 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Kristen Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine, we do record the show as we are doing today. And it is posted to our show archives for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of the show recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. For those of you who are not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries, so similar to your state library. So we provide services and programming and resources to all types of libraries in state. So we have shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public Academic K-12 Corrections Museums Archives. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We do have sessions that are done by Nebraska Library Commission staff sometimes, talking about things we offer here through the Commission. But we do bring in guest speakers and that is what we have this morning. Joining us today is Kelly Kenny. Good morning, Kelly. Sorry, I'm my volume up so loud, I can't hear anything. Oh. Sign up. Good morning Kelly. Hello. Hi. And she is well, she is actually currently right, the president of the Nebraska School Librarians Association. Past president. Past president, most recently past president, okay. But is also a librarian at Hillside Elementary School here up in Omaha, Nebraska. I'm in Lincoln, she's in Omaha. And she's going to talk about being a canvaholic and how we can all be one too. And I know I use canvah, I've used canvah a lot, we use it here at the Commission for lots of things now and it is a great resource. And so I was really happy to see this presentation myself just to see if maybe I can get some new tips and tricks on how to use it. So I will hand it over to you Kelly to tell us all about it. Thank you. I apologize for the music being a little loud. I've discovered that you could add canva free music to all your canva things. So of course I got to have a fun little intro. I'm so glad and thank you guys for having me talk about Canva. I am a canvaholic, I'm obsessed with it, I love it. So like if you think about the Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, their website officially says that a holic means someone who is someone that likes something a lot. So there's like chocolate holics, workaholics, bookaholics and the list goes on. And while all those perfectly describe me, I think canvaholic might be the best because I like it a lot. Every day when I come to school, my Google Chrome tabs include my email, my Google Drive, my lesson plan for the day, and then I always have Canva open as well. Whether it's like for worksheets, for flyers, research organizers, signage, posters, heck even when I use it for my birthday invitations for my little kids at home, Canva's always had my back. So I'm really excited today to talk to you about some of the tips and tricks that I've learned on my Canva journey. I think I've been using it for seven years now, so go way back to 2016. So just a quick introduction, my name is Kelly Kenney and I am an elementary school librarian here in Omaha, Healthside. I also serve as the K6 library curriculum chair, which means I oversee the 10 elementary libraries in my district. Our district, Westside Community School District, has been heavy on technology for the 11 years and even before I was in the district. I believe they became a one-to-one laptop district in 2007 and then we became a one-to-one K12 district in 2013 or 14. So they've always been super supportive of technology, which has kind of led me down the path that I have and why I kind of use Canva, because I have access to great resources from my district. So a little background on my specific intro to Canva, the Nebraska Educational Technology Association hosts a spring conference every year and it is the biggest education conference we have in the state. And at this conference they have all these different speakers and I cannot tell you which session I went to because it's two days of amazing learning, but in 2016 I went to NIDA and I heard about Canva and I was like, oh, this is cool. It's like a free tool I can use to create cool posters and things like that. So I began by creating a poster for student tech teams, which I will show you here shortly, and I thought it was really great. At that time I was also working on my masters through the University of Nebraska at Kearney in instructional technology and leadership, and rather than doing like a typed report or a PowerPoint or kind of your basic presentation tools, I decided to, well, I have this Canva account, let me create work and assignments on Canva. So I used Canva a lot through my master's program. Then in my school life I started using it to make flyers. We do one school, one book in my building, so I'd make flyers kind of announcing big events happening around that. I'd also do it for our book fairs that we have every fall and spring. And then I like to say I went a little crazy. So this is my current, oh, sorry, go back. This is my first Canva creation that I created in the fall of 2016. My school is the Paddock Road Pandas at the time, and so I thought it was a cute little panda eraser, and this was just to announce something cool that we were going to be developing in our building. And in a fact, I never actually got my tech squad coming because lots of things come up in. But it was cute. I made it. I love it. But I never actually had a tech squad with students someday, maybe. But this is what I was going to show you. This is a glimpse of what my Canva looks like now. You can see I'm just scrolling and scrolling through my homepage of all the content that I've created over the past seven years. I do, from time to time, try to go through and delete things that I'm not using. And one tool I'm actually not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about because I haven't done it yet is organizing my content in Canva into different folders and projects. It would probably be super beneficial for me to do that. But that's one of those daunting tasks that I don't want to really tackle until it's a winter break or summer break. That's a future Kelly problem, not a today Kelly problem. So, but yeah, I use