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The next four post will showcase the work I have done for my interactive infographic assignment. You will find the link to the infographic itself, an instructional video on how to use Canva, my reflection on using and implementing it in my classroom and finally some ideas on how you could implement it in yours.

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By clicking on the photo, you can view the interactive infographic that I made. This infographic was made from the perspective of me as a science student who was tasked to demonstrate understanding of the nervous system at the end of a unit, hence this is a summative assessment. The infographic contains links to a YouTube video, and two other sites that give more details about the nervous system. One of those links is given as a clickable image. Take a look.

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How to Make an Interactive Graphic With Canva

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Here is an instructional video that will take you through how to make an interactive infographic using Canva.

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How to Make an Interactive Graphic With Canva

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Benefits, Challenges and reflections of using canva

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Canva to create an interactive infographics

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Canva to create an interactive infographics

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The infographic shared on this Padlet was created for the purpose of doing a summative assessment. We will therefore discuss the impact using cover to enhance out learning.

Benefits

Coming into this module, I had proficient knowledge of Canva as I had used it many times before to create blog post designs like thumbnails, blog banners, etc. and later when I begun teaching English, to create various worksheets and classroom creatives. Canva has proven to be a versatile and fundamental tool for creating beautiful and professional designs with no design expertise. It helps make lessons more visually appealing. Implementing varied and carefully made visuals can help improve the learner’s analytical skills (Raiyn, 2016: 115-121). Making designs interactive  helps use represent our knowledge in more diverse way and since Canva is a popular app, more students may need little persuasion to get on bored with using it in class. In fact it may bring excitement.

Challenges:

Canva is such a useful app so much so the only negative things that I can mention is   that which can be solved if one would just upgrade to a paid version. The free version already offers more than enough, but it has some limitations in terms of templates and images that you could use. It also has limitations with time when making a voiceover.  Challenges will be different for every school or class by depending the purpose for using Canva, school’s perspectives and the kind of Canva creative they are using. The teachers must anticipate potential challenges and think about how they would tackle them. For example, if one was to give students a task to create an info graphic to demonstrate what they have learned just like what was done for my info graphic,  then the teacher may need to anticipate challenges that may come with submissions and assessing the work.

Reflections:

It was my first time making an interactive creative on Canva. This opened other opportunities for me to use Canva. Before this lesson I had never thought of how I can use canva in more ways than just to create a pretty pdfs or other creatives for the internet.  This new knowledge will help me create more diverse tasks for my students and assist them in demonstrating what they have learned.

References :

1. Raiyn, J., 2016. The Role of Visual Learning in Improving Students' High-Order Thinking Skills. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(24), pp.115-121.

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Five ways to incorporate Canva in your classroom 

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Here are some ideas on how to use Canva to help enhance learning.

1. Make custom book report worksheets:

Canva has many book report templates to choose from, however, you can customize them to suit your students (as individuals or a class) and for the books you’re teaching.

Tip:  Take your time to customize a template that will work for most of your books. Create a copy and keep the original in a separate file. Use the copy to change small details to make your worksheets more targeted to your students.

2. Use it to assess your students understanding

When starting a section or a unit with your class. Let your students know that in the end they will have to present their understanding in the form of an infographic (or any other creative you may want them to make). Let them know everything they need to include in the graphic before you start the unit. You can also ask them to all collaborate on an infographic and assign each other tasks.

Tip: let the students know they’ll have to print their A3 (of whatever size) infographic and display it somewhere around their class.

3. Create classroom creatives

Use Canva to make visually appealing classroom rules and expectations, motivation, or another other creative that will be helpful, motivational and uplifting for your students and helpful foster a positive atmosphere.

Tip: You can find templates for almost any creative you may want to make. For example, just type “classroom rules” and multiple ready to use templates will pop up.

4. Collaborative comic strips

Hone your students’ creativity by giving them tasks where they can apply their knowledge creatively. A good way of assessment is giving students some options to choose from for their assessments and also allowing them to choose how they would want to be assessed. Making a comic strip may be a fun and meaningful way for students to demonstrate their understanding.

Tip: Make time for students to present their work so that you don’t have to go over everything by yourself hence giving yourself extra work.

5. Creating presentations

Use canva to make interactive presentations and have students interact with it in class. This will help you be more available during class time to assist your students and cater for them individually

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Interactive Presentation l Google slides

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Interactive Presentation l Google slides

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Link to my interactive google slides presentation 

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Link to my interactive google slides presentation 

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This interactive presentation was made to help students learn just a section of the prescribed work. It includes links to external websites were student can go and to get more details about the lesson.

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Create an Interactive Quiz Using Google Slides (FREE TEMPLATE INCLUDED!)

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How to use google slides to make an interactive lesson

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How to use google slides to make an interactive lesson

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Interactive lessons are a good way of implementing the student-centred learning approach. The students actively take part in their learning. Here is a video of how to make such a lesson on Google slides.

