Introduction all right hello and welcome everyone we are so glad you’re here thanks for joining us today I am Melissa and I’m located in Texas and I will be kind of here in the background helping Todd out a little bit Todd is also here that’s how you see on screen right now I’m gonna hand off to Todd and he can go ahead and introduce himself and then we’ll get going so thanks thanks everyone well glad to be here my name is Todd Taylor and I have a number of titles one of them is I am my business card for Adobe says that I am a pedagogical evangelist and so I imagine most of you out there are with me in that enterprise committed to transforming teaching and learning my other title is the Elias and distinguished professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I’ve been teaching for about 22 years and so in the chat pod are two links and we will return to some links so that you can access some resources that we’re going to mention throughout this presentation I’m going to switch over to Chrome and we’re going to spend most of the time working in something called Adobe spark you won’t see my face much for the rest of the program this is again easy lesson plans and video content and adobe spark and i have already introduced myself and the destination or the purpose of today is to promote learning outcomes in any class by producing engaging accessible digital content that leads to transformative student experiences and so you may have thought that this is going to be a instructional support or a technology seminar but really this is more about pedagogy than it is the technology itself and so think about our destination today is really transforming student experiences through the use of some pretty powerful technologies you will leave today’s webinar with at least the possibility to develop to actual assets one is going to be a lesson plan template that you’re going to make in adobe spark page and the second piece is going to be a very rudimentary easy audio-visual video made in spark video spark video is free to all it is cloud-based and it is accessible and responsive which is why we’re going to start there so well how did we get there to this place we are today this is certainly quite the moment in terms of Context our world in our history and especially education many of you are probably experiencing or working with people who are suddenly doing what we would call emergency remote teaching and so we the the context of what we’re going to do today is going to talk about effective and best practices for teaching with these technologies but it certainly needs to respond to the context of the last month when education is being so radically and abruptly transformed and so as a frame around all of this we need to think about where we are and how we got there the first thing I’d like to sort of put in this frame is two separate concepts of online or distance learning from emergency remote teaching what we’re gonna do today can work for both environments but it’s very important that if you’re not an experienced digital or online instructor you don’t feel a lot of pressure to make your course the digital experience to be of course perfect and wonderful today because if you’re doing this very suddenly because of the situation regarding the closing of so many schools then the best you can do is to try to mimic the kinds of outcomes and practices you are going to normally have but do that in a very simplified technology way not trying to do anything that’s too complicated the video I’m actually going to be making today extends from an article I published over 20 years ago that outlines principles for instructional technology and they those principles are still relevant today but we need to look at them carefully as we venture into these new and innovative territories the first three principles from that article are what we want to keep in mind as we begin the webinar and experience today the first to keep people first to use these incredibly and increasingly powerful technologies to bring people together the classic mistake when it comes to instructional technology is for the tail to wag the dog and for us to get so wrapped up in the hardware and the software and the applications and they’re trying to make everything work trying to make our xun classes work that we forget why we’re doing so in the first place the goal the destination again is to transform teaching and learning to deliver on the outcomes that were part of your class regardless of whether or not you’re suddenly revising it and so we want to be sure that we’re focusing on human beings and in the case of emergency or a remote teaching that means taking care of your students in ways you might normally might not normally think about and certainly taking care of yourself to not put too much pressure on yourself which is why also I put this webinar together on smark because it is just that it is a very low threshold very easy to learn application that has lots of ubiquitous functions and possibilities and it’s very good at trying to avoid the mistake of the tail wagging your dog so we can use spark to live to deliver effective pedagogy and not so much become focused on on digital instruction itself the second piece is to start simple that’s why we’re starting in spark spark is the simplest digital educational application I know of and while we’re doing that we then also want to focus on pedagogical principles and learning outcomes if you are suddenly changing your course your outcomes don’t change it’s just the way you’re going to get to those outcomes there might be a little bit different and so what we’re gonna do today is we’re going to talk about specifically content there’s lots of different dimensions to instructional technology affordances limitations distance learning face to face learning and asynchronous learning and a lot of that has to do with