Canva all the time for basically everything I want to create is on Canva. So just a background information. I don't know how familiar people are with Canva, but there's lots of different accounts that you can set up. There is a basic free account. And this is what I used the most as I got started with Canva. It's just free. And then there are like pro things that you don't have access to on the free account, but there's still plenty of resources available if you are just using Canva free. They have since in the past few years, they've adapted and they have Canva education, which is also free for teachers and school districts in the K-12 education and it is allows teachers and people in within a school district to access everything in Canva, all the pro content for free in addition to some of the cool apps that they've added. If you're not in the education system, there is Canva pro. It is $14.99 a month and that allows one person access to all of the pro content. They also have Canva teams for $29.99 a month and that allows five people access to the pro content. And I'll kind of talk about this again, but there are some workarounds on how you access that pro content, not that Canva wants me to tell you about those, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve that I will share with you. And just for this presentation, I started looking at the other accounts, so I don't know much about them, but I did see that they have Canva for campus and the price depends on the student body size. And they also have Canva non-profit and I couldn't really find anything on it other than like, reach out to us if you're a non-profit organization that wants to use Canva. So maybe it's a cutting you a deal or maybe you can get it for you. Yes. Something maybe similar to the EDU one or something or sort of a discount. Yeah. I don't know if it's different library systems able to access the education side, even though they're not like a typical school district or system. So I know there's kind of some workarounds in that one. So today, I'm just going to kind of cover four different main areas. I'm going to talk about using Canva templates, talk about the text, give you a whole bunch of different design tips that will make your life easier as you create things and then just share some inspiration from my content. And speaking about my content, I just have to do a couple of disclaimers. I have to share that 75% of the things that I've created and done on Canva, I did without Canva education. So I joined Canva before it was even a thing. And I did join with my district email and a couple of years go by and I'm still using Canva and Canva education comes out. I'm like, oh, yeah, I just have to check this box. I'm an educator. Great. I have access to the Canva education side of things. But then I started like working with my colleagues and I saw that they had like all these cool graphics and features that I didn't have access to. And I was like, wait, something's not right with my account. Like I thought I had Canva education turns out I didn't. So in the meantime of not having Canva education, I would sign up for like the trial of Canva and you get one free month. And then before they charge my credit card, I'd cancel it really quick. So I'd create a whole bunch of content and then cancel it so I didn't get charged as one kind of work around that I did. And you can buy individual items or graphics. So there was at one point a poster. I really wanted this background. I paid a dollar for it, which was not a big deal. But then I went to contact Canva about, OK, I really want to get my education account verified with yours. And I'm going to jump down to bullet point three, Canva's contact support. I haven't worked with them since. So I hope they have improved, but it was terrible. I think I spent maybe six to eight weeks going back and forth with Canva's tech support or support, just trying to verify my account. I would email things and then I would hear back from one person and then I didn't hear back from someone else. And then it was just kind of a pain in the butt. So just warning, Canva support may not be the best. Hopefully they've improved. It's been a year since I've reached out to them. So maybe things are better. I definitely keep working with them to make sure you get that if you want that education or whatever the nonprofit one is, definitely. And I think it ended up helping me as I stopped working with the initial person I was talking to and I completed like a whole new help ticket, essentially. And I explained everything I sent documentation because you do have to provide like proof that you work in your school or your district when signing up without a district account. So definitely, yeah, do the it was worth it, but a pain. And then funny enough, after I worked with Canva about a month or two later, my district did like a district account with them. So then I automatically was able to get that content. So some of you might not even have to do that if your district does it for you, which would be. Yes, yeah, look into that. If you yeah, just you would pay for that. But like you said, I mean, your first point here, I think that 75 percent of content was done before you even had that. There is a lot in there. You don't have to pay there. All the free options are great. I mean, I use the free for for a few years before our organization. Yeah, our commission did because other people started getting into using it and saying we could use a little bit more some more, you know, bells and whistles on some of our things. All right. And we looked into what it would be. And we have I'm not exactly sure which kind of account we have, but we have one where we have one of the pro something. Yeah. And, you know, it is expensive, but I even really considered I oversee our budgets as our elementary library. And I was like, it is worth the money if I have to pay for a pro version because of the content you get to me, it was worth every penny. And I think it will continue to be worth the money because Canvas always expanding, which kind of goes the next one. Like I am nowhere close to being an expert on Canva because they keep adding all these