{"id":602,"date":"2015-05-23T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/?p=602"},"modified":"2016-08-10T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:04:21","slug":"canva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/canva\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canva<\/a> is an online graphic design platform which makes it easy for anyone to create designs that look professional.\u00a0Users can choose from professionally designed layouts or create their own designs. It’s drag and drop interface is intuitive so anyone can\u00a0create posters, infographics, social media graphics, brochures, flyers and business cards. The designs can be downloaded as graphic files (JPG or PNG) or as print or web optimized PDF files.<\/p>\n

And best of all, it is free to use. Of course, if you upgrade to the paid version there are more options available.<\/p>\n

Canva has\u00a0an online\u00a0Design School<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0graphic design tutorials on topics, such as the use of fonts, colour, images and other design tips. Besides the tutorials they offer a few Design Courses<\/a>. Educators are using Canva for social media and for creating\u00a0teaching materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are a\u00a0few\u00a0examples of designs I created using Canva.<\/p>\n

\"Environmental<\/p>\n

\"FASD\"<\/p>\n

\"Pollution\"<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canva is an online graphic design platform which makes it easy for anyone to create designs that look professional.\u00a0Users can choose from professionally designed layouts or create their own designs. It’s drag and drop interface is intuitive so anyone can\u00a0create posters, infographics, social media graphics, brochures, flyers and business cards. The designs can be downloaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27629,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1186,6,806661,1160],"tags":[1231402,1546349,1546348,1546346],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-design","category-resources","category-educational-technology-2","category-tools","tag-canva","tag-canva-for-education","tag-design-school","tag-social-media-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/parm27\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}