Adobe Spark, Tell Stories in the Classroom

Teachers need help with incorporating technology into their learning outcomes and classrooms. Librarians have a wealth of knowledge about technology integration and are a great source. Institutions need librarians to lead in integrating technology into instruction. Librarians are a good fit for this role because of their commitment to personal growth and learning (Johnson, 2012). One example of how they can do this is to recommend tools to help instructors with specific needs.

One such tool I found while reading an ed tech blog titled, MrKempNZ by Craig Kemp. He is a Google certified teacher that is based in Singapore. Mr. Kemp, who is originally from New Zealand, writes a blog about digital learning transformations. In one of his recent post he talked about what he thought were the top 10 EdTech tools for 2019. In this post he referenced a tool called Adobe Spark.

Adobe Spark is a beginner level tool that consist of three components: Spark Page, Spark Post, and Spark Video. It has almost zero learning curve and does not require an Adobe creative cloud  membership. I think this tool would work really well for my faculty and graduate students trying to share their research content on the web. I could also see librarians helping teachers add it to their curriculum for assignments. The tool can be used in a web browser or through apps that are available for both apple and google device platforms. I think Spark page will be the most useful for my because it allows novice users to create simple web pages with minimal effort so that they can focus on the content. This could be a life saver for my faculty who are required to have web pages for their research. The video component, Spark video, is nice too but it is limited in the length of video that can be produced. I am not sure that the social media integration would be of use to most of my colleagues.

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More information about Adobe Spark can be found at https://spark.adobe.com/.


Resources:

Horne, K. (2019). Adobe spark review. Retrieved June, 5, 2019 from https://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/adobe-spark/

Johnson, M. P. (2012). School librarians as technology integration leaders: Enablers and barriers to leadership enactment. School Library Research, 15, 22-24.

Kemp, C. (2019). Top 10 edtech tools for teaching and learning in 2019. Retrieved June, 5, 2019 from http://mrkempnz.com/2019/01/the-top-10-edtech-tools-for-teaching-and-learning-in-2019.html