student with people interacting with discussion forums with live conferencing and that is a topic for another week in this webinar series but I’ve been asked today is to think about how to make dynamic content that helps support transformative teaching learning and the vocabulary that a lot of people use to think about this are the two terms affordances and limitations with whatever choice you make is an instructor not just which technologies you use but how you use them certain choices are going to afford certain possibilities and simultaneously limit them and so we want to we want to look at this frame we want to talk about the affordances and limitations of what we’re working at today Adobe spark page creates cloud-based microsites in other words mini webpages its affordances are that it is cloud base so you can access it from any pretty much any device with Internet connectivity it’s free there is no fee there’s no subscription everyone in the world can get free access to it if well if they’re not in a country that has a firewall it’s extremely easy to learn it’s the easiest educational technology I know of it’s easy to share for both your students and yourself and it works well on any device and so we have to consider that some students may only have a smartphone and how are they going to be able to interact with your content if that’s all I have available to them spark video has all the same affordances of spark page what it’s good at is creating really short narrated slideshows so if you wanted to create a three minute maximum maybe five minute video talk or a lecture or a presentation of any kind and you basically just wanted to narrate slideshows that’s what a dhobi spark is good for now with these applications as with any application there are many paths to God there are other Catholic applications that do similar things and so by putting your hands on and seeing what spark can do you can make an educated decision as to what might be the right solution for you Adobe spark video is one of three video editors in Adobe Creative Cloud there’s also Adobe Rush which does full multitrack simple video video editing an Adobe Premiere Pro which is a full feature professional-grade video editor those to rush and premiere are part of a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud where’s again Adobe spark video is completely free and so to you know kind of pull this together into in terms of a pedagogical concept I like to think pedagogical concept about the concept of integrity of all the pieces of my work as a classroom instructor coming together and holding together and again the long view for me what I’m trying to do in all of my classes is I want to move myself and students away from being passive disconnected consumers of content I want to move them toward being active connected producers of ideas which is why engaged active pedagogies are what I have found to be in all the research and all of my experience to be the key to critical thinking critical problem-solving in student success and so if you think about this you’re looking at a picture of someone who’s spinning clay on a on a wheel and I liked how the this this creators hands are getting dirty I like to think about integrating these kinds of digital technologies as maker tools in the student experience in order to promote student digital literacy and transforming transformative learning by modeling creative knowledge production practices myself in other words when you go to create when you go to create a spark page a spark lesson plan or spark video you’re modeling for students a way of making knowledge that hopefully they will be able to imitate and they’ll start using spark themselves in other words in a sort of slogan I want students to get their hands messy producing and sharing something that solves problems and matters something useful to them and so in introducing Adobe spark which is now on the screen the idea is that we could go through a Adobe Spark workshop you could go down a worksheet and you could make something in spark that you know you may or may not have a connection to but in order to demonstrate this kind of concept of how to approach these technologies well I’m gonna walk everyone today through making a lesson plan template in adobe spark and then a quick lecturer or talk and spark video and so yeah I don’t suggest that you try to follow along in adobe spark right now this webinar will be recorded but you’ll probably get the hang of it just watching sort of the simple moves I make and so I’m gonna actually from scratch make what I’m gonna call a lesson plan template and then the idea with that template is every time you want to create in the lesson plan you just duplicate that template and revise it for a particular lesson and so what I am in adobe spark adobe spark is actually three applications in one it is adobe spark page which as i said makes web pages it’s a dar devi spark post which makes graphics and illustrations and it is Adobe spark video and so if you want a subscription or a spark account all you have to do is go to spark Adobe comm and register to create your free account if you are going to install those applications on a mobile device you actually have to install three different applications adobe spark page adobe spark post and an adobe spark video and so if you’re on a mobile device right now and you want a degree they’ll be spark go to the app store download spark page and you could do what I’m about to do right now I see there’s a question here I’m going to see if this technology works oh so the question is will it be a recording and the answer is yes good all right so here we go in in adobe spark you have this interface here and the top left-hand corner of the screen is create a project and basically all you have to know in adobe spark as compared to more complicated sort of applications is that if you ever