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Canva Review

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 My Reflection on Creating a Info-Graphic with Canva: Creating a info-graphic with Canva is really easy. Canva offers us many template options to work on. In Canva, we can upload pictures and add music to our graphic from our computer. Besides, it has many icons that we can use in the info-graphic we design. I personally found Canva quite useful. These info graphics are really memorable and thus can be very efficient when used for educational purposes. Yet, to use some of the templates and stickers and to download the graphics in the format you like require payment. But to me, it absolutely worth it. Here is a info-graphic I made on Canva: 

Word Art Review

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  WordArt is a text styling program where you can color,shape and bend the words you insert however you like . Simply, it is a program that change words' appearance. In terms of educational purposes, this tool can be used in presentations as a visual aid or can be a good warm-up activity. For example, in a language class, if there is a reading task, before that, such a Word art can be shown to students in order to create a conversation on what the reading text is about: I made this little wordart from a short story I found on  this website. The story is obviously about a birthday party. Other than that, such wordart visuals can be useful in writing classes as they can be used as a prompt for students writing. I found the website very easy to use. The only negative thing is that you cannot copy paste a text there; you have to write the words one by one. If there was an option to paste a text, it could be very useful to show  students the main point of the t...