What Inspires You?
How do you get new ideas? What sparks your creativity?
For me, I am often inspired by connctions with other educators, or even my students, and then I use that inspiration create new learning opportunities. This often happens to me in conjunction with intereactions I have with other education professionals online. In the past, this happened in chats and discussions on social media channels, like Twitter (now X). Now I am finding more connections via personal connections on Instagram and BlueSky Social. I am also making great connctions through private Facebook Groups, like the Adobe Creative Educators Facebook Group.
Most recently, I turned a post from Shel McConville (@teachbeyondpaper), Education Evangalist at Adobe, from a recent Instragram Post demonstrating different Doll Style Types to create AI images. I remixed these into on an Adobe Express "Generate Image" prompt. Here's the image from Shel's post.
Recipe: Remix and Create Opportunities for Other Learners
My approach is to take the starting recipe, which in this case was to use different art styles (specifically doll styles), then create a starting document for my students. Here is a link to the first iteration of Adobe Express Template. My middle school students used this template to remix their own images. Here's a look at the first doll style based upon the post that McConville shared:
Students kept the "3d adorable cartoon doll style, then changed the description of the example that I had created. What was really incredible is that students - whether English speakers or Multi-Language Learners, were able to use the language they knew best to create their images.
After successfully launching these Doll Style creations with my middle school students, I realized there might be a bigger audience for this type of lesson. I thought other teachers and students would benefit from this lesson as well. So I decided to remix again and share out this assignment with educators in my social media channels.
More Success: Remix and Share Again
In my second remix, I decided to include Shel McConville's original posts as set images alongside my AI generated images for students to remix. I created this as a rectangular slide presentation, but when I wanted to share this out on Instagram and Facebook, I realized that I needed a square shaped for posting. I made a second copy and resized it--and shared the first three images (downloaded from Adobe Express as image files - png or jpd) of the square-shaped version online. I also included the link that I'm sharing with your here so you can pass it along as well. Here's a link to the Instagram post and below is a screenshot of version 2 with a link to the template so you can share it out!
What can you do with this? Will you reshare, remix, or assign to students? Let me know on Instagram at @judyblakieney1 or on Facebook @judyblakeney.
Thanks to Shel McConville (@teachbeyondpaper) for inspiring me!
Happy Creating and Sharing.
