckland, New Zealand today who run the NZ Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) program.

As outlined on their website, HTY have four core objectives that align nicely with AYV:

To empower young people and communities to become more capable, creative, and confident life long learners.
To foster the growth of a learning community, through the sharing of ideas and support.
To encourage in young people the development of a positive identity and belief in their potential, through linking cultural knowledge and values with technology.
To champion, support, manage, research and implement services and projects that will further the above objectives within New Zealand and the Pacific

http://www.hightechyouth.org/#about-hty

Studio 274 is one of a series of studios set up by HTY throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. This studio serves the suburbs of Auckland and is well equipped with editing workstations and even a sound studio.

Have a look at some of the work produced by the creative young people through the HTY programs.

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/92106411%5D

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/91896596%5D

These and other HTY videos can be seen via thier Vimeo channel

https://vimeo.com/hightechyouth

Tim Kitchen 7:25 pm on October 5, 2015

Reconnecting with Hohepa Spooner in Auckland.

It was great meeting again with Hohepa Spooner in Auckland today. Hohepa is a key part of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Auckland University of Technology and has been instrumental in the creative and innovative use of Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite with Adobe InDesign.

The following video is an interview I did in 2014 with Hohepa focusing on some of his work.

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/141374669%5D

Tim Kitchen 10:12 am on October 5, 2015
Tags: Adobe education ( 17 ), Adobe Education Exchange ( 4 ), Adobe Education Leader ( 4 ), aec ( 2 ), aec summit ( 2 )

AEC Summit Video – Day 1 Interviews

Daniel Budd, Adobe Education Leader from Perth, Western Australia, kindly interviewed a few of the APAC AEC Summit delegates during the first day of the event.

Other videos from the APAC Adobe Education Community Summit include can be found on the Adobe Education Vimeo channel CreateEDU TV.

Tim Kitchen 9:40 pm on October 1, 2015

Support the 2015 YGAP Polished Man Campaign

I encourage you to support the YGAP Polished Man campaign by either sponsoring me or joining in yourself.

‘POLISHED MAN CHALLENGES MEN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN’

https://www.polishedman.com

Get involved and make a difference.

Oct 1-15

Find out more about YGAP

Tim Kitchen 6:15 pm on September 30, 2015

APAC AEC Summit – Day 2

An amazing group of creative educators from throughout Australia have just finished two days of creativity, inspiration and fun at the APAC Adobe Education Community (AEC) Leadership Summit in Sydney.

After a wonderful dinner/cruise the night before on the beautiful Sydney Harbour, we started the second day of the AEC Summit with three excellent Creative Catalyst Talks by Sue Bell (AEL, Tas), Brett Kent (AEL, NSW) and Jessica Gauci (ACL, NSW).

Day 2 of the summit was focused on finalising projects that each team will be working on throughout the rest of 2015 and into 2016 to help enhance creativity in teaching and learning, drive active use of Adobe tools and promote the Adobe Education Exchange.

The afternoon was spent with Adobe Solutions Consultants providing a range of Adobe workshops and master classes.

Brett’s photos

Bill’s photos

Tim Kitchen 11:37 pm on September 29, 2015
Tags: aec ( 2 ), aec summit ( 2 )

APAC AEC Summit – Day 1

Brett Kent’s t-shirt summed up a major theme of the first full day of the Adobe Education Community Leadership Summit.

The day began with a series of Creative Catalyst Talks that were inspiring and informative. Then we heard from Adobe Industry Specialist Mark Henley who gave the educators a perspective of creativity from a corporate view point.

You can hear today’s talks via:

http://livestream.com/WilkarProductions/AdobeLeadershipSummit15

Daniel Budd (AEL, WA) doing his Creative Catalyst Talk

Henrietta Miler (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Chris Woldhuis (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Mark Henley – Adobe Industry Specialist

Pip Cleaves and Megan Townes (both AEL’s from NSW) coached the educators though a series of activities to help them think about ways that they can help spread the message of the importance of creativity in education.

We finished the day with a beautiful dinner cruise on Sydney Harbour.

It was great to show Matt Niemitz (Adobe Education Exchange Manager) around the beautiful Sydney Harbour.

Tim Kitchen 12:45 am on September 29, 2015

APAC Adobe Education Summit – begins

About 40 Adobe Education Leaders and Adobe Campus Leaders from all over Australia joined Aussie & US Adobe Education staff to officially open the 2015 APAC Adobe Education Leadership Summit. This opening reception event was held at the Adobe Sydney office in Darling Harbour.

It is especially great to have Matt Niemitz (manager of the Adobe Education Exchange) and Remy Mansfield (new Adobe Education Programs Coordinator) from the USA with us for this event over the next two days.

Join parts of the Summit live via Live Stream and/or Adobe Connect, details of how and when to join are found via:

https://edex.adobe.com/resource/d53b087f/

By the way – the Adobe Education Exchange has just hit over 230,000 members

Dr Tim Kitchen

CTL – Creative Teaching & Learning

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