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Adobe Spark: Easily create and share videos, images, and newsletters

January 2, 2017Kelly Tenkely2 Comments9506 views

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!

Presefy: Go mobile with your presentations and give everyone a front row seat

April 22, 2013Kelly Tenkely1 Comment2899 views

What it is: Presefy is a new tool that lets you present with your mobile device wirelessly. The best part: those attending the presentation can view your presentations from their own web browsers (on a mobile device or a computer), and follow along using your unique “channel.” Upload pdf or ppt(x) files, at the moment those are the two supported file types.

How to integrate Presefy into the classroom: Presefy would obviously be wonderful to use when you are presenting at a conference or to a large group, but I also love the implications in the classroom and school setting. Have you ever been sitting in a conference or a session where your vantage point stinks? You go right ahead and check out because you can’t see what the speaker is referring to anyway. Imagine having the ability to follow along on your own device. Now you are more engaged than ever! The same is true for students, having something on a projector for all to see is great, but if you have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or a one-to-one setting, Presefy is a great way to share. Students can follow along on their own devices. Added benefit: now there doesn’t have to be a front of your classroom.

At Anastasis, we don’t have clear fronts of the classroom. This is intentional. We want to be able to share and discuss in a variety of ways and locations. Presefy lets us do just that by taking away the need for everyone to be facing one direction, with one presenter at the front. Instead, the teacher can present and be a part of the discussion and conversation in a way that is more organic. Students can follow along on their own devices. Everyone has a front row seat. Everyone can see clearly and be part of the presentation. SO much better!

With Presefy you can broadcast and run your presentation right from your mobile device. You even have access to see your notes and jump to any slide. Additional features are coming soon including the ability to poll your audience, ask questions, make notes, etc.

Tips: Right now, you are limited to having two presentations uploaded at a time. If you invite a friend to join Presefy, you will get to upload additional presentations.

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XOXO 2.0 Laptop

May 22, 2008May 22, 2008Kelly Tenkely1 Comment2417 views

Normally I only post ideas that you can implement into your classroom today, but the newest version of the XO $100 laptop is too cool to pass on. Be forewarned, the new XOXO 2.0 laptop won’t be available until 2010. I have a feeling that when they are available, they will be popping up in classrooms all over the country and making one to one more of a reality. The new XOXO 2.0 will be controlled by the touch, with a very simple user interface. It looks like it is perfectly kid sized and is said to be very durable (it will have to be in a school setting!) You can read more about the XOXO 2.0 Laptop on TED. Now, if only we could install Leopard on it, it would be perfect! 😉