Workshops
These workshops can be used for live instruction and cover topics ranging from the fundamentals of graphic design to practical everyday business projects.
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Workshop One: This is Canva
This workshop is designed for those looking to explore a whole new way to design.
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Workshop Two: Fonts, Colors, Images
Fonts, colors, and images are important building blocks for any design.
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Workshop Three: Backgrounds, Shapes, Layouts
Take your design to the next level by leveraging elements that provide structure and hierarchy.
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Workshop Four: Branding Basics
Understanding how to build your brand is crucial to your business's communication with the world.
Lesson plans
These resources are for teachers looking to inspire their students to think and express themselves creatively through visual design.
Written by John Spencer
John Spencer is an author, speaker, blogger and assistant professor in Newberg, Oregon. He is passionate about seeing students embrace creativity. It's why he co-wrote Wendell the World's Worst Wizard and co-founded Write About.
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Lesson plan: How to teach visual poetry
Poetry itself is a type of art, but did you know that you can create poetry to look like art, too? Visual poetry is a …
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Career Infographic
Students will research information by using correct keyword searches, identifying sources, and analyzing facts. They will create an infographic explaining key information about a specific …
Written by Monica Burns
Monica is an EdTech & Curriculum Consultant, Blogger, and Apple Distinguished Educator. She's presented to teachers, administrators and tech-enthusiasts at numerous national conferences and Apple Education events. She's a webinar host for SimpleK12 and a contributor to Edutopia and appoLearning.
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Lesson plan: How to research a period of history
Keeping students engaged in your history lesson can sometimes become a tricky task—especially when there are important dates, names, and locations to remember. However, by …
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Lesson plan: How to teach students about the ecosystem
By understanding how the environment works students are more likely to take care of it. In this ecosystem lesson plan will encourage students to live a …
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Lesson plan: How to teach Imagined Narrative
To make your next English lesson fun and engaging, we've created a free lesson plan that incorporates a comic book activity to teach students about …
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Lesson plan: How to teach character analysis
Every good story has a well thought out, robust character. In this English lesson plan, students will learn how to build a character from scratch by …
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Lesson plan: Learning about other countries
To make your next lesson interesting, we've created a free and downloadable geography lesson plan that allows students to think outside the box and use …
Written by Paul Hamilton
Paul is the Head of Learning Technologies (Primary) at Matthew Flinders Anglican College in Queensland, Australia. A leader and innovator in the edtech world, renowned for his work in Augmented Reality and iBeacon technology, Paul is a best selling published author, app developer, and sought after keynote speaker.
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Lesson plan: Creating a historical infographic
Part of educating students and teaching them to become innovative, solutions-driven adults is helping them learn about important events throughout history and the lessons they …
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Lesson plan: Social change through persuasion
This social change lesson plan aims to teach students about the history of posters and how various design elements and language tricks have been used …
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Author Innovation through Social Media
Students will evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors. They will learn about how the selection of language features, images, …
Written by Steven Anderson
Steven is a blogger, speaker, Educational Evangelist, author, and Dad. A former teacher and Instructional Technology Director and best known as @web20classroom, his expertise is in edtech integration and learning through social media. He also helped create #edchat, the most popular educational hashtag on Twitter.
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Getting To Know All About You
Students will learn interesting facts about their fellow classmates. In doing so, students will understand and master information and digital literacy skills.
Written by Terri Eichholz
Terri Eichholz teaches gifted students in Kinder through 5th grades in San Antonio, TX. She's been an educator for 24 years, and is a proponent of guiding students to create, problem-solve, and personalize their own learning. You can read more on her blog, "Engage Their Minds," or follow her on Twitter (@terrieichholz).
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Lesson plan: How to teach students about building characters
A fundamental step to creating an engaging story is building characters and engaging the reader with their journey. In this lesson plan, students will learn …
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Lesson plan: The world's most famous art movements
From Futurism to Cubism (and everything in between) in this free and downloadable lesson plan about art movements, students will learn about some of the world's …
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Lesson plan: How to teach students about historical bias
Since history is a subject where people express their opinions it means that we have to be very careful to watch out for bias. When …
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Puzzle it Out
Students will acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate words and phrases.In doing so, they will gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to …
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Real World Ratios
Students will learn about the concept of a ratio and how to use ratio language to describe the relationship between two quantities. This lesson plan …
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From Page to Stage
Students will take an in depth look at a character featured in a piece of text they are studying. They will analyze how complex characters develop over the course …
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Illustrative Infographics
This lesson plan is about using infographics to illustrate information. Students will use a computational representation to illustrate relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships …
Written by Vicki Davis
Vicki Davis is a classroom teacher in Camilla, Georgia. She writes the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, hosts the Every Classroom Matters show, and writes about how technology can be used to connect students to the rest of the world. Vicki is working hard to teach the Canva staff how to use the word "y'all" in everyday speech.
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Lesson plan: Essential elements of storytelling
Understanding the elements of storytelling spans far beyond the classroom. In fact, learning about the fundamental elements of what makes a good story can help …
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Lesson plan: How to teach students about literary devices
Often, what makes a story interesting is the not-s0-obvious literary devices used within a text to add diversity and interest in the story. From hyperbole …
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Scientific Element Fan Page Designer
Students will analyze a scientific element which is found on the periodic table of elements. They will read about these elements, acquiring knowledge about how the …
Written by William Ferriter
Bill has many different titles. He's an author and a professional development provider with expertise in modern learning spaces and in establishing collaborative communities. What he is most proud of, though, is that he is still a full time practitioner, teaching science to sixth graders in a middle school outside of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Lesson plan: Biodiversity
Biodiversity can be thought of as habitats that contain a wide variety of plant and animal species. In fact, biodiversity is essential to the survival …
