Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about Canva and creating a class Newsletter? This assignment / project is the perfect solution! Your students will learn how to use Canva to create a visually appealing and informative Classroom Newsletter on a subject of their choice. This assignment comes with a comprehensive grading rubric, which ensures that your students’ work will be evaluated fairly and accurately. Additionally, the included instructions guide students through the process of researching, designing, and creating their Newsletter, ensuring a great result. Whether you’re a technology or graphic design teacher, or just looking for a fun project to keep your students engaged, this Newsletter assignment is sure to be a hit! The choice is there to have students work individually, in pairs or teams. Included: Student Assignment in pdf (instructions, shortcut keys, examples) Grading rubric provide in word and pdf Student Planner provided in word and pdf Just deliver the pdf with instructions, shortcuts keys and examples to them either electronically or by print. You will need an internet connect so that students can use the Free or Education account in Canva to complete this lesson.

Microsoft Word Tables is a 20 page step by step training manual with screen shots that will have yourself and/or your learners mastering tables in Microsoft Word in no time at all. This will add professionalism to worksheets, reports and other documentation. It is an essential skill. It includes a Teacher Training Manual, a Student Training Manual and exercise files. It has 5 exercises at the end of the Manual for students to complete. You are supplied with both Word format and pdf. In case you wish to edit the manuals for your own purposes. This can be used for instructor led training and / or for students to work through on their own.

Email is the most common form of communication in the workplace and it is important to get it right. The Resource contains an e-book that contains six critical steps to ensuring your email is delivered to the recipient in a professional manner. Common mistakes have been addressed for those that have English as a Second Language and there are some practical exercises to be completed around grammar within. The answers are also supplied. The second resource is a PowerPoint presentation that is useful for leadership coaching. It is interactive, and in the notes page of the presentation there are examples of activities for the learners to participate in as you work your way through the presentation. The average office worker receives around 80 emails each day. With that volume of mail, individual messages can easily get overlooked. Follow these simple rules to get your emails noticed and acted upon. Don't overcommunicate by email. Make good use of subject lines. Keep messages clear and brief. Be polite. Check your tone. Proofread. ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

This resource contains a very graphic filled PowerPoint presentation that makes learning easy as well as an iPad training manual that can be printed or updated as required. It can be used as a self tutorial or as a full lesson workshop style. I used it to train a group of adults that were new to using iPads. They really enjoyed the session and learnt a lot of useful skills. A lesson plan is also included if you intend to deliver workshop style.

This is a step by step training manual that is easy to read and understand. It comes with screen shots and exercises for students to carry out. There are also additional form letters and databases to practice with. I have used this in a two hour workshop.

This resource contains step by step instructions with screen shots to show how to convert a pdf file to a google document, so that it can be edited. Two methods are outlined. Method one converts directly from Drive and Method 2 involves downloading a google conversion app. The steps are not difficult, but the benefits and time saving of this feature is worthwhile. Note that this does not enable a perfect conversion. It won't work well with large documents that contain a lot of diagrams, tables, or graphics.

Shortcut keys for Google docs to make your life easier. Provided in a Word document for editing and a PDF file. Use as handouts for students / learners to increase their efficiency when using Google to create documents. Shortcuts for following: Common Commands Text formatting Paragraph formatting Images and drawings Comments and footnotes Menus Text selection with keyboard Text selection with mouse Moving around your Document Table navigation Other tools and navigation

This crossword puzzle with answers covers the key vocabulary that learners need to be exposed to when learning Microsoft Powerpoint. I use this with my adult learning classes and they really enjoy completing this. It can be done in pairs or groups or individually. It generates useful discussion and is a lot of fun. This is a print and go activity.

Kahoot is an extremely popular web based learning tool that students absolutely love. And it is free to use! The resource contains a PowerPoint Presentation and a PDF file. This lesson contains step by step graphic instructions on the following topics: Sign up and log on to Kahoot Find and explore other Kahoots Duplicate an existing Kahoot on a topic of interest. Edit an existing Kahoot and make it your own. Publish your Kahoot Play your Kahoot ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

Canva is an excellent, free, design tool that can save you time and money. It makes sense to use this instead of paying for expensive designers. This resource comes in PPT form and a pdf. The PPT is 30 slides. This training PowerPoint and PDF is a step by step guide to get you started using Canva. A Pinterest pin using Video is created for the purposes of an example, however, the skills learnt can be applied to other promotional documents such as Covers, brochures, posters, instagram posts, twitter posts, etc. You can use Canva to market your store, and / or use it as a class lesson. Students / learners can create posters, design promotional material on a topic of your choice, etc. This can be used to teach yourself how to use Canva or as a project for students / learners. Topics covered in Step by Step, graphic format: Signing up and Logging on to Canva Creating a Pinterest Pin Video Template Choices Review of Objects Menu Inserting and Changing Text Moving and Rotating Text Placeholders Adjusting Spacing between Characters Making changes to your video (crop, trim) Publishing to Pinterest and to File

These two forms are useful to make informed decisions about the apps that will be downloaded onto iPad for children's use. A set criteria is used to ensure that the apps will be educational, within budget, relevant and useful. There is such a wide variety of apps to choose from that a process like this should be in place whenever staff wish to recommend and / or suggest apps for early learning centers or primary schools. I have left this in word format so that the forms can be edited if necessary.

This step by step document takes you through how to insert a YouTube Video into a Word document. This can be useful when you don't want to use a 'link.' It can make your Word document much more interactive.

This resource is a worksheet that contains a list of Word shortcut keys from Ctrl A to Ctrl Z. Learners fill out the worksheet to the best of their ability either individually or as a group exercise. An answer sheet is provided. They can then go and try out all the shortcuts for themselves.

This resource has been created for those that have been used to using a PC and now find themselves in front of an Apple Mac computer. It can be incredibly frustrating to make the switch. By referring to this table you will find it a lot easier and in no time at all you will have mastered the new short cuts keys that will save you time and increase your productivity! Print it out and have it close to your desk for the first couple of weeks.