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Martha Bongiorno
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Martha BongiornoCommunity Manager
Community Manager
September 25, 2025
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🌍 ACE Community Monthly Share – October

  • September 25, 2025
  • 18 replies
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Hello ACE Community!! ❤️

 

October always feels like the sweet spot of the school year. Your classrooms are buzzing, your library corners are cozy, and the creative ideas just keep coming. This thread is our monthly gathering place to swap stories, share wins, and celebrate the incredible work you and your students are doing with Adobe Express.

How to Jump In

  • Drop a link to your social post, video, or blog from October.

  • Add a quick reflection: What was your favorite moment or biggest takeaway?

  • Use the Reply button so everything stays in one thread (easier for us all to scroll and celebrate together!).

Not sure what to share? Here are some easy ways to join in this month:

  • Digital Citizenship Week | Oct 13–17
    Have students create a public-service announcement that encourages positive online behavior, protects privacy, or builds media-literacy superpowers. 👉 Try the PSA activity

  • Book Bento Box + Generative AI
    Invite students to design a digital “book bento box” for a favorite read—then use generative AI to layer in setting details or symbolic elements. 👉 Get started here

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    Idea spark: How could you remix this for science, history, world languages, or even staff PD? We’d love to see your spin.

 

Let’s keep building this quilt of creativity together — can’t wait to see your posts! 💌

With creative joy,
Your Adobe for Education Community Team

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    Timothy_Cosgrove4831
    Participating Frequently
    October 30, 2025

    My students really enjoyed the October Monthly activity of creating a Book Bento Box. I am posting an example of their work - a great idea for exploring Generative AI. 

    Ann Kozma
    Community Manager
    Ann KozmaCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 31, 2025

    This came out soooo good @Timothy_Cosgrove4831! Love how your students rocked this challenge!

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    @bradnance
    Participant
    October 19, 2025

    🌎Global ACE Teach Meet was awesome! Great conversations with the most creative educators across the globe! Discussing how we are utilizing @adobeexpress for edu. #AdobeEduCreative 

    @bradnance
    Misswezi
    Community Manager
    MissweziCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 29, 2025

    Look at those wonderful faces! Love seeing our community in action. 

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    angelaq80925033
    Participant
    October 16, 2025

    I changed mine up a bit, but think it turned out great! 

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    MrsKMatt234
    Participant
    October 14, 2025

    Hello, my students and I enjoyed this creative challenge and I wanted to share mine and the link to one of my Library Club student's creations here: https://new.express.adobe.com/publishedV2/urn:aaid:sc:US:2be0024f-1062-465b-affd-8450f28bb74f?category=search

    Kelly Mattarelliano
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      Valerie_Hernandez_15
      Participant
      October 14, 2025

      I really love how this activity really gets the students thinking critically and creatively! Awesome work Ms. Mattarelliano!

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        Valerie_Hernandez_15
        Participant
        October 13, 2025

        Students brought their stories to life by combining text, visuals, and voiceovers, using design and storytelling skills to share what the book meant to them in their own words. This project gave them a chance to connect reading with digital creativity while practicing real-world communication and design skills. I was pleasantly surprised to find that students added music and voiceovers to make these Bento Boxes so cool!

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          MrsKMatt234
          Participant
          October 14, 2025

          These look and sound fantastic, thanks for sharing your students' creativity!

          Kelly Mattarelliano
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            Jen MitchellVT
            Participant
            October 10, 2025

            I FINALLY picked a book....Here's my mystery box!!

            https://new.express.adobe.com/publishedV2/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:bf5a4433-fa37-46bc-ad04-6ae2c81e9343?promoid=Y69SGM5H&mv=other

            KerryAbercrombie
            KerryAbercrombie
            Participant
            October 10, 2025

            Hi friends! As a rabid bookworm the Book Bento Box is right up my street. I've chosen a recent highlight from my completed list, Jungle House by Julianne Pachico. A fairly quick read with AI themes, set in an unnamed South American near future dystopia. It certainly was a change from the audiobook I completed at the same time (40+ hours with Barbra Streisand is an experience).

             

            While I was doing this I thought about how, if I was still in my English classroom, I'd probably start this task at the beginning of a class novel and have learners revisit it at the end of each chapter and add something that represents that chapter to build up a sort of loose timeline revision aid. Or having a bento box for different specific characters within the book would also be a fun twist on it (and a great way to build understand of semiotics - I'd defo use this in Media as well as English).

             

             

             

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            Timothy_Cosgrove4831
            Participating Frequently
            October 8, 2025

            I really enjoyed assembling the creative elements of the Bento Box that connected to The Hobbit. I will use my creation as a source of motivation for my students as they explore their favourite books. 

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              SuziePritchard
              Participant
              October 8, 2025

              Absolutely loved joining the call today and taking some time to create a Bento box. Really looking forward to doing this with my science classes this week who have been researching a famous Scottish scientist/inventor. 

               

              Suzanne Pritchard
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              stephen_9938
              Participant
              October 7, 2025

              The bento box is a brill exercise to demonstrate how young learners can engage with generative AI - it also promotes reading! Can you guess the book I designed?

                Misswezi
                Community Manager
                MissweziCommunity Manager
                Community Manager
                October 29, 2025

                Hi Steve! We love a mystery box. Thanks for sharing how the Bento Box has been supportive instructionally and for your awesome example. I'm thinking it's a book that I need to add to my must read list lol.

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