amazing features. It's hard to keep up with. So if you do and can work out the budget for it, I highly recommend securing that pro content if you can. So I still watch YouTube videos and I'll go on Tiktok and watch a couple of clips or even just look online to always learn new things. But I have a three year old and a five month old at home. So it's kind of hard to keep up with all the cool things. So every every few months, I'll check out what's going on in Canva and try to buff up on my skills. So not an expert, but I love Canva enough. And that's why I'm really excited to share about it with you guys today. So we'll jump right in. So my first kind of tip for everyone, whether they're a beginner or kind of working their way through or no Canva really well is to start with a template as a starting point. If you don't have any design background or maybe it's just not like your forte, Canva has everything pretty much pre made for you. So you can find a template and literally just pop in your text that you want and pop in an image and you're done. You don't have to mess with it, which I think is a great place if you're just starting out or if you run out of time or don't have any time to do it. So some top search ideas that I use on Canva when I'm looking for a specific template. Again, I'm an educator, so I start with education presentation. I search worksheets, calendars, library reading, school, infograph and specific themes when I want to find a template. So, for example, my building is getting ready for our next one school, one book event and our school be reading the lemonade war together. So when I'm working on creating content for our big events, I'm like searching the word lemonade, lemonade stand, lemon. And that is my theme. And then I can find a whole bunch of content and posters, videos, graphics that will match my theme of whatever I'm creating. So that's a helpful little tip there. Also at the top of the homepage on Canva, they have design spotlight. And that will actually show you all their top products and their options. It's also on the scroll bar when you first open it in. But it's kind of easier to see if it's a list. So that's where you can find things like you can make logos, you can make memes, you can make video intros. I think the list is pretty endless on what you can find as a template. Just yesterday, I had a coworker email me and she had like a really cute signature and I was like, oh, I bet I could do that in Canva. So I hopped on Canva. I went to their search bar and I searched email signature and about 50 different options popped up as a graphic for an email signature that I could just save as an image and pop into my Google account. So now I have a cute little intro or message at the bottom of my email has a picture of me in my contact information. So using a template is a great place to start. Once you get more comfortable with it, then you can kind of adapt and tweak. Maybe you start with one template and you fix it or you combine different templates. That would be like the next kind of level in my eyes of how to use them. And then if you get really fancy, you can just start from scratch. But I don't do that often because I get bogged down of like looking at all the cool graphics and fonts and images. And then I just spend so much time making it look cool that I could have just used a template and been done with it. So yeah, so that's my first area is just to make sure that you check the templates and start there and then adapt as needed. The next area of tips is using text and their fonts and features. My first tip on that one is to customize with the effects. So once you have your text box selected, you can outline, you can bold. They have a new one. I forget what it's called, but it's like an outline of the words. And then you can change the inside as well. And it also works well. If you have a font that won't bold, you can outline it in black. And so then it makes it actually a bold font, even if that's not an option. My second tip is to randomly scroll through the fonts or search. If you're familiar with Canva, you know, there are a lot of fonts. I think I saw somewhere online that there are over a thousand. So it is super overwhelming when you're trying to find a font. So I play this fun little game when I'm trying to choose something new. And I go to fonts and I will randomly scroll and then I force myself to stop and then I force myself to choose one of the fonts that I see on my screen because otherwise I'll just sit and keep scrolling and scrolling and try to find something. So it's a fun little game to play. And the other thing is I'll search, like if I'm specifically looking for handwriting where I want block letters or bold, you can also, again, using keywords. So I think I was doing like a project on winter or like national parks kind of thing. And I was just searching random words, keywords that like made connections, and I figured out there was a font called Alaska. And I was like, Oh, perfect. I'll use that font. So you can use that search bar as well to choose different fonts. My tip I remind myself all the time is to make sure that your patrons can actually read the font. I have little kids and I love cursive and I have to remind myself on the daily that they can't actually read the cursive. So like right up here where I have text tips, they, they might be able to read that once they're in like third, fourth grade. But making sure that what you select is actually something that people can read. I also kind of going with that, I try to balance out my fonts. And you can see on this page, I have like kind of a thicker bold font and then I have a more thin natural font. So I kind of do that. I will also try to do like a script font with a plain font. And that's just kind of pleasing on the eye. And one thing to consider when you're balancing out those fonts is not to get too crazy with your fonts. I would say one, two, maybe three different fonts, tops per page or per presentation or content that you're creating, because if you're using too many fonts, then it just becomes distracting. So balancing those out and kind of being selective. And when you're being selective, something