Canva

The cool tool that I learned about this week was how to make a Infographic. I designed my own infographic on a website called Canva. Canva is free to make an account, but some design options you have to pay for. This week, I used this cool tool by demonstrating how you can make a Cannoli. There are multiple different templates and layouts to choose from for your infographic. To make your infographic unique you could add photos, grids, frames, shapes, lines, text boxes and illustrations. Canva offers you to share, download, and order prints of your infographic.

For future educators, I would recommend using this for students in middle or high school. The setup of Canva is too complex for students in elementary school. Under each layout there are multiple different options that you can choose to design, however; students have to decipher what options are  free or cost money. To use a text box, one might have to decipher what option to choose from which can be a challenge for younger students. Text Box offers a heading, subheading, and little body of text options which could challenge younger students to know what to do.

Overall, Canva is a great source for teachers, middle or high school students. It offers a creative way to give out information. Technology is therefore another aspect in our classroom by using a tool such as Canva. A lesson that a teacher could do is the steps of the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a cooking recipe to complete with his or her students. I would use Canva in my classroom as another tool to keep my students engaged in the lesson. Canva displays information in a colorful and creative way that can catch the eye of your students. I will definitely be using this tool in my future classroom!




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