hi this is Russell Stannard from TeacherTrainingVideos.com Today we're going to look at canva.
canva is an image making tool that you can use for creating leaflets for creating handouts for
creating presentations great for students great for teachers because you can make things look
really professional and there's loads of ways it can be used in education what I'm gonna do
is show you a few examples of the sorts of things you can do with canva then I'm going to take you
through using the tool and as I'm doing that I'll also suggest ways that we can work with
it with our students really short video let's get straight into it canva is a free tool all
you need to do is to put your name and tell us what you do so if you're a teacher or student or
a business and then you will need to if you click on sign up with email you will need to put your
email address in and you will receive a email and you just click on that email to confirm so it's a
free tool with loads of free images loads of free templates brilliant for things like infographics
so getting students to do summaries of information and then produce it in a really nice presentation
great for creating leaflets great for things like writing about routines what you did in
the past keeping a diary there are masses of different ways that this technology can be
used both for teachers and students let me just quickly login to camera and just show you some
of the different things that we can do with it so I'm logged into canvas and I use canva a lot both
with my students and I recently did some tests with a group of students in Italy which worked
really well but I also use it professionally for producing leaflets for producing kind of
worksheets for producing images for producing infographics etc so the sorts of things that
you can do with this is that for example if your students have done a survey and you want
them to do a nice presentation where they're summarizing the information they've gathered
or perhaps they've done some kind of searching for information activity on the internet and you
want them to create a nice infographic or leaflet then there is masses of things what they can do
is click on this button here create a design and surely they just have loads and loads of different
types of documents that they can work with for example let's imagine they wanted to do a CV we
can click on resume a and we've got loads of free ones that we can work with and of course what we
can do is just simply click on it and change the information so if I wanted to turn this into a CV
for me I could begin to just simply add my name and change literally everything in the CV but
just come back on to the home page again if we come down to for example by clicking on create
design here come down and look at a few other things you've got daily reports memos look down
here loads of really useful ones in education that I've made a lot of use of for example worksheets
lesson plans table of contents planners I've used this one for example and changed it for
my typical day what you did first what you did second what you did third what you did fourth
and then the students can write here as well so there's absolutely masses of ways that you can
use it now interestingly I've even been using it in my own language learning and I think I might
even have a couple of examples here is an example I did just a little while ago I'm talking about my
typical day and I've written here in Polish the different things that I do and then what I did
was I actually recorded myself talking about this presentation and that was using a really simple
template I think I've even got one example here from my students if I look at this one here this
is a student and it's not so good they needed to tidy up a little bit but they're talking about the
different technologies that they use they've got an image in and they've written something
underneath it can be a lot more complex so it can be really low level it can be really higher-level
the great thing is that there are masses and masses of templates that we can use and we can
then change and design to make them look really professional and then simply download them or
print them out so let's have a quick look at how canva works I'm going to show you the basics of
the tool and show you some of the really nice features that we can make use of all the basic
templates and lots of images and lots of different assets are completely free and obviously if you
want to buy better ones and more professional ones and very polished ones then you end up paying for
those but for us in teaching working in education is particularly with our students then we really
got no need to do that one of the reasons I like working with these tools is that you can make
things look so professional so I particularly like it as the end part of a task where for example the
students have been collecting data or preparing information about their typical day perhaps in
Spanish or in English and then putting it in to a template and then presenting it perhaps in groups
or to the whole class it's a nice polished way of doing an activity the easiest way to work
with canva is just to click on create design and start from there now what I'm gonna do just to
show you how simple this is I'm just gonna click on a really basic storyboard in fact if I click
here on storyboards you'll see that it'll bring up masses of different storyboards and you'll see
that a number of them are completely free and I just want to show you how these storyboards work
and how easy is to update information because that's one of the most interesting things so
I'm going to click on this one here and I'm gonna change this to just gonna write in here my typical
day now you can see that we've got these images on the screens but I can click on those images
and simply delete them and then I can come over here to elements and I'm gonna start with coffee
cause I normally have a coffee in the morning I'm just gonna search for some images there's a free
one I'm just gonna drag that straight into the box and it fits in now and now I'm gonna right
here underneath just gonna change that and just say I always start the day with a coffee so now
I'm gonna sit just simply click on the next image again I'm gonna delete that what's the first thing
I do after coffee well normally I start working so I'm just going to write computer see if we perhaps
got some images of some computers yes we have got a number of free ones I always like using
the images because when you drag these images into these boxes they resize and they fit in perfectly
so for example if I just now grab that one there and drop it in in it goes it looks great and
again now I'm going to double click here delete the text and simply change it to reflect what I
want to write so again I've just simply deleted the text here wrote my part and I could build
that up and as you can see it's so so simple to produce something looking really professional
and you've got masses of masses of images let's say for example I wanted to do something about
