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Add your signature to a PDF form using Adobe Express

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Adobe Acrobat has some amazing document automation tools but, in many cases, people will send through a form as a PDF document expecting the recipient to print it out, sign it, scan it and resend it with the signature on the document. There are a variety of ways to get around this if you don’t … Read more

Adobe Creative Challenges – Quick, Fun Learning

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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

Free tools to improve recorded audio

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Noisy classroom, poor-quality laptop? Trying to get the students to create multimedia stories on their school laptops or iPads in the classroom or library? Been there and done that. Adobe podcast is an online solution you can use to not only record a podcast but also get your students (and you) to learn the best … Read more

Teacher IT Workshop for One Please

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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

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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

SMOOTHIES and Learnshifting

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SMOOTHIES stands for Short Multimodal Online Opportunities To Help Interested Educators Succeed These Friday afternoon 15-minute informal online learning opportunities have been running since before the COVID pandemic and were the main reason I ended up running the upskilling training for teachers who potentially had to deliver classes online during the COVID dark days. To … Read more

FAIR – Fun, Aspirational, Inspirational, Respect

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When I was reflecting on words I know are crucial to determining purpose, direction and achievement for students, I settled on these four. The fact they formed the word “fair” which in turn is part of the phrase that Australia is famous for, namely giving people a “fair go” made me want to share these four words and why I think they are important for students, teachers, parents, carers and anyone wanting to give the best fair go to someone, to anyone.

It is also obvious that the component words of this acronym are not new as ingredients to creating an opportunity for a child to live their best life, but I do like the fact I have bundled them into a four-letter “F” word that I like.

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