Author: Pauline Schwartzman

Adobe Spark Pages is accessible as mobile apps for Android and iOS as well as through the web-based platform Adobe Creative Cloud Express. Spark Pages allows users to create “gliding web pages” using available themes, fonts, stock images, and stock music while also allowing for user creativity through photo, video, and music uploads and customization. Adobe emphasizes that no design experience is necessary to create professional and polished pages.

Google Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard tool that allows users to create “sticky notes” that can be color-coded, resized, and repositioned (including angled positions) by all other users with edit access. Users can also directly draw on the whiteboard using the pen tool, draw shapes using a shape tool, and upload images to the whiteboard. There is a “laser” tool that allows users to easily “point” to specific areas of the board.

The adaptations that U of R instructors have made to their courses and methods of instruction over the past two years have been extraordinary.  Instructors have mastered the application of…