How Others are Using Adobe Spark in Teaching and Learning

Post (create graphics like posters, announcements, memes, reminders, etc.)

• Simple posters to announce club meetings, campaigns for class elections, or to post encouraging messages to students. (Byrne, 2018)
• Student-created posters, such as a simple early 20th Century-style propaganda posters of their own to help them understand, and show that they understand what propaganda messages look like. (Byrne, 2018)
• Meme-style graphic to share on your classroom, library, or school website to remind students abut important course events or course content. (Byrne, 2018)
• Quick Annotated Photos to explain, add context, or supplement content.
• Mystery Photos - Use as a way to teach concepts, vocabulary, world languages, etc.
• About Me and Other Introductory information
• Key Fact Cards (Romeo & Juliet example)
• Web graphics for portfolios, blogs, and more
• Content Posters (examples or this Geometry poster)

Video (create videos with text, images, voice, and music).

• Short flipped-lesson with Adobe Spark by recording narration over the slides in the lesson. (Byrne, 2018)
• Student-created video lessons. The slide aspect of Adobe Spark's video tool lends itself to students creating short Ken Burns-style documentary videos. (Byrne, 2018)
• Highlights of the course or key content information.
• Introduction videos of the instructor, students, or speakers.
• Background for a Presentation. Switch from PowerPoint to a quick-to-create, professional-looking, all-inclusive Spark video. Pick a goal (such as "Explain a concept"), add a background, follow the prompts for what is included in a successful presentation, add your voice, video, text, icons, and more. When done, save it as a video (not a slideshow file) that can be played anywhere.
• Miami University Student Stories - A course assignment from Barbara Barrett, Faculty, Intensive English Programs

Page (create simple web pages to showcase pictures, posters, videos, text, and links)

• Event invitation page. Create a page that outlines the highlights of an upcoming school event like a fundraiser or open house night. Include images of past events, images of prizes, or include a video about the event. (Byrne, 2018)
• Student-created digital portfolios. (Byrne, 2018)
• Create a multimedia timeline of specific course content or critical course deadlines.
• Student-created image-based stories.
• Book Reports: Add a visual element to book reports using an Adobe Page. Share the book reports on your class website so other students can get ideas for what to read.
• Research Papers, Essays & Written Assignments: Give essays and written assignments a more polished and professional look and complement written creativity with creative visuals and presentation.
• Share resources about a topic all in one place: Add videos, links to resources, images, and your own content on a page to share with students.
• Web Stories or Virtual Field Trips. Collect images from a field trip or class event into one scrolling slideshow-like file. Add text, videos, icons, and more to each slide.
• Newsletter or Information Sharing. Where these used to take hours to create, now you can build one quickly from a Spark page. Create a cover, add as many slides as you need mixing text, images, video, and more. Before publishing and sharing (as a link or QR code), try out different easy-to-use themes to see what fits your topic best.

Sources

Byrne, R. (2018, April 9). Adobe Launches Spark for Education. Retrieved from https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/04/adobe-launches-spark-for-education.html