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Maximizing Your Time With Canva: 12 Tips for Busy Teachers

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Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab
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Presenters

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Coleman Brown
Instructional Technology Facilitator
Greenville County School District
@mrbrownsclass
@mrbrownsclassit
Coleman Brown has served as a Title I Instructional Technology Facilitator for Greenville County School District, SC for three years. He considers it a privilege to support schools and their teachers by equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to integrate technology effectively throughout lessons. He coaches elementary schools and teachers through planning, modeling lessons, co-teaching, and leading professional development to support and enhance the incredible work teachers are already doing. Ultimately, his goal is to grow teachers by helping them transform their instructional practices to increase student engagement and achievement.
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Shane Peek
Technology Coordinator/Facili
Greenville County Schools (SC)
@ShaneRPeek
Shane serves as an Instructional Technology Facilitator with Greenville County Schools where he irons the capes of the true superheroes (teachers). As just one member of a dynamic team, his mission is to grow and equip teachers through professional development, co-teaching, model lessons, growth cycles, and one-on-one brainstorming sessions. To learn more, follow Shane on Twitter @ShaneRPeek.

Session description

Are you looking to take your Canva skills to the next level? Are you feeling overwhelmed with designing digital content? Join us as we explore 12 time-saving strategies in Canva, the go-to design tool for educators. We will explore remixing templates, AI tools, Magic shortcuts, hacks and more!

Purpose & objective

After modeling the tools, participants will be able to:
- show how they can use Canva's Magic Assistant to create ideas
- show how to translate text for ML/ESOL students to create more access information
- show how they can use several of Canva's AI tools to maximize their time creating

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Outline

We will share our tips and tricks to maximizing our time with Canva. Section 1: We will model 4 tools for about 8-9 minutes. Then, we will provide participants with 2-3 minutes of work time or exploratory time. Section 2 begins. We will model 4 more tools for about 8-9 minutes. Then, we will provide participants with 2-3 minutes of work time or exploratory time. Section 3 begins. We will model the remaining 4 tools for about 8-9 minutes. Then, we will provide them with a little more work time. With the remaing time, we would like for participants to share some of the wonderful ideas or ways they see themselves using Canva to help maximize their time.

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Supporting research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910542/

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Session specifications

Topic:
Creativity & curation tools
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Intermediate
Audience:
Coaches, Principals/head teachers, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Laptop: Mac, PC
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
Attendees need to have their premium educator accounts created and set up through Canva. (www.canva.com/education)
ISTE Standards:
For Education Leaders:
Visionary Planner
  • Share lessons learned, best practices, challenges and the impact of learning with technology with other education leaders who want to learn from this work.
Empowering Leader
  • Inspire a culture of innovation and collaboration that allows the time and space to explore and experiment with digital tools.
Related exhibitors:
Canva for Education

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