Moodle and Web 2.0

In last week's episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast I mentioned that Canva has planned lots of new features. One of those ne

Teaching and visuals go hand in hand!

Using visual aids has always been a solid strategy for engaging students and supporting learning. Clearly designed visuals can also streamline communication across the whole school community.

In the past, we had to often settle for purchasing impersonal visuals or laboriously making our own.

There are now a number of free online tools that allow you to make all sorts of professional-looking graphics. My favorite one is Canva!

Teachers are not the only ones who can benefit from using Canva. We are now saturated with visual media and it’s becoming increasingly important for students to have strong visual literacy skills. Canva can help students communicate messages and tell stories in a variety of ways.

This post explains how to get started with the free version of Canva. I offer 10 examples of the sorts of things you can make for your classroom with Canva.

"Create Top Notch Graphics With Ease, for Little or no Cost (fun for Students too!) This 3 Minute TOOL-torial introduces Canva, a mostly free* app that makes it a breeze to create graphic images combining images and text ..."