🪄Canva🪄

What is Canva?

What is it NOT?!?! Your one stop shop for, literally, everything. It is a SUPERCHARGED design toolbox and it was SPECIFICALLY made for teachers! How cool is that! 🤩

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Easy to use!

Intuitive Interface: Drag-and-drop elements, simple tools, no need for complex design skills.
Templates Galore: Start with ready-made templates for anything from lesson plans and worksheets to presentations and informational posters. Talk about a TIME SAVER!!
AI Apps Embedded: Need to translate a presentation? Done with one click. Need an image generated or edited? It is truly EASY with Canva.

Powerful Features!

Visual Learning: Create engaging visuals like infographics, posters, and videos to make learning more fun and memorable.
Collaboration: Easily share projects with students, allowing them to work together or independently.
Accessibility: Features like text-to-speech and background removal make it more inclusive for all learners.

Specifically for Teachers!

Free for K-12: Access to a vast library of educational resources, including images, illustrations, and fonts.
Classroom Management Tools in Canva Classroom: Easily assign tasks, provide feedback, and track student progress. OR have it export easily to Google Classroom!

Canva, in a nutshell, empowers teachers to enhance learning by creating visually appealing and engaging learning materials, to save time by quickly and easily designing professional-looking resources, and to empower students by boosting THIER creativity through encouraging them to express themselves through design and multimedia projects.

Tutorials, anyone?

Canva has GREAT tutorials to help you navigate the seemingly endless amount of resources. I love their What's New Wednesday segments to keep me up to date and in the loop!

Just looking for more basics? Check out their youtube page,

here!

But wait, there's more!

Canva doesn't just guide the tech-learner with their easy to use resources and apps, it also empowers the tech-genius with high level and amazingly creative features at your fingertips! Check out the presentation below for some more niche tips and tricks!

AI Anyone? A little more about the embedded AI Tools in Canva.

Image Generation:
- Text-to-Image: Create unique images from simple text descriptions.
- Magic Design: Generate design variations based on existing templates or even just a single element.

Image Editing:
- Magic Edit: Replace or remove objects within images using AI.
- Background Remover: Easily remove backgrounds from images with a single click.
- Magic Enhance: Improve image quality by enhancing details, sharpening, and adjusting colors.

Video Creation:
- Text-to-Video: Generate short video clips based on text prompts.
- Magic Animate: Animate static elements within your designs.

Writing Assistance:
- Magic Write: Generate text for various purposes, such as social media captions, website copy, and even brainstorming ideas.

Other:

Brand Kit: AI helps maintain brand consistency by automatically applying brand colors, fonts, and logos.

Accessibility Features: AI can assist with features like text-to-speech and image descriptions to improve accessibility for users with disabilities.

These AI tools significantly streamline the design process, making it easier for users to create professional-looking visuals with minimal effort.

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