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Canva Templates for Librarians

by Sara Qualls April 4, 2024

written by Sara Qualls

It’s time to break out the confetti and strike up the band because it’s National Library Week, April 7-13! Let’s give a round of applause to those magical havens where every shelf holds adventures and where imagination knows no bounds: school libraries. But libraries wouldn’t be the community hubs they are if it weren’t for librarians! Let’s celebrate with a curated list of Canva templates specifically for librarians. But first, let’s take a look at some important dates.

Important Library Dates

School Library Month kicks off every April, thanks to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). They’re the ones who decided to shine a spotlight on our fantastic school librarians and libraries all across the country in 1985. The idea? Well, it’s all about getting everyone in the school and community pumped to understand how libraries are essential to learning and education.

School Library Month: April
School Librarian Day: April 4
National Library Week: April 7-13 (second full week in April)
Right to Read Day: April 8
National Library Workers Day: April 9
National Library Outreach Day: April 10
Take Action for Libraries Day: April 11

Canva Templates for Librarians

I’ve curated a collection of Canva templates tailored specifically for librarians. From eye-catching event posters to activities that can be done in your own library, these templates have customizable elements and vibrant visuals. The purpose of these templates is to empower librarians to showcase the magic of their libraries and inspire a new generation of readers. Don’t forget qualifying educators get a Canva Pro account for free! Just another reason to love Canva.

Reminders and Events

Create reminders that teachers can pick up to hang in their classrooms or around the school.

Library Day Reminder

Book Fair Poster

Family Library Night

Learning Posters

Create posters that teach students about genres or library processes.

Types of Literary Genres

Genres Mindmap

Dewey Decimal System

Processes and Expectations

Create posters that teach students about your expectations for the library.

Library Rules

Meeting Room Rules

Library Expectations

Motivational

Decorate and motivate your students in the library with motivational posters.

Dream Big and Create Your Own Story

Introverts Quotes

Reading Quote

Library Signage

Create signage that directs students.

Genre Signage

Return Books Here

School Library Welcomes You

Newsletters

Advocate for your library by spreading the word about everything you do!

Library Menu Board

Activities

Canva’s templates make crafting exciting library activities like scavenger hunts, word searches, and more straightforward.

Genre Scavenger Hunt

Design a Book Cover

Library Genre Word Search

Digital Citizenship

Many librarians are tasked with teaching digital citizenship to students. Canva has you covered.

Digital Citizenship Responsible Use Presentation

Five Tips to Identify Fake News

Digital Footprint Digital Citizenship Lesson

Bookmarks

Create printables like bookmarks to give to your students. Add their name, your school motto, or mascot to personalize it.

Libraries Are a Treasure Bookmark

Keep Reading Bookmark

Every Chapter Is a New Adventure Bookmark

Random Canva Librarian Finds

Search for Library Templates in Canva

Try clicking on the search terms below and begin to explore on your own:

Let’s continue celebrating the magic of libraries and fostering a love for learning and reading in every student, one template at a time.

Use Canva Magic Studio to Amplify Your Message

by Miguel Guhlin January 29, 2024

written by Miguel Guhlin

As a school leader, who has time to create engaging content? You do. And you don’t have to be an expert. Embrace the role of storyteller-in-chief to pull back the curtain on the great things happening on your campus. Rely on the magic of Canva Magic Studio to transform how you connect with your school community. Make parents’ and students’ hearts beat with engaging content and storytelling. Let’s explore how to make that happen!

“The chief storyteller is skilled at crafting messages that evoke passion and establish audience connections. A chief storyteller is a skilled professional responsible for crafting and delivering a narrative that promotes an organization’s values, mission, and vision.”
Source: Chief Storyteller Career description, Western Governors University

Storytelling with Canva Magic Studio

Canva’s AI tools make your storytelling and community engagement easier. Of course, this is about using Canva Magic Studio in ways you may not have imagined.

What’s more, you can use it as a content-sharing hub. This empowers you to reveal the positive stories happening in your academic community. Let’s discuss the importance of branding and amplifying your message before looking at some tips for doing so.

Note: You can obtain a copy of the author-generated images in this article via Canva. Feel free to adapt the checklists, media release forms, and other items shared, as needed, with no attribution required.
View the Canva document or get the template link to make your own.

Brand and Amplify Your Message

“You know great achievements happen at your school. Unfortunately, many of those stories stop at the school doors,” say the authors of BrandED. Eric Sheninger and Trish Rubin go on to suggest you:

Brand yourself as your school’s storyteller-in-chief and amplifier
Improve relationships with key stakeholders
Foster a positive culture extending and influencing beyond the school grounds (source)

While they offer many more suggestions, these are three you can take advantage of right now. The problem? You may not be sure how to get this done. A whisper-quiet announcement just won’t do the trick. Amplify your voice with social media tools! Use them to build relationships with others.

To amplify your message, follow this checklist:

Make the Commitment

Are you ready to commit to being a storyteller-in-chief? Print out and sign this commitment form. You will see it has four key tenets:

A sample commitment form for Storyteller-in-Chief — Author-created document | **View the Canva document** or **get the template link**.

Now that you have an idea of what’s expected, as outlined in the commitment form, let’s explore how to get that done. Of course, you will be using Canva, a digital tool that’s free for schools. Canva’s Magic Studio brings powerful AI components to help you save time, spread your message, and create beautiful content easily.

Tip #1: Make Something Quick

Your smartphone is a fantastic, easy way to capture student and staff success. As storyteller-in-chief, it’s an invaluable aid to you. This can be a video interview with students, staff, or parents sharing. Pick stories that elevate the conversation and inspire others. Additionally, you can create a photo collage of learning and teaching as it happens. In a video or collage, you can show the following:

Students working together. Take pictures where students’ faces aren’t visible, blur them out for privacy, or send a photo/video release form home to get parent permission.
Teachers planning a lesson or event. Capture teachers working hard on a lesson or project. Explain how it connects to student learning and growth.
A parent highlighting a need or challenge that the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) is focusing on. The PTA, also known as the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) or Campus Support Team (CST), may be planning a fundraiser event or instructional initiative.

