What it is: Adobe Spark is a collection of fantastic (free!) creative tools available online or as an app download.
- Create social graphics that are stunning and easy to share (you know the kind: flyers, memes, posters, ads). The example above took under 2min to create and share! 🙂
- Make beautiful web stories for event recaps, newsletters, photo journals, portfolios, etc.
- Produce and share impressive videos for storytelling, projects, or to share to social media.
If you (or your students) are feeling a lack of creativity, there is even a bank of inspiration that will get you started! This is particularly helpful for your students who struggle with a place to start but are brilliant with a little nudge. Whether you begin with inspiration or not, you’ll be feeling an extra burst of creativity in no time.
How to integrate Adobe Spark in the classroom: The collection of tools in Adobe Spark are perfect for students and teachers alike. Students can use these tools to create book reviews, to document science experiments, for storytelling, to explain their inquiry process, as an eportfolio, to illustrate math concepts, and so much more! These tools will help your students take their learning and present it in a way that is both visually powerful, and easy to share.
Teachers, you can use Adobe Spark to create a weekly newsletter (SO easy to share home with parents!), create photo journals of class events or field trips, to create writing and thinking prompts to share with students, quotes, presentations, and announcements. The photo journal would be a great way to give families a glimpse into your classroom, if you’re like me, your phone is FULL of pictures at the end of each week! If you have a class social media channel on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube- Adobe Spark is about to take it to the next level of awesomeness!
I love the way that Adobe Spark has made digital storytelling that much easier to create and share. This is a site that you’ll want to bookmark for easy access, and put on all of your students devices if you have a one-to-one environment.
Tips: If you have laptops, the web version of Adobe Spark is best, otherwise download the app!
Hi, Kelly,
Do you have any suggestions for handling younger student accounts since they have to have an email address? I’m not sure if a shared classroom account would work well, say with 5th graders. Also, if we used students google accounts to set up accounts, would you recommend getting permission from parents? Any tips are appreciated as I know some of my teachers will be hesitant to set up accounts for students or share an account.
Hi Adrienne,
If your students have Google accounts, I would definitely go that route. It is always a great idea to get parent permission to use these types of accounts first. At Anastasis, we have parents give permission for these types of accounts at the beginning of each school year. Share with families what great learning you hope to enhance with this and how they can monitor use 🙂