Exciting to see this announcement from Education Wales, more than 500,000 teachers and learners across Wales have been given access to Adobe Spark for Education . This is a project that's been in the works for over half a year, and when I met the Welsh team at BETT in London in January I was more...
Chanukah (or Hanukkah using the Anglicized spelling) is a fun and joyous holiday, and for years now my kids and I have been creating ever more festive displays. Inflatables and purchased strings of lights have long been replaced with elaborate custom creations. This year we created the 3rd version...
It's Back-To-School time, and teachers all over are prepping for another year in the classroom. Back in prehistoric times, when I was in school, that meant sharpening lots of pencils, trying to get last year's chalk mark remnants off the board, obtaining a stack of clean projector transparencies...
Students and educators love free Adobe Spark for Education . And the Spark team has returned that love by compiling a huge list of Back-to-School resources, including project starters, icon packs, study buddies, lesson plans, worksheets, and whole lot more. You can find all of this goodness on the...
Students and teachers love Adobe Spark . They log in with their school logins, and then create, share, collaborate, and more. The login experience works really well. Wel, once it is all set up that is. But getting Spark EDU configured (including connecting it to school logins) can be tricky (yeah,...
The #1 Adobe Spark feature request is project sharing. Be it students working in groups, sharing with their teacher, or educators collaborating on lesson plans, there are endless reasons to share and collaborate. And now that is doable in Adobe Spark (web version for now, mobile coming soon). A few...
Dr. Karen Freberg is an associate professor of strategic communications at the University of Louisville, and she's a big fan of experiential learning. She's been using Adobe Spark in her lessons for a while, but earlier this year she had the opportunity to introduce her students to Adobe Premiere...
My colleague (and fellow Brit) Alex Gay , Director of Product Creative Cloud Marketing for Education, has weighed in on the worrying student retention stats, and how a focus on digital literacy (including Adobe tools like Spark ) can help students learn in a way they prefer. This one is worth the...
LitFilmFest creates classroom projects which help schools future-proof young learners, and Adobe Spark has been an important LitFilmFest partner. Watch the children of Tottington Primary School hold their own film festival, including a red carpet and an opening from their local MP. The teachers...
Whenever I show Adobe Spark to educators I lead with examples, letting student (and teacher) work tell the Spark story. I am usually asked for links to the examples, and so I have compiled ones I use often into this Spark Page. Enoy. And if you have great examples of your own, please comment and...