I reviewed the Canva app as a resource tool for classroom settings. I didn’t know where to start so I browsed other websites before choosing Canva. I wanted to add a lesson plan to my website blog, so I explored Docs, and it worked just like Microsoft Word except that the pages don’t split. I used this video to guide me towards a bit of understanding. Although I didn’t use the font or anything different but adding the video was helpful; initially I almost added a link as www.whatever and so on, it didn’t open to a picture so that step was different.

I have used the Presentation tool in the Canva app to provide an audio of how to pronounce a few words. The first slide was from a selection I picked out from but I created the remaining slides myself. I thought it would automatically create like a sticky note slide but it didn’t, so that’s why I made them myself. After finishing the presentation slides, I figured out how it really works. If you wanted to use the presentation slides, you can select which slides to use like the first as the beginning, then whatever the amount you need (you have a range of what theme and options), but you have to click the + button to add a second and choose out what you need and repetitively do this step until your finishing slide, but an easier way to do it is that you click “apply all # (mine said 16, its different for other presentation slides)” and it automatically takes all of the # of slides there is available on that theme you pick out.

I think this can be helpful to provide insight to students when you can create a presentation of something they are learning that you can’t find online. It was quite helpful if I were to teach Cree words because that’s limited when you search it online. I couldn’t change the photo of my audio though. I tried my best to replace the E thumbnail photo but I couldn’t. The other downside of it is that there was limited graphics, unless you pay for the pro but I didn’t.

There is also a screen recorder tool that I can also voiceover. I used my husband’s headset and mic to record. I utilized a YouTube video, I was allowed to mute it without muting myself. Difficulty part was that when I read from the Canva website screen, it was a bit smaller than the video I put full screen on. I had to look closer while recording myself. I thought it sort of ruined when I reviewed it too but it turned out okay. (I don’t really know how to explain this part, but if you can understand… my audio was too slow and playing the video was too fast.)

I provided my work on my blog site? It’s under lesson plan category.