Don’t be afraid to celebrate actions, no matter how small, that move your campus culture and students forward. Here is a sample media release form that is customizable to meet your needs:

**View the Canva document** or **get the template link**.

Now that you have collected your media in the form of video and images, you’re ready to put them together. Canva’s Magic Studio makes it easy to “switch” the format of a document. You can start with a short document write-up with inserted images, then ask it to change it to any option shown:

More importantly, you can export to a custom size, including Instagram or Facebook. You can follow the steps shown below and then post to Instagram using a Canva-generated QR code. Once in Instagram, you can add music to your image. This simplifies the process of posting images with context.

Then, you can post to Instagram from your phone. You only need to have both the Canva and Instagram apps loaded on your smartphone. This is what that post will look like:

instagram post screen — Screenshot by author of iPhone Instagram app

This means you can create in Canva and take advantage of Magic Switch to create multiple types of social media posts. Your social media options include Instagram posts and reels, Facebook videos, and more. You can also use Magic Switch’s Translate option to translate your English document into any language your end users need.

Tip #3: Framing Your Video Creations

Use Canva to upload your audio, photos, or video. Then turn them into a video collage, Facebook video, or Reel. You can add music or other audio by clicking “Elements” in the left menu and searching “music” or whatever audio type you’re looking for under the “Audio” tab.

You can upload your own audio, or you can record yourself by clicking “Uploads” in the left menu and then “Record yourself.” Beat Sync will time your audio to sync with the different pages and elements in your video.

Canva's BeatSync option — Screenshot by author of beatsync tool in Canva

voice recording addition — Author’s screenshot showing Voice Recording addition as an audio track on video

Put together, you have a product you can share via YouTube, Facebook, or other venues. See a draft video (Disclaimer: Unscripted audio recorded on the fly) here:

Three Bonus Tools

Ready to fill in or modify a PDF form or document? You can use the Canva PDF editor, a free tool that allows you to directly edit a PDF document! Even if the PDF is a scanned document, you can modify the text. If your PDF is primarily pictures, you’ll be able to use photo editing tools like Magic Eraser or Grab to adjust images.

Diversify Your Options

With the inconstancy of social media options, you can use Canva’s Magic Studio to create and share content in a variety of social media formats. Use its Magic Studio AI tools to enhance photos, videos, and audio. Here are a few TechNotes articles for further reading:

January 29, 2024 0 comment

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Canva’s Charts App: Easily Design Beautiful Charts and Graphs

by Miguel Guhlin January 12, 2024

written by Miguel Guhlin

Wish you could create breathtaking charts, diagrams, and graphs? Blend beautiful landscapes into the background of your graph? Show children learning on a graph featuring student growth? Step aside, Google and Microsoft. Canva’s Charts app puts powerful tools at your disposal. What’s more, this app makes it easy to import comma-delimited (CSV) lists! You can pull data from spreadsheet or database exports, and then generate documents, graphs, or charts. Let’s explore how to:

Use Canva’s Charts app
Customize your graphs and charts
Create specialized graphs
Import rows of data from a spreadsheet or database for mail merge purposes
Generate parent letters and certificates via mail merge

Using Canva’s Charts App

Canva dedicates an entire website to graph templates. It’s a gateway to all the exciting graph and chart templates Canva offers. Per the website, you can:

Choose from more than 20 types of graphs
Embed your graph in presentations and reports
Publish, share, or download your high-resolution graph
Fast-track development with professional templates

Of course, Canva’s Charts app can do so much more. Let’s take a look at the Charts app, found in the Canva sidebar menu under the Apps icon:

Screenshot by author of Canva Apps — Screenshot by the author of Canva Apps

You already have a ton of templates for charts and graphs available in Canva’s Elements. But Canva’s Charts app also offers you customizable charts with data tables. I feature them in my video walkthrough:

Customize Charts and Graphs

You can customize the data in your charts and graphs via their accompanying data table. Be aware that there are many graphs in the Elements –> Graphics section that you cannot adjust via a data table. If you want to adjust these, you’ll be “eyeballing it” or estimating instead.

Screenshot by author of Canva Elements — Screenshot by the author of Canva Elements

For more precise charts based on data, you will need to rely on searching “charts” in the Elements. These do come with a data table. These charts are usually in shades of blue but the colors are customizable. As you can see from the screenshot, the data table appears when you click on the editable chart on the canvas.

Screenshot by author of Canva Data Tabel and Graph — Screenshot by the author of Canva Data Tabel and Graph

You can also create specialized graphs, such as progress bars, progress dials, and pictograms. Let’s take a closer look.

Create Specialized Charts and Graphs

With customizable charts in Canva’s Charts App, you can create a progress bar with precision:

Screenshot by author of Canva generated progress charts — Screenshot by the author of Canva-generated progress charts

Another fun chart to work with is the pictogram. You have a variety of icons to choose from. As you can see in the screenshot below, pictograms resemble what they signify. So it’s great that Canva offers this option.

light bulb pictograph — Pictogram generated by Canva at the author’s direction

You can also create your own pictogram from images in Canva Elements:

Pictograph of hamburgers in Canva by author

Canva Certificates and Letters

Need to send home a progress report, or print off certificates of achievement for your students or colleagues? Canva makes it easy! All you need to do is:

Prepare your merge document (e.g. certificate, document, handout, etc.), and
Have your data in a CSV file or Google Sheet

You can use one of two apps to get CSV data into Canva for use. The first is to rely on the Chart app. It has a built-in import tool. The second is the Bulk Create app, which is available via Apps in your Canva sidebar.

Screenshot by author of Canva Bulk Create app — Screenshot by the author of Canva Bulk Create app

This short video demonstrates how I use these two approaches. You will see certificate creation first. Then, I create a chart using data exported as a CSV file. It’s easier than you think, and what a time-saver!

The Canva Charts App Makes Things Easy

It’s amazing to see how easy it is to create beautiful graphs and charts with Canva. With the ability to import data from spreadsheet programs like Excel and Sheets, you can generate a nice chart or series of certificates. How will use the Canva Charts app? Share your ideas in the comments!

January 12, 2024 0 comment

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Five Canva Hacks for Fun, Creativity, and Productivity

by Miguel Guhlin December 1, 2023

written by Miguel Guhlin

Are you getting started with Canva? It’s an amazing digital creation tool. If you’ve not yet been verified for a free Canva for Education account, I’d highly recommend doing so! Once you’re in and exploring all the amazing features, you might appreciate these productivity hacks I stumbled upon as I got to know Canva. Let’s take a look at a few tricks on everything from editing your uploaded PDFs to masking images.

