Monday, January 2, 2023

"Canva" An ICT TOOL

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What is Canva ?

Canva is a graphic design tool that makes creating custom graphics easy. It's easily accessible by phone or tablet and is user friendly. Not only can you use it to spice up your social media content, but you can also use it to design things like presentations, invitations, posters, brochures, business cards, etc.

Canva makes it simple and provides the tools necessary to create aesthetically pleasing graphics that will grow your social media profile as well as your brand. Here are 5 great reasons why you should be using Canva to spice up your business's social media content.

1 - There's a FREE Version

Canva has a free version for you to use and it's not for a "limited time only" either. You'll be able to create, download, and post visually appealing content without spending a dime in no time. 

2 - Tons of Awesome Features

Whether you have the free version or CanvaPro, you will have access to many great features to help you make your social posts stand out against your competitors.

Images

In the free version of Canva, you'll have an image library that consists of more than 200,000 images for you to use.

Fonts

If you want to add words to your graphic, you'll have several fonts to choose from. When it comes to choosing a font, make sure it accurately represents your brand, and try not to use more than 2 font styles within a single graphic. Using multiple fonts in one graphic will cause the image to look less professional and unorganized.

Templates

If you still feel as though you don't have the design skills to create a graphic from scratch or are short on time, templates are great to use! These templates come predesigned, but you can still make them your own by changing it to your brand colors, inserting your images, changing the fonts, resizing the text, adding your logo, etc.

Stickers & Animation

Want to make your graphic move and come to life? Easy! With the free version, you can paste digital stickers to your graphic to make it move like a gif. 

3 - Easy Resizing

Canva understands each social media platform has its own preference for image size. That's why they've made it simple to resize your image with a click of a button with CanvaPro. The design tool has most social media platform image sizes already listed out, but there is also an option to customize dimensions if needed.

4 - Create a Brand Kit

When you create content for your brand, you'll want to stick with your brand's color scheme and fonts to keep a consistent theme.CanvaPro provides this wonderful feature so you can store all your brand's colors, fonts, and logos in one place. There will be no need to continuously upload your brand's assets each time. When you open up Canva to create a new graphic, your brand kit will be there.

 

What is Canva for Education?

Canva for Education is 100% free for K-12 (primary and secondary) teachers and their students, powering creation and collaboration in every classroom.

Teacher and  students can create and personalize your own designs from scratch, or choose from thousands of high-quality, copyright-free educational templates. From presentations to posters, and infographics, to worksheets, project-based learning, and lesson plans, the possibilities are endless.

Creativity, critical thinking, design, and visual communication are central to preparing our students for the world outside of school. Canva fosters these skills by making it easy to produce and complete group projects, videos, posters and more.

And as a teacher, you can also deliver impactful feedback to reach and motivate students all in one place. Share, review, and give feedback on student work in real-time.

 Information source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canva#:~:text=Canva%20is%20an%20Australian%20global,for%20Enterprise%20for%20additional%20functionality.

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