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 graphicto 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.
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.
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