want to add something look for a plus button and click the pus button and you can add something you want to change something edit something click on it and usually the instructions or what to do next will pop up if not then there’s probably a button somewhere on the screen with instructions for what to do we’re gonna create a project right now and the way I’m going to do this and I hope this isn’t sort of frustrating for some of you who might be technologically advanced is I’m going to actually kind of pause and and and ask you to imagine that the screen that you that I’m sharing right now is actually yours to try to get you to think through which buttons to push and which choices to make to get where you’re going and so we clicked create a project if you’re gonna follow what we’re gonna do and create a webpage what would you click on now obviously webpage and here we see we can create a video we’re gonna do that later you can create all different kinds of assets but today we’re going to create a webpage and then it takes a second and now we’re in the interface of adobe spark page and if you as you look at this interface it’s pretty simple there are these tools at the top settings preview present share there’s this option in the top right themes and there’s a plus button that’s basically all there is to it whenever you want to add something you click the plus button I’m going to add a title to this and we’re going to so I’ve just clicked on this and we’re going to call this lesson lesson plan template and I’m just gonna leave a space here for course number now if you’re looking at this it clearly is begging for something it’s begging for an image it’s begging for some graphics in order to do that I think to yourself if I wanted to add some image or graphics right now what would I click on and so I told you earlier the answer to most questions is click the plus button you click the plus button you click a photo up pops off this amazing menu where you can upload photos you can search through Adobe stock for licensed photos but what most students and faculty want to use is to find free photos these are high resolution high quality fair use images that are in a database and so I’m typing in a search term I’ve typed in the word Curtin and it’s going to go out on the internet and it’s going to search for high quality high resolution fair use images that is they’re free for me to use as an educator or a student right and so I typed in the word Curtin because in my lesson plan template I’m going to use this metaphor of a theatrical production to think about how I want to organize a class session so I’ve typed on Curtin and I’ve clicked on a curtain that I like the image of and now that is the sort of cover to my spark page now you want to think to yourself okay I want to start adding text to this resource to this web page what would you do next to start adding text well the bottom of the screen it says scroll to start writing your story so I’m gonna scroll and that pops the familiar plus button I’m gonna organize my lesson plan template according to five different sort of acts or movements if I’m going to use the theatrical metaphor so I’m going to click on the plus button [Music] click on text all caps because it’s sort of a header I’m gonna type in pro blog as the first piece of my lesson plan then I’m going to select that text and I want to make it bigger and I want to make it Center so when I select it up pops these options h1 h2 h1 seems like it’s going to be pretty big so I’m gonna pick that and then I’m gonna stay out of the text and then I’m going to add three acts but to the structure of this template act one is going to be what I call watch one and I explain what that means invent I’m going to do the same thing to format this text I’m going to select it click h1 and I’m going to Center it then I’m gonna click on the text again I’m going to type in act two you do one and I’m gonna do the same formatting and then is Act three I’m gonna type in teach one that’s what I’m doing is I’m trying to put together a generic lesson plan template the structure or skeleton that would be applicable for any kind of class doesn’t matter what you’re teaching biology chemistry humanities social science doesn’t matter and then the last thing I’m going to do is I’m going to type in epilogue all right and same formatting and it’s centered all right so now I’ve got a structure to Lesson Plan Structure this template and what I have in mind is something that I actually heard from friends of mine who went to medical school that when they’re in medical school they get to a certain point where what they’re learning are procedures that they need to perform and the way they learn those procedures is they work with a mentor doctor who demonstrates how to do the procedure they watch the procedure then the second time they experience the procedure they do the procedure in collaboration with the leader and then once they have had some experience doing the procedure the point at which they really learn that material or that experience or in this case that procedure is they then in turn teach it to another medical student right and so to me that’s how app that’s how active engaged learning really happens at the beginning of a class session they’re kind of looking at me and I’m kind of setting the table and then in the middle of a class session I want them sort of in in in collaboration with me working through problems and working through ideas but eventually they’re going to be teaching and reporting what they’ve discovered in that class session and I want every single class session I have whether it’s online whether it’s a face-to-face whether it’s synchronous or asynchronous ideally had that kind of movement to it like the movement of a theatrical production I also want there to be a prologue where I set up day and an epilogue where I set up today