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Unknown's avatar Tim Kitchen 6:34 pm on February 11, 2025
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Adobe Express – a big hit at Forest Lake State High School – Brisbane

Known for its innovative approach to education, especially with the integration of eSports into the curriculum, Forest Lake State High School near Brisbane hosted an Adobe Day on Monday 10th February focused on making video animations with Adobe Express.

Late in 2024, the Queensland Education Department endorsed Adobe Express by allowing access to all students and teachers via their school email and password. This has been a game changer for many, allowing very easy access to the amazing set of creativity tools found within the Adobe Express environment.

Each of the Year 7, 8, and 9 classes had one hour to team up with a partner and use the Adobe Express collaboration feature to create a video animation showcasing ways to make the world a better place. Considering, for most of them, it was their first time using the video & animation features of Adobe Express, their work was amazing.

A special thank you goes to MJ Raatz, Nikki Raatz, Nalin Naidoo and Steven Clark for organising and being involved in such a special experience for these talented students.

Unknown's avatar Tim Kitchen 8:43 am on January 17, 2025
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Back to School with Adobe Express in 2025

In late 2024, three significant developments boosted the integration of Adobe Express in Australian classrooms:

  1. Adobe Express was re-accredited with Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) for another two years.
  2. It received official endorsement from the Victorian Department of Education, making it accessible to all students and teachers via the EduPass single sign-on (SSO) system.
  3. It became available to all students and staff in the Queensland Department of Education through their SSO system.

This is fantastic news, opening up a wealth of new creative opportunities for students and teachers across Australia in 2025.

Here are four standout features of Adobe Express that set it apart from similar applications:

  1. The full-premium version is available for free to all K-12 schools globally (find out more).
  2. The Animate characters tool enables students to share their voices through a variety of delightful animated characters.
  3. All Adobe Express projects (posters, flyers, animations, videos, webpages, etc.) have direct access to a K-12 friendly version of Adobe Stock, which includes millions of royalty-free images and thousands of video and audio assets.
  4. Adobe Express is registered with the ANZ Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) program.

To celebrate the 2025 Back to School period, I have created a set of short video tutorials aimed at helping students and teachers make the most of the Animate characters feature and access Adobe Stock.

These tutorials can also be found as a YouTube playlist.

More Adobe Express tutorials can be found via – https://adobe.ly/new-express-apac

If you are interested in the Adobe Creative Educator micro-credentialing program, click here to see when the next courses are being run.

Find out more about Adobe on Education for ANZ via – https://adobeanzedu.com/

Unknown's avatar Tim Kitchen 10:00 am on March 14, 2024
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Digital Creativity at Mountain Creek State High School – QLD

On Monday, 11th March 2024, I had the pleasure of working with a wide range of students and teachers at Mountain Creek State High School on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

This school recently provided Adobe Express access to all of their students and teachers, so my visit was focused on introducing them to this amazing set of browser-based digital creativity tools that can be used in any curriculum area to enhance digital literacy and creativity.

Many students and teachers had long been equipped with access to the Adobe Creative Cloud, yet remained unaware of its full potential. I took the initiative to showcase the diverse array of creations possible with several of the apps, focusing especially on exploring Adobe Character Animator together.

After school, a number of teachers from Mountain Creek State High School as well as some neighbouring schools joined me for the Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 course. Some of the feedback from the teachers included:

Highlights

  • Thank you, very informative session with extra hints & tips. Great practical application to Adobe Express
  • Thanks Tim for some great training today. It was very helpful
  • Thank you Tim. This is a great introduction- I will access the course again to watch more videos & learn more.
  • Thanks for Ian I formative and productive session. Would love to earn more.

I would like say a special thank you to Graeme Breen for organising this special day at this school and I’m looking forward to hearing about all the creative content that the students and teachers create with their newly discovered Adobe skills.