Adobe Express at Bankton Primary, West Lothian

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Overview

Colleagues from Education Scotland visited Bankton Primary School to find out how they were using Adobe Express for Education via Glow.

They visited a mix of classes from primary 5 to primary 7.

This news post will provide a high level overview of how the class were using Adobe and includes some links to some of their class projects.

Video

How were the class using Adobe Express?

P5a & 5b: Learning for Sustainability theme, choice of project type . The pupils were given free choice of the activities numbered on the slide shown in the PowerPoint.

P6a: Space themed infographic.

P7a: Black History Month – a biographical video.

In a previous lesson P7a & 7b had created Black History Month – street art.

Black History Month Outdoor Learning PowerPoint

Black History Month PowerPoint

Task:

Create a design to promote Black History Month
It must be eye catching and have a clear message

Learning Intentions & Success Criteria Examples

Learning Intention:

To create an infographic about space using digital technology

Success Criteria:

I can use title and headings that give the infographic a clear structure
I can include visuals (such as icons, images and charts) to represent information
I can use minimal text and bullet points that help make the information easy to reach
I can use different colours and layout to organise the infographic and make it visually appealing

Making a digital video using Adobe Express

Learning Intention: I am learning to make a video using Adobe Express

Success Criteria:

I can access my Adobe Express recycling video
I can use digital skills to inform people about things you can recycle
I can upload audio to my video

Making a digital poster using Adobe Express

Learning Intention: I am learning to make a digital poster using Adobe Express

Success Criteria:

I can create a new poster file
I can use digital skills to inform people about how to reduce food waste
I can include text and media such as images

Making a collaborative presentation

Learning Intention: I am learning to collaborate to create a food waste poster presentation

Success Criteria:

I can work collaboratively to create a food waste poster
I can include facts from class research (text)
I can include illustrations

Learner Feedback

Callie P5B

“You can be really creative with it because there’s animations and videos. You can make different things like videos, posters and you can change the colour of text, add sound. I think Adobe is easier to use than other things because you can change more things.  It’s easy to save it and keep working on it later.  I like the finished product because it’s always good at the end. It matters what you do (personalised). It looks a nice.”

Hayda P5B

“I think Adobe is great because it helps you to create an image. You can choose what you want and learn a lot. It’s fun making things and I like it. There’s still so much to learn on it. It’s easy to delete it if you don’t like parts of it. You use lots of creativity!”

Cid P5A

“I accidentally deleted my picture but it’s easy to get it back. And I can remove the background like this. I’m making a table with lots of food. I erased the backgrounds for all the fruits, and I put a background of a table. It looks like the fruit is on the table once their backgrounds are erased.”

Alex P7A

“We created Infographics for our writing a few weeks ago about fair trade, using the infographic feature or poster feature, on Adobe Express. We shared these with our class and they’re up on the wall. We inserted pictures and background images, from within Adobe Express.
I think both Adobe and PowerPoint are both good in their own ways, but I really like that Adobe has templates, I took a template and edited it.”

Jessica P7A

“We’ve been creating a wee video with voice overs and music about a person for black history month. Adobe Express is more creative, you can add pictures into it.”

Logan P7A

“I like the features in Adobe instead of PowerPoint, like elements, music, voiceovers and text bubbles.”

Mason P7A

“It’s really easy to access information and photos and video templates, as well as background images and the AI generation feature makes it easier to get different images.”

Penelope P7A

“We created a wanted poster, it had to be someone from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was really fun to make, I chose Augustus Gloop to be on the poster, I searched up on the pictures, I generated an image, I typed in greedy boy with a chocolate bar, it turned out really good.”

Penny P7A

“We’ve used Adobe in math, cities in Scotland, creating bar chart, after the live lesson. We used a poster, we liked that we were learning math but having fun at the same time. You could choose what colour the bar chart was, but it had to be Scotland colours, it was more fun because you got to do backgrounds and there were more things you could do can just drawing it.”

Caiden P7A

“We’ve created a recycling video, because it was recycling week, using video on Adobe Express. You can show your creativity, using video or pictures. It’s fun, to use Adobe when creating videos.”

Adobe Express at Bankton Primary, West Lothian