right and so here is a final version of this lesson plan called how to write a lesson effective lesson plan a play in Lesson Plan Prologue five movements and the prologue contains these elements it announces that the action is about to begin it establishes a theme or a focus for the day it describes what students will get from the session it outlines the activities for the day and it connects this lesson to previous lessons in the course Act one as I said earlier is watch one it’s more often teacher teacher focus you’re establishing key terms principles and ideas it models a way of thinking reading writing creating it extends previous thought and prepare students for what comes next back to do one like these students writing on a board students in fact we are now speaking kind of equally the focus isn’t necessarily on an instructor in the front of the room whether that’s a virtual room or a face-to-face room the focus now starts to move from consumption of content to the application of the idea certain saloon students learn the concept through guided and supervised application monologue gives a way to dialogue and instructor gives feedback through each stage or step of the exercise and now students are getting prepared to apply the concept independently so when the third part of the lesson plan they’re gonna be teaching it to themselves and to others the focus is now within the class space itself and the longer than in front of the room knowledge and ability transfer to other context is emphasized and students gain clarity and confidence by witnessing their development as they go through it and the focus is on new ideas and in developing new talents and to apply them into additional context and I do a lot of consulting and in with faculty development and teaching pedagogy courses especially to graduate students who are new to teaching and this is the most calm one of the most common mistakes that new teachers have is they they have a lesson plan it’s it’s full of ideas and it’s full of activities but they then fumble at the end and they rushed through and they don’t take a moment to stop and pause and reflect and so I want to be sure that in my lesson plan there’s a theatrical curtain going down that signals that the session is ending it gives a chance to reflect that creates a current that connects the current lesson plan with the previous one and says ask them to anticipate where we might be going next and it specifically outlines tasks responsibilities and homework to prepare for next time and so if we want to end with the curtain down the the beginning of the lesson plan is the curtain rising where we’re making sure everyone’s together and everyone’s focused and so that’s the pedagogical principle that Adding Images has informed the way I put together my lesson plan template now you may have another way of doing this another thought for putting these things together and that’s great the idea here is that once you create a kind of a template you created and recreate it and revise it in a customized way every time now this template right now this spark page is pretty dull it’s it’s one image and a bunch of text and so if we wanted to have we wanted to add an image here you can click on photo and we could type in the word teacher because that’s focused on the teacher so I just quickly found a picture of a teacher in the front of the classroom and we’ve now integrated that picture into this assignment um I don’t like the way this picture is just kind of blocked out in the middle of the page here if I click on this I find that I have different options for formatting this picture I can click on fill screen and it looks like this I can click on window I can click on full width I actually like window here to kind of separate this chunk of text from this other one and so that’s a different way to format graphical elements in these pages there even more than just adding images I can add video I can add hyperlinks I can add text that becomes a hyperlink a lot of people like a split layout where in one side if I want to add a picture of let’s say now I want to add a picture of the students I can do so here we have students who are working together and then over on this side I can write a narrative a textual a textual narrative that complements the visual narrative on the other side right there’s also this pretty cool function called a glide show and I’m going to type in the word learning or actually I’m just gonna pick a different student version now Clyde show is a little bit more sophisticated of an animated experience so it takes a minute to process once it’s done I click Save but now I have this I have this pop-up where I can add anything I want I can add videos I can add more text I can even add more images within it right and so there are all these different options for formatting and creating a very elegant very easy to use in Access web page with obviously no web building or coding skills whatsoever so it’s as easy as clicking the plus button and playing around with all these different options you get the hang of it very quickly what I’ve shown you is probably enough for most you get going we are looking at this in edit mode however all right and so in your students or whoever you send this webpage to won’t see it in edit mode though they’ll they they won’t see these plus signs they won’t be able to add things to it and so we can click on preview mode and it’ll take a second to process this but preview mode gives you a sense of what this is gonna look like from the student perspective so this will be a little bit jumpy while it’s streaming but this is a really elegant really cool experience it has what’s called parallax animations and graphics all right and so let’s imagine you edited this this is exactly the way you want it to be now you want to share it but hey wait a minute what happened I don’t see any plus