Adobe Spark is a web-based creative design application provided by Adobe for free to schools. Teachers and students can create beautiful digital designs and images, stunning websites, and seamlessly tell digital stories with a simple user experience. The application is streamlined allowing for creation to be easy for grades 2-8. The final product can be shared via Google Classroom, email as a link, send to Twitter and/or Facebook. The final products are not searchable or public unless you change the publishing settings. The application of what you can do with Adobe Spark is limitless. The creator gets to create a graphic (called a post), webpage (sometimes called a page) or video. A graphic can be a flyer, invitation, collage, Twitter post, newsletter, infographic or more. A webpage can be used for presentations, infographics, reports, or even passion projects. Finally, videos are easy to use and creations include All About me videos, promotional videos, informational videos or digital storytelling. Spark has numerous templates already made but also gives you flexibility to change themes or start from scratch. One great benefit is that it provides thousands of license-free images that you can search. However, you can still upload your own images as well. Another benefit is that it is easy enough to create a graphic, webpage or video without the hassle. TO GET STARTED TODAY: Follow these directions on how to log in...careful with directions! Ask your TLC for ideas or help! Other Resources 16 Ways to Motivate Student in the Classroom with Adobe Spark Adobe Spark Teaching Resources. Using Spark in the Classroom at Every Age 10 Ways to Use Adobe Spark in School
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Do you need to get a bunch of information from a group of people or students in a quick and efficient manner? Create a Google Form! Google Forms can be customized to meet just about any need! Google Forms offers a template gallery as a great starting place. Find a template, click on it, and begin customizing. Or create a form from scratch from your Google Drive or from forms.google.com
Google Forms has options that allow you to create self graded quizzes/assignments. You can create the quiz and let Google Forms do the grading for you! Even better, let your students create review quizzes for their classmates? Did you know that BrainPop has some great new features? If you haven't checked it out in the last year or so, you are missing out! As an educator, you can create student accounts, and assign videos, activities, and assignments for students to complete on their own devices. Additionally, BrainPop offers some great games that teach the students problem solving and perseverance. Check out two that come highly recommended.
Brain Pop Jr game - Monster School Bus Brain Pop Game - Lure of the Labyrinth **You can even challenge the students to go to the game and figure it all out on their own. It provides a great opportunity for the students to be self-directed problem solvers. Then have a conversation about the challenges they encountered. Have you heard about this cool online tool? Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform that millions of educators and students are using across the world! What's even better is that it is now all free! YES!! FREE!!! Teachers create topics that ignite conversations... book talks, reflections, showcase student learning, STEAM ideas, the possibilities are endless! If you need some guidance, check out the Discovery Library where other educators share their topics for a wide-range or ages and subject! How it works:
Are you ready to jump in? Create your free educator account using your D70 Google account here: Flipgrid login Follow @Flipgrid on Twitter to get AMAZING ideas and join the #Flipgridfever! Last year Seesaw introduced the Activity Library. This year, they introduced hundreds of activities that are ready to use with your students. These activities cover a variety of different topics and ideas. Be sure to check out the Activity Library
Google has made some great changes to Classroom this year! Check out the new improvements!
Learn more from the Google Teacher Center! Google for Education Classroom Training We hope you are still enjoying your summer! With the new school year approaching fast, the Technology Literacy Coaches will be providing a weekly tip or trick to help with teaching and learning! These tips and tricks will be posted to the blog each Tuesday. Some of them may be slightly more generic, while others may be beneficial for a specific grade or subject area. The goal will be to keep the blog posts brief but will also allow you the opportunity to learn more info or as always, you can contact your TLC with additional questions! With our students now having devices at their desktops, we want our students to become active learners. We have a great opportunity this year to use Nearpod or Pear Deck to increase student engagement. We will have Nearpod for our Kindergarten and 1st Grade classrooms and Pear Deck for our 2nd through 8th grade classrooms.
Both learning tools provide lessons to be more interactive, the ability to assess students, self-paced mode or teacher driven mode, and provides students to have a voice in your classroom. Training will be provided at the beginning of the school year. If you are excited to jump in, these guides will help you get started.
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