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Create an Interactive Quiz Using Google Slides (FREE TEMPLATE INCLUDED!)

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Benefits, Challenges and reflections of using Google slide

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Google slide to make an interactive lesson.

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Google slide to make an interactive lesson.

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Benefits:

Interactive lessons are a good way to take away the attention from the teacher in the classroom. It gives students the opportunity to engage in the materials they are learning on their own and forces them to think about it a bit more. This type of lesson could also be used in an online class, for revisions, in a hybrid class or in a regular class. Asking the students to go through the presentation as individuals and answer questions as they go through the presentation help the students thoughtfully engage in their work.

Challenges:

Perhaps the biggest challenge that may deter many teachers from using such tools is the prep time. Teachers will need to put a lot of time and thought to their presentations to ensure that they actually fulfill their purpose, otherwise they run the risk of this way of learning falling through. Any of these digital strategies to enhance learning can also be detrimental if not applied properly.

Reflection:

Making this presentation made me even more enthusiastic about teaching. It presented me with some strategic solutions for how I can best make myself available to cater for my students as individuals and group given the time we have in class. I quickly realized however, that even though this is something I will definitely implement in class, I need to think about all the preparation work that I need to put in and perhaps accept that I will not alway be able to do that.

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Five ways to incorporate Google interactive presentation in your classroom 

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Here are some ideas on how to use interactive presentations in your classroom.

1. Use it to introduce a lesson

Let the students go though your interactive presentation individually as an introduction to a topic or unit.

Tip: make sure they are taking notes as they proceed through the presentation

2. Reinforce an important topic/ idea that you think may have not been understood

Important concepts get missed all the time and we must think of a way to drive these  points home. An interactive presentation may help remedy this.

Tip: Making the students go over presentation as individuals may be more beneficial. They can get to think more about what they are learning.

3. Create an interactive quiz

The video shared previously shows how you can go about make and interactive quiz. There are better tools for quizzes out there however this is another way to use presentations in class.

4. Assign as homework

An interactive presentation makes good homework. This can be useful if you need to cover some more material that couldn’t be covered in class or if you want to prepare your students for the next lesson by making the pre learn something.

5. Use it for catchup

Interactive presentation can be useful when you don’t have time to go over something again or if some of students need to do some catchup work

Interactive presentation can be useful when you don’t have time to go over something again or a if some of students need to do some catchup work.

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EdPuzzle| using available youtube videos 

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EdPuzzle| using available youtube videos 

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This was an EdPuzzle video made using a video from YouTube. The aim was to practice how to create and assign quizzes on EdPuzzle.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Getting Started with "EdPuzzle" Tutorial

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EdPuzzle is an ingenious way to integrate videos into your classroom. Here is how to use it.

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Getting Started with "EdPuzzle" Tutorial

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Benefits, Challenges and reflections of using Google slide

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Edpuzzle.

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Edpuzzle.

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Benefits:

EdPuzzle makes it easy and convenient to create quizzes. It is a ingenious way of using YouTube videos for learning. There are many excellent videos out there that are worth sharing with our students and EdPuzzle help us do that without compromising on the learning. Students are easily distracted and may wind up just watching passively if not engaged. EdPuzzle helps curb that by allowing questions and notes that popup as the video proceeds.

Challenges:

In the beginning, I had a problem getting the link of my video to be accessible to other people. Other than that, EdPuzzle is a simple tool to use that helps use save time.

Reflection:

From the moment I learned how to use EdPuzzle, it has become one of the tools I use regularly to enhance learning. It is very easy to use and doesn’t consume too much time. It is very useful also for a good and appropriate last minute quiz.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Here are some ideas on how to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

1. Make a class quiz competition
EdPuzzle has a live mode which allows you to let the students do the their quiz independently or in groups. It will display the scores for everyone to see. It is a good way to get your students excited for the lesson. I usually use live quizzes at the beginning of my class to review concepts studies in previous lessons.

2. Task students to create their own EdPuzzle video to demonstrate their understanding of a topic.
Task students to make an interactive Edpuzzle video of their own. This can be useful for a 'be the teacher' activity where you can ask the students to teach something to demonstrate their understanding of what they have learned. This activity actually requires multiple skills necessary for students growing in the age of AI.

3. Make your own videos and display them to your students
EdPuzzle allows use to use many excellent videos that are already there online to enhance your lessons, however, you may not always find one video with exactly everything that you want. You may also just want to make a video targeted in a way or another to your students hence creating your own videos and making quizzes out of the is a great idea. You can use this videos for many purposes including including, review, home work, supplementary activities, e.t.c.

4. Use it for extension of lessons
You can use EdPuzzle to extend on your lessons and give more instructions.

5. Create learning stations
EdPuzzle can be helpful in making a complete student centered activity based lessons.  Create learning stations and assign time that must be spent at each. One station should be where the students watch the EdPuzzle quiz, the other stations can be where they do practice activities and where they produce what they learned. This also helps students learn in accordance to their abilities.

