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Digital Learning PD - Adobe Spark

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I'll see if I can find this year this is the Adobe spark session case you were not sure what you signed up for but I I loved the Dobby spark have either of you use Adobe spark before I've used it a couple of times just took creating posters and things like that cuz both of them is super easy in that. Alex the kids and adults are able to create a really nice in case you don't know coaches here at Zionsville we actually have three now my focus is at Zionsville Middle School as has a Pleasant View and Boone Meadow and in Carly's at the high school and then she'll be at Union and then also Trailside once it opens and then we just added and it can even who will be at West at Stone an eagle but any of the three of us are happy to help you with Adobe spark is super easy but both of us have all of us have experience using it but spark is basically it's a it's a web Bass Pro that you can have students do or just for yourself to create either Graphics web pages or videos and so we'll talk a little bit about how to do each of those and kind of brainstorm what are some ways that you can is that with the curriculum that you have going on right now all of our students and staff already have Adobe spark accounts so they don't have to create any accounts that all it set up behind the scenes and so you go to spark. Adobe.com you will automatically just log in with your school email address and it should log the kids in automatically I which is really nice they don't they don't need to create anything on that when they login it's what I like about the Dobie spark is it gives them a lot of templates that they can choose from so they don't have to pay for those kids that maybe not have a Graphic I it shows them kind of ideas on what they could to do and it takes for the web pages and the videos it takes a lot of the kids can get lost in the Weeds on all the different Design Elements and it just gives him a few choices which help them stay focused on it so we're going to go ahead and start with the graphics so I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing my PowerPoint and I'm just going to go ahead and share my screen and can you see my Adobe spark web page yes so when you go to spark. Adobe.com or you can actually go to w.com as well when you go to the top right corner USA sign in now this is the important part kids will see all this I've got an Apple ID or he said sign in with my email address I'm going to sign up with school email do not do anything on the left side over here on the right side it says teacher student login with the school account so we're going to click on login with a school account and it's going to say login school email address once again they do not need to create an account we've already created the accounts for them so when they put their school email address in the click continue they typically don't get the screen but they do or if you do this is a company or school account so we click here and it's going to go ahead and log them in real quickly all right so this is our dashboard in Adobe spark and you'll see over here in the side we have our home button which brings us here projects that we've created or going to be listed here you really don't need to worry about brands or libraries at this point for for today session and then it's going to start with start from the template collage web page lots of different options I typically do is have students always go to the plus button in the top left corner so when I click on this I can now create for a template flyer webpage we're going to do a graphic so I typically starts yes with custom size graphics and when I click on this it's going to say okay what size graphic do you want kids are very familiar with the terms that they use in here so I can if I click up here at dawn popular Square Graphics which is your Instagram kind of Graphics Instagram stories Facebook YouTube poster landscape on social media posts you got all your Instagram Facebook's you too if it's cuz I'm going something I want to print so typical eight and a half by 11 I can do something like that card poster social media profiles so that they've got every size format that you can imagine in here ABS going to do a slide for a PowerPoint that I want to create a graphic for or maybe the widescreen ones for a graphic I can do that so let's say I'm going to do a graphic for the back in my PowerPoint my go ahead and click screen next and it brings up a lot of featured templates and then I'm right here it says I can search spark templates but I can I go through here and you'll see there's tons of a template that they can choose from but let's say I'm choosing a future I'm sorry research technology and so now it's going to pull up a bunch of templates that have a technology theme in here and so it's a this one here now notice it's not my white screen size that I wanted it's okay when I click on choose for this template I noticed longer widescreen because I chose the temple that wasn't windscreen but that's okay cuz what I can do over here on the right side is it resize and find that widescreen just white screen and it automatically adjust it for you now I may have to move some things around the way it was set up on the other one but it's nice I like if I wanted more of my keyboard in the picture I can click on this keyboard and drag it over actually kind of like it over there so it doesn't take that over to the texter I can click an edit anything in here for the template the text if I click on it I can edit the text that I wanted here so maybe I want to put are you the way I could choose the color the font size the font and the way it looks on here there's lots of different effects I can put in here and maybe I wanted a shadow effect I could do that outline it I can then click on this other text and the text here as well CES 2020 maybe I wanted that a little bit larger I could do that I can also click on it and drag it to make it larger centered if I want to see the lines and send it to center a didn't want this part appear to do is hit the trash can to delete it and it gets rid of it and then let's say there's some other things I would like to add to this one over here I can click on add text I can add my own text or theirs templates for different types of text I can head in here I could do that I could had another photo I can upload my own photo I can also find free photos which are using Creative Commons or great free images so if I