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Telling a compelling story just got easier.

The new free story telling Adobe touch app ‘Adobe Voice’ was launched today. This is a new animated video app for the iPad that gives anyone the ability to create and share engaging stories. An ideal app for educators and students who value simple tools that make it easy to teach, to learn and to express creativity – and it’s free on the Apple App Store (search for Adobe Voice).

http://getvoice.adobe.com/

‘Adobe Voice empowers students and educators to create using a combination of their own recorded voice, imagery, music and cinema-quality motion graphics and effects without requiring any filming or editing. Adobe Voice is ideal for teachers who want to explain a concept or for students looking to create an engaging school assignment. These animated videos can also be shared by posting a single link through social media, email, personal blogs or websites.’

Tacy Trowbridge – Education Programs Lead (Adobe Education)

Here is my friend Jeff Larson (Adobe Education Leader) telling us more about the value of Adobe Voice in the classroom

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8ZWHIGq_I%5D

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As of today, the Adobe Education Leadership Forum held in Malaysia early in April has received:
·         195 press articles with 27% in leading Tier 1 publications in the region.
·         95 articles have carried either the APAC or country specific infographic
·         Adobe’s social media across the region churned out 58 social posts with a reach of 53,826 people.

Media post samples …

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Adobe-led-forum-seeks-to-alter-the-direction-of-ed-30231861.html

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Teachers-urged-to-use-education-programs-30231860.html

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Innovative-food-court-to-be-showcased-at-Singapore-30232355.html

http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/tech-news-adobe-creativity-essential-students-and-educators-alike

http://www.prnewswire.co.in/news-releases/adobe-study-reveals-strong-correlation-between-employability-and-creativity-key-india-findings-253353721.html

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One of the highlights of my job is that I get to spend quality time with outstanding educators who love their job and love what Adobe tools can do to improve and enhance teaching and learning. Today was an example of this when a small group of AELs (Adobe Education Leaders) from New South Wales met together with Pip Cleaves and myself for the 2014 NSW AEL Playdate.

[vimeo:https://vimeo.com/92997324%5D

Most of the AELs shared some of the creative things they are going in their classrooms. Including new NSW AELs. Jason Carthew shared a summary version of the presentation he gave at the AEL Summit in San Jose California last year and reminded us of a very important point …

The afternoon was spent enhancing out video capture and editing skills with the help of Adobe Premier Pro CC.

Stay tuned for the video highlights

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The 2014 Asia Pacific Adobe Education Leadership Forum in Kuala Lumpur was a huge success. The forum focused on the importance of creativity in education and a wide selection of speakers from across Asia Pacific shared their insights, research and experiences with about 130 Tertiary and K-12 Education leaders.

Here is a short video summary about Day 1 …

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txTyRIbRXNo%5D

Hisamichi Kinomoto, Adobe’s Vice President for Marketing in JAPAC (Japan & Asia Pacific), attended the whole event and summarised it at the end by saying that creativity is a key piece of the puzzle that we are trying to solve together and that the tools that Adobe provide can help transfer the wealth of knowledge from the mind of teachers into the hands of students.

It was a delight to be part of such a professional team putting this even together. Recordings of most of the presenters can be found via this Adobe Education Exchange site:

http://edex.adobe.com/resource/1972594a/

Image gallery to come ..

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Today I spoke to a wonderful group of educators from ITE (Institute of Technical Education) in Singapore about using Adobe tools and programs to enhance creativity in their teaching.

These educators came from a wide variety of faculties with a strong focus on IT and Media.

I was given a tour of the fully functioning ITE restaurant and hotel which are used in the hospitality courses.

I was very impressed with the focus on creativity and innovation throughout the campus.

While in Singapore I stayed at the amazing Marina Bay Sands which has over 2000 rooms but is about 90% full all the time. It was so full that they had trouble finding the room that I booked so asked if I wouldn’t mind having a free upgrade to a bay side suite. I didn’t complain. Bit of a waste for just me for one night, it was about as big as the ground floor of my home and even had a theatre room.

While in Singapore, it was great to meet some of the local Adobe staff and visit the Singapore Adobe office.

Now, I’m off the Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) where we are hosting a major event for about 160 of Asia Pacific’s top education leaders. This will be my first time to KL and it happens to be the weekend of the KL Grand Prix so should be an exciting time to be there.

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The first of a series of Flipping Your Classroom with Adobe sessions was a great success yesterday. This session was hosted by DLTV (Digital Learning & Teaching Victoria).

The Flipped Classroom approach is where the bulk of the instructional content is delivered outside of the classroom usually for homework and usually via streamed video. This allows for more engagement with curriculum content & concepts in class (such as skill development, and project work) with a collaborative approach facilitated by the classroom teacher.

After going through some theory and research behind the Flipped approach we did a workshop on Adobe Presenter which I consider the easiest tool to use to create a quality video sequence.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4v7EtKfBE0%5D

The rest of the day was spent developing video literacy skills in pre-production (planning), production (filming) and post production (editing). The main video editing tool used was Adobe Premier Pro CC which, even though is an industry standard, it can be used basic editing from about Grade 4 upwards.

Keep checking the events section of the DLTV website for the opportunity to be involved in future Flipping Your Classroom with Adobe workshops.