Transforming Learning: Harnessing Canva's Audio, AI, and Animation [entry level and advanced]

This workshop equips educators with the skills to leverage Canva's powerful audio, AI, and animation features to create engaging and effective learning experiences. Participants will explore a wide range of applications, from such as text-to-speech and image generation to voiceovers; sound effects; and music integration, all designed to help students showcase their knowledge in innovative and creative ways.

This session is ideal for:

• Educators at all levels of experience, from beginners to advanced users of Canva.

• Teachers across various subject areas and grade levels.

• School administrators and instructional coaches interested in promoting innovative teaching practices.

Canva for Educators: Transform Your Teaching with Design   [Entry level] 

Discover the power of Canva, the ultimate design tool for educators. From eye-catching presentations to engaging infographics, and even professional quality videos, you'll explore a range of design techniques and best practices for Canva. We'll explore the latest features, including AI-powered tools, to streamline your workflow and boost your creativity. Beyond static visuals, Canva offers powerful video editing capabilities. With a vast library of pre-designed templates, stock images, videos, and audio clips, you can bring your creative vision to life without starting from scratch. 

By the end of this workshop, you'll be able to design stunning presentations, craft engaging visuals, leverage AI, and integrate Canva seamlessly into your learning management system. Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform your classroom into a vibrant and inspiring learning environment.  You’ll leave with a collection of ready to use Canva templates created by you and your peers (and me) that can be shared with colleagues and adapted for various teaching contexts.

Getting Started with Canva for Education      [Entry level]

Canva has taken the creativity world by storm! In this workshop, we’ll take a deep dive into Canva for Education, exploring how you can use Canva to create stunning designs, engaging presentations, great video content, and so much more! We’ll look at how the Magic Studio AI features in Canva can help to spark creativity from a blank canvas and take student engagement in the classroom to a whole new level! And we’ll look at how Canva Whiteboards allows students to work collaboratively together, find their voice, and share their ideas.

We’ll also take a look at some of Canva’s newest features like Dream Lab, polls and quizzes, video captions, new capabilities to Magic Write, and so much more! 

Let's Go with Canva Next Steps! [advanced]

The number one design tool for teachers across the world is Canva (and it’s free for education too!) We will look at how to use Canva to supercharge your classrooms, utilise AI in a safe and meaningful way + utilise Whiteboards for group collaboration.You will leave with a ready to use designed resource (presentation, worksheet, video or similar) that you can share with colleagues or students.