signs anymore I’m not in edit mode and so in the top right hand corner is an X to get back out of preview mode back into edit mode and then look at this interface for a minute let’s say you’re done with it and you’re ready to share it what would you click you click the share button I didn’t also point out that there are these themes here too there are sort of templates for basic ways of putting things together I’ll just quickly change it to something different and you’ll see how it changes the font and in some of the animation interaction I like this one crisp you’ll like something different I’m sure and so that’s one feature people asked how can I change the font there’s not a lot of really customizable changes that you can make beyond the themes and there’s a good reason for that and we’ll explain that in a minute so we’re ready to share it we’ve got our themes that we want we’ve got all of the content the way we want to now share this you just click the share button you click on publish and share the link pick a category I’ll just pick education you can toggle on or off your name I tend to toggle the name off because it gives me a little bit more privacy and then you create click create link and what you’re doing is you are literally creating a web page you’re it’s out there on the internet it’s public and you now can copy that URL you can email it to people you can post it in social media and most of you aren’t gonna want to post it in your LMS your learning management system such as canvas or blackboard just like you would post any sort of web resource and so now what I have developed is an entire series of lesson plans for every course a spark pages so I can put this into my LMS so every day students in class can follow along with the lesson plan and afterward they can come back to it and then I put lots of information at the beginning of the end of this such as you know reading assignments homework what to bring the class oh and what to prepare for next time so this becomes the container or the detailed container for all of the line items that were on my syllabus in terms of each class meeting so now that I’ve developed this lesson plan template I want to use it over again and again for different courses and so this is not intuitive but in the top left hand corner there is the spark icon and when I mouse over it it changes to a home icon and I click on that and now I’ve Duplicating Projects gone over to the place that has all of my spark projects and so I have the lesson plan template here that I just created let’s say I’m happy with that I’ve got it fully developed and I want to duplicate it so if I click on these three buttons right here I’m sorry I’m going to click on projects I click on these three buttons right here I just duplicate that and uh I can now call this whatever I want lesson plan March 31st and whatever the course is in which 100 and now I’ve taken that template I’ve duplicated it that takes a second to process and now I’m going to come back in here I’m going to edit this project and I can say okay well what we’re gonna do today in this class is we’re going to read these assignment and you’re going to do these exercises and then we’re going to move on to reviewing drafts of your report in work right so I take that template and I change it every time one thing that I didn’t show you in the last assignment is is that after you may make changes to a link and a webpage that you created you can simply go back and update that link right and so you know I just put in all this gibberish and typing in placeholder typing now I’m gonna go change it and say read pages 102 105 now that I made that change when I go back to the share button and I go back to publish and share link it now says update this link all I have to do is cut is click update that link and the URL that I already created for that page stays the same in other words once you create a lesson plan you put it in your learning management system or you email it to your student or you share the URL with them you simply again you just copy the URL once you share that with them if you want to go back and make changes if you want to adjust your lesson plans let’s imagine you had already put together all your lesson plans for this entire semester and all of a sudden you have to teach remotely you don’t have to go back and change those URLs you just have to update those those links and the URLs would stay stable stay stable there we go and so this is what my lesson plan template looks like I used it for today yeah if you think about what we did to start out today you know we started on the epilogue setting the context Who am I what is the goal and the theme for the day the goal is transformative student experiences and then we talked about the pedagogical principles well we were going to accomplish what you’re going to leave with and the idea is that now once you go and you put your hands on a spark page and you try to create your own lesson plan template that’s the moment at which all of these things are going to come together so we went from watching me talk about it to setting you up so that you can then go teach it to yourself and the idea here is it’s at that moment that you are actually creative problem solving you’re making you’re creating your sharing but this is really gonna have depth and meaning for you and and after seeing what’s possible now and by the way I’m sure you could probably tell that everything I do now is in the spark page all the presentations I get for professionally now are not in spark decks with smart pages um um if you start sharing your lesson plans and some of your course materials this way with your students then they’re likely to pick this up themselves in fact I’ve had a lot of success with developmental writers in a remedial writing class when I moved away from asking them to do the same kind of intellectual academic