netiquette poster
What is Canva?
Canva is a website that allows the user to make free posters. It offers many different layouts and backgrounds, as well as text boxes, images, and fonts. Canva offers a variety of free tools to make a custom poster with a professional appearance.
How does it fit into Component 3A?
Canva fits into Component 3A because it most often used to communicate some form of expectation to the students. Sometimes it is a rule poster, and other times it is a content help, but it is almost always used to communicate with students, and make sure that they realize what is expected of them.
How can I use it in my future classroom?
In an elementary level classroom, I could use Canva to create a picture lable for students' belongings and school supplies, so that they can be responsible for their own spaces. In all levels, I could create rule posters, homework assignment graphics, sight word helps, and math fact sheets. These are just a few examples of the many possible uses for Canva in the classroom!
Canva is a website that allows the user to make free posters. It offers many different layouts and backgrounds, as well as text boxes, images, and fonts. Canva offers a variety of free tools to make a custom poster with a professional appearance.
How does it fit into Component 3A?
Canva fits into Component 3A because it most often used to communicate some form of expectation to the students. Sometimes it is a rule poster, and other times it is a content help, but it is almost always used to communicate with students, and make sure that they realize what is expected of them.
How can I use it in my future classroom?
In an elementary level classroom, I could use Canva to create a picture lable for students' belongings and school supplies, so that they can be responsible for their own spaces. In all levels, I could create rule posters, homework assignment graphics, sight word helps, and math fact sheets. These are just a few examples of the many possible uses for Canva in the classroom!
Reflections:
The many options available on this site made it fun and simple to use. It was exciting to see the poster come together as I thought of new things to add to it. I like the feature that makes it possible to put a poster in an image on the poster.
The site was not always easy to use, however. It would frequently freeze, and lose track of progress, or keep the mouse from selecting an object. It would occasionally not recognize that I was attempting to select an item, and the site would not allow me to change the item without closing it and reopening it. It was also not very sensitive to which item I was trying to select.
Next time that I am intending to create a poster using Canva, I will have a clearer idea of the site's benefits and limitations. With this knowledge, I will understand what features are useful, and what features are difficult to work with. I would also have a have a more thorough knowledge of what tools would most effectively communicate the intended message of the poster.
Canva can fill many roles in the student's learning experience. It certainly helps a visual learner to remember and process information. Nearly every learner will benefit from a definite visual to refer to, even if they are not specifically visual learners. Canva posters can be the scaffold that a student is missing as he is trying to accommodate a new subject. The teacher can show the student the poster, which would help him to remember the material, and organize and categorize the information for efficient retrieval.
Canva has a few issues that make it slightly difficult to figure out, but as a whole, it has potential to become an invaluable tool in the classroom!
The many options available on this site made it fun and simple to use. It was exciting to see the poster come together as I thought of new things to add to it. I like the feature that makes it possible to put a poster in an image on the poster.
The site was not always easy to use, however. It would frequently freeze, and lose track of progress, or keep the mouse from selecting an object. It would occasionally not recognize that I was attempting to select an item, and the site would not allow me to change the item without closing it and reopening it. It was also not very sensitive to which item I was trying to select.
Next time that I am intending to create a poster using Canva, I will have a clearer idea of the site's benefits and limitations. With this knowledge, I will understand what features are useful, and what features are difficult to work with. I would also have a have a more thorough knowledge of what tools would most effectively communicate the intended message of the poster.
Canva can fill many roles in the student's learning experience. It certainly helps a visual learner to remember and process information. Nearly every learner will benefit from a definite visual to refer to, even if they are not specifically visual learners. Canva posters can be the scaffold that a student is missing as he is trying to accommodate a new subject. The teacher can show the student the poster, which would help him to remember the material, and organize and categorize the information for efficient retrieval.
Canva has a few issues that make it slightly difficult to figure out, but as a whole, it has potential to become an invaluable tool in the classroom!