Canva

Have you ever marvelled at the design skills of people who can create great looking posters, invites, business cards or presentations? Graphic design is a great skill to have in your toolbox and it just got a LOT simpler with this website called Canva.

Canva is a service (started in WA!) that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Here is how:

Design is all around us – it helps us communicate, express our ideas and connect with people. Media fluency is one of the emerging skills that students need today so exposing them to sites like this can help transform a project task into a media-rich task that leverages the tools they have and unlocks their creativity, collaboration and media skills.

The variety of templates is fantastic - from social media posts, posters, blogging and book covers to marketing materials, ads - there is so many to choose from that will give you just he right size for your job.








Within each type there is a gallery of templates to choose from:

Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic,

In the classroom

Canva could be used in many types of student projects. Students could use Canva to design covers for slidedecks or covers for report or to create infographics. Creating flyers to advertise a school event is easy! Additionally you could create social media posts for any platform as an example of how to use social media wisely and for educational purposes.