First, thank you to all the Virginia Partnership TPS participants who have been going gangbusters with creating albums this week! Now that you've mastered all the beginner skills for albums, let me lead you to a great resource for expanding those skills.
In the Help Center (always available from the ? icon in the top menu), we have a page dedicated to ALBUMS. On that page, you will find:
- A full Spark tutorial that includes several screencasts of specific skills
- Simple album questions and equally simple answers to them
At the bottom, you'll notice a couple of items about exporting your albums. I quite like the Advanced Download option that allows me to pick and choose what I want to export, as well as to change the order of items in the album. Also very handy is the COPY SHAREABLE URL link, which allows you to export your album for use outside of the TPS Teachers Network. It generates a useful, scrollable web page without the creator's name (a privacy thing), and you can use the down arrows and the + signs during presentations. You can also plug that link into newsletters, emails, lessons, PD, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Let me know if you have any questions! The mentors in the TPS Teachers Network are always willing to help, too.
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