Did you know?

A few colleagues didn’t know that Canva has an app that works on Windows or Mac computers. Using the Canva app can improve your creation speed. I knew there was an app for smartphones and tablets, but I didn’t know there was one for my desktop. It’s now my favorite way to interact with Canva!

Get Canva’s Desktop App

Hack #1: Importing Presentation Templates to Canva

Want to import amazing content from SlidesMania into Canva? Sure, Canva has tons of great templates, but they don’t have everything. SlidesMania, SlideCarnival, and SlidesGo offer a variety of presentation templates you can use within Canva. Didn’t find what you’re looking for? Don’t worry, there are plenty of other sources of templates available online!

With that in mind, from your Canva Projects home page, you can import presentation templates you find elsewhere.

Click Add new in the top right corner.
Select Import from app in the drop-down menu.
Import your saved template.

What you may not know is that Canva supports other import formats besides PowerPoint. This is good because exports of PowerPoint files don’t often import well into Canva. You may need a simpler, intermediary format, like an ODP presentation. But the simpler the format, the more likely fancy animations will fail. That’s alright, though, since Canva offers its own magic.

Hack #2: Hide, Blur, or Add Effects to Pages

Hiding presentation slides isn’t anything new. You can do it in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. But if you “skip slide” in Google Slides, the skipped slides are visible if you share the link. In PowerPoint Online, the skip slide will obscure the slide from presentation view. But, you can still print them to PDF to see any slides the author chose to hide. Canva makes it easy to hide presentation slides (called “pages” in Canva), and you can hide many at once!

Click the arrow in the bottom center of the editor to Show pages in your presentation.
Select the page you wish to hide (it will outline in purple) or press and hold control to select multiple pages.
Hover over a page and click the three dots in the top right corner.
Choose the Hide pages option in the menu.

A neat feature in Present mode on Canva? You can use Magic Shortcuts to blur content or add effects. To enter Present mode, just click the full screen icon in the bottom right corner of the editor.

You can “hide” content in a presentation by blurring it until you’re ready to discuss it, and you can add special effects like bubbles and confetti! To access this menu in Present mode, click the keyboard icon in the bottom right of the screen.

Hack #3: Clean Out Uploaded Items

Want to easily clean out your uploaded items in Canva? Use the Select items tool to choose multiple items.

Click Uploads in the side panel.
Select an image and click the three dots in the top right corner.
Choose Select items in the menu.
Select all items you’d like to delete.
Click the trash can at the bottom of the Uploads pane to send them all to trash.

This allows you to keep your uploaded items area tidy. Trashing items from your upload tray does not remove them from any documents you put them into. That means, unless you are planning to use those items again, it’s fine to select and delete them.

And, remember, items stay in the Trash for thirty days. If you need to restore a trashed item, you can always recover it:

Hack #4: Edit PDFs with Canva

Wish you could edit a PDF? While one of my favorite tools is PDF Reader by XODO for forms, give Canva a try. You can drag and drop the PDF file into the Canva Projects home area. When you start to drag it over, it will look like this:

Then, once Canva has uploaded your PDF file, you can begin editing it right away. What’s amazing is that Canva converts the text in a PDF to become editable, so you’re able to make changes and adjustments.

Here’s a form adapted from a school district’s form available in PDF:

Screenshot by author, adapted from source via Canva.com

All the text in this PDF is edit-friendly. If I need to add content and images or make corrections, I can do that.

Hack #5: Masking Images with Frames

Wish you had an easy way to drop an image or photo into a shape? Canva offers pre-created “frames” you can use. These allow you to mask an image, hiding parts you don’t want people to see. The benefit? You can frame an image into a particular shape, like a cut-out.

To frame an image, first open a Canva project document or make a new one. Then, select Elements in the side panel. You’ll notice a menu at the top of the elements pane. Choose Frames to explore all the options. You’ll find a variety of them to choose from:

Add one of the frames to your document, then import an image or find one in Canva’s Elements. Drag the image into the frame, and it will merge to take the frame’s shape. Double click the image to move it within the frame.

While there are various programs that allow you to do this (Google Slides has a “crop to shape” option), Canva offers a variety of frames. There are more frames available via Mockups in Canva’s Apps area. Watch the video below to see how you could use them, along with Canva’s QR Code generator, to put your QR code or image on anything!

Wouldn’t it be neat to match any image to any shape? Or convert any simple shape to a frame you could use? There are ways, but that will have to wait for another day.

Bonus Hacks!

If you’re a classroom teacher, you can do any of the following:

Create workbooks and worksheets
Turn a single presentation page into a shareable digital whiteboard
Take advantage of the huge number of education templates
Assign activities (e.g. bell ringers, exit tickets, self-reflection) in Canva to students in Google Classroom
Create a teacher slide deck for back to school or parent night

Additional productivity hacks:

Use the Canva Color Palette to match colors to an image
Check out all the amazing tools at the bottom of the Canva.com website

What Are YOUR Canva Productivity Hacks?

Now that I’ve shared some Canva hacks with you, which ones do you plan to try? Maybe you’ve already discovered some tips and tricks of your own. Share them in the comments so we can all reap the benefits!

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December 1, 2023 0 comment

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Exploring Canva Whiteboard as a Jamboard Alternative

by Miguel Guhlin November 8, 2023

written by Miguel Guhlin

Wish you had an easy-to-use online whiteboard? With Google moving Jamboard to read-only mode on October 1, 2024, you may be seeking out an alternative. What digital, online whiteboard will you use with your students instead? If you are a “less is more” kind of person, you may be looking for easier tools to use than those suggested by Google (e.g., Figjam, LucidSpark, Miro). Let’s look at one you may want to know more about: Canva Whiteboard.

What is Canva Whiteboard?

The simple-to-use Canva Whiteboard is already a part of the toolset you know and love in Canva. Canva Whiteboard offers a simple solution with powerful components, like built-in timers and more. Once you start using it, you may find yourself thanking Google for pushing you out of the Jamboard nest. Canva offers so many delightful features that are free to verified educators, and its whiteboard tool is a worthy replacement for Jamboard. Let’s walk through some of the Jamboard-compatible features Canva Whiteboard offers. Here’s a quick video overview:

Import Images or Presentations

Save your Google Jamboards as images for an easy upload to Canva Whiteboard. Or, upload any image file you’d like to use (keeping licensing and copyright in mind, of course)!

