I don’t know if there are any other crazy excited Winter Olympics fans out there but I can’t wait to start cheering on Cassie Sharpe and watching our other amazing athletes! To help you and your students follow along, we have started putting together some links to the Olympics, with printables and other fun information to help build momentum. You can find the link under the big buttons on the front of Learn71.ca. Please reach out to us if you know of any other good sites! We have also recently been trying out the Canva Classroom and I am happy to share some tips for finding the awesome teacher lesson plans available there and how to set your class up and assign work in Canva. Thank you Karla for your help with this 😊
Where are the lesson plans in Canva?
You can find full lesson plans with slide presentations and activities for most subjects and grades in Canva. You can use pages from them or the whole unit and you can edit and assign the lessons to your class. The Magic Activity button is also amazing for creating activities for your class. Here’s how to find them:
1. Log into Canva using your Comox Valley School District email address and password. You can find a link to Canva in My Apps.
2. Click on Education on the Home page.
3. Beside Education Templates, click on See All
Now you can see the Categories of the lesson plans and filter by Subject, Grade and Resource Type. We also encourage you to try out the Magic activities.
How can I assign this to my class in Canva?
You can download the lessons and use them as you would like or you can use the Canva Classroom (also called Classwork). Every time I go in to find lessons I find more incredible things!
Here are some instructions to help you get started:
Happy Tuesday! More and more teachers and students are learning about Canva and using it in their classrooms. This is very exciting. However, those who have used Canva before, know how quickly you can get caught in a rabbit hole . . . waaaay too many options.
To avoid this, teachers can go into Canva ahead of time and “preselect” specific designs they would like their students to use OR even customize a template, so all students have to do is add content and a few design changes.
These designs can then be shared out using a “Template Link” so all students have to do is click on the click to create a copy of it in their own instance of Canva.
Click on the image to watch the video below to learn how to do this.
To learn more about how to insert the links into Teams (and more) visit the Canva page on learn71.ca
https://learn71.ca/integrating-technology/technology-support/canva/
MyEd & Brightspace Student Resources
As the second semester is just starting for the high schools, I just wanted to point out some additional links that have been added to the teacher sites to provide more information to students. Clicking on the “Learning at Home” red button will direct users to the pages created specifically for parents and students.
Happy Tuesday! Anyone who is exploring AI quickly realizes that the quality of what you get from AI directly depends on the quality of your prompt. Say hello to the AI for Education Prompt Library—your new go-to resource for powerful AI prompts designed specifically for education. This incredible library is packed with ready-made prompts that help you use AI tools for everything from generating creative writing ideas to crafting personalized study guides. There is even a page of prompts for AI Resistant Assessment. Whether you’re an AI newbie or an experienced user, this resource makes it simple to integrate AI into your teaching practice in meaningful ways and get the most out of Copilot.
On a more serious note, Safer Schools: Erase is offering free online workshops for students and parents about social media awareness, cyberbullying, dealing with violence, online safety and more. Please send a message home encouraging parents to attend these workshops if they are interested. Here are links with more information, dates of the workshops and registration:
Students: Separate workshops for grades 5-8 and 9-12 erase Gender Based Violence Student Sessions
Parents: erase Family Sessions
…or for both links visit https://learn71.ca/online/erase_family-resources/
AI For Education Prompt Library:
Click here or on the image below to visit this fabulous prompt library.
