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Adobe Express

for JQES Students

By Andrea Blake - JQES Technology Teacher

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Lesson 1 - About Me

What can you do with Adobe Express? Some examples:

Animal research, book cover, slides with voiceover, animated About Me
Use Adobe’s photos or your own, add stickers, text, music, your voice…

Watch: Animate from Audio video tutorial
Do Now: About Me Step by Step Instruction The instruction PDF will prompt you to click on the picture in step 1 to get started. Then click Login with Google: it logs you in with your school account. Read the prompts, record your response, then click Open in Adobe, so you can add further textboxes and elements (graphics).
Fill out the Exit Ticket:

Question of the Day: What change(s) are you planning to make to your About Me project based on your peers’ feedback?
Answer: (answer the question)

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Lesson 1 - Challenge

5th grade students, if you find the animate from audio lesson too easy, or you don’t like that, try this:

Creative Cickstarter: Back to School Intro video

In this project, you can add several “slides”, photos, videos, hobbies, music, and record your voice. Eventually you can publish the whole thing as a short video about you.

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Lesson 1 - Feedback

@25 mins: I will show a student’s work (with permission), and demonstrate how to give feedback based on this rubric
@30 mins: Turn and Talk. Students will share their presentations in small groups at their table.
It’s OK if you are not finished yet! You will receive feedback from your peers, then work on it some more.
How to give feedback: Focus mostly on the positive, give only one or two suggestions for possible improvement.

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Rubric

for the

About Me project

Areas for improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Content Your Name Text is free of grammatical errors You added textboxes with short answers in response to the prompts Recorded your voice in response to the prompts
	Visual Design Images/graphics relate to subject Text is readable (i.e. sufficient contrast, font size, font legibility) Cohesive design - all elements relate to each other Color scheme is united (uses only a few colors)

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Lesson 2 - Warmup

Finish your About Me, based on the feedback you received.
Once finished: click Share -> Publish to Web -> copy link
Fill out the Exit Ticket:

Question of the Day: “Did you finish your About Me?”
Answer:

If you did, paste the link to your project
If you did not, please explain what difficulties you faced.

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Lesson 2 - Good Design and Rubrics for Feedback

What makes your visual design effective in a presentation?

Information: short, relates to the topic, important and interesting

Text: Only one or two font styles, and sizes. Text boxes arranged in an order that’s natural to read (left to right, or clockwise circular). Contrast (dark text on light background, or light text on dark).

Cohesive looks: text style, size, colors, pictures. Only a few colors.

The single point rubric - Demonstrate how to use it for evaluating a book cover design. Let’s look at two book covers and “grade” them together on the whiteboard.

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The Rubric

Areas for improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Content Title Author name Book cover relates to topic Text is free of grammatical errors
	Visual Design Images/graphics relate to title Text is readable (i.e. sufficient contrast, font size, font legibility) Cohesive design - all elements relate to each other Color scheme is united (uses only a few colors)

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Which book cover is better based on this rubric?

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Practice using a Single-Point Rubric

Do Now: Create a six word summary of the story of the Three Little Pigs. Then create a Graphic for that story that connects visually to the summary. Your design should meet the criteria below.

Areas for improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Summary Uses only six words Summarizes the theme of the story Connects to at least two moments of the story (beginning, middle and end)
	Presentation Design Font is large enough to read Contrast is high for reading The imagery promotes the idea of the story through either color choice or photos

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Create a six word summary of the story of the Three Little Pigs. Then create a Graphic for that story that connects visually to the summary. Your design should meet the criteria below.

Example 1

Areas for Improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Summary - Uses only six words - Summarises the theme of the story - Connects to at least two moments of the story (beginning, middle and end)
	Presentation Design: -Font is large enough to read -Contrast is high for reading -The imagery promotes the idea of the story through either color choice or photos

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Create a six word summary of the story of the Three Little Pigs. Then create a Graphic for that story that connects visually to the summary. Your design should meet the criteria below.

Areas for Improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Summary - Uses only six words - Summarises the theme of the story - Connects to at least two moments of the story (beginning, middle and end)
	Presentation Design: -Font is large enough to read -Contrast is high for reading -The imagery promotes the idea of the story through either color choice or photos

Example 2

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Lesson 3 - Animal Presentation

Research an animal on Pebble Go
Create a presentation in Adobe Express. Use a Template. Include:

A title and picture(s).
Fun Facts
Habitat
Food
Lifecycle
Author of this presentation (you)
Resources (where did you find the information for your research?)

Extra: Record your voice. State your name and the animal your presentation is about. Why did you choose this animal?*

*Example: Hi, I’m Jennifer. Pandas are my favorite animals, because they are black and white and cute. I saw pandas in China when I visited my grandma. I hope you enjoy my presentation!

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Rubric

for the

Animal Presentation

Areas for improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Content Title Author name Cover relates to topic Text is free of grammatical errors Text is relevant: short, important and interesting
	Visual Design Images/graphics relate to subject Text is readable (i.e. sufficient contrast, font size, font legibility) Cohesive design - all elements relate to each other Color scheme is united (uses only a few colors)

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Lesson 4 - The Best Pet

Create a presentation to convince your audience (friends or your parents) what animal makes the best pet and why.
How is this different from the Animal research? For one thing you have to do more thinking for yourself and wider research. Imagine that you are trying to convince a friend or your parent to get a certain pet. It can be several pages long. Make it cute: perhaps add videos, music, and definitely write and record your voice (either read the text on your slides or add commentary).
Think of allergies, emotional support, ease of care, food, how long they live, what if you travel, where can you get one?

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Format for the Best Pet project

Easy: One page poster
Medium: Animation from audio (like we did in About Me). For example the cat character can be animated with your voice to talk about why cats make the best pet. Add textboxes and pics.
Hard: Create a video with a few pages with text and pictures and voice over (like we did in our Animal Presentations).

You can work in pairs on a project if you wish.

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Rubric

for the Best Pet project

Areas for improvement	Criteria	Areas that exceed expectations
	Content Title Author name Cover relates to topic Text is free of grammatical errors The information presented is related to the subject The text is useful/interesting
	Visual Design Images/graphics relate to subject Text is readable (i.e. sufficient contrast, font size, font legibility) Cohesive design - all elements relate to each other Color scheme is united (uses only a few colors)

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1 - Learning goal not met, 2 - Learning goal partially met

3 - Learning goal met, 4 - Work exceeds learning goal

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Lesson 5 - Famous Person

Create a presentation about a famous person.

Depending on the time of the year, I might prompt you to present a technology or computer science person, or an important person for Women’s rights (September), Hispanic Heritage month (September), Black History month (December) or AAPI Asian American and Pacific Islander month (May).

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Lesson 6 - Country Research and Presentation

For Hispanic Heritage month, each 5th grade class is assigned to create a display for a specific country after some research.

How to Do it: Let’s say your country is Ecuador

Find a template for a country in Adobe: for example search the templates for Costa Rica (since there isn’t one for Ecuador)
Google Ecuador facts for kids in another tab
Modify the Costa Rica template. Replace Costa Rica with Ecuador, add Ecuador facts in the textboxes, replace Costa Rica images with Ecuador images. If you can’t find photos within Adobe, you can screenshot one in another browser tab and then upload it.

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Some Resources for Country Research

Bolivia

https://www.globotreks.com/destinations/bolivia/facts-about-bolivia/

Costa Rica
Ecuador
Mexico, National Geographic for Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/countries/article/mexico
You can split into 4 groups to research: Geography and wildlife, Economy, History, or Foods