that I like to do is choose a brand font for important items. So for example, my library signage, I created my signs on Canva and I make sure that every single sign for shelf location in things around the library is all the exact same font. So it's consistent throughout the library. So it's kind of like my brand font. And then the last one for my tech tips is just most importantly, like have fun with it. They have amazing fonts. So this next slide is just some of my favorite fonts that I use frequently to go back to. And it kind of changes because once I use Bobby Jones for a month straight for different things, I get bored of it and I'll find something else. So these are just some of my go-to fonts that I love on Canva. And we should mention here, while you're talking about like the previous screen saying the different fonts you used for that particular slide, this presentation is done in Canva. Yes. And everyone will have access to these slides afterwards with the archive recording. So if you see things on here that look interesting, you don't worry about trying to scribble down everything that's written on the slides. We will have give you a link to these afterwards along with the show recording. Yep. I'm thinking about it too. Like I did not create this presentation. This is a template that I just found the slide and I'm popping my information in. So I did tweak a little bit when we get further on, but all of this is pre-created by them. So it's, it's fabulous. I will say one kind of downside to Canva and it depends on what you use as a platform in your environment for library, but we use Google and a lot of times I will take my content and try to match or embed it into Google items. And it's really great and easy to use that, but the fonts don't necessarily match up. So obviously if Canva has over a thousand fonts, you're not going to see that on Google, but just know that if you're a Taipei librarian like me that loves things to match and look nice, sometimes you have to narrow your results down on Canva based on what else you can access on Google and things like that. But they are getting better. Some of them are on Google now. So going on to the next slide. OK, and so this is where I'm going to start diving into some of the kind of heavy design tips on creating your content. The videos on here go through really fast. So don't panic if you didn't catch everything in the video because you'll have access to this that you can go back, watch and pause. But I've broken it down into first formatting tips. So how do you format the page and content? So the first thing I always have turned on in my Canva is the rulers to guide my design. So to do this, I'm going to start this video over. It is just a simple go to file, then you go to view settings and then show rulers. And so this will show you the rulers on the side. And as I'm moving content around, whether it's the text box or image, I'm looking at the side to see where it hits on the ruler. So that way I can align things easier and just have a visual aspect of where it is on the page. They also have the option that you can show the margins and the print bleed for your content that you're creating. Another design item, and I think this is a game changer, is to lock the items that you don't want to move. So this is a picture where there's all these different elements on the poster. And when I want to go type something or maybe I want to move the text box, I end up grabbing the background and it moves. And I don't want that to move. I want that to be frustrated. Which thing did I actually grab? It's the wrong thing. You never know what you're grabbing or what you're selecting. So if you have a page that's kind of crazy and wild like this, you can select the items and I highlight all of them that I don't want to move. And then you just go to the three dots and you click lock items. So then I can easily move the letters or the text boxes or the images. And I don't have to worry about those background layers moving ever. So it's helpful when you have lots of different layers or lots of different aspects to a design. So this one's a game changer in my opinion. Our next one is just to easily move items around. So again, after maybe I've locked the background, I'm going to group items that I want to move together. So a text box and maybe the graphic behind. I'm going to put them together and group them as one. That way I don't have to match or move two different individual items around. I'm just moving one big clump. And this is great once I set like if I'm working on a newsletter and I have like a text box, an image, a little graphic. I'm going to group everything together and then I can arrange it where I want. The nice thing about grouping, too, is you can also adjust the size of everything at once. So once you have it together in like your right layout, you group it and then you can expand or make it smaller to fit content around your designs. Which is really helpful. I need to remember this tip because it's great and I don't ever use it. But it's to this is how you can easily make items evenly spaced and align. So when I was showing you and talking about the rulers, I usually check the side of like, where is it at? How far away it is? And you know, you get those little sensors and messages from Canva. Like, oh, it's point eight away from each other. Well, I don't have to do that. Canva will do it for me if I just remember it. And to do this, what you do is you highlight all of your items. So in this graphic, I'm grabbing all of my different shapes. And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go to align and you can choose where you want your graphics. I wanted them aligned in the middle of the page. And then once I do that, I still have them highlighted. And then I go back into I'm going to space evenly. And then you can click tidy up. And then Canva will automatically make them evenly spaced out. And this works for images, text, all of those things. You can align in space evenly with just a couple clicks. Another design tip is to narrow your results for the different elements. So now we're moving into like adding the elements in, which is one of the sections