Adobe Express - Creativity for Students and Educators

 Adobe Express - Creativity for Students and Educators

Title Slide of Blakeney's AI Image Generation
with Adobe Express Presentation

The expansion of Adobe Express and Adobe for Education over the past several years have brought innovation for students and educators of PK-12 schools and beyond. As a Career Technical Education and English Language Development teacher at a Title 1 Middle School in Orange County, California, I have had the pleasrue and amazement of seeing Adobe Express through the eyes and creativity of my students.

AI Generation Tools

Adobe Express has been upgraded significantly this year, with added AI capabilities, particularly with images. Students have generated images representing themselves using Adobe Express Templates and Guided Activities. My students, even those with limited English, enjoyed and were motivated to create images representing themselves as well as animals.

In addition to image generation of people and animals, other AI image generation options are Text Generation and background images. The image above, which I used for a title slide, was one of several generated with the prompt "green field, with orchard and sunrise including a sky with clouds."  The image below represents a poster I created about the computer lab classroom where I work, which I've titled "The Lab" and created text that is filled with fall colored leaves and grass.

The Lab Poster -
AI Generated Text and Image

Adobe Classroom in Adobe Express Edu Version

For students and teachers who have access to the Adobe Express Educational Version, use of a Classroom feature has been really beneficial, like a gift that keeps on giving with update and enhancements already this school year. Classroom was launched at the beginning of this school year in the United States. Teachers can push out, evaluate, comment, and download assignments that student access. These are shown in a gallery to teachers, but recently Adobe added a gallery viewing and commenting option for students as well, which teachers can turn on with a toggle switch - see the bottom left of this image to see the toggle switch.

Create an Assignment Panel in Adobe Express Classrooms

Bonus Resource - Link to Presentation

Here is a a link to a recent presentation on AI Image Generation in Adobe Express.  I hope you can get started creating images yourself and with students!

Happy Creating!

Judy Blakeney