
Entry 3
18/11/2020
CANVA

In this entry, I will discuss about this one Web 2.0 for graphic media platform that used for multimedia editing and presentation. The graphic media platform that I'm talking about is Canva. Canva is a medium for graphic design that can used to create social media graphics, presentation, posters, documents and other visual content. Thanks to their drag-and-drop interface, it just need a few clicks to customized your design. It also has everything you need to create an amazing design. Canva has over a million images, icons, templates, fonts and photo filters.

The benefits of using Canva.
Canva is a free online design platform that allows its user to create professional looking posters, interesting presentations, event flyers, resumes, infographics and more with just using their thousand of choices designed templates. It also offer paid subscriptions like Canva Pro and Canva for Enterprise for additional functionality. Canva has features like video tutorials for free for you guys. So you can learn how to create your work by using Canva. If you are an educators, there is a video tutorials on their website on how to incorporate Canva in the virtual classroom. Canva's tools for education allows students to share their work with their classmates, while teachers can use Canva to design appealing learning materials for your students. Canva for Education is offered to classrooms for free. You just have to register your class to unlock the additional features. And for your information, Canva for Education is a partnering with Google for Education. Educators should sign up for Canva for Education, because it offers advantages to Pro and integration with Google Classroom.
Other great features on Canva is sharing option. Canva has the option if you are doing work in a group and you want to submit the design you are working on to another person, it's as simple as entering their email addresses and submitting them to your group members. Canva lets you exchange designs with a thousand individuals. By using Canva, you don't have to worry anymore about losing your work because it will automatically save all your work in the apps. So, you still can access your past and latest design in 'All Your Design' column. This is advantageous because wherever you go, you can access to all your templates. This is such an interesting features for you because you do not have to save your work to a flash drive or computer-but still you can save it to your computer if you want. This also will ensures all your works if your computer is malfunctions or shuts down, because your hard work will be secure.
Canva provides resources for teachers and students to use to augment the learning process for the creative-minded in the classroom. With the ease of the click-and-drop tool, students can create modern-looking design with the interesting templates that provided for free. These platforms provide students with enjoyable, engaging and inspiring ways to present information or analysis, while still presenting the data in a creative and fascinating way. Canva is a very popular online tool for internet users, with 13.1 million users and over 95 million designs made so far.

How to get started with Canva?
1. Go to canva.com and click sing up to register for an account.


2. Return back to canva.com and log in to your Canva.

3. Choose any templet of your interest and click on the template. For example, you want to create a presentation, select the template in the presentation section.

4. You can change color, background or add icons, text, images, lines, shapes, over the components on the left side.

5. After you done editing your slide or other template you choose, click share on the top right to share your works eithers with others to view only or edit your design or you can click download (arrow down) on the top right to download your work.

Here is the video tutorials about using Canva.