click on that and say I want to put on there robot who doesn't like robots but some robots to me like that I can put that photo in the background and do different things with it I could also layer it to make it farther in the background or I could duplicate it I or replace the image get rid of it I didn't like it I could also add an icon so Nikon is like a a graphic so say I wanted to put so you can see there's tons of Graphics of Indiana I could change the color of it I also like that it gives colors that match the images that are in there so I can maybe I want to change it to that color or maybe I just don't keep it white 50. Move it wherever I want so those are icons Design Elements typically used too often but it's just more things to add to your background of it or change the background completely in here logos you don't have to worry about it as well but I can go through and I crate my graphic the way you want up here at the top you notice it just gives you the name of that template I typically encourage students and teachers to rename it to something that makes sense to you so pltw Powerpoints and saves it but now I want to go ahead and download this so I can put it into my PowerPoint that I want to use in class I can sit down here and it's going to say how do you want to download it PNG or jpg is typically what you're going to use jpeg is honestly what I use most often but even tells you what to eat when you would use each so that's 4 graphics higher quality is going to be your PNG normal for photos jpeg either those are going to work well on the web and just hit start download it's going to download to your computer students can also share that so let's say I want turnitin you've created a canvas assignment for them and they're ready to submit their graphic so I'm like in the middle schools last year they did infographics so they did a graphic in Adobe Spark that was an infographic and there's a lot of great templates for infographics as well so when they already submitted on canvas they went to share and then they're going to publish it and there's lots of different options here typically always tell the students to click link and then copy that link and it in the campus assignment instead of submitting like a document you would say submit a web page link and they would submit that in in speedgrader this graphic will show up right inside speedgrader for you to assess and get the back I will say that sometimes students when you when you tell them okay you're going to submit to me your link they automatically go and think hear this link this link you will not be able to access cuz that's the editing link and you don't have editing rights to their Graphics they have to go back to share publish and then get the published link that way any questions on sharing if you're having the students do that as well one of the feature is there they've been working on their collaboration so let's say maybe Gil and I are going to be working on a graphic together up here at the top I can click on this and I can invite others to work on this as well so I could add Gill and actually I see all the students and staff there in here to edit only one person can edit it at a time so the two of us can't be editing the same graphic at the same time so you have to take turns and so like I could do my portion of it and then tell Carly go ahead and it's but it is a way that they can collaborate on the same document if it's something that's the group work or a group assignment up here at the top that this is just undo or redo as so many things mess something up big maybe they made it way too big that can undo button and it puts it back the way it is any questions about setting graphics the kids doing a really good job of just it's it's super simple to use and they're not afraid to kind of Explorer let's say I'm done with this and I want to go back to my dashboard just hit the icon in the top left corner and then back in my dashboard and then down here it shows me my recent projects and so there it is so we kind of talked about the graphics stop sharing my screen here for a second and then maybe so I'm what are some ways that you could see using Adobe start Graphics parents but how could you see you what's your students can you think of some ways that you could utilize Graphics as an assignment with your kids with your current conscious and area yeah I think there's a lot of tricky like group were the first thing that popped in my mind is like vocabulary terminology it's new to them use it as a review of each each group of a select number of of vocabulary terms and maybe have some sort visual image that goes with that term what about you Jason yeah I'm in a different ways I can go throw it in the group work and I was looking at a way to have him present something and I did they come up with these ideas in their injury notebook now let's get to where it's a little more presentable versus just noticed that picture of your notebook and clean up a little bit and got to make it to its looks call that way if that's what I really like about it is that it's very easy to make it look very professional some teachers have use canva in the back and the past and it's very similar to can as well we've had teachers that have had students create like movie posters for like literally Literacy for literature that they're reading a kind of summarizing a story or you can do a movie poster on that particular point in time that you're studying so things are propaganda folders are posters even for social studies had students that have infographics on a basic topic studying in class science studying its Concepts they could take a create a concept map for the graphic that just looks very professional as well what about you you professionally how could you see you utilize it's not a silly it's an assignment but that you could use just as a teacher you're the first thing that comes to mind for me this place our students to but I used to do a section where the students stab to professional development to be creative dition state with that mission statement I always said the students have like personal photos or photos of what they want to be, you know some of those icons and images places that word take like a snapshot and then put it on their phone because they are so read it in class everyday like 21 days but this brings a whole new options and Opera is for them to really create their own their own image they're killing me and every day as well I like that idea what about the Jason this breakthrough and how could I do that for the classroom around the