Google Jamboard content being saved as a PNG

Here’s one of my favorite activities as a Google Slide, the 3-2-1 activity (3 main ideas/words, 2 supporting details/phrases, and 1 question/quote). You can vary this activity in many ways! I can download it as an image and then upload it to my whiteboard in Canva for students to annotate. You can do this with any image you save or find.

Google Slides content being saved as a PNG — Save a Google Slide as an Image

Canva Whiteboard Image Upload — Upload Images to Canva

Get a few other Google Slides activities here that can be exported and use in an online whiteboard of your choice.

Yes, you can download presentations as PNG or image files and upload them to Canva, but wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to? In Canva Whiteboard, you can import a presentation straight from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or Dropbox and turn it into a whiteboard.

Click the menu icon in the top left corner.
Open Projects.
Click Add New in the top right corner.
Choose Import from app in the drop-down menu.
Choose to import from Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.

How to import presentations from an app in Canva

You can change it to a whiteboard in Canva by right-clicking a slide and choosing Expand to Whiteboard in the drop-down menu.

How to expland a Canva Presentation to a Whiteboard

Lock the Background

In Canva, like in Jamboard, you can lock the background. This ensures your students won’t be able to move the background around as they are using the whiteboard. Click the image and select the lock in the toolbar, or right-click the image and select the lock in the drop-down menu.

Canva lock background options — Lock an image from the Canva toolbar.

Canva image drop down menu — Lock an image from the image drop-down menu.

Duplicate a Page

Now that you have your whiteboard slide looking the way you want, you’re ready to duplicate it.

When you present or share your screen, as you’ll see in a bit, these pages will become available as slides. Students can write on these slides with the Draw tools in Canva. And, since you locked the background, that should help keep certain elements unmoveable, as you can see below:

Additionally, you can see students working live in the document. This makes it easier to monitor progress.

Everything ready to go? Now, you can bring students into the equation to add comments and annotations. To share the Canva Whiteboard, use the Share button that appears in the top right corner of the screen.

As you can see in the image above, the “Can Comment” is enabled, but you will want to change that to Edit. Remember, you can also share a presentation in Canva for groups of students to work on!

Note: If whiteboard vandalism is a concern, then you can take a more limited approach. That is, you can share the link to a whiteboard with only that group of students or an individual student.

If you’d like to share your whiteboards as editable templates with other educators, you can do so by clicking Share and then clicking the Template Link option. This makes sharing your whiteboard designs easy. The only catch? To edit the template, you need to have a Canva account. That’s not a bad thing for colleagues since Canva is free for educators and students.

When you click on the icon for the template link, you will see a link to copy:

Here’s what sharing a whiteboard as a template link looks like. Try out this editable template of my 3-2-1 whiteboard!

Did You Know?

Canva offers a desktop app that will run on your computer. This means you can work on your computer (e.g. Windows/Mac) with Canva creations outside of your browser. Get the app.

Add Text and Content to a Whiteboard

Once your students have access to Canva Whiteboard via the Share link, they can do so much. I almost wish Canva Whiteboard offered a limited set of tools for their whiteboard or a toggle switch for the tools available to keep choices simple for younger students.

This video gives you a big-picture overview:

Like some of my colleagues, when I heard Jamboard was going away, I worried I wouldn’t find an easy-to-use replacement. Thank goodness Canva’s Whiteboard solution is available and ready to go! Here are a few more Canva Whiteboard videos to get your brain moving in the right direction:

Please share any resources or whiteboards you have created in the comments. We’d love to hear how you’re using Canva Whiteboards!

Featured Image: Screenshot by author, Canva Dashboard.

All images within this article are screenshots by the author.

November 8, 2023 0 comment

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Canva Magic Studio Makes Creative Magic Possible

by Miguel Guhlin October 27, 2023

written by Miguel Guhlin

“You can do magic. I know you can,” the whisper in my ear said. Of course, that was the realization that Canva’s Magic Studio makes magic possible. Oh, not real magic like wizards and dragons, but the ability to bend reality to your will. That’s right, with Canva’s Magic Studio, you can adapt images and content to your will. Let’s discover and explore:

The elements of Canva’s Magic Studio.
Classroom Magic, a collection of terrific resources for educators.
GIF tutorials on how to use Magic Studio.
A Canva AI BINGO card with videos.

BONUS: Listen to the Magic playlist while you read this blog entry. It will put you in the mood to do some “magic!”

The Elements of Canva Magic Studio

Canva has organized AI-powered tools into Magic Studio and they are adding more every day. These tools distinguish themselves in that you can use them to create and transform images, text, and video rather than just edit or adapt them. A new offering includes Classroom Magic, not featured in the elements chart below due to it being so new. Let’s review these AI-powered tools one by one.

Tool #1: Magic Switch

Ever wish you could easily transform a presentation into a blog post? Or turn a Facebook post into an Instagram Reel? Or perhaps you’d like to turn a presentation slide into a whiteboard. Or translate content from your native language to another on the fly. Well, you can do it all in Canva with Magic Switch. It’s like having a genie that turns your designs into a summary, blog post, or song, and then translates them into another language! Take a look at all these options that allow you to transform one type of content into another seamlessly.

Here’s what Magic Switch’s Translate option looks like:

An example of how Magic Switch can translate a presentation.

That’s right, Magic Switch makes all these tasks possible from within Canva. No need to go anywhere else! Transform into Doc is one of my favorite tools because you can turn a presentation into a blog post, summary, or really, anything.

Canva's Transform into Doc menu — Screenshot by author, Canva

For example, I asked it to transform my Canva presentation, You Can Do Magic, into a blog post. You can read it in its entirety, but for now, here’s a brief snippet. It isn’t quite perfect, but it’s easy to improve on:

Ever wondered if there’s a tool that could solve all your design problems? The answer is a resounding yes! Meet Canva Magic Studio, a platform that promises to revolutionize the way we create, design, and animate. This article by Miguel Guhlin takes you through every nook and corner of Canva Magic Studio, helping you understand what it can do for you.

You might ask, “What’s the magic?” It’s the suite of powerful tools that come with Magic Studio. They include Magic Switch, Magic Media, Magic Design. Also, Magic Edit, Eraser, Grab, Expand, Magic Write, and Magic Animate. Each tool addresses a specific task in mind, making design an effortless task.