playing my guitar in the afternoon so let's have a quick look if we got images of guitars yes we
have again we've got some free ones just gonna drop that in there I'm gonna click here delete
that and then I'm gonna go going to write running and see if I can just find anything about running
yes I can lots of free images as well that'll do perfect in it goes and now I can just double click
here and change my text that's simple now I could even take it a little bit further if I wanted by
actually formatting the tag text a little bit I'm making it more to the way I want the presentation
to look so if I wanted to for example just come back back this one here I'm just gonna select that
and then I'm gonna come up to here and I'm gonna change it to a different font I'm gonna use let's
use this one here okay fat face and we're gonna just change that slightly to make it a little
bit bigger and then and then I could do exactly the same with all look how quickly I can do this
look how simple the process is they've really kind of organized it well I love the way that you can
bring all the assets in now you're not limited to your outer two assets that are available and can
be either if I come down to my uploads you'll see that I've used this quite a lot and including now
our images so let's say for example that I wanted to delete this and bring an image in I can do that
as well and again it will try to fit in within that kind of area that's been provided for me in
this particular template one thing I have noticed just a little tip for you if I just delete that
image when you bring in a kind of graphic rather than an image and let me just show you this one
here doesn't work quite the same it won't drop inside but images will so if I bring on an image
onto the screen sorry let me just get you an image it would immediately drop into the placeholder so
it's sometimes easy to work with images and it is to work with graphics let's have a quick look
at some of the other features and also look at some other leaflets and other types okay this is
just a typical kind of storyboard about your day perhaps what you did we can great for language
learning but there are loads of other templates we can look at let's just look at a couple more
okay let's click on the home button that brings us back I always use this button here you can search
from here I'm going to click on create a design you get lots of kind of suggestions or organized
got resumes we've got reports we got daily reports invoices if we click along here they're probably a
few more this one here and what happens if you click on say for example resume it what you're
gonna get you're gonna get loads of different options and then you can choose one that you
would like to work with now I for example have used this one with my students before it's fairly
easy one I can just click here and gr Suman so a bit nearer to it then I can move here and I could
just click on this now and simply change the name and begin to change the information so great if
students for example prepare information for their CV first perhaps I do that in note form and then
they come in here and then they actually create the resume me now once they finish something just
to make this absolutely clear there's very simple ways of sharing content and the easiest way is to
click on this button over here my advice is if you're working with something that's basically
text-based we'll choose PDF standard if it's got a lot of images in it and you might simply want
to choose to save it as a JPEG or even if it's as a high-quality as a PNG file so for this one
I'm gonna just do PDF standard I'm gonna click on download that will actually now produce that PDF
document you can see it here on the right hand side I can click and open it and and that's it
it's that simple to work with this technology hi this is just a really quick reminder if you want
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the home button here always a good place to start just gonna highlight a few things you'll find most
of your designs will be saved here in all your designs if you come to any of your designs just
click on it and then you can start editing it or if you want to delete it just roll over the top
click on it and you can delete from here move to trash and no notice also from here you can
download as well it's so really simple to use camp but what I like is the way it's kind of organizing
the way it's it just works really well in that way there's basically two ways of searching so
click on create design and come down through all the different templates that you've got and look
for the one you want normally with the templates you've got more if you just move here you can see
lots and more possibilities ok so it loads of them for marketing events infographics etc and other
ways just click on canva and then click at the top here so for example if I wrote the word let's
say planner let's just take that as an example and then just do enter it's gonna bring up all of the
different ones that are available to me there'll be masses of them and there'll be a lot of free
ones and you can just click and it will bring up that plan and you can begin to edit it now there
are other changes that you can make we've already looked at elements we've looked at the possibility
of text what I tend to do is not add any text but rather just change the text it's all really
on the screen you can also go to backgrounds as well and of course you can upload pictures
so here you can see examples of different images that I've made use of but I can always say click
on upload an image and just grab an image from my computer that I want to use if I hold my control
key down I can even add a few pictures and then of course I can bring those into my presentation
that's basically the way that I've been using the technology I'm sure that there are more features
that I'm not aware of I tend to find that it's much easier for me to just edit the text that's
already on the screen I can kind of move it around a bit if I want to and I can of course change it
so rather than me building any new text in which you can do so if I click on here for example that
would bring a placeholder and then I can move that place to hold it around and put it on the screen
wherever I want to do it I can do that but what I tend to do if I care most of the time is simply
work with the text that's already on the screen and just edit it loads of ways of working with
this technology as I said I've been using it for a while in a professional context and more recently
I've been using it in a few training sessions with teachers and in a few training sessions that I did
in Italy recently with students learning English and I also use it for learning polish so I've
used it in my own polish classes for producing presentations where I then might present across
Skype and talk about what I've done or do a simple resume a of my education and where I've studied
etc all sorts of different ways that you can use and what's lovely of course is how professional
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