on Canva. And this one should come no surprise to a librarian is use your filters and narrow your results. So you can narrow your results from different shapes. You can do free version versus pro. So let's say you don't have access to Canva pro. When you're looking for a picture, you can automatically filter out all those pro versions. So it's just showing you what you have access to. I found that helpful when I did not have can the education. You can filter out from static images versus animated images. And you can also filter out by color, which is another really cool feature. So definitely using those features when you're trying to find elements, because again, sort of with fonts, I find that a lot of times looking at elements, I get stuck because there's so many options. I don't know which one to pick. But if I narrow down to what exactly I want, it helps a little bit more. This one is another cool feature. I'm going to pause the video on this one about how you can match your graphics and images by using the filter option. So on this example, I have a little caterpillar picture and I really like that green color and this is for graphics. I don't I don't think it works for images because you have to copy the color code. So up at the top, I go and find what color I have selected. And I'm just going to copy that code. And then when I'm looking for a new element, for example, I'm going to look for bugs over in the filter icon. I'm going to go over to the color. It's kind of cut off there, but the rainbow option there. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to paste that color code in from my frog or my caterpillar and apply. And then what it's going to show me is only results that have that same exact color code. So this is great if you have like a brand color or maybe a school mascot with orange, you can make sure that the content you create or what you're looking for is the same color, which I find is kind of a cool feature. Another design element that I use often is the magic recommends. So when I find a graphic I like, for example, the balloons, when I go to magic recommends, it's going to show me similar graphics that match that kind of style like watercolor or something like that. And also will help you find exactly the same content. So, for example, if I wanted to create a poster and I'm using like a letter A, but it looks like a dinosaur. And I also need the letter F. I can go into magic recommends and I can search for the next letter that matches that exact same font style as a graphic. But it also works if I can't find that letter, so to speak, I can go to and it's kind of really small here and go back up here. Whenever you're on magic recommends, you can go to view more and then there's the creator's name. So you click the creator's name and then it will take you basically to their library of content so you can find everything that that creator has made. And then obviously most of it will be like matching or similar styles on that one. So you can search by their creations, which is really cool. And you can also do this graphics and templates all have different creators that you can track down. Some of their really new features and I love this one. So if you have Photoshop or you're an expert in that, that's great. Canva is even better. It's also easier as they have the new removed background feature. And now this is only available on like pro or education. So when you have a picture, so I have a picture of this lovely chef holding her a little nice cookie, but I don't want the kitchen or anything in the background. So all I have to do is click on the image, go to edit. And then I go background remover and it will automatically take the background away and just leave her as an icon, which is great. I've also heard I have not tried that it works for videos as well. The example I saw was a person dancing and they were able to remove the background and it was just like a person dancing with nothing behind them. And this is great when the layer features and things like that. So I knew when I created my email signature yesterday, I wanted like a background and then my picture. And I had a picture, it was a selfie of me in the car and I didn't want like the car seats and the rear view mirror behind me. So I just removed it and popped it on a little circle. So then no one knew it was a car selfie, so it was great. And just makes it look that much more professional. It does. Yeah, I don't ever take professional photos of myself. I probably should have something done. But yeah, so car selfie for the win. And then I just went into Canva and removed the background. Easy. These are newer features. I'm this is where I'm going to say I'm not an expert, but there are some really cool things that you can do with AI in the graphics and the elements side. There's also a whole AI side to like the text. I'm not familiar with it maybe someday. But they have this thing called Magic Edit. It is not perfect, but it is pretty cool if you have time to like play around and try it out. Just know that students don't have access to this if you have like an education account, but we educators or pro version does. So I found this really cool picture of just like a desk and I'm going to click on the image and then go to edit. And you're going to start by selecting your brush size. And then on your image, you're going to highlight where you want to change. So I adjusted that and then over here, I'm going to highlight where I want to add something to my image. I go to continue and then I'm just to describe what I want. So I have this desk and I want to add a stack of books to the desk. And it does take some time, but what it's going to do is it's going to pull resources and then it's going to give you four different options of what you're looking for. And then you can test out which image you like and it will automatically like pop that into your picture once you select. So it should be done here in a second. So then I have four books and then I can just test out which stack of books that I like. And I can add it in, which is kind of a little feature. I think also it works better if it's like a smaller item versus a large item, which