work in spark page instead of in a word processor because there’s something about the engagement in the activity of creating and I think most importantly sharing that becomes transformative for them so even though today we’re talking about developing content the kinds of content that you develop and share is gonna potentially have an impact on the way your students see getting their intellectual work done which is why adobe spark is such a potential game-changer because in that development writing class I don’t have to spend much time at all if any teaching this piece of software additionally and I also didn’t mention that if you are viewing any of these materials on a mobile device it is automatically responsive which is incredibly important and powerful at this moment that means that once you format it once whether you formatted it on a phone yourself on a laptop computer like the one I’m using it’s automatically gonna readjust and reformat itself or whatever screen you’re on and so the lesson plans you create now will be able to be read just pretty much exactly the same on your students mobile device as if they were using a computer which is why spark is so incredibly potentially powerful for developing and sharing this kind of content right now I also said that we always want to reflect on the affordances and the limitations of any of the choices we make and so what are affordances the affordances and limitations of what we just show what is particularly important is that your students can participate in the same kind of content making and to me most importantly sharing if you remember there’s a share button at the top center of that interface for creating a spark page and so to me that’s a very different student experience than writing a research paper that’s only going to be read by one person these objects these modalities are meant to circulate they’re meant to share at the same time we had that affordance of that kind of experience we also have some potential limitations that we need to be aware and so because this is public because these are URLs because you’re making public websites we have to consider issues of privacy in fact whenever we’re doing this kind of work we want to have conversations with our students about fair use about privacy and about accessibility because those are not going to be universal no matter what you do and so you have to make choices based upon those affordances and limitations now Adobe spark page is fairly accessible in terms of ABA principles yeah the only limitation that I know it has and I will give you a link in these materials to the accessibility statement is that you need to put in an alt image tag when you’re captioning when you have an image to caption it if it needs to be perfectly machine readable and in that way maybe more importantly is that we wanted to encourage our students to do this kind of work so they start having similar experiences and they start thinking about these issues themselves and enables you to talk about them in your class so I don’t know how advanced folks out there might or might not be in terms of technology in my experience there’s probably a mix there’s some people who very comfortable with this and you might look at Adobe spark like I looked at for the first time and I thought well this is so simple it’s not that useful but I’ve been actually extremely pleasantly surprised look I it all the time now in fact friends of mine who are professional media producer people you know they’re not outputting you know don’t you know work to clients in spark but they’re getting their work done spark all the time because it’s so powerfully and elegantly designed from the engineering standpoint and so you want to think about the affordances and limitations I’ve had great success with with putting my lesson plans there and in using this duplication sort of strategy to keep them going and more importantly than then figuring out the technology itself is that we’ve now had the opportunity to have a conversation about how we design a lesson plan about how we think about what our students are experiencing over the course of a lesson plan it’s given us another lens or maybe another angle to look at our teaching from and that is very beneficial and so we may have had you know a tutorial this morning or kind of in a webinar experience about using adobe spark page but we also started talking about principles and best practices for designing a lesson plan in terms of thinking of a curtain rising and moving students from watching to doing to teaching and to be making sure that especially instructors who maybe don’t best practices have a lot of experience are also thinking about the way they wrap it up in embed reflection into their student experience and so there’s there’s a ideally a lot more benefit to this than just learning a technology just learning a cool and easy technological solution and so for those of you who might be advanced users out here I would encourage you to share or the potential of Adobe spark page with people who might not be as advanced as you who are looking for solutions to promote exactly the kind of experience they want in a class other than just pure text processing or content processing it’s again that act of making where things become pretty special all right so that’s Adobe spark Adobe Spark Video page and I’m gonna quickly point you to now Adobe spark video works the same in terms of its cloud-based you can have a spark video app on your mobile device everything I’m about to do on the laptop you can do on a mobile device of course the screens a little bit more cumbersome but it still works on the same ask yourself if you wanted to create a video now what would you click on click on create a project and then you click on video whenever you open it in Adobe application these days there is increasing support for people who are new to