classroom like to get some more of those down there different projects we have in a day the step-by-step process that they take through parts of that so it's not just a digital form of the classroom quick visual look at it I think like that well beyond the graphics you can also create Beauty videos to how I kind of preface it with it's not like a typical video where the kids are taking pics videos of themselves like they're going to find a Tik-Tok anything like that but I think of it more as a video of a PowerPoint and it'll make more sense when I show you in just a second but it allows them to create scenes of images or short video clips and put them together and it puts it to music all which are copyright free music which is awesome at the kids want to put the latest Taylor Swift song in there buying them will want to get paid if you're using it in her in your own movie so we're going to stay away from the copyright songs but it's very similarly in Sparks I'm going to go ahead and get rid of my power right here and go back to sharing my screen it's I'm still back here in my Sparks dashboard and now when I click this plus button this time I'm going to say I want to create a video it's so when I click on video I'm going to give my video title so I'm going to call this see but might be so I'm going to do triathlons it can be whatever you want and really what this is doing is giving them a search word for them to find ideas for your template so I click next and they give you some templates you can start from so are we trying to promote an idea are we telling a story like a narrative is this about the hero's journey show until I can move on over personal growth teach a lesson and invitation pick up your phone I'm just going to create my own from scratch and so I said it's it's similar to PowerPoint in that you're going to see these would look like slides there's a really cool video at the getting it's only a minute 7 I encourage all students to go through to get a quick tutorial on how to use it but you have me for your tutorial so when I click out of this you're going to see PowerPoint the slides are on the left side and sparked the video slides across the bottom you'll see that it automatically creates a couple in here so it starts you with one and then there's one for credits and in an outro and so when you're creating videos with the kids typically I will tell them to create a draft on paper and pencil so plan out what each scene is going to look like in their video so they're not just kind of doing it on the Fly I say that and yet right now I'm going to do it on the Fly Just For Today training but in here on my first scene you see I can add a video clip text photo or icon if I click a video clip it's going to ask me to find that video clip on my computer so this would be something that if they maybe with an iPad or their phone they would need to save it to their computer or whatever they're creating it on and then they can upload it in if I don't have a short video clip because I think it can only be 30 seconds long so it's going to be a very short video clip it's not good a 10-minute video of them doing something but small video clips now you can combine video clips together so if I had a longer video clip and put it in there it'll say okay what 30 seconds do you want it so then I can go through and select what part of that video I want to use but if I wanted to add just text I clicked text now the text box so I'm a man B21 now I've got my text box on here I can make it smaller if I wanted to or larger I can hit the plus button and say I want a video in the background or a foe so over here now if I wanted a photo in the background here I can upload my own I could take a photo or once again I can find copyright free images so I'm going to go over here and I'm going to search Ironman and it's going to give me Marvel's Iron Man yes here's some so let's say I want to put picture of these people jump jumping into the water and so now it has that as the background now I don't like that the center is on their rears so I can edit and I can shrink it down if I want to I can also and see if it's going to let me if I click on the picture I can drag it down Center it wherever I want as well and so now I have my images the background get rid of that and I can also right here is I can record on top of it so I'm going to be and so let's say I'm going to do a little narrative on top of it I can go ahead just hit record Ironman Chattanooga 2021 will be held this September 26th I can listen to it I could add another slide what's a this one I'm just going to put a photo in I'm in and I'm going to see it pulls up Iron Man Simon swimming and I'm just going to start with water background and I'm going to add an icon this time adding it and maybe not all right so now I'm recording it on this one every Iron Man race begins with a two-mile swim I have that in there tells me how long it is I can listen to it I can go in and now I'm going to have the one let's say I'm going to read text once again I can make that larger or smaller I can add another photo or video in the background like in the background once I can continue to narrate this if I wanted to after the swim cyclist will get a bikes and bike 112 miles so I've done that narration I can drag these out of order if I needed to and I will continue on to make my video as I go through when I'm ready to listen to the whole thing I can go ahead and start from the very beginning and so it kind of goes through there when I'm creating slide I can also I made it. But I could also make a split screen so where there's text on one side and icon on the other or image in the background and a caption or title and text on here as well so I have other layouts that I could do I can also choose a different theme so these are branded themes for let's say I want the backgrounds so I can I want this color I'm Elevate so now that changes the color of the text as well but you'll see that it doesn't give them lots of options which I like because I spend the entire class. Just playing with fonts and so I can go through and do that think I'll visit our website is that and you take that out or is that always going to be there because it's a school Associated product this is because I've got a branded it would not show up for students so I could just hide that so it doesn't even show that okay I do like that it also will cry any images that it used know where that came from Arby's on theme I can resize it so maybe I wanted to be square cuz this is going to go on the Instagram I could put that there