Canva
Canva is an online production platform that provides users the ability to produce creative posters, slideshows, photos, event flyers, resumes, cards, awards, infographics and other media. The tool helps students to create graphics that demonstrate their expertise in a special way. With 13.1 million users and over 95 million designs made, Canva is a popular visual platform for Internet users.
The platform was designed by Melania Perkins, Cameron Adams and Cliff Obrecht in an attempt to teach fundamentals to students struggling to learn graphic design. Canva is published in eight different languages. This interactive tool helps students to share their work and ask their peers for feedback. Students may use Canva to create and display their skills. They should also take photos or videos of their classroom work, homework, tasks, school events, share them to their own website, or a class site, and address the updates. Teachers may use Canva to create visually engaging infographics, charts, and photographs to accompany text-intensive learning environments.
THE BENEFITS OF USING CANVA
Canva is mostly free.
Canva has many fonts and graphics that don’t cost anything to use.
Canva has preset sizes and templates for social media posts, postcards, posters, cards, flyers, etc.
Canva has an easy to share option.
Canva automatically saves all your designs.
Canva allows you to upload images or logos to a template. I
Canva is an easy to use and free design tool
Learning Activities
Biology
Students can use infographic models in Canva to create infographics about animals.
Science
Encourage students to design climate change posters to raise public awareness about an important environmental issue.
History
Students use the “Infographic timeline” template to visually map a specific time in history.
Creative Arts
Students can open Canva Photo Editor and upload and edit any photo that they want.
How to Use Canva
Go to Canva
Click “Sign Up” and register for an account
Return to Canva and login
Choose any graphic to your interest
Click on Blog Graphic
Choose a Canva layout among one million images or click “upload” on the bottom left to edit any image you want
Change color, background or add icons, text, images, lines, shapes over the components on the left side
Click “Share” on the top right to share your blog graphic either with others to view or edit your design or on social media OR click “Download” on the top right to download your design.