Are you interested in undertaking a free photo imaging course?

Are you a teacher or an educator who needs a little help with photo imaging - taking digital images, enhancing them, being creative with them?

 If so, this course could be most helpful to you:

Adobe Generation is a project-based learning course that provides a unique opportunity for teachers to learn new skills, develop existing skills using Adobe tools and provides an insight into how creative industries work.

The course lasts for 5 weeks; classes are weekly, live and online and run for 1.5hrs. When teachers complete the course, they will earn an Adobe Generation certification.

This course is about photo Imaging - taking digital images, enhancing them, being creative with them. The course is aimed at teachers and educationalists who wish improve their ability and confidence to create images and develop their classroom practice.

In this course we will cover key imaging techniques and principles, move on to some more in depth work and explore some advanced image creation and enhancement techniques (using Adobe Photoshop CS6). Each week you’ll hear from a professional about how they use some of the skills and techniques we’re covering and tune in to expert teachers who will share their classroom successes.

You’ll be asked to maintain an online image portfolio and will be set a weekly task to complete and display in your portfolio before the following session to reinforce the learning and allow you to start expanding your own portfolio.

The first live class for this course is on Wednesday 24th July 2013

How it works Register – Simply click this link to complete your registration form: http://anzmoodle.adobegeneration.com/login/signup.php?

Attend – Adobe Generation courses run online, so you can learn from anywhere. The one and a half hour tutorials are weekly and run in the evenings for five weeks. If you have to miss a live session, you can watch a recording later.

Participate – During the course, you’ll learn new techniques and complete creative challenges alongside other teachers from Australia across the globe.

Graduate – Once you’ve completed all course requirements (including the final project), you’ll earn your Adobe Generation certificate and digital badge. You’ll also be ready to integrate digital media into your teaching practice.

The Student Guide to iPads – It’s Great for Teachers Too

So your school has introduced iPads but you would love a simple, clear guide to support your students?

Richard Byrne's post entitled: The Student Guide to iPads – It’s Great for Teachers Too  shares about such a guide available as a free iTunes app- The Student Guide to iPads & iOS 6, written by Jac de Haan. 
Byrnes indicates that this app covers all of the basics needed to get started.
iTunes describes the app as: 

"The Student Guide to iPads & iOS 6 was written to help middle-school and high-school students become proficient with basic iPad operations to support learning.

This book focuses on iOS productivity apps and basic troubleshooting."

but WAIT there's MORE! .....

It is NOT enough to know HOW to use iPads we MUST use them well to support teaching and learning.

Mark Gleeson (Mr G online) stated in  iPurpose before iPad: " there is room for improvement in creating a tool for supporting time poor iPads in Schools implementers in planning, selecting, justifying and integrating iPad apps in education." and then went on to suggest a collaborative effort to develop such a tool.
Visit  iPurpose before iPad and be amazed at how helpful such a tool can be as it is continually tweaked and developed. You may wish to contribute your ideas to this helpful tool.

It's time to re-connect!

My cruise has been and gone!
My time in Europe is over.....
It is time to re-connect with my valued PLN's.
I have missed being connected to all my online friends & peers.

Where does the stage "Take a break!" fit in this diagram I wonder??

Change is inevitable but first I need to get organised to return to the wonderful kids at school. I missed their cheerful smiles heaps.

TEACHMEET REMINDER: 
The King's School is hosting a Sydney TeachMeet on Tuesday afternoon 8 October.
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For further information on TeachMeets in Australia go to Teachmeet AUS