Isn’t that enchanting? It also does poetry and song lyrics.

Magic Media, powered by DALL*E, Imagen, and others, is a creative powerhouse that can generate an image or video from a text prompt. You may be familiar with prompting AI to generate something for you already. You write a text prompt and watch it become a beautiful (or not) piece of art. With Magic Media, you tap into image-generation tools to create an image OR video. Just type in the description for the image or video you want, and voila! You get a result.

Tool #2: Magic Media

To make it work, follow the directions Magic Media gives and describe what you want to see in the text box provided.

Canva's Magic Media Instructions — Screenshot by author, Canva

My prompt:

Create a wooded area with thick tree trunks, ravens and crows in their branches, faces in the tree trunks, sheltering a humble cottage with diverse elfin children dancing in a waterfall, as a dwarf protector looks on, clad in silver eldritch. armor.

The image result:

Example of Magic Media's image generation. — Screenshot by author, Canva generated image.

Here is an example video generated by Magic Media. Can you imagine using tools like these to simulate a science lab? Imagine the possibilities.

Tool #3: Magic Design

Now that you’ve seen a few new additions to Canva, you may find yourself oohing and aahing over this one. My colleague, Emily Horn, recently wrote about it on TechNotes. You can use Magic Design to upload images or videos, or you can use your previously uploaded media, and generate fully editable and customizable videos, graphics, templates, and various types of content. Type in a prompt or upload your media, and choose from several designs.

What’s more, it can even add music to generated videos. Take a look at one example video I created in Canva using royalty-free images from Unsplash.

Tools #4-8: Image Editing Tools

Have you labored under the yoke of difficult image editing apps? If you’re like me, your creations never quite achieve your vision of what an image should look like. The creation falls short of my imagination. With these powerful image editing tools, image editing is an artist’s dream. The image editing tool suite includes:

Tool #4: Magic Edit
Tool #5: Magic Eraser
Tool #6: Magic Grab
Tool #7: Grab Text
Tool #8: Magic Expand

Each lets you do something fantastic. My favorite is Magic Grab, which makes moving a person or object from an image easy. Consider this image of this TCEA participant:

Instructions and an example for Magic Grab in Canva. — TCEA image featuring author, modified in Canva

Canva makes it child’s play to remove an element from an image and place it elsewhere, as shown below:

An example of how to use Magic Grab showing a pumpkin being removed from an image and drug onto another part of the canvas. — TCEA image featuring author, modified in Canva

Another benefit? The empty space left by the removal of the object in the original image gets filled in.

Not only does it grab objects, but it also grabs text! For those who have been dropping text-filled images into Google Keep or OneNote to grab text, I have news for you. Not only does Canva grab the text, but it also makes it completely editable. The text becomes available for your use in the document immediately. What a time-saver!

Want to crop images but the result is less than perfect? Magic Expand can smooth the rough edges of an inexpert image crop. And, Magic Eraser makes it easy to remove parts of an image.

Tool #9: Magic Write

Magic Write is an AI-powered text editor. It can understand your “voice” and create text that is similar to what you would write yourself. You can start with a prompt to get a first draft, summarize text, or elaborate a short text into a longer one.

You’ve already gotten a hint of what’s possible with Canva’s AI-powered writing help. Magic Write can go a step further, taking any piece of writing you have and improving it. Access this tool inside any block text will go or from a Canva word processing doc:

I challenged Magic Write to put together a description of what it can do.

Prompt: Write a magical, mystical description of what Magic Write can do with references to wizards, magic, and dragons.

Generated Text: Magic Write is a wizard of words, a master of the mystical art of writing. With a flick of its pen, it can conjure up the most fantastical stories, weaving together tales of dragons and knights, of wizards and magic. Its words flow like a river of enchantment, carrying the reader on a journey through lands of wonder and adventure. Read the rest of this amazing composition.

This piece of AI-generated writing matched my directions. Although there’s some room for improvement, it wouldn’t take much to get this up to standard.

Tool #10: Magic Animate

Magic Animate brings life to your static designs. Add motion to designs or images and choose from an assortment of animation styles. It’s the perfect tool to make your designs more engaging. Take a heart shape, add the pulse animation to it, and watch it pump. Combine it with a Canva frame to put the face of your favorite wizard or witch inside a heart, and watch your heart beat away.

Magic Animate animation options in Canva — Screenshot by author, Canva frame and pulsing effect

You can save the image as an MP4 or GIF. See the GIF below:

A beating heart with the Wicked Witch of the West inside it made with Magic Animate.

This Canva Magic Studio tool makes it simple to add some pizzazz to your images and then turn them into animated GIFs. Give it a spin. Here’s a quick walkthrough of Magic Animate.

Bonus: Classroom Magic

You will love Classroom Magic. This tool offers a wealth of features to educators, including:

1,000+ engaging teaching resources, such as worksheets, activities, presentations, and more
100+ free ready-to-teach lessons for K-8 math, science, English, ELA, and art
10+ courses on topics such as critical thinking, AI, and financial literacy

You can view the resources library online once you are logged into Canva. You’ll certainly love the “high-quality education templates.” Explore these and more!

Double Bonus: Canva Magic Studio AI Bingo Card

You’ll find a great variety of resources for Canva Magic Studio online. Educators and students who are verified can get free Canva Pro accounts. So can verified nonprofit teams! Canva does offer a one-stop shop for amazing tools. Put its wands of power to your use! Use this Canva AI BINGO card to explore video tutorials relevant to Canva Magic Studio:

A bingo card with tutorials for Canva's Magic Studio tools. — Created by author. Access template to make a copy via link displayed, https://go.mgpd.org/canvabingo

Is More Canva Magic Headed Our Way?

Canva isn’t done innovating on Magic Studio. A few days after writing this blog entry, I stumbled across #11 – Magic Morph. With the Magic Morph app, you can select an element or text. Then, type in what you want that element or text to look like and wait for Canva to work its magic!

Here are two quick examples of a compass and the words “Magic Morph” that have been “morphed” into something new:

As Canva continues to roll out and introduce new tools and features, one thing is for sure. We can count on being amazed at the magic Canva puts right at our fingertips, unleashing unlimited creativity and time-saving advancements. What will you create with Canva today?

