Sra. Spanglish Tech Tips: Adobe Voice

What makes Adobe Voice so great is the one-press recording and the quick image search. Kids don’t have to spend hours designing the perfect visual representation for their video–they pick one image from the vast clipart and/or Creative Commons stash, record, and move on to the next image/recording.

And all the while, the theme you picked has a cute musical background to make the whole thing seem super professional. AND citations for the images at the end!

What’s more, kids can take their own pictures to upload, so they can use their own gestures and expressive little faces to convey their meaning. Or they can dig through their own stash of photos or even upload their own doodles with a quick snap.

There is one single, solitary drawback to this app, however, and that is that it is strictly an Apple app. If you don’t have iPads in your class–or a class full of kids with their own iPhones–well, my condolences. This is about the easiest and prettiest recording app out there as far as I can see.

Well, actually, there might be one other drawback to the app, and that’s the rigamarole required to set up an Adobe account to be able to export videos. But I wormed my way around that one by using my class email (it’s literally an email account I set up for my class, to use for just such endeavors) to set up a class Adobe account. This route is also extra convenient for me, because it means I can access videos created with it from any iPad, whether or not they’ve exported it (not from my computer, though, I’m afraid.)

I’ve used Adobe Voice for interpretive, interpersonal, AND presentational activities, and it makes both creation and viewing that much more enjoyable.

Do you have any other ideas how to use it in the three modes? These are mine:

Interpretive

Presentational