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Included in this album are links to Adobe Spark pages made from other albums in the Network. Adobe Spark makes creating graphics and simple webpages easy, free, responsive, and attractive. Not only is it a useful tool for teaching, students can also sign up for a free account to create visually appealing research projects.
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After watching the Collecting and Curating with Primary Sources with Purpose Part 2 webinar I wanted to try to convert one of my TPS Albums to Spark Pages. I selected Keep Your Teeth Clean - Animating Posters which has mostly video links. This made it a bit of a challenge as all of my videos in the album were links to Vimeo. In Spark, the video pops out of the interface to be played in its own embedded window (does not play on the page) and the problem with Vimeo, unless you subscribe ($250 a year) at the end of your video, Vimeo promotes other videos. Since I have the free version of Vimeo, I definitely didn’t like the look.
So next I uploaded the videos to my YouTube account. That presented a similar problem. YouTube did restrict outside videos at the end, however it did share other videos of mine that I had in that account. So to try and make this look better in Spark, I created a new gmail account with a new YouTube channel and only uploaded the videos from the album. That worked - I think. So now when playing the Spark Page created from my Network Album only the videos in the Album show up.
Overall it was a fun challenge. Works pretty seamlessly. I used the Glide pages in Spark throughout because I liked that feel. Not sure this would be the best way to share this material but it is certainly one way. Thanks for the idea!
I’m sharing this detail in case others have linked video work-arounds when working in the free version of Spark. I did also try to put my videos in Spark Video but that took so much time to transfer from Spark Video to Spark Pages that I could never get that to embed.
Definitely a wonderful way for both students and teachers to create compelling presentations with primary source images.
Here is my resulting Spark: https://spark.adobe.com/page/EuHDQ7TLSILtn/ Still needs refining!
Nice Cheryl! It looks really great! Feel free to add it to this to this album, too.
Cheryl Davis
, thank you for all the tips about what you learned through this process of converting TPS Teachers Network albums to Spark pages. I went through every single animated poster and loved them all! It's hard to pick a favorite. The instructions you included along with the posters made me think I could actually do an animation, too. In the last sequence of animated posters, I especially liked the suggestion of having students update them with public health messages that fit our coronavirus times. Like Kile, I would encourage you to add your Animating History (nice title, btw) album to the Spark Your Album! collection to make it easy for everyone to find, use, and share.
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