It didn’t take me long to get used to Adobe Spark.I only had to ask my girls to draw a couple of pictures,I inserted them one at a time, then I recorded the girls reading the story. How amazing was that! They were thrilled to listen to their own voices.
The next day I presented the story to my class. I explained first that the story was going to be read by children like them and that the pictures were drawn by the children, too.
They were amazed and listened to the whole story without moving. At the end I asked if they would like to tell a story or to sing a song. Almost the whole class put their hand up.
Down below I attached my little video, I hope you will find it very creative.
There are many other interesting and attractive activities that we can do through using Adobe Spark, in a childcare setting.Here are some of them.
Speech and Language Play: Create a Spark Video story with a single picture per page, use big bold clear pictures (ideally isolated on a white or clear background to avoid distractions). Have the child go through page by page recording themselves naming the pictured object. (Note: Many teachers have asked how to create copies of blank or starter stories. You can do this by going to the Projects tab, tapping the project … symbol, and then selecting Duplicate).
Sight words proficiency: Create a Spark Video story with one sight word per page and with no recorded voice. Have the child go through page by page recording themselves reading the words. This can be repeated at intervals so that the children see the progress and improvement for themselves.
Rhyming Game: Show a series of pictures, and have the children use Spark Video to record a word that rhymes with it (as opposed to naming the picture).
Playing with Shapes and Colors: I’ve seen lots of variants of this one, all of which thoroughly engaged the students. Assign a color and/or a shape, and have the students walk around the classroom or yard or school building taking pictures of matches. They can then describing them in a Spark Video story.
Second Language Acquisition: A variant of the above (this one shared with me by teachers teaching Chinese Mandarin and Spanish to English-speaking kids, as well as by an ESL teacher working with immigrant children) is to show pictures or words that need to be translated, having children record the translations. The same picture can be used on multiple pages so that the child records the same word multiple times, building proficiency while being able to hear the improved fluency.
https://spark.adobe.com/blog/2016/08/17/16-ways-to-use-adobe-spark-in-the-classroom/
References:
16 Ways to Motivate Students in the Classroom Using Adobe Spark.Amy Coperman, 17 August, 2016.
Amy Copperman, 17 August 2016.
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