Visuals, Video, AI, Oh My! Canva for Education Does it All!

Canva for Education is a powerful yet easy-to-use graphic design tool that allows educators to create beautiful teaching resources of all kinds, from posters, to presentations and documents, to videos, and much, much more! With more than 250,000 thousand templates, graphics, photos, and videos, Canva for Education is useful for both novices and more experienced graphic designers alike. And the best thing about it is, it’s free! Canva is optimized for Chromebooks and app smashes with Google Workspace, allowing teachers to get creative and use the best features of each tool together. This project-based course will take a deep dive into Canva’s feature set, and provide ample opportunity for designing visual resources that will support your teaching and directly integrate into any teaching and learning environment. While Canva for Education will be the primary application for this course, other apps, such as Google Workspace, as well as other online resources will be explored and used throughout the course. This course is designed for music educators at all grade levels and disciplines.

 Course Requirements:

• This course requires a Schoology account
• Access to a Mac, PC, or Chromebook, connected to the Internet. Basic computer skills are required, such as setting up accounts with a username and password, basic typing skills, uploading and downloading files, and familiarity with using the Internet.
• Canva for Education Account (details to be discussed in Week 1)
• Wakelet account (free)
• Google Workspace and YouTube accounts
• Myriad free cloud-apps and online resources. Details provided in course materials.

Helpful, but optional:

An inexpensive USB microphone, such as:

• M-Audio Uber Mic – https://bhpho.to/3dpVN8z
• Rode NT-USB Mini USB Mic – https://bit.ly/3lZyJ0X

An inexpensive webcam, such as:

• Logitech C615 Webcam – https://bhpho.to/3zujO7h
• Logitech C920s HD Pro Webcam – https://bhpho.to/3NR5p8O