is kind of going to be the same for this next AI kind of tip they have. They have something called magic eraser. So I have this picture and I have something I don't want in the image. Kind of similar. I'm going to click on the image, then I go to magic eraser. And then all I do is highlight the area I want to remove. So in this example, again, you'll get this slideshow so it might be easier then. I just highlighted there's a little dinosaur in the background. I don't want the dinosaur there. I highlight it and then canva and AI does its thing. And then the dinosaur magically gone. It is by no means perfect. Like you can still sort of tell something was there. But I think it's kind of crazy. The example I saw when I was trying to pick up some new tips was a couple on a pier. And there are some people in the background that they wanted erased. So they just popped it in magic eraser and they like erased whole people. And it worked pretty well and they were gone. So then it was like a nicer picture. I did try this with a larger object. So it was like a family and then there was like a car in the driveway. And I tried to race the car and it was pretty big and it didn't show up. It didn't work great. So it's not perfect, but, you know, with canva always changing and adding new features and AI kind of taking off. I think it's only going to improve from there. So kind of a cool feature on the design element. And then moving on to some apps and some things that you can do with the app. So on the very bottom of your menu when you're creating content, there is apps and they have more apps than I can count. Some of the ones that I use frequently are audio, Giffy, YouTube, Drive. And then there's more. So my Britney Spears at the front of this presentation I found from using Giffy in the app section. And I'm going to talk about some specific apps that are really great. The first one I like is called mock up. So if you ever have to do any marketing or selling of content, maybe have new website you want to show off, they have what's called mock up. So all you do is search the app and call mock up and then you click on it. And then they have all of these free like templates that you can use that are basically pictures designed with a frame inside. So then all you have to do is choose which image you want and then drag and drop your own picture in. So like, for example, I really like I haven't done it yet. But like these laptops, I could see myself using all the time when I'm giving my students directions on their laptop. Like, here's what you need to do. And then I can just drop a screenshot of their directions into the graphic, which is nice. And then again, if you have a peril that you want to share and you can also do that in the mock ups as well. Moving on. Oh, this is a day skateboard. No. OK. So the next one, again, this is a new one that I just learned. It's really cool. And it's translate. And I was so excited and I called my library friend. I was like, oh, my God, did you know, Canva will automatically translate your documents for her? And she's like, yeah, Kelly, I did. And she kind of burst. So I don't know if you've heard about this. I was super excited. Nobody encountered everything in there. So like you said to me, there's so much in here. Yeah. So canva will instantly translate your documents. I talked to my teacher and she says I'm pretty sure it's aligned with Google. So like, you can't find every language, but you can find a ton of different languages. And I do know that they limit you on how many free translations you get a month. But it's simple. Again, all you go is you go into apps, you go to translate. And I think it does it by page. So I have a little slideshow over here. I chose to translate it into French and then I go ahead and click translate. And then it will automatically do its magic and then my text is now in French. So I thought this would be great for like newsletters or letters that need to go out to our patrons. You can easily transition to different languages. And it I check Spanish. I'm not an expert in Spanish. I know a little bit and it seemed pretty accurate to me. So definitely a really cool feature that I don't think people know about. So definitely use that one. And then some last like miscellaneous design tips just like in Google Docs and any word document, you can find and replace the text just selecting it and find file, find and replace. So I use this when I create calendars on Canva rather than having to go to each page and change the year or things like that. You can easily just change the text on the page. Into what you need, save you some time. Design elements, saving your favorite content. I've just started to dabble in this. But if you have like a graphic that you really like, you can select it and favorite it with a star. Same thing for pictures. You can do it with templates and then you just save which items you like the best. I can't tell you where they disappeared to. I maybe should look into that, but you can favorite your favorite items. And I think it's a folder and then you can always go back to the same content. The one thing I wish you could do, but you can't, I wish you could favorite fonts so that way you can go back to like, for example, when I talked about brand fonts, I wish you could go back and like always remember what your brand font is, which you can do in brand fonts in the brand icon, which I haven't experienced a ton with it. But you can't favorite fonts, which I wish you could. Oh, I already did that one. Let's go back, sorry about that. Keyboard shortcuts, these are kind of fun. So one of them is when you are editing in Canva, you don't have to go to elements and then text and add a text box anytime you're working. If you just type the letter T in your screen, as long as nothing's selected, you can automatically get a text box. And then they have these fun ones during presentations that you can use. There is B for blur, and it will blur your screen. You can do D for. You can do C for confetti, O for bubbles, C for quiet. And then you can also set a timer by pushing a number. So for example, if I want to timer for a minute, I tap the one and then I can go