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Adobe Spark — All-purpose Desktop Publishing Tool for the Classroom

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Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app that allows students and teachers with no design experience to create impactful graphics, web stories, and animated videos. Spark, Adobe’s replacement for Adobe Slate and Adobe Voice, is actually three apps in one — Spark Page, Post, and Video — providing three ways to tell a story.

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The Case for PDFs in Class Revisited

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PDFs work on all digital devices, all platforms. No worries about whether they run better in Firefox or Chrome, Macs or PCs (or Chromebooks or iPads), Windows or MacOS (or Linux or iOS). With a free PDF reader (like Adobe or many others– check this link for ideas ), students can open a document and get started right away.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

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Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

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Figjam is part of the Adobe Figma suite of tools and is free for educators and their students. Tom’s public education experience includes Special Education, Social Studies, educational technology coaching, and digital design. Go to tommullaney.com/consulting to bring him to your school or professional development event.

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Tech 101 for Teachers

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This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). BTW, if you use a Chromebook, there’s no need for this.

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Resources You Need During Covid-19

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Below is a short curation of the most useful articles, links, resources, and webinars to help you through this challenging environment: Online articles: Resources, tips and more for remote and e-learning (teaching online) — from Educational Technology Guy. Adobe Connect –fully-featured with lots of options for meeting students online.

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Class Tech Tips: Sharing Adobe Spark Creations with Google Slides

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The first is Adobe Spark , a set of three powerful creation tools for students and users of any age. Spark is a set of Chromebook-friendly and iPad-friendly creation apps and web-based tools. For more information on using Spark to practice digital citizenship skills with students, check out this blog post.

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