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Get Your Digital Business Card

by Miguel Guhlin March 10, 2023

written by Miguel Guhlin

At the TCEA 2023 Convention, attendees relied on digital business cards. These made sharing their contact information easy. Smartphone enabled, digital services like Popl and HiHello facilitated quick connection. Two TCEA Convention 2023 shared their experiences.

Colleen Terrill, a technology and digital learning director, highlighted her expertise. She relies on HiHello, a free digital business card and contact manager app. Ms. Terrill said HiHello made communicating her information with others and distributing her contact info easy. She then demonstrated her facility with the HiHello app.

“It was nice to meet you! I love always having my card on my phone,” Ms. Terrill said as she shared her information.

Another TCEA 2023 Convention attendee also shared their experience. Ronnie Seagroves, a coordinator of instructional technology, also relies on HiHello to manage contacts. He said he believes HiHello is available at no cost and is easy to use. Another workshop presenter introduced Mr. Seagroves to the digital business card service. He had relied on Popl before, but HiHello’s low-cost entry point made the difference.

“It’s [Popl] is very limited until you buy in,” he said. “HiHello seems to be completely free. I had everything created before I left the workshop session. Scanning physical cards was super-easy.”

Some potential uses of services like HiHello and Popl? Mr. Seagroves said, “Being able to network and keep up with your PLN. It’s an easy linked system to send and share information. You can also personalize quite a bit; it’s unique to you.”

Sharing options for a digital business card

“You can get some uniformity in the look of your digital business card. Create your card in Canva, then put it in your email signature, too,” said Seagroves.

Pricing and Options Available

Solutions like HiHello and Popl often come with a price tag. They offer premium services at a cost, while individuals get basic services for free. Both options have a “free for individuals” option worth considering.

Other digital business makers (all but one lacking an individual free option) include:

But if digital business cards aren’t your cup of tea, other options abound.

Alternatives to Digital Business Cards

Many TCEA 2023 Convention participants relied on QR codes to share a link to their website. Smartphones make it simple to scan QR codes from a distance. QRStuff.com’s blog reports the following:

For most smartphones the relationship between scan distance and minimum QR code size is approximately 10:1. A 2.5cm (1 inch) QR code printed in a magazine has a nominal effective scan distance of about 250mm (10 inches). A QR code on a billboard 20 metres (65 feet) from where a passer-by scans it needs to be about 2 metres (6.5 feet) across.

But what size should your QR code be for the best scanning? A simple formula to rely on is dividing the scanning distance by 10 to get the smallest QR Code size. You can also make the QR code easier to scan with a trick. Use a URL shortener (e.g., TinyURL, Bit.ly) to limit the total number of characters in the QR code link.

Here are two examples of QR codes. The first relies on a long URL:

This second QR Code uses a URL shortener. Note the density of the QR code.

QR codes above were created with Flowcode and QR Toon sites, respectively.

A Free-for-Educators Option

Looking to upgrade your paper business card option? Educators have free access to Canva. Try using Canva’s Free Business Card Maker. You can combine a Canva design with a digital card to get eye-popping results.

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Screenshot by author, The Environmental Impact of Traditional Paper Business Cards via HiHello Blog

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Three Photo Editing Tools

by Dr. Bruce Ellis February 6, 2023

written by Dr. Bruce Ellis

Isn’t it great when you take lots of photos of your kids or family and then take time to sit back and scroll through them, reflecting on the fun (and possibly chaos) that ensued? Unfortunately, sometimes when we do get a chance to scroll through the photos we realize there are some things we wish we could change. If you have found yourself in this situation at least once, then you’ll want to check out these three photo editing tools. I’m only going to share a brief bit about each, but these tools offer even more features for you to explore.

Cleanup.Pictures

Cleanup.Pictures is an online artificial intelligence (AI) photo editing tool that allows you to remove items from a photo. This technique is called inpainting. Have a photo where someone photo bombed you? Or did the crazy uncle want to be in the picture (be sure to put him on the end to make it easier to remove)? Or is there something distracting in the background? Use this tool to remove it from the photo.

The AI will inspect the photo and try to recreate what is behind the item you removed. This is a freemium site, so if you want to download your photos in HD, you will need to go with the Pro plan ($3/month) or ClipDrop Pro plan ($5/month). You can find out more about those plans on the pricing page. I’ve found that the free plan, which scales your photos down to 720p is more than sufficient for my tasks.

Here are the steps to follow:

Go to Cleanup.Pictures.
Drag/drop your photo in the target area, or click the target area to upload the photo.
Adjust the size of your brush by moving the slider dot. Move your cursor over the image to see the current size. You want to use the smallest brush size possible for the item, so you don’t wipe out other items in the image.
Click and drag the brush over an item to remove the item. It’s ideal if you can erase the whole item before releasing your mouse.
If any artifact residue remains, you can touch it up. Sometimes it’s perfect, and other times it needs a little tweaking.
To see the before/after of your image, click on the eyeball just to the left of the green Download button (top right).
When satisfied, click the Download button. It will append the name of the file by adding “_cleanup” so your original file is untouched.

before and after edit of sample image from cleanup.pictures. chair, papers on wall, and lamp are removed

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe has included some cool features in Photoshop that make use of Sensei, its suite of AI and machine learning technologies. I’ll be referencing the neural filters in Photoshop – specifically the Landscape Mixer, but I encourage you to explore the other creative filters within the neural filter category. If you really want to apply more filters than it allows, you may need to repeat the steps below two or more times.

Here are the steps to follow:

Open your photo in Adobe Photoshop 2022
Click on FILTER –> Neural Filter
Scroll down the All Filters list and turn on Landscape Mixer. If you have not used this yet, it may need to download on your computer before you can use it.
Now select the preset slider scales on the right-hand side and adjust to the desired strength. The choices include: day, night, sunset spring, summer, fall, and winter. Below you can see the original image and then what it looks like when I set the Autumn to 50% or the Winter to 90%.
Adjust the slider to get the desired strength applied. Note that this is most like rendering it on your computer so I suggest you don’t have other software running unless you have a good bit of RAM.
If you do not want the AI to adjust your subject, then tick the Preserve Subject box. Whether you use this feature will depend on the colors that are in your subject.
When you are satisfied with the filter, apply it by choosing the desired output (new layer, current layer, new layer masked smart filter, or new document). I prefer the New Layer option.
Click OK to apply the filter and voila!

