(formerly known as Adobe Spark)
What is Adobe Express for Education? Adobe Express offers both teachers and students the creation options and features from Adobe Spark, but also students and staff can access and utilize Adobe Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush. This includes photo
and video creation and editing in addition to the presentations, websites, and other templates readily available for all. Adobe provides support for both teachers and students, take a look by clicking the image to the right! -->
Suggested Audience: Students (Grades 4-12), Teachers, Office Staff, Admin, District Staff
The WHY behind Adobe Express
Short answer: to be honest, it's not Adobe, but more so the idea of introducing and exploring new platforms and technology to assess if/how it can enhance your instruction or make your life easier!
Long answer: Once students use one platform for everything, like Google Slides, it becomes very difficult for them to remain open-minded about trying new things. For example, if a student used Google Slides for every presentation and learned through their teacher's Google Slides, they're going to be very comfortable and biased towards Google Slides. But, when their 7th grade teacher asks them to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding via a podcast with Soundtrap, an infographic using Canva or presentation via Adobe Express, that student will not feel equipped or prepared to create something other than with Google Slides. If we prepare our students to be well-rounded, experienced risk-takers, students will be more likely to adapt to new technologies and platforms.
Beginner
Offer Adobe Express as an option for students to demonstrate their knowledge
Challenge students to capture their learning via a digital learning journal
Have advanced or early finishers put together an explainer video walking through how they solved the math problem
Ask students to create a collage to introduce themselves and include buttons to link to new pages sharing more in depth about their hobbies
Intermediate
Create a supplement to enhance and further student engagement for a unit or lesson
Create a collage of artifacts - students can explore and puzzle together
Encourage students to create their own portfolio of their poetry
Design and upload a new banner for your Google Classroom to reflect the unit
Collaborate with your professional learning community and put together a video or an explainer video to support students who need information or content re-explained when they're working at home or studying for a test
Advanced
Make your first video in Adobe Express
Here's how to create a historical video biography? Goodbye essay, hello true engagement! Check out the step-by-step tutorial
Create a dynamic online learning resource to support your students throughout a unit or lesson, or to share across grade levels!
Design your own Classroom or Course page by creating your own web page
Explore the following features: image and video editing like resizing, converting to GIF, converting to MP4, trimming a video, resizing a video, merging videos, removing a background, cropping an image, generating a QR code, or converting files to or from PDFs
Whether you're in the middle of a unit or looking to revamp right away, here's a great resource from Adobe for Education that include anything a teacher could need to implement Adobe Express smoothly and slowly.
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