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This week, I am keeping my blogging business within the lovely app of Instagram!

Let’s start with a video by a creator I am beginning to absolutely love – Teresa Kwant

Her account includes nearly 100 different videos with different Canva hacks for teachers – pretty amazing if you ask me!

Video 1: Using Timeline Templates for Book Reports

• Create a Design
  • Search Infographic 
    • Search ‘timeline’
    • Select the design you’d like
      • Change the title to match your book
      • Change the times to chapters
        • Students can write the summary for each chapter & then search for photos that match

This is an incredibly helpful idea because it provides a way to use an existing template in an entirely different way! I love this idea because the students can use their computers to create their own interpretation of each chapter by reporting on the key events from each chapter. They then have the ability to add any lines, arrows, shapes, or other graphics they may want to make the design their own! Lastly, they can add images, icons, or illustrations to visually support their thoughts & ideas!

Video 2: Making a Month of Morning Slides in Seconds!

• 1. Start Design
  • Create a Design by using a template or make one of your own.
  • Use ChatGPT to help you write the text for each slide
  • Add text boxes where you want the data to go.
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• 2. Open Bulk Create
  • Select “apps” from the left toolbar then click on “bulk create”.

• • Clear each table
  • Example: Name each column the title of your “morning slides”
    • Paste the ChatGPT output into the table
• 3. Manually Enter Data
  • Select “Enter Data Manually” instead of uploading a file.
    • Type each set of data into the provided boxes (like student names, math problems, or writing prompts)
• 4. Map the Data to Your Design
  • After entering your data, click on each text box and match it to the correlating data sets.
• 5. Generate Your Designs:
  • Click “Continue” in the bottom left corner to allow Canva to generate individual pages for each data set.
    • You go from 5 to 125 slides in the blink of an eye!

This tool is unbelievable because it very quickly creates entire batches of personalized designs, doesn’t require the prep of a spreadsheet, and is awesome for a range of different things like certificates, flashcards, and custom slides. The amount of time saved by utilizing this simple app in partner with ChatGPT is simply amazing.

Her slides from the video:

Video 3: Creating Spinners to Make Interactive Games

• Create a Design
  • Search “square video”
  • Insert a circle with an arrow inside
  • Group the two objects together by selecting both together
  • Add animation
    • Rotation
  • Share
    • Download as MP4
  • Insert video into the presentation where the game takes place
    • Stop and start the spinner as needed with space bar