this and um and so what you’re gonna see is it’s kind of walking you through a tutorial even in just creating something that anticipates teaching you how to use the tool as you’re doing it for the first time so here I’m creating a web video for a project that I’ve actually been meaning to get to but I haven’t had the time now is the occasion so I published that article that I told you about 10 principles for instructional technology and now I’m gonna create a quick video version of that now I’ve been in Adobe video earlier today and I’m obviously a user of it and so if you are a first-time user you’re gonna get this tutorial that pops up that takes about a minute to watch it kind of shows you how this all works clearly from the screen you’re seeing in front of you you can pick a story template I like to always start from scratch before using someone else’s structure cuz it to me that’s how you really kind of learn your way around what the application can do and so here’s this tutorial I’m gonna play it but I’m gonna stop it because video doesn’t stream very well through webinars it’s a minute and seven seconds long and they kind of show you everything you need so you get add video you can add slides it’s all going according to slides you can reorder the slides but you created them you can just select themes and you have more choice that you did it’s part page of these resize the video because these sides of screen oh you want to be square or widescreen people know for voice-over will walk you through alright so here User Interface we’re in the interface and basically the way SPARC video works is it’s a very very rudimentary video editor and it’s rudimentary for reasons like smart pages to try to keep novices and rookies from making mistakes and so that’s part of the affordances and limitations it closes down pitfalls that you might fall into which then creates some limitations in terms of your freedom in terms of how you edit so this basically creates narrated slide shows so what you’re looking at here in the middle of the screen is the sort of the preview monitor you see our friendly plus button we see at the top of the screen everything we saw already preview share you can actually download a video file over here there’s more choices lay out different kinds of layouts split screen full screen themes in terms of different looks you might want to choose resizing the screen whether you want raw widescreen or square and then here’s how you control the music and so I’ll go back to layout down here at the bottom is kind of a timeline and it already looks like slides we have one slide here it’s already embedded credits and an outro and so the name of Split Screen this project is ten principles it’s the polls for in structural technology and I don’t like the way that just kind of takes over the whole screen so I’m going to click split screen and it’s gonna give me that format and then I’m gonna add a photo earlier I showed you how to find free photos we can do the same thing here in this case I’m gonna want to upload a photo photo I’m gonna I want to upload a headshot of mine and there’s a picture of me in my documents I click upload and there is um I like the layout of the split-screen I don’t like the theme very much and so I’m gonna pick a different theme I’m gonna pick this focus 1 and notice how the font changes and I like that better it looks kind of cleaner I don’t want blue though I want to play off this green and so I’m just gonna click the green color over here and there I gotta kind of like the way that looks what’s happened is that the other slides are gonna now follow this same theme alright so I’m gonna close the theme window go back to layout and so we have what could be considered a cover for this video and so now I have ten principles so I want to add ten slides and so I’m gonna click this plus button ten times and see what I’m doing now is I’m storyboarding this particular video project I’ve got a structure to it and so on the first slide I’m gonna talk about principle number one let’s see if you can remember what was the first principle of instructional technology that I talked about it was to keep people first and so that’s my first slide contents log and then I’m going to click on this slide and I’m going to add the second principle and that was start simple and the third principle was to focus on pedagogy and outcomes and so you get the idea I’d go all the way down this slide show adding text or images or photos to to narrate or to explain the concept in fact if I want to add a picture here a photo you know we look for the familiar plus button there it is I click on it I click on photo I’m gonna click on find free photos and I’m going to type in crowd and something that looks pretty human these people look kind of happy so I’m gonna click on them it says keep people first right and so I can also add little video clips I want to add a video clicker I click on video and I could upload video clips now spark video is Video meant to create short little videos five minutes is probably the upper length of what you want to do you could in theory as I understand it make a 30 minute video this way what you can’t do is have more than 30 seconds of voiceover on each line right so if I’m gonna narrate each slide with voiceover first you have to have your computer settings right so that the microphone is active and the speakers are right once that is correct you’ll notice that there’s this microphone record button I hear when I hold down that microphone I’m gonna get a countdown or it’s gonna start counting down and then I just speak what I want to say into the voiceover so I’m gonna do that live for you now hi my name is Todd Taylor I’m a pedagogical evangelist for Adobe and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and this is 10 principles for instructional and technology so I release the button when I