or widescreen but I can also choose so maybe I didn't like that music that had they can add their own copyright free images are music they still need to make sure that it's something that is not purchased but they can also go through here in what's a Wandering guitar and listen to it that way they can listen to find the music that they like and I say I like this click on it and now it's going to add that to the background as well when I'm finished I can go ahead and I can download this search it's preparing my video to download it I now have it on my computer I could then submit that in canvas I can email them I needed to I can upload it to YouTube if I wanted to do this as a teacher I'm going to cancel the download just because I don't need it download it I could also just share it so if I click share once again if I hit publish I can give it a title and then I can create that link to share and canvas has a teacher and said that the teachers can watch that video bright for what in speedgrader give that feedback in there I wanted to preview the whole video that's what it looked so just a little bit different once again I like it cuz it's simple and it's something that looks very professional that the kids and both teachers can make as well so with that thinking about that what are some ways that you can see our students using this I think in several of our courses we have students do kind of a mock business plan a we put together a business plan of their of their choosing and I think they kind of goes along with the mission statement we're looking kind of cell that the rest of the class on their idea and why they think it's a good idea and who knows that would bring spark discussion amongst it as soon as I go yeah that's maybe you should try some different images things like that that's far are second graders in one of our elementary schools created spark videos for their Market Day where they created a product and they are trying to sell it to their classmates and other classes and so it worked out so second grade but surely our high schoolers to do this is what I'm sure Ashley we won Project word literally had a pitch your practice Zayn and then I would like the VA of your one chance you're in the elevator with the CEO of the company how do you put your your design idea you have a project that we do so it's kind of a I think it's a good got a good way of doing it works more than just the audio portion of it though for the books that they're reading the concept that they're studying so once again who's your audience and how do you get them in the short amount of time to do I need to read that book or what was let's summarize this concept you've got thirty seconds summarized using video awesome could you see using this professionally as a teacher in any way yeah I think a lot of tests since we're not a required subject but none of the classes in our department are required so we can have to sell ourselves all the time so we spent quite a bit of time talking about how can we get directly tied to the student to bypass the the parents and all the other parts just can't like sell our programs in a short amount of time to two other students and we always talked about in our plc's the sophomores are registering this week don't forget to sell your your classes we actually have a PowerPoint would pass around and update every year you know this is I think this and bring a lot more to do that and grab their attention a lot a lot quicker yeah I think your students are going to listen to a short video clip much more than going through a PowerPoint about the advantages of taking a yes Bueller Bueller on the web page things like that I wish there was a class that did that there is a class that does that is out there really for Kids Daycare and that standpoint but it also I think just you know me I was in our classrooms so about open house have a lot of time with parents but this would be a perfect as opposed to sitting in the class and listen to the syllabus in the grading you know they always go through totally off off-kilter on Allen and I can't have a video but that they can go and watch it on the canvas page or wherever you want to see the email it to them cuz it's short exactly a screen recording posted that way but you know how to stop start over sometimes as you get you get on tangents and I'm like oh wait I think of it this way you know you can kind of help and your you get that information you want there and not kind of rambling on awesome and the other products tools and there is it it's super Temple to look very professional I am so I'm going to go ahead and show you how to do that and then we'll kind of answer any questions that you may have exactly so I'm going to go ahead and click my go to come back to my dashboard again once again there's my my video he'll tell you is this a video I posted is those Graphics but I'ma hit the plus button and this time I'm going to say I'm going to webpage add a title so let's say I'm going to once again ad subtitle funny and then down here once again if you're always looking for those pluses so I click the plus I can add a photo I'm so I'm going to just once again find free photo let's say I like so say I like this photo and it says scroll to start writing your story if I click on the photo I can change the focal point so if I change focal point it shows me over here in the portrait mode so I can say okay where do I want to focus I want to maybe Focus up here at the top or off to the side so I say I want it I want this to be my focus right there and say and save I could also replace the image or delete the image of I want so I'm going to go ahead so there's folk appointment cancel so now I scroll here are the things I can add on the web page I can add another photo I can add text I can add a button which is going to link to a website I could insert a video I could do a phone grid so maybe there's multiple photos I want to put in there a grid show our Glide show is kind of think of it like your traditional old photos that you had in your hands and you could just kind of shuffle through them so that's awake light show is or split so maybe you want a picture on one side and text on the other so I'm going to start with this just showed you how to do the photo up here I can make it a two different sized headings I could do it I can do a bulleted list once again I can make it bold italicized put a link in here somewhere start with a heading now I have two pluses add something above that or less they want to add something below its I want to add something below it and this