4. CANVA

DESCRIPTIONS:

Canva is a graphic-design tool website that used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. This user−friendly interface contains over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-prior experience user as well as professionals designers. Whether you are making a poster, resume or designing a logo, this online platform can helps you with everything. For premium features, you can also get the paid version available.

FEATURES:

1. A great selection of templates to select from. Canva has a library of more than 250,000 template available pre-made templates that you can choose, edit, and customize as per your needs. The templates are regularly added to the existing library. Therefore, you do not to spend a lot of time to create new template for your work.

2. The ability to download your design as a png, pdf, jpg, svg, even MP4 video or gif. The graphic that you have designed in Canva can be download into various of form.

3. Various resources of background, images, icons, and fonts. With 1 Millions+ vectors, images, fonts and elements available in the Canva, you can easily edit and alter the design and not lose what you had by creating clones of previous designs and then make the changes (automatic save).

4. Create HD and high quality contents. It allows for people with limited graphic design skills to produce something sharp and clean.

BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS:

1. Help teachers to create creative and effective learning materials for student. Canva provides creative templates are excellent to make any presentation, poster, or image have more impact, there are effective sub-tools. The graph templates, for example, are a great way to help in math and science classes – allowing for specific results to be displayed in a clear visual and engaging way.

2. Collaboration purpose. This feature is useful and powerful as it allows teachers to setup a virtual classroom, invite students, and have them collaborate on a project. This could be used in the classroom or remotely, with the aid of a video chat tool as well. In fact, you can link Zoom and then present screen to share the slides with the class as you go.

3. Save a lot of time for teacher. Being a teacher must really tired because have really many tasks and works given. Therefore, Canva will save a lot of time to create of contents because it has various templates, fonts, pre-sized canvases that you can use or get inspiration from. The contents that can be produced using Canva are education presentations, worksheets, lesson plan and timetable for class.

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS:

1. Empower student collaboration and visual communication. Teachers can give tasks to their students learning activities, individually or collaboratively. Students can work together no matter where they are by viewing, editing, and sharing feedback with live comments in real-time.

2. Fun experience for students to create visual contents. Canva has a library of different backgrounds, templates, images, fonts, stickers to ensure that they get the best results. Students does not have to be the techie to use these features. In just a few clicks, they can create an engaging design with these tools. The only thing students need is creativity because this online platform is free.

3. Can produce their own notes without feel boring. There’s no reason why studying has to be dull, dry, and unimaginative. With Canva, students can bring study notes to life, level up your learning and have fun.

GUIDELINES HOW TO USE CANVA:

REFERENCE:

1. Kathleen Morris, Canva In The Classroom: Getting Started, Example Designs, And Tips!, retrieved from https://www.theedublogger.com/canva/