#OneNewThing: Adobe Spark

This week I tried using Adobe Spark Video for the first time. I'm enrolled in Tony Vincent's (@tonyvincent) Classy Videos course, and our assignment this week was to create a narrated slideshow.

When you first log in to Adobe Spark, you can choose which type of product you want to create:

I chose to create a video to persuade students and parents to attend our upcoming Back to School Night. Adobe Spark provides some templates for you to use, or you can choose to create your video from scratch.

I used the "Promote an Idea" template for my project. Once you have chosen your template, it's time to start creating! There are some basic menus inside of the video creator. These allow you to choose things such as layout, theme, and music.

You can also add narration to the slides by pressing the red button with the microphone icon at the bottom of each slide. I wrote up a brief "script" for each slide so that I wouldn't forget what I wanted to say.

Here is my finished product:

I'm really excited to use this more this school year. More importantly, I'm looking forward to having my students use Adobe Spark to create their own videos! Here are a few ideas I have for how they could use it next year:

Back to School Introduction Videos about themselves
Science: Students can create narrated videos that explain a science lab they completed. This could include pictures of different stages of their lab.
Social Studies: Students can take on the identity of people living in different time periods we are studying. They can create a video to show what their life is like to demonstrate their learning.
Word Study: Students can create a slideshow that includes images related to their spelling words and an explanation of the spelling patterns they are studying.

What are some ways that you have used Adobe Spark video? I'd love for you to share!

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