Learning, unlearning, and relearning

I have always fancied beautiful designs on cards I see on the Internet and threw my hats off to the brilliant minds behind them.

Graphic designs are like a perfect summer vacation in the Maldives: blue water, blue skies, yellow sun, beach sand, a symphony of contrasting colours, text, and amazing pictures.

So, I started my flex on designs using Canva.
Canva is an online graphic design tool used to create social media posts,

presentations, logos, and videos.

With over 250, 000 free templates and 610,000 paid templates, Canva offers you vast opportunities to try out different unique designs.

It is easy because all you have to do as a beginner is edit a template, add your flair, and

voilà, you have a pretty design.

You could also use it to prepare PowerPoints for classroom work.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation from Canva. I didn’t alter so much because I love the colours, fonts, and questions.

 

How I created my first Canva design.

I tried it out with my mobile phone, and the results were quite amazing. Here are the simple steps I followed:

I opened the Canva app.

Type in ‘educational’ in the template

search bar.

I searched and selected the template that best suited my idea; it was quite difficult because there were a lot of stunning templates. I finally settled on this template by education creator Jhudie Anne Learning Corner.

 

Then I decided to tweak the design a little to suit what I wanted.

To change an image or background all you need to do is select ‘Replace’ on the taskbar and it gives you options to select from your gallery or Canva gallery.

I chose an image from Canva’s gallery that best suits my design.

 

Then I changed the brown background colour to the little girl’s dress colour. Canva provides colour options for your image.

 

Next, it was time to change the text. I did that simply by highlighting the text I wanted to change: ‘Welcome Students’ and ‘Brocelle National High School’, and then I clicked on the ‘pencil icon’ and changed

my text.

 

And here is my final project (drum rolls)

 

Yeeey, I am so loving my Canva journey. I know it might get a little more tasking as I learn, and I am willing to sail through the storms, not to become a world-class graphic designer but a teacher with proficient graphic design skills that I can use in the classroom.
Hope you enjoyed my process as much as I did

To learn how to use Canva from scratch as a beginner, click on the link below.