This week, I took my learning to everyone’s most loved/hated app – TIKTOK !!
I cannot believe the range and amount of information you can find on there to make the lives of you & your students so much more exciting makes me so happy 😎.
Video 1: Canva Presentation to Google Slides
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- Open your completed presentation and select SHARE
- Select MORE (…) > Google Drive
- Change to PPTX
- Make sure ALL pages are selected
- Open Google Drive
- Select the folder you saved to and open your pptx
- File > Save as Google Slides
- You may need to change the font if it doesn’t exist on Google
- Everything is Editable after that!
- Select MORE (…) > Google Drive
- This tip is new for me because last week I watched a tutorial that said it wasn’t possible to save a Canva presentation to Google Docs – happy I have now learned how!
- I will absolutely be using this because I like to have ALL of my materials saved to Google Drive where I can access them forever and easily share them with my coworkers!
- Open your completed presentation and select SHARE
@alldayapril THE most important Canva tip for teachers! #teachertips #tipsforteachers #canvatips #canvahack #teachertechtip #teachercanva #canvateacher #googletips #teachertok #teachersoftiktok #middleschoolteacher
Video 2: Creating a Website Using Canva Presentation
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- Open your Presentation on Canva
- Select Share > More > Website
- Choose your URL
- Webstyle > Scrolling
- Voila! You have created a website 🙂
This is an incredible way to send a resume, portfolio, or any kind of professional work that you may want to showcase to a potential employer for the future! It is a very easy way to present your work in a way that is easy to digest and that you have the ability to design exactly the way you want it!
@tribemarketing Replying to @Kinziemcclintick this is soooo helpful for anyone client facing, showcasing portfolios, proposals & strategies! #canvahack #canvatip #canvatutorial #canvawebsite #socialmediamanager #contentcreator #portfolioideas #marketingtips #marketingmanager #paidsocialexpert
Video 3: Free Classroom Posters to Match Your Classroom Colours
- Search for a color palette that matches your classroom
- Open a document
- Select templates
- Find the posters you’d like (i.e., subjects, quotes, saying
- Copy and paste the colour palette image on top of the poster > apply colours to page
- Select paint roller
from the tool bar and use it to apply style to other pages
- Select paint roller
This tip is life-saving when it comes to decorating your classroom and filling it with the posters you need and want to share with your students – rather than spending a bunch of money to get packages of materials, you can use what’s free to make it yours!
@classroomcreations free classroom decor hack with @Canva! #classroomdecorations #classroomdecor #designedwithcanva #teachertips
Video 4: Using Canva to Create Your Own Colouring Pages or Book
- Create a colouring book outline on a document
- Consider a theme (i.e., Christmas, School, Dogs & Cats, Candy, Fashion, Jewelry, Sports)
- Consider titles, subtitles, the demographic and age of your students
- Consider how detailed you want your colouring pages to be (complex or simple?)
- Decide what size book you want to do
- 8.5 by 8.5
- 8.5 by 11
- Search Elements
- Example: “Christmas black & white” or “Christmas Outline”
- Insert the images onto your page (must use more than one for copyright reasons)
- Make the page look anyway you want by inserting as little or as many graphics as you’d like
- Resize and adjust your graphics to create your own unique colouring page
- Consider a theme (i.e., Christmas, School, Dogs & Cats, Candy, Fashion, Jewelry, Sports)
@tawanatemplates Replying to @rabea13000 tips for beginners wanting to create their first coloring book or coloring pages #canvatipsandtricks #coloringbook #coloringpages #coloringsheeting #coloringtutorial #tawanatemplates
Let’s create our own Christmas colouring book 🎅🎄
As we can see, TikTok is a tremendous resource to help us learn more about Canva! There are people from all over the world, with all kinds of different jobs, who are experts in different fields that can give us new skills we may never have even thought of for ourselves!
