As I’ve mentioned many times, Adobe Express, formerly Adobe Spark is an exceptional tool for English Language Learners and all students.

Their classroom edition is free, and students can easily create audio-narrated slideshows.

I tend to use it less than I used to and, instead, emphasize my ELL Newcomer students preparing bi-weekly or even weekly slideshow presentations where they “speed-date” multiple times with classmates with the assistance of peer tutors.  This kind of oral practice, with peer tutor support, provides more effective speaking practice – at least I think it does.

However, if I didn’t have that kind of support, Adobe Express would be a key part of instruction.

And they’ve been adding new elements (see ADOBE EXPRESS “ANIMATE FROM AUDIO” MAKES IT TO THE CLASSROOM VERSION).

Today, they added another new feature to the Classroom edition – text-to-image abilities (see Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans).

Alas, as you can see from the above screenshot, if you are in a district that tends to be very restrictive of Artificial Intelligence-related tools (like ours is), it’s probably that this feature will be turned-off.

That’s unfortunate, especially for ELLs, since I think text-to-image tools provide exceptional language development opportunities (see How I’m Using AI Art Generation To Teach English To Newcomers).

I’m adding this post to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH AI ART GENERATION TOOLS.