Canva

If you aren’t on the Canva bus yet, are you even online? Seriously though. Canva offers great features without the steep learning curve that comes with Photoshop. No, Canva isn’t an equal competitor to Photoshop, but they each are great design tools for their own target audiences and projects. The feature I’d like to share in Canva is the background remover. Yes, you can use a variety of websites that offer just that feature, but Canva is more than just a photo editing tool. It makes it easy to remove the background and then pull from a huge repository of photos to use as the new background. For the sample below I’m using a photo from a couple of years ago when I visited a friend in Houston. The setting was beautiful but the photo didn’t really capture it. Oh, and, no judging the main subject of the photo. ha! Here are the steps.

Open Canva and begin a new project.
Click on the Upload button (far left menu), and upload the photo that needs the background removed.
Drag the uploaded photo to the stage area.
Click on the photo if it not already selected (you’ll know it is selected if it has a purple border around it.). The resize handles on the corners of the photos and the crop handles are in the center of each edge of the photo.
Click on Edit Image, above and to the right of the stage area.
Click the BG Remover icon. It will analyze your selected image and remove the background.
You can tweak its work by using the Erase and Restore tools.
When done, click on the Apply button.
To put a new background behind you, click on the Photos icon (far right menu panel) and search for an image.
Place the new background image behind you by clicking CTRL+[ or set the photo as the background by clicking on the More icon and selecting Set Image as Background.
When done, click the Share button (top right) and select the share option of your choice. If you choose to download, you may select what file type in which you’d like to download the image (I usually choose PNG).
Click the Download button and save to your device.

So, which photo editing tool do you prefer? And, how will you (or your students) use these tools to enhance photos? Drop us a comment below, we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to share another photo editing tool to add to the list!

February 6, 2023 0 comment

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80 Graphic Organizer Templates for Active Learning

by Ernest Gonzales January 23, 2023

written by Ernest Gonzales

If you are a reader like me, you can read a few pages of a book, pause for a second, and come to the realization that you can’t remember what you just read. Maybe you’re driving somewhere, and for a split second, you forget where you are driving. These types of experiences can happen easily because we are not actively thinking. The same thing happens to learners in our classrooms. In order to avoid these situations and seek deeper learning experiences for students that help them retain information, active learning instructional strategies can be utilized.

What Is Active Learning?

Active learning is a term used to refer to instructional strategies focused on getting learners to actively process new information such as through reflection, collaboration, writing, and more. Through active learning experiences, learners can retain more information than through passive learning experiences, such as note-taking. So it is important that educators implement active learning instructional strategies to improve learning outcomes. For those wanting to learn more about active learning, visit Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.

Using Graphic Organizers for Active Learning (GOAL)

graphic organizer categories to promote active learning

One easy way to incorporate more active learning strategies is through the use of graphic organizers. In order to make it easier for educators to find and use these resources, I designed a series of 80 “GOALs” or “Graphic Organizers for Active Learning”. These GOALs are free, ready-to-use, and designed as dual-language resources. For districts such as ours in San Antonio, with 20% emergent bilinguals, it is crucial to have resources that are available in English and Spanish. The graphic organizer templates are organized into different themes such as problem solving, collaboration, SEL, writing, and more to simplify the process of finding the exact template you need for lessons. The templates are designed with fun graphics and are meant to be engaging to your audiences.

The Graphic Organizer Templates

Here is a menu of eight categories of graphic organizers. Each category contains 10 different designs to choose from. The designs are created in Canva, an amazing design tool that is offering free services to K-12 schools. When you click on one of the designs, you’ll notice an option to use the template in Canva, meaning you can customize the template to fit exactly what you need, or you can use it as-is. Be sure to create a Canva account if you don’t already have one or talk to your district’s IT department about setting up access for your entire district.

Graphic Organizer Formats

When ready, you can print the graphic organizer for your students as a PDF file, or you can use these files with the ed tech tools of your choice. Since the GOALs are designed in Canva, you can download a PNG or a JPG file in order to place the graphic organizer into popular tools such as Kami, Lumio, Seesaw, or Canvas. For those educators ready to app smash these templates into ed tech tools, here is a guide with short video tutorials to help you get started.

exit ticket graphic organizers to promote active learning

As educators, the instructional strategies we implement should seek to make learning more effective. Active learning can do this for our students, but it helps to have the resources we need to get started. It’s an added bonus if the resources are free, too! Make active learning a “GOAL” in 2023 by downloading these templates today.

January 23, 2023 4 comments

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How to Make Interactive Maps with Google Slides and a Digital Whiteboard

by Miguel Guhlin August 6, 2021

written by Miguel Guhlin

This past week, I found myself wondering if making interactive maps with Google Slides and a digital whiteboard might work. All you need for an interactive map is the ability to hyperlink, and Google Slides has that capability. But how to make it more interactive? The answer might lie with a digital whiteboard. In this blog entry, we’ll explore how to create an interactive map you and your students can write or draw on.

Revisiting the Conversation

“We’re working on a D and D interactive map,” shared a colleague. I looked at Allison. I had to clarify.

“Are you saying Dungeons and Dragons?” I asked, as a few videos on map-making for novels came to mind. Although I had never played them, role-playing game literature (LITRPG) has been a source of great fantasy stories. I could definitely see how K-12 students, even adult learners, could spend hours engaged in world building, map making, and storytelling. The academic possibilities are endless, from geography to social studies to language learning. Even math could also play a part.

“Yes, Dungeons and Dragons. My husband makes a map for our games. We want to make an interactive one, but aren’t sure how to do it. I wondered if Google Slides might work.”

As you might imagine, it may be possible to create an interactive, clickable map. But Allison went on to explain that they wanted something more: a digital map on which participants could write and circle key areas.

Tools for Making Interactive Maps

Creating digital maps can be a big deal. Online tools like Inkarnate make creating fantasy maps easy to do. It makes battle map, world maps, regional maps, and city and/or village maps easy to make. You can even craft maps inside buildings like taverns, houses, and more. The problem is, you may have to pay for it.

A few other tools you can use include the following (in alpha order):

Don’t worry, I’ll share some ideas for making maps in Google Slides and a digital whiteboard in a moment. First, let’s take a look at some resources you can explore.

USGS to the Rescue

To get started with maps, I didn’t want to infringe on others’ map creations. As you will see in my example, I looked into online map collections. After a chat with Dr. Aida R. Guhlincozzi, she pointed me to the USGS. So, I dug into the United States Geographical Service (USGS) Topographical Map Collection. What a treasure trove of maps.

