Claudio Zavala: Hearing from Your Learners with Adobe's Creativity Tools
Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset
Release Date: 01/07/2021
Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset
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info_outlineClaudio and I talk about hearing from our students with tools that empower them to create. Specifically, Adobe's tools Spark Video, Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro, Spark Post, Spark Page, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, and Audition. Also, audience questions about sites to use for surprise inclement weather folders for elementary schoolers and a Google Sheets conundrum.
Show Notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-52
- Today's Sponsor: VIZOR for Chromebooks - vizor.cloud/eduducttape
- Soapbox Moment: Tool Time with Jake the Tool Man Miller and Bryon Carpenter
- Bryon's Fresh Air at Five Tweet - follow him!
- Today’s Guest: Claudio Zavala, Jr.
- Claudio is a creative media consultant based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He is passionate about storytelling and empowering individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners to tell theirs and to build their brands. He is a YouTuber, avid photographer and videographer, professional musician, a master woodworker and cyclist.
- Instagram - @claudiozavalajr
- Twitter - @claudiozavalajr
- Facebook - facebook.com/claudiozavalajr
- LinkedIn -linkedin.com/in/claudiozavalajr
- YouTube - youtube.com/iamclaudius
- https://kit.co/iamclaudius
- iamclaudius.com
- 2 Truths & 1 Lie
- Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I hear from all of my students?
- “Everyone’s got a story to tell.”
- “Whoever is doing the most talking is doing the most learning.”
- Adobe tools
- Video Tools
- Premiere Pro - high-end video editing - paid
- Premiere Rush - YouTuber and student-focused video editing
- Windows, PC, Android, iOS, not Chrome - free available, but paid features available
- Can edit Rush projects in Pro as well
- Spark Video - all platforms except Android, free in education
- Video tools from simpler to more complex - Spark Video → Premiere Rush → Premiere Pro
- Visual Tools
- Spark Post or Page
- Animation added into Spark Post
- Photoshop - manipulate pictures - Windows, Mac, iPad
- Illustrator - now on iOS as well as desktop
- Fresco - mobile & tablet, digital drawings
- Audio Tools
- Audition - music, audio - GarageBand on steroids
- Adobe Creative Cloud licensing gives students access to all of the products
- YouTube
- “Pocketful of creativity”
- Video Tools
- Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
- Tristan Tolle (@TristanTolle) asked “What asynchronous activities/apps/websites would you suggest for elementary teachers to use for an inclement weather day folder?"
- Wonderopolis where each day they answer the Wonder of the Day.
- Flipgrid Disco Library, tons of prompts from tons of sources, including Wonderopolis as well as Minecraft, the MET, Discovery Education, Epic, Lego, and a bunch more.
- Code.org and HourOfCode.com
- Scratch
- CSinSF.com
- Applied Digital Skills Curriculum
- PBS Kids, National Geographic Kids
- Google Arts and Culture
- Virtual field trips (Ann Radefeld episode)
- Prodigy
- Dreambox
- Just please, please, please, not CoolMathGames.
- Books!
- Drawing things!
- Building things!
- Have kids learn about something new and then report out on Flipgrid.
- Ryan Canton, @TheSwish on Twitter: “On a list of email addresses (Ss that submitted a Form), and a 2nd list (main, all Ss email addresses)...what's the easiest way to compare the two to isolate/highlight Ss on the main list to see who hasn't submitted yet?”
- Formula - =filter(A1:A,isna(match(A1:A,B1:B,0)))
- Example
- Jen Giffen - @VirtualGiff
- “Remove Duplicates” Add-On from Ablebits
- Tristan Tolle (@TristanTolle) asked “What asynchronous activities/apps/websites would you suggest for elementary teachers to use for an inclement weather day folder?"
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- Jake's Schedule:
- Best Practices & Tools for Learning in All Settings Online Course, Cohort 9, March-April - jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020
- Flippin' Good Tech's ImprovEDcon - January 16 - sites.google.com/view/flippingoodtech/improvedcon
- Fort Worth Technology Conference - January 23 - sites.google.com/view/fwtc-2021/home
- ECOEA (East Central Ohio Education Association) Nearpod Session - January 30 - ecoea.ohea.us/workshopsevents/winterworkshop
- Spring CUE - March 18-27 - cue.org/event/virtual-spring-cue-2021-2