time I'm going to add a photo and wonders so now I can choose for my photo to be in line with my web page make it fill the entire screen make it fill out the window or make it fill with where I can move it around whenever I need to sleep I wanted to make it full with see how it makes spider makes a little nicer photo but I also had any texts about what swimming and so since it's not a heading I'm just going to start typing spoon White Tiles 2 I can put that information in there until they have got that in there I'm done now I'm ready to maybe I'm going to add another text and talk about biking text say this time instead of a photo I'm going to go ahead and add a video so I can find a YouTube video I am in bed it right in here so and obviously I would want to preview that video before I put it in there completely so I say selesai out here some tips so I'm going to go ahead and add these tips in here grab URL Hey sister and now that's embedded right inside my my web page I could then go and add more text and this time I want to add phone red and so I can add multiple photos Santa with your Iron Man and you'll see that it automatically adjust it based on the pictures that you choose and how many issues and then I just save so now those are in there I could also that it a go light show witch make it up to you and just panda photos and so now I have a text box on top of here that can do let's say I'm finished and I want to preview my webpage ice cup hear the top it preview it's this shows you what the websites going to look like soon as it loads so they scroll through is that video my tax there's that Glide show there's the photo grid and then down at the bottom and credits were all those images that I put in there were posted to now under settings I can also show the header bar for the bar I can turn that off when I'm ready to present if I want to present in class I could do that goes to full screen if I wanted to and now I have buttons that I can go to each section so it's now and I'm in present mode it's more like a PowerPoint so that's just another way that you could do that once again with the others I can share publishing a link to put in canvas I could collaborate with someone else so if this is a group project I could add them on their once again I don't think unless they've updated it you can only have one for editing at a time over here on the right themes just like we had before there's some CCS themes and say I like this track 1 and changes the font in the layout a little bit I have that that website again what are some questions you have about the website there's not a download for a website cuz websites you don't download you to share that link on where it's at and then that will be available to everyone in my class I have students do presentations quite a bit for example have them present like a new chapter were working on four parts of the chapter to the class and I have a rubric for it and might my point of them is I want the content in there but I want visuals for everybody is well and we always use PowerPoint is a vehicle is this something I could use as opposed to PowerPoint because the visuals are awesome I love this like transition said you scroll a fan of the man brings them out so you had those images I love that all those images are copyright free but at the same time if there's something that they wanted to take their own photos they can add their own photos by using their camera on their phone or an iPad and then upload it right that way as well excellent yeah anytime that you're wanting students to kind of show Mastery of concept or skill where they can both type it out as well as give the visual the kind of represent that I think it's great alternative versus here just write this essay is it draws men the part that was most excited about is now I'm just kind of keep in a portfolio at the end of Capstone project like that the button feature you said that that would just linked to another website can you link two documents can you ask if so if the document anything that has a hyperlink good question Jason anything else I tried it so we talked about using an iPad in their phones currently Google has I mean Adobe spark has apps in for the App Store for Apple products for post pages and videos supposed to the graphics pages is The page and video is the videos they only have the post in the for Androids at this time but they take the photo on their phone if they have an Android phone save it to OneDrive from there and then get on their computer and put it in that way as well and those are all free apps all our students have a OneDrive access to OneDrive yes and do they know that they should yes that's where everything is stored okay that's back in the day many years ago we kind of we talked about having a OneDrive for Oliver classes in like reading class like putting students in that class course that is but they have their own individual storage in OneDrive where they have unlimited storage at any file that they've created from kindergarten to 12th grade can be stored there and making sure that with me and I can I can see it as well yes any other questions well like I said guys both Carly and I both know there's three of us but we're more than happy to help you with any of these things were we come in and model it with your students we can sit down and plan with you and kind of brainstorm what are some projects that you are already doing in class with the concepts being taught and how can you take those and kind of tweak them to include Adobe spark with it I love the product the fact that the kids already have accounts in their is nice and that they can easily share it with you via email through PowerPoint or whatever that may be in these decisions were getting at the high school they probably I've used this at the middle school or elementary schools already maybe probably not in this thing has been around for a while but they haven't we just started creating accounts okay so now we're in that face as they all have accounts now we can go start working with teachers and teaching them how to use it so they can start exposing his suits with it some of it I worked a lot with a lot of our fifth grade students at West last year with a spark so you'll start getting some students in the next couple years that are like oh yeah I just work all the time awesome I hope you two have a great day thanks for giving up a little bit of your summer break to come and hang out with me and like I said let me know if you have any questions at all bye-bye

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