Easy graphic design for language teachers with Canva
Canva is a free graphic design programme which easily allows you to create your own designs from scratch or by adapting templates available within the tool. Whether you have experience of using Canva or a complete beginner Anna and Jerôme will guide you through the basics and the potential of the programme and show you how to easily create an aesthetically pleasing talking praise postcard.
Anna Grainger
Anna is a qualified French and Spanish teacher with over 20 years’ teaching experience. After the first part of her career spent teaching secondary MFL she moved into middle management in Coventry Adult Education Service. She has now been teaching Spanish for the last few years in a primary school in Coventry where she has developed a passion for early language learning and inspiring young people to embrace languages and culture and to become global citizens. She has run the Coventry MFL hub for the past 5 years and have recently co-founded Coventry, City of Languages with a colleague, partnering with Warwick and Coventry Universities, local businesses and other stakeholders to promote and encourage uptake of language learning across the city. She is a British Council Schools’ Ambassador and was recently invited to become a Genially ambassador.
She started to use Canva during lockdown to create digital praise postcards to send to children who had engaged in home learning. She now finds it one of the easiest and most powerful graphics programmes to create appealing graphics for the classroom and beyond. She has always enjoyed being creative and I now create graphics using Canva to import into apps such as Learning Apps and Genially to make resources look more aesthetically pleasing.
Jérôme Nogues
Jerome is Head of Department and Head of Digital Learning in a Prep School in beautiful Shropshire. He has been teaching French for over 20 years. He loves using technology in and out of lessons. He also enjoys learning and sharing ideas on social medias with his peers. He is a Microsoft Innovative Education Expert, a Microsoft Innovative Education Master Trainer and an Apple teacher. He is also a keen runner.