I’ve made several videos about using Adobe Express in your classroom. These videos include making videos with Adobe Express and making custom QR codes with it. These are just a few of the many ways you can use Adobe Express in your classroom. Let’s take a look at some of the many ways Adobe Express can be used by you and your students.
Graphic design
Create graphics such as posters, announcements and internet memes.
- Students and teachers can create simple posters to print and post in their schools to announce club meetings, class election campaigns, or to post messages of encouragement to students.
- To help students understand and show that they understand what propaganda messages look like, I have them create their own simple early 20th century style propaganda posters. Adobe Spark has a built-in image search that can help students find images to use for those posters. Students can also upload images they find in the public domain.
- Create meme-style graphics to share in your classroom, library, or school website. The chart can be used to encourage students and parents to remind each other of an upcoming school event. You can also create a meme to encourage students to keep reading over the summer.
Videos:
Videos are created by adding text and images to slides. You can record yourself speaking on each slide. A library of free music is available to layer under your narration, or you can use that music instead of narration.
- Create a short flipped lesson. The recording tool makes it easy to accurately record your narration on class slides.
- Ask your students to create video lessons. The slide side of the video tool allows students to create short documentary videos in the style of Ken Burns. Have them use Spark’s search tool to find images to use in their videos or use Flickr’s The Commons to find historical images. I have taught students to make videos in this style to tell the stories of people moving west across the United States in the 19th century.
- It’s that time of year for graduation parties and celebrations. Use the video maker tool to make a video of the highlights of the school year. Instead of narrating the video, you can use music from Adobe’s library.
Web pages
Create simple web pages to display images, banners, videos, text and links.
- Create an event invitation page. Create a page that outlines the highlights of an upcoming school event, such as a fundraiser or open house. Include images from past events, images of awards, or include a video about the event. If you need people to register for your event, include a link to a Google Form. (Learn how to use Google Forms.)
- Create a digital portfolio. Students can divide their pages into sections to display videos they’ve made, papers they’ve written, and their reflections on what they’ve learned.
- Create a multimedia schedule. There are two ways to create a schedule in Adobe Express. Ask your students to research a series of events, find media representatives of those events, label the events and media with dates, and then put them in the proper order.
- Write a story based on the picture. Students can write a story about themselves using pictures they have taken that are posted on the web page. Another way to think about picture-based stories is to have students search for pictures and use them as writing prompts. Ask them to choose five pictures and write a story that connects the images.