I have been using the iconic Arduino Uno R3 for classroom projects for many years now. The boards are easy-to-use, reliable, and inexpensive (important, as eagerly enthusiastic hands playing with power supplies and soldering irons have been known to occasionally fry them). After many years, the...
Student mental health is a topic we're all paying attention to, especially post COVID, so this is timely and important. Mental health conditions like depression, anxiety and loneliness are on the rise, and so the Adobe Foundation and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) joined forces to...
I've been experimenting with meaningful ways to use Generative AI in the classroom. Here's one recent project that would be a really fun one for introductions during back-to-school (which is mere months away, sorry!). I had the opportunity to visit 4th and 5th graders in TX and NY, and gave the...
My fellow Adobe EDU team member, Jesse Lubinsky, posted thoughts and reflections on Teacher Appreciation Week .
Adobe Firefly is now in beta. To celebrate I asked it to generate drawings of Creative Educators instilling joy into their classrooms . This is what it created. You're welcome! To try Firefly for yourself, go to https://firefly.adobe.com/ .
This is a fun one! We've just added audio animation to Adobe Express. How does it work? You just select a character and background, record (or upload) your audio, and Express' AI engine will fully animate the character, complete with lips synched, head motions and more. Then just download the MP4...
Not sure how I could have missed this, but I did. Yesterday at Adobe MAX we announced that 43,000,000 students (and their teachers) are now using Adobe Express. If you are not yet using Express with your students (it's free in K-12), go to https://www.adobe.com/education/express/ now. And the...
Building creative confidence, mastery learning, and more, all topics I got to discuss with Khan Academy 's Sal Khan and host Clara Galan on the Adobe for EDU Livestream. The show runs about 30 minutes, and the later part is Rebecca Hare walking Sal through one of our Creativity Challenges ....
Each month we post a Creativity Challenge for educators and their students. Tens of thousands have found these challenges to be quick, fun, and expressive ways to inject creativity into the classroom. With our 5th monthly challenge coming soon, we created an Adobe Creative Education Challenges page...
Adobe Character Animator is real-time motion graphics. It uses your expressions and movements to animate characters in real time, and it has long been popular with teachers (for creating classroom assignment videos, for example) and their students. The Character Animator team has just released...