Plan ahead for a Thanksgiving listen

Once again this fall, the Great Thanksgiving Listen will happen in family rooms and breakfast nooks all over the USA. Why not ask your students to add their families’ voices to the collection at the Library of Congress? It’s all part of a national effort to collect oral histories. The website explains everything you need to know, including how to get the StoryCorps smartphone app for recording a story,

New for 2017, Adobe is partnering with StoryCorps to help take the narratives to the next level with images and other visual elements. Go to the Adobe Education Exchange, get a copy of the “Extra Credit with Adobe Spark” lesson materials, and learn how to emphasize special moments in a recording using Adobe’s free Spark tools — Post, Page, and Video.