Adobe Express – Learnshifting

Adobe Creative Challenges – Quick, Fun Learning

11 May 2024 by Mark Christie

I have just completed the May challenge. Here was the challenge… Here was my effort… If you click the link below, it will take you to a remixable version of my effort. https://new.express.adobe.com/published/urn:aaid:sc:AP:c78eba6a-deba-473b-9e79-826124336f56?promoid=Y69SGM5H&mv=other …and here is a video about the little add on to the original challenge. All of this software is free for our … Read more

Teacher IT Workshop for One Please

22 October 2023 by Mark Christie

The best learning takes place when the listening is happening. Sounds easy but many things need to align before that simple statement becomes a reality. When you have one-on-one coaching sessions, that alignment has a greater chance. The other day out at one of the newer primary schools in the Northern Territory, Zuccoli, I enjoyed … Read more

SMOOTHIES 23i2 – Microsoft Education Adobe Podcast and Animate from Audio

22 October 20239 September 2023 by Mark Christie

In this week’s episode of Smoothies, I covered the new Podcast Tool from Adobe. It’s still in beta but it is fantastic. It allows you to record a podcast or an audio file in any environment. Through AI it cleans up any background noise and allows you to edit using text because it actually converts … Read more

December in Melbourne through a GoPro Lens

12 February 2022 by Mark Christie

Well, I have created my second web page of GoPro photos taken in and around Melbourne. We strayed as far as the Grampians during this month. I had never been to the Grampians before and thoroughly recommend it. Below this month’s (December 2021) Photogrid story with accompanying haiku poems is a dedicated photo story with … Read more

New Year Creative Challenge

15 January 2022 by Mark Christie

I like walking and taking photographs of things. This year I plan to create an Adobe Express Webpage for each month, simply containing a collection of photographs taken on walks, journeys or adventures. There will be three or four of these mini-albums or photo grids for each month. A kind of visual diary. A haiku … Read more

My PowerPoint Confession

30 December 2021 by Mark Christie

PowerPoint was released in April 1987. This was before Windows was a thing. It was actually released on the Macintosh first. Photoshop was released shortly after in 1988. I started using PowerPoint in 1989 and it has been a firm favourite ever since. Microsoft has continued to develop its features and because it is a stable part of the IT landscape in almost all education jurisdictions, not to mention workplaces, it is fair to say that if you create a file using PowerPoint it will be able to be read by whoever you send it to.

So what is my confession?