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Students Create Videos in Spanish Using Adobe Spark

December 21, 2018

Students using Chromebooks in Mallorie Baron’s classroom.

Students and teachers are starting to take advantage of a tech tool called Adobe Spark which transforms photo slideshows into videos. Recently students in Mallorie Baron’s Beginning Spanish classes at King Middle School applied their knowledge of vocabulary words related to family by creating “Mi Familia” videos using Adobe Spark.

Log in using school account
Note: Berkeley students should log into Adobe Spark with school account. See our linked logging in guide for a complete list of steps.

First students collected photos of their family members. Then they logged into Adobe Spark using our school account, and started a video from scratch. On each blank slide, students uploaded a family photo, wrote a caption for it, and then recorded themselves describing the family member in Spanish. Students could then listen to the audio they recorded for that slide and decide whether or not they wanted to re-record over it. Also, students chose from the library of background music available on the site to complete their polished project. Once finished, students shared a link to their project in Google Classroom so that videos could be shown to the rest of the class. This was a fantastic way to practice speaking and listening and develop students’ language skills.

A blank Adobe Spark Video project

These videos are a heartwarming look at each student’s family as well as a snapshot of their developing language skills. Special thanks to a number of students and their families for graciously agreeing to share their videos in this blog so you can see a sampling of these awesome projects for yourself! Please click on the links below to check out these family videos.

  1. Mi Familia by Gwyneth
  2. Mi Familia by Kiran
  3. Mi Familia by Lily

What a lovely way to bring students’ lives and voices into the classroom!

– Mia Gittlen, K-8 Instructional Technology TSA

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Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is the Coordinator for Library Services for BUSD and DigiTech lead. Prior to this year, she was a teacher librarian on special assignment supporting elementary schools and the Teacher Librarian at Willard Middle School for 13 years.
Jennifer Nguyen

Jennifer Nguyen is the BUSD TK-8 Instructional Technology Teacher on Special Assignment. She has over 14 years of experience working in both public and private schools, as a classroom teacher and technology integration coach.
Eric Silverberg

Eric Silverberg is a BUSD Teacher Librarian on Special Assignment, supporting libraries and instructional technology and Digital Citizenship. He has over 20 years experience working in public schools, as a classroom teacher, a teacher librarian, an arts coordinator, a drama/music specialist and a digital media teacher.
Mia Gittlen

Mia Gittlen was the BUSD K-8 Instructional Technology Teacher on Special Assignment from 2017-2019. She has taught English and history/social studies for eleven years. She also actively participates in East Bay CUE and the Krause Center of Innovation--two organizations focused on inspiring innovative learning.
Allison Krasnow

Allison Krasnow was the BUSD K-8 Instructional Technology Coordinator and a Teacher on Special Assignment from 2013-2018. She has taught grades 4-8 and is now teaching math at Willard Middle School.

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