Digital Literacy & Creativity in Victorian Classrooms with Adobe

The aim of this all-day hands-on session is to help teachers make the most of Adobe Creative Cloud and associated Adobe software in the learning and teaching process with a focus on enhancing 21st century digital literacy, communication and creativity skills in alignment with the Victorian & Australian Curriculum. All Victorian Government Secondary Schools now have access to the Adobe Creative Cloud applications through the EduStar portal and most Victorian Independent and Catholic schools also have access. No previous experience with Adobe software is required and resources will be provided for both new and experienced Adobe users. This event will be facilitated by Dr Tim Kitchen, Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Asia Pacific and will aim to cover a mix of the following resources and educational concepts:

• Photoshop tips & tricks for teachers
• Working with the free Adobe Spark creativity tools
• Multimodal Text with Adobe Muse & Adobe Spark
• Flipped Learning with Adobe Presenter, Adobe Spark & Premiere Clip
• Basic Video production with Adobe Premiere Clip & Premiere Pro
• PDF & document management with Adobe Acrobat
• Simple animation in the classroom with Adobe Character Animator
• Classroom resources on the Adobe Education Exchange
• New research in teaching Gen Z students

Dr Tim Kitchen

Following over twenty years of teaching and education leadership experience in Melbourne, Dr Tim Kitchen is currently Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Asia Pacific. Tim regularly liaises with government officials, schools, universities, Adobe partner companies and organisations with a focus on enhancing creativity in education. He also manages the Adobe Education leadership and active use programs throughout Australasia and supports the professional learning activities within the Adobe Education Exchange (https://edex.adobe.com) which now has about 500,000 members.