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Adobe Sparks

 

I am always fascinated when I see cool videos and intrigued by them as well. I am always trying to make 
my lessons more interesting and have my students create their own little projects as interesting as possible.
Adobe Sparks will change their lives! I like this new tech tool because my students can use the iPads I have 
in my class. The computers that we have are so old that my students don’t like to use them. Therefore, I love
it when I can find educational websites and apps that can be used on the iPads.
I love it that my students can record their voices and bring anything that they wrote to life with cool images. This 
will also help them with their editing part of the whole writing process. The editing part is the part that they struggle
with the most and this will make it fun, interactive and most of all it will bring their creative side out!

My Adobe Sparks Example

Since this is my first video, I wanted to create a video that would help my students be more successful in life. At our
school, we are focusing on executive functioning skills so I decided to create a short video about it. I’m not going to 
go over all of them but the most important ones that I think my students would need in a daily basis. I started by writing
all the things I had in mind for the video. Then, I wrote down my script and how I would say it. I wanted to make sure I 
create a video that would be helpful for my students to look at as many times as they need. Since they struggle with 
working memory. Our students are constantly on survival mode and not on learning mode so I try to create a safe 
environment that they can actually get to that learning mode.
I got some ideas from this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLXggsK6oA and I’ve got the definitions from 
this poster that we have up on every classroom in my school.

Struggles

It took me a little to get used to the different themes and photos that I could add but overall it was pretty simple. 
Everything was going well until I wanted to add some Youtube videos. So I had to google it and that took me a long time 
to figure out. However, I couldn’t find an easy way to do this, plus I couldn’t download any of the third party tools that I 
found online. I’m always a little hesitant with those. These programs would convert the Youtube videos into MP4s. I 
wonder if there is another way? However, good news, I was able to find some old videos that were uploaded by other 
teachers to teach our students about Executive Functioning Skills. Therefore, I was able to upload the videos but I couldn’t
 find a way to play music only on certain slides and not all of them. Thus, I decide to leave my video without music.

I hope you enjoy my video as much as I enjoyed making it! - Sorry that it’s a little long :)

https://spark.adobe.com/video/UpMSUgO5VLlw4

Comments

  1. Really enjoyed your video. It was very impressive how long you video was, as after creating one myself I can appreciate the difficulty associated with narrating a video. Good work!!

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  2. Hi Elisabeth,

    I love your video, and the Seinfeld SNL clip was hilarious!

    I uploaded a video clip with no problems, but it was a video I took with my phone. It's too bad it's not easier to upload from youtube, because that is something I would definitely want to do.

    ~Heather

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  3. Executive Functioning Skills could become a video series. One way to work around the background music issue would be to create several shorter videos and then weave them back together in Spark. It is a little more work but you can achieve the desired effect.

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