was done recording if I didn’t like what I said I could just click on it and just record right on top of it that took 12 seconds again each side has a maximum of 30 seconds so I’ll do a voiceover for the second piece in 25 years of working with instructional technology I’ve found that the most important principle is to keep people first that is to use technology to bring people together and especially in this time of sudden remote emergency teaching we want to be sure that we’re taking care of our students and we’re taking care of ourselves as instructors in our move to digitize learning now that was horrible and I would record all over again you get the idea right okay so let’s imagine I’ve gone through all of my slides I’ve narrated each one of them ivory we recorded narration what I didn’t like it the first time the first take now if I go here and I click play hi my name is time Caitlin and we get a preview but it’s like right so listen that first thing we notice is that the audio is too loud and so I want to adjust the music I also don’t like the music I think it’s a little too jaunty so I’m gonna click on music and I’ve already found the music that I like the best it’s way down here at the bottom it’s called Pacific pier you could browse through all this music it’s fair use it’s designed for you to include you can click on this and I like to put the musical so the the volume slider in the top right hand corner down all the way is lows I can get it together so it’s not competing with my voice order nothing with my voice over if you wanted to you could just turn the music completely off again I put it on and there you have it when I listen to it it will still sound too loud but when I export it it balances better hi my name is Todd Palin I’m the pedagogical evangelist for Adobe and a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel and this is ten principles for instructional technology a 25 years of working with instructional technology I found that the most important principle is to keep people first right and so once I’ve edited all of that together I previewed it I’ve got the music right I’ve got the theme of the way I wanted if I want to I can click download and it will download an mp4 file and then I can upload that to whoever I might want to store it you could put it on YouTube which is especially useful if you want to take advantage of their automated closed caption functioning I can use Vimeo or I can send it to people if the file is small enough or maybe even easier and better than you have been thinking about downloading the file and then uploading it I can just click on publish again this is the same interfaces we saw on SPARC page I pick a category education I click create a link and because it’s video it takes a little bit longer to process but once that’s processed I can copy the link and paste it into anything and so here I have a spark page that I’ve built called 10 principles for instructional technology and in that in that what spark page I just simply clicked on video and I embedded the link that I copied from the video so that it comes out like this hi my name is Todd Taylor and this is 10 principles for instructional technology there you have it and so the recording of this webinar will include links to everything that we just showed in the chat pod is a link to this which is my home page that creates a whole bunch that contains a whole bunch of assets it creates a link to the slide deck that we used at the beginning of the day today it creates a link to my lesson plan template if you like what I did and you want to just copy and paste from that you’re welcome to borrow it it creates a link to there’s the Spartan video that I just demonstrated well it also create contains a link to a free Oh er online textbook called Adobe Creative Cloud across the curriculum guide for students and teachers and so this resource is out on the Internet it’s available free to everyone and it talks about in more depth and detail about this kind of work across the curriculum for students and teachers and so if there are any thoughts or questions you’d like to share with me we have just a couple more minutes before we have to get off I thank you so much for your attention I hope this has been helpful and worthwhile to YouTube to recap a review until I see a question posted the idea is that we want to create really rich dynamic content for our instructor for students in a way that inspires them to do so themselves but in a way that’s incredibly access is accessible and particularly interactive and dynamic and using Adobe spark is a great solution for that because it’s free because it scales to mobile device the same as laptop and because it’s so easy to use so Melissa if you’re out there I don’t know if I if there any questions that have been popped up or if you want to rephrase them or rephrase them questions so far tad there is only one about whether this is being reported and it is sure all right I’ll hang out here for a second to see if anyone comes up with any thoughts or questions yeah Tracy is asking when the recording will be available on Tracy bogi and email sent out to the email address you registered with takes about 24 hours anyone else have any other questions like it well Todd that was fantastic thank you so much it’s great thanks everyone for baking look for us look for these resources online and I hope you I hope you send me some examples of the spark videos and spark lesson plans and you’re creating hopefully as soon as tonight for your classes tomorrow awesome all right well thanks everyone for being here today and thanks can Todd will see everyone next hi everyone thanks for watching click the link in the description below to explore more free online professional development the link on screen to subscribe to the channel for more videos
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