ahead and I have my timer and then I just have to push start. And it will start counting down for me. So this the timer feature is one that I need to remember when I do some of my class activities and have it posted up for because it's a great visual for students to have some time timer going down. So kind of cool shortcuts for your keyboard. And I don't think it matters if you're on Mac or PC. It will always do these things. So those we don't have a question. Those those shortcuts, is this something like you just did them here live? Like you had, you know, use them while you were had your slides. They're kind of behind. Is something that you could put into your presentations, too, as like it would automatically happen? I believe once you go, yeah, I think once you're in, because right now I'm in the presenter mode, I'm, it's already there. So I have to be in the presenter mode to use them. But I think they're automatically there regardless of like the template you use. I think it works for everything. I have not tried it with posters yet. But I do know for presentations, it does. But we could maybe test it out with something else today. See if it works. That's a great question. I like those more interactive type things. Slides and presentations are not so static. And the sound effects that come through is very nicely too. So that's cool. Yes. Well, and if we have time, I'll show an example of kind of like a guide I use for one of my projects I do with my fourth graders. And the way I was able to like add text and add graphics and add images, and I'll probably add the timer this year is just making it more engaging because it's not just a plain old like presentation. It's more exciting for the kids. I used to really like Prezi back in the day. You know, that was Prezi was my jam before Canva was, but, you know, I've had it changed completely. So like this is my replacement and making kind of the boring stuff more engaging. So there and then my last, I believe, design tip on just miscellaneous is how you can share your content. You can do the typical things, share as PDF, PNG, JPEG and download them directly to your device. You can also go to the more option and you can share directly to Google Drive, Microsoft, social media, network, social networking, messaging, QR codes. They also have the option for LMS systems that you can export to. So you really have tons of options of how you want your content shared. If you are someone that uses Google Drive, one thing that's a really nice and handy feature is you can export directly to Google Classroom if you're using that or into Drive. So let's say I had this presentation and I was finished with it. I could export it to my Google Drive. And then I still should be able to edit the text and move the text around. So it's still editable once you get it into Drive, which is really great. I have to be honest, I'm not super familiar with doing that because my district for safety and privacy reasons, we have Canva as a district, but it is not linked with our Google accounts. So in order for me to get it to Drive, I have to like download it to my computer and then re upload it into Google Drive. It's just an extra step. It's still doable, but yeah, if you have them connected, it would make things a little bit smoother. So and one of the ways I really like it is that template link, which I have a whole bunch here I will show you. And that basically is like Google's forced make a copy. When you create a template link and you share that link with someone, it automatically makes them their own copy that they can then edit and adapt as needed. So speaking of templates, here are just some idea pages of things that I've created on Canva. And when you get a presentation or when you get this presentation, you have access to all of these different templates if you're interested. I'm very much in the mindset as a librarian, like I'm not going to be the keeper of information and the keeper of content. I'm very much like, here, have what you want. Let's work together. I've made this like I'm going to save you some work, have it, and I'm not going to keep it. So there are some like a little graph infographic I created to share different highlights of what's being checked out in my school, who's checked out the most. This is an elementary library menu of services. We share this out at the beginning of the year. It's a fun way of saying like, here's what your elementary library program will do. And this again, this was a template that I used from like a pizza restaurant. And then I just adapted the words and the graphics to fit what I needed. And there's a newsletter that we share out with our parents at our curriculum nights. And then I have just some fun little library student statements that I have here. Fun fact about us in Nebraska and my specific school district. We I teach seven classes a day, kindergarten through sixth grade with one plan period. And we also give grades every quarter to our students. So that's really fun sometimes. And we try to share and just advocate for our program and what we're doing to show that like, hey, we're teaching content, we're teaching kids skills. So this is something I create and we share out every quarter with everyone in our district. So this is the student ICANN statement. So for example, this quarter, our kids were working on gathering and organizing information. And they're also working on citing their sources. So pretty similar across the board, but it's a great tool and just makes it cute to share out with people. Research organizers, I've kind of taken this up as my new hobby. Yeah, I use teachers, pay teachers, but they're always not exactly what I want. So I've been able to kind of guide myself like, oh, I like this piece. And then I go into Canva just to create all of my worksheets that I want to use with my students. So, for example, over here, my fourth graders do a Nebraska history project. And I was able to just create a timeline and all of these different pages. And then what I love about this is I'm able to make it specifically match my databases. So we use Pebble Go and Pebble Go Next. And I can ensure like the research organizer matches the