The Grade 2s recently created presentations about South
Africa using Google Slides. Today I wanted to see if they could remember seven
of the national symbols and present them neatly, each with an image, as a poster
in Google Slides.
Skills focus
copy and paste
search images
find a suitable image and paste it into Google Slides
create a light-coloured, abstract background
resize images
Examples of the finished products
The examples below are from Julian, Kayla and Kaleb (the students always use their online names for anything that goes online in ICT).
In this lesson the students were encouraged to think about their strngths and make a poster about them that included a photo. isn't it strange that most people cannot think of their strengths but can rattle off their weaknesses! We used Adobe Spark to create the posters.
What is Adobe Spark?
Adobe Spark (https://www.adobe.com/express/) is one of those programs that teachers love because the students can easily create social media posts and graphics, web pages, and videos fairly quickly — with no design or technical experience necessary.
Canva is a fantastic tool for learning. A picture is worth a
1000 words and my students are continually inspired by all the beautiful
designs in Canva I am using Canva in
different ways with my Grade 4 class of
9 and 10 year olds.
In the lesson described below I
wanted to get them familiar with animation so I thought we should make a poster.
There are several ways to use animation in Canva, but I thought we would start
with the simplest way – “Find an animated image and make it your own.”
The task
I asked my class to think about an important event that was
coming up in their lives in the next week or two, find an animated image that they liked, and then change the image accordingly to make it a personal poster. One girl was going horse-riding and was very excited about this event. Two
were attending birthday parties. One was getting a new puppy. And so the list
continued... The class loved what they discovered in Canva.
Here are four examples of what the class came up with:
I am really hoping that I will be able to get the Canva for Education free account for teachers (Canva is available for free globally to all educational institutions and qualified teachers with proof of teaching certification). Then I will make use of some of these tips from the video below with my Grade 4 class in one of their upcoming lessons.
