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Adobe Spark
What’s It Like?
Adobe Spark is a design and media-creation platform that’s best used on the web but is also available on iOS and Android (soon). The platform features three project types: Post (social graphics), Page (web stories), and Video (animated videos). Each of these features used to exist as a separate app — Adobe Post, Adobe Slate, and Adobe Voice — but now they all exist within Spark. Work is automatically synced across the web and iOS apps; published Page and Video projects are hosted on Adobe servers.
Price: Free
Grades: 8-12
Rating: 5/5
Pros: Lots of inspiring examples with ongoing updates, plus it’s easy to select and cite Creative Commons-licensed images.
Cons: Terms of use specify age 13 and up, and teachers should be aware of sharing settings.
Bottom line: This free, one-stop shop for creating sleek graphics, web stories, and animated videos is incredibly easy to use and challenges students to think critically about visual presentation.
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