I’ve included the USGS link, among others (e.g. National Geographic), in a curated collection for you. I hope it will save you and your students some time in getting started.

The Digital Cartographer’s Bag of Holding

You’re familiar with a bag of holding, right? It’s a bag with an inside space that may enjoy never-ending storage. You can put anything it and the bag doesn’t get heavier. The internet is a modern traveler’s bag of holding, and Wakelet is one of the ever-expanding compartments.

To get you started in fantasy map making online. I’ve collected a few of the images I found. You will discover a lot more in this magic satchel, The Digital Cartographer’s Bag of Holding. This is a Wakelet collection to get you started.

Open the Bag of Holding at https://tinyurl.com/tceamapmkr

Be warned: you can spend hours exploring the contents of this never-ending bag.

View or Get a Copy of this Google Slides Interactive Map Example

Interactive Maps with Google Slides

But let’s take map making a step further. To create clickable maps in Google Slides, you need to first arrange the images you want into your Google Slides slide. Then you create subsequent slides. To create a link from one slide to another, INSERT LINK and choose the slide number that you want.

You can even create a menu that will move you from one grid to another, although not necessarily in sequence.

Now, in any situation, you and collaborators may have a need to write on your digital map. How do you do that without messing things up? Not everyone is a Google Slides expert. That’s where a digital whiteboard comes into play.

In this example, the digital whiteboard I’m going to use is Canva’s whiteboard. It makes a snap to import a slide deck, such as from Google Slides, then quickly turn every slide into a whiteboard. Once it’s a whiteboard, it’s interactive. Of course, you can always use another whiteboard solution, such as Figjam. Use what works best for you.

Did You Know?

You can go deeper than you ever thought possible into Google Slides’ capabilities. Sign up now for the online, self-paced TCEA Google Slides course. This course not only covers building a presentation, but also shares how you can leverage the powerful features and functionality of Google Slides for teaching and learning. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a TCEA Google Slides digital badge and completion certificate, along with 12 CPE hours. Learn more.

Drawing on Your Map with Canva Whiteboard

Canva Whiteboard makes it easy for others to interact by adding Post-It-type notes and more to your digital map. You can create an icon that allows people to annotate the map.

You can see the quill in the map above. Clicking on the quill will “transport” you to a whiteboard that you can write or draw on. With a Canva whiteboard, you may want to make each slide it’s own whiteboard. Or, if you are working with a trusted group of students or individuals, you can let them work on the whole digital interactive map.

Here’s what the whiteboard you can draw on looks like:

View or Get a Copy of This Canva whiteboard

This ensures that I can load any image, such as one from Google Slides that I’ve exported as PNG, as a background that students can add content (e.g. post-its, images/illustrations) to without changing the grid. Isn’t that amazing?

Did You Know?

TCEA has a flexible, online Canva Educator course to introduce you to Canva’s powerful toolkit! Learn how to easily and quickly create spectacular resources, even if you’re not a designer or an artist. Or, if you’re comfortable with Canva’s tools, you may want to jump into TCEA’s Canva Specialist course, which focuses on AI tools and apps.

Creating Interactive Maps

Making interactive maps with Google Slides and/or Canva is quite easy. To be honest, if your district has Canva (it’s free!), you could prepare the slideshow in Canva, then pop out the individual slides as whiteboards (very easy to do in Canva). Or, if you only have Google access, use Slides and some other whiteboard (e.g. Figjam).

You can apply this technique to a variety of instructional activities; it’s not limited to social studies, history, or geography classes. It’s also an easy way to introduce students to map making through role playing games (RPGs). You might find the Dungeon Classroom Guide: Using Table-Top Role-Playing Games in the Classroom worthwhile reading. What’s more, the story writing possibilities that accompany even a simple map are endless. Give it a try!

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This blog entry was updated in January, 2024 to reflect the use of Canva whiteboard as a replacement for Jamboard, which Google decided to end in 2024.

August 6, 2021 1 comment

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Important Library Dates

Canva Templates for Librarians

Reminders and Events

Learning Posters

Processes and Expectations

Motivational

Library Signage

Newsletters

Activities

Digital Citizenship

Bookmarks

Random Canva Librarian Finds

Search for Library Templates in Canva

More Librarian Reads

Storytelling with Canva Magic Studio

Brand and Amplify Your Message

Make the Commitment

Tip #1: Make Something Quick

Tip #2: Create Your Media Sharing Templates

Tip #3: Framing Your Video Creations

Three Bonus Tools

Diversify Your Options

Using Canva’s Charts App

Customize Charts and Graphs

Create Specialized Charts and Graphs

Canva Certificates and Letters

The Canva Charts App Makes Things Easy

Hack #1: Importing Presentation Templates to Canva

Hack #2: Hide, Blur, or Add Effects to Pages

Hack #3: Clean Out Uploaded Items

Hack #4: Edit PDFs with Canva

Hack #5: Masking Images with Frames

Bonus Hacks!

What Are YOUR Canva Productivity Hacks?

Explore TCEA Canva Courses to Ramp Up Your Work!

Need a Canva intro course?

What is Canva Whiteboard?

Import Images or Presentations

Lock the Background

Duplicate a Page

Share the Canva Whiteboard Link

Share Your Whiteboard as a Template

Add Text and Content to a Whiteboard

The Elements of Canva Magic Studio

Tool #1: Magic Switch

Tool #2: Magic Media

Tool #3: Magic Design

Tools #4-8: Image Editing Tools

Tool #9: Magic Write

Tool #10: Magic Animate

Bonus: Classroom Magic

Double Bonus: Canva Magic Studio AI Bingo Card

Is More Canva Magic Headed Our Way?

Pricing and Options Available

Alternatives to Digital Business Cards

A Free-for-Educators Option

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Cleanup.Pictures

Adobe Photoshop

Canva

What Is Active Learning?

Using Graphic Organizers for Active Learning (GOAL)

The Graphic Organizer Templates

Graphic Organizer Formats

Revisiting the Conversation

Tools for Making Interactive Maps

USGS to the Rescue

The Digital Cartographer’s Bag of Holding

Interactive Maps with Google Slides

Did You Know?

Drawing on Your Map with Canva Whiteboard

Creating Interactive Maps

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