heading of the source of information I want my students using, which I found really helpful when guiding them in their research process. And then again, I throw in some cute graphics because kids get excited about what it looks like. And you'll notice these two are pretty similar. So once I find something that works or something that I like, like this Nebraska one is for fourth grade, the natural or national parks is for fifth grade. I just copy the same thing and I adapt it, you know, less work. It works already and I make my life easier. So here's another example of a second grade research project that we use. And then I have first graders. We use dinosaurs. They absolutely love the dinosaur project. And then, like I said earlier, I use it for my signage in library. So my lovely bathroom pass over here. My kids are always like, where's the bathroom pass? I'm like, it's the one with the toilet paper. They love that one. So I'll just print these and I have like a little badge that I use. We don't have, unfortunately, assistance in our library in my school district for elementary. So book displays are a thing that I get to if I get to. It's not a priority, but canvas made it so I can do it. So here's a quick one, hungry for a good book. And all I did was I searched graphics of images through a monoposter, printed it, and then I pulled a whole bunch of books that were just about food or had food in them. So it makes that kind of display manageable in my setting. I started creating in Canva our donation labels rather than ordering them from like Demco or other library vendors. And I just print them out on mailing labels. So this is our foundation one we got a grant for a few years ago. We also got support from the Special Olympics. So these are just created in Canva. And then they went into every book that was purchased with that grant. I have little baskets and these are just signs that remind my students where to go. And this actual image before on the background is the actual sticker that I purchased from Demco. And then I just changed the transparency to make it lighter. And then I popped my letter on top with a description of like what goes in that basket. And then this one down here, I use I have a TV in the library and I will use this as like a slideshow on the TV. So I have genres, I have events that also put all of the new books that we have in the library. So and again, all of these, when you get this, you can click on them or the word template and then you'll have access to use them if you would like. So we have I was going to show you a quick tutorial, but I think maybe we should just jump right into questions if there are some. Sure. Yeah. We definitely have plenty of time. So yeah, leave your screen up there in case you want to see things. You can show. Oh, I just wanted to do that. Go ahead. I remember I was going to show and now that I'm on campus page, I was going to show that presentation that I talked about with my fourth grader. So again, I have questions, get them into the questions section in the go to webinar interface and we'll make sure we get everybody's questions answered. So anything you wanted to see more about anything you were confused about anything you're wondering if you could do with Canva or if you've used it, you know, share some of your ideas or tips or things that you've used it for. We'd love to hear what other people are doing as well. So get typed into the questions section there. This was that example I talked about with like fourth graders. Again, I did not make this. I just pop pictures in. But if I go to present mode and I'm going to go to present to full screen. So my kids come into class. I have it all set up and it's got like their survival music. And this one, again, you learn new things. I was able to record myself. It's vacation time. And I'm giving directions to my students about what they're doing. Think about where your dream vacation would be and pack your bags. What are 10 specific items that you will take on your vacation? Now, I will tell you, this was kind of toys, entertainment, still talking or essential items to make the best because it's a video on there. I will tell you on this one, I had to kind of do a little hack where I recorded myself, but it had my face and I didn't want my face. So it's hiding behind these graphics here. So I didn't actually think it's like over here at a little green circle. That's actually me just holding a piece of construction paper over my camera, but you can embed videos and I just use this as a guide. Like every time they came to class, here's what you're supposed to be working on day one. Here's what you're working on day two and just kind of got them a little bit more engaged. And this is where I would definitely put a timer in the future. And then someone asked that question about like, let's see, if I go to poster, I can I present a poster? If I go to public view link, and let's create one real quick. OK, so if I paste that over here, it does not look like those shortcuts do work. So it must just be with presentations. So bubbles and those things do not work. So only with presentations and the homepage. And like I said, I love to use Canva for everything. All those things. So I use it for my kids. I use it for school. I use it for author visits. Our annual reports I started making in there. So lots of great things. And we'll go ahead and I know I have, like I said, we here at the at the Library Commission, they got an account. But I had had my own personal account that I was using to start with, that I just a few years ago started using because I talked about Canva and presentations of my own about here's some cool free things you can use for doing. You know, if you are not a graphic designer by trade, by training, and you do not have the budget to hire a graphic designer to do something, you can be a graphic designer with Canva. Yeah. And I still have my own personal account that I use for things for myself that I that I would do just fun things. So it is I have a huge yes. I don't know if I'd be called myself a Canva holic yet. But definitely a lover of it. Yeah. Yeah. So we do have a comment. If anybody has any questions