For my mediated writing project, I used a research paper I wrote for my multicultural children’s literature course. The gist of the paper was that I was exploring the gender stereotypes in princess literature. I specifically focused on Cinderella stories. I then used my findings to see if they prevailed in multicultural versions of the story. Overall I enjoyed the experience of using Adobe Spark to create my project. It was interesting to really determine what parts of my paper I could cut out and what I wanted to have in writing. I loved how easy it was to insert different forms of media. I did find myself having to go back and frequently re-order and sequence things, so the visual components flowed nicely. It could have been the theme I chose, I’m not really sure, but I did find it frustrating how limiting the editing options were. I wanted to move text around and split the screen so I could have a picture and video on one side and/or a text and a video, but I didn’t have the freedom in the program to do so. The only option for splitting the screen was to have an image on one side and text on the other. I am interested in continuing to explore this platform for other projects in the future, as I felt it would be fairly easy for students to work with.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/Rfj2iYWlky5VZ/
Kindergarten Bookworm 