Canva is a website (and an app) that helps you create beautiful graphics to use in social media, slide shows, blog posts (my graphic was made with Canva), documents and more.
You can also log in with your Google account so that makes it easy to remember your user information. :)
From the website, just select the type of graphic you want to create - it's ok if you don't see the exact thing you are looking for, you can do a custom size graphic as well. Also remember, just because it says social media as the graphic type don't let if fool you. You can still use that graphic for many things. Click the + sign to see more graphics options. Finally, there are free tools and paid tools. I've never paid for a graphic, but if I need to, they are very inexpensive. I encourage you to take a look at this site - you won't be sorry.
There are so many great resources on the web - I love that I can rely on others to help in my quest to learn as much as I can about technology integration and making the technology work for me.
Google Gooru is a perfect example of this. Their newsletter has great tips and videos to make me a better Google User. So in honor of sharing the knowledge, here's a great post from Google Gooru about Organizing Your Google Drive (something I really need to do).
Enjoy!
Paper by Fifty Three is a free app that allows you to sketch, draw on images, take notes, make to do lists and more. Just create a space and start adding pages to it.
This is a great tool for students to draw out a process, show their work on math problems, draw pictures to illustrate a book or just take notes.
Another great feature - you and your students can use your school google account to sign in so you don't have to remember ANOTHER account name and password.
Finally, once you have a completed space, you can share it as a presentation and save it to your Google Drive or OneDrive.
The Google Cultural Institute was launched in 2011. It currently contains over 6 million items including photos, videos and documents.
I have to say, the Google Cultural Institute is absolutely A-MA-ZING! There are exhibits and collections from museums and archives from around the world. You can also create your own galleries.
On the home page, you'll find link to the Google Art Project, Historic Moments and World Wonders. Each of these contain their own content including high resolution images (you can zoom in so close you can see the brush strokes in a painting), historical photos and documents and unbelievable views of historical buildings.
Take a few minutes (or an hour or so) to visit this site - you'll be so glad you did.
