Yes, this is the last blog post of my Three Cs of Creation blog series. I hope over the course of the past 2 weeks, you have gotten value from these posts and found ways to incorporate these principles as you select tools that best meet your needs. The goal of my 3 Cs of Creation is not only helps us determine which tools best fit our students needs but provides our students increased access to creating with these tools. This post will focus on the last two tools that I identified. In full transparency, these are tools that I don't use as frequently but see much promise in using in this way.
Book Creator
Let's begin with Book Creator, Book Creator is a kid friendly creation tool that allows students to make electronic books. They can do so by adding pictures, text, audio, video and even use paint tools. This gives them so many possibilities when they use this tool to create.
Choice in Book Creator
How does Book Creator promote choice? It provides our students so many options to share their ideas and thinking as they create. Students can choose from drawing tools. adding audio or video, adding text, plus they can even upload files from other places.
Collaboration in Book Creator
Book Creator offers collaboration opportunities with its premium accounts. Once turned on, anyone is the Book Creator library can work on the book. Imagine the possibilities. Haven't tried Book Creator yet. Try their 90 day trial offer and see what you think about collaboration on this great tool.
Clickable in Book Creator
Book Creator, much like many of the other tools, has a user-friendly interface. This makes it easier for even our youngest learners to use, but powerful enough for our older students too.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is a powerhouse of free tools. It contains not one, but three different products. Adobe Spark Post is great for making graphics. Use Adobe Spark page for websites. Last, you can make amazing video with Adobe Spark Video.
Choice in Adobe Spark
Besides being made of three different products, Adobe Spark offers our students so many ways to share their ideas and thinking. Students can use text, images, background, change colors. add audio and even video.
Collaboration in Adobe Spark
Yes, you can work collaboratively in Adobe Spark. However, you can not currently do real time collaboration. They call their approach- the tag team approach as only one person can edit at a time.
Clickable in Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark shares the idea that if you can click it, you can change it. What a great way to empower our learners to try new things. As they click on items and icons, they are able to easily discover how to navigate this program.