Adobe Express is my absolute go-to for creating classroom and instructional materials that look fully designed and professional! I appreciate that the learning curve for Express is not that steep, and I always receive positive student feedback on handouts or presentations that don’t look like yet another Word document or PowerPoint slide deck!

Adobe Podcast has proven to be a vital tool to correct and clean up audio recordings. When students are recording an interview with their smartphones or external mics, sometimes they will set up the equipment incorrectly, or the settings are wrong. There may be excessive room noise that detracts from the interview audio. Just drop the audio file into Adobe Podcast and select the amount of correction you want, and you have clean, clear audio to use in video production. It can absolutely save a video story. Adobe Express is a user-friendly, template-based content creation tool that I use in my multimedia production class. I use it to demonstrate how to create an 'about me' video, which helps build community in the classroom. Students create this video using their own photos and video clips, and they can add creative elements within Adobe Express such as music, graphics, avatars, and AI-generated visuals. Students also like that it's cloud-based editing, so there's nothing they need to install on their laptop. They can just pick up wherever they left off by logging in online. Adobe Express can be used for quite a bit more than video production, but that's how I use it currently.

In SPAN 4334: Contemporary Hispanic Culture, I integrate Adobe Express as a dynamic platform for students to create multimedia projects that deepen their understanding of Spain’s cultural complexity. After viewing films that explore themes such as the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the transition to democracy, regional identities (Catalonia, Basque Country, Galicia), and contemporary social movements, students use Adobe Express to produce short videos connecting these narratives to current cultural, political, and historical events. For example, students might analyze how Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema reflects evolving gender roles in Spain or how films about the Franco dictatorship resonate with present-day debates on historical memory laws. Adobe Express enables them to combine text, images, and audio, creating visually engaging presentations that highlight Spain’s rich artistic traditions and ongoing sociopolitical transformations. This approach not only enhances linguistic proficiency but also encourages critical thinking and meaningful dialogue about Spain’s place in the global Hispanic context.

I love that we have Adobe Express as a free resource for faculty. It has completely changed how I create course materials. Teaching digital marketing and business communication is about more than theory. It’s about showing students what professional-quality content looks like. Adobe Express helps me do that. I use it to make Canvas pages visually appealing, PowerPoint decks look like agency presentations, and handouts clear and polished. It’s not just about making things look good; it’s about modeling the kind of branding and design students will encounter in the workplace. Next semester, I plan to take this further by having students create their own marketing assets using Adobe Express. It’s hands-on, creative, and gives them experience with tools professionals actually use. In a world where content drives business, this is how we make learning relevant.

My teaching integrates Generative AI, demonstrating interdisciplinary workflows for students. A prime example is our recent collaboration on the Antarctica map exhibit, where students first engaged in advanced prompt engineering to design 'adventure posters.' They we leveraged Adobe Firefly to generate the initial, high-quality base images of the Antarctic landscape, which were subsequently brought to life using Google's Veo for animation. Beyond this project-based innovation, I use Gen AI features—specifically Firefly—to enhance the learning environment's aesthetics and accessibility, quickly creating professional, consistent thumbnail images for my Canvas course dashboard and accompanying educational videos in Canvas Studio.