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Adobe Spark is a set of free creativity tools from Adobe that are being used to enhance creativity in classrooms around the world. Available for iOS and via a web browser, students and teachers are able to use Adobe Spark to make posters, videos and web pages quickly and easily. Design ideas are provided as part of the software which aims to allow students to add content quickly to construct their learning. This workshop by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe will show you all about it and how it is making a positive difference to learning & teaching across the globe.
No prior experience with Adobe is required.
Who Should Attend?
Primary and Secondary teachers looking for simple, powerful digital tools for themselves and their students.
About the presenter
With about thirty years of teaching and education leadership experience, Dr Tim Kitchen is Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Asia Pacific. Tim regularly liaises with schools & universities focusing on enhancing creativity in education. He also manages the Adobe Education leadership and active use programs throughout Australasia and helps lead the Adobe Education Exchange which now has over 850,000 members. A passionate advocate for creativity in education, and a well-recognised education thought leader in Australia, Tim is a regular presenter for a wide range of national and international education events.
Digital Technologies and ICT capabilities are now requirements in schools, and there are many opportunities to incorporate both across multiple learning areas.
In this webinar, Sam Kingsley from The Brainary will showcase practical examples of how to incorporate the Digital Technologies Curriculum and ICT across multiple areas of the school curriculum. He will demonstrate how robotics (hardware and software) can be used in classrooms and across different learning areas.
Sam Kingsley is the Head of Technology at the Brainary and qualified STEM Educator.
The Brainary is a supplier of education technology in Australia and New Zealand. Sam’s role focuses on the implementation of the Brainary’s robotics within Australian classrooms.
This year's VCE Applied Computing Teachers' Conference will again take place online.
Presentations are delivered in the form of short, sharp sessions (~40 minutes) throughout the day:
The conference is an opportunity to:
Agenda
A schedule for the day will be confirmed soon.
Also taking place in Term 4, an Exam Prep webinar on Thursday 7th October (first week back). Registration is free.
This event is made possible by support from the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
This pair of online workshops is a guided delivery of the content in DLTV's virtual module set: Object-oriented Programming: Getting started for Australian teachers.
Discover what Object-oriented Programming is and why programmers use it through a sequence of activities.
Adapted from a full-day, face-to-face workshop format, course developers Sanjin and Nathan will:
IMPORTANT: This workshop is designed to introduce a coding concept for teachers already familiar with the basics of General Purpose Programming in JavaScript or Python. DLTV also runs coding workshops for beginners from time to time, so be sure to subscribe to our newsletter.
Format
Registration is for a pair of online sessions designed to be attended in sequence over 2 weeks:
1:30 - 4:30pm on Wednesday 1 Dec
and
1:30 - 4:30pm on Wednesday 8 Dec
Secondary teachers and learning leaders of Digital Technologies and VCE Applied Computing.
About the presenters
Sanjin Dedić is a robotics engineer and an experienced educator in the field of Digital Technologies. Throughout his teaching career Sanjin has been at the forefront of the latest educational technologies. In 2013 he brought Arduino, 3D printing and the Maker movement ethos into the classroom. He has since authored Python curriculum in use by dozens of Victorian schools and co-authored a book on the BBC micro:bit, both aimed at students in Years 7- 10. He currently teaches at the King David School in Melbourne and works with Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria, Teacher Training Australia and The Digital Technologies Hub to share the latest in educational technology and pedagogical approaches with fellow teachers.
Nathan Alison taught Digital Technologies, VCE Computing and Software Development in Victoria for 11 years before beginning work for DLTV.
He brings a background in Computer Systems Engineering and years of hobby coding, as well as a keen desire to help teachers with more complex Computer Science concepts through clear explanations and relevant activities.
This event is funded by Google Educator PD grants.