EdPuzzle has proven to be such a great tool for me to use in my classes and students are often eager to to competitive quizzes.

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This link leads to an EdPuzzle video ai made using my own video

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Edpuzzle assignment. Make video delivery an interactive experience. Students watch the lesson while answering the quizzes. The teacher gets the powerful hassle-free analytics.

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Getting Started with "EdPuzzle" Tutorial

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EdPuzzle is an ingenious way to integrate videos into your classroom. Here is how to use it.

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Getting Started with "EdPuzzle" Tutorial

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Benefits, Challenges and reflections of using Google slide

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Edpuzzle.

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Reflections and lessons acquired from using Edpuzzle.

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Benefits:

EdPuzzle makes it easy and convenient to create quizzes. It is a ingenious way of using YouTube videos for learning. There are many excellent videos out there that are worth sharing with our students and EdPuzzle help us do that without compromising on the learning. Students are easily distracted and may wind up just watching passively if not engaged. EdPuzzle helps curb that by allowing questions and notes that popup as the video proceeds.

Challenges:

In the beginning, I had a problem getting the link of my video to be accessible to other people. Other than that, EdPuzzle is a simple tool to use that helps use save time.

Reflection:

From the moment I learned how to use EdPuzzle, it has become one of the tools I use regularly to enhance learning. It is very easy to use and doesn’t consume too much time. It is very useful also for a good and appropriate last minute quiz.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Here are some ideas on how to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

1. Make a class quiz competition
EdPuzzle has a live mode which allows you to let the students do the their quiz independently or in groups. It will display the scores for everyone to see. It is a good way to get your students excited for the lesson. I usually use live quizzes at the beginning of my class to review concepts studies in previous lessons.

2. Task students to create their own EdPuzzle video to demonstrate their understanding of a topic.
Task students to make an interactive Edpuzzle video of their own. This can be useful for a 'be the teacher' activity where you can ask the students to teach something to demonstrate their understanding of what they have learned. This activity actually requires multiple skills necessary for students growing in the age of AI.

3. Make your own videos and display them to your students
EdPuzzle allows use to use many excellent videos that are already there online to enhance your lessons, however, you may not always find one video with exactly everything that you want. You may also just want to make a video targeted in a way or another to your students hence creating your own videos and making quizzes out of the is a great idea. You can use this videos for many purposes including including, review, home work, supplementary activities, e.t.c.

4. Use it for extension of lessons
You can use EdPuzzle to extend on your lessons and give more instructions.

5. Create learning stations
EdPuzzle can be helpful in making a complete student centered activity based lessons.  Create learning stations and assign time that must be spent at each. One station should be where the students watch the EdPuzzle quiz, the other stations can be where they do practice activities and where they produce what they learned. This also helps students learn in accordance to their abilities.

EdPuzzle has proven to be such a great tool for me to use in my classes and students are often eager to to competitive quizzes.

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I had Google forms before I had to do this assignment and as much as it helps us with collecting information through QnAs, I never thought of using it in my classroom. This is a link to my self marking online quiz created on Google forms.

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How to use Google forms to create an online quiz

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How to use Google forms to create an online quiz

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I love google products for their simplicity and user friendliness. Here is a video showing how to create a quiz on Google forms.

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Benefits, Challenges and reflections of using Google slide

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Reflections and lessons acquired from making and online quiz on Google forms.

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Reflections and lessons acquired from making and online quiz on Google forms.

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Benefits:

I love using google products because they are usually user friendly. As teachers, this is very useful because we can save time spent trying to just figure out the tool instead of  creating the the actual content.

On this task, we made a self marking quiz. A self-marking quiz helps is minimize the load of work that would come after students have taken the quiz. We don’t have to worry about going over tons of quizzes marking and giving feedback because we have done all that work prior when we created the quiz. The automated feedback and solutions also help students confirm their knowledge.

Challenges:

Creating the quiz takes a lot of time. It’s not the tool itself but all the work needed to get the content for the quiz. It also make a pretty basic quiz with not much room to later functionality or not many options to change designs.

Reflection:

It was interesting to see how I can create the online self marking quiz on forms. I don’t think this will form part of my teaching because it takes time to create the quiz and there are better tools for creating quizzes.

because it takes time to create the quiz and there are better tools for creating quizzes.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Five ways to use EdPuzzle in your classroom.

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Here are some ideas on how to use Google forms in your classroom.

1. Make an online quiz

Follow the steps on this video to create quiz.

2. Students research task

Give your students a task to research a topic and ask them to use google docs to collect their data.

3. Get feedback from students

Feedback is very important and it helps you improve and come up with target solutions to problems that may exist for the students that you may not be aware of. You also use it to brainstorm ideas and get students involved in some decision making about what happens in class.

4. Engage with the parents

Use the forms to engage the parents on how their kids are learning and behaving.

5. Create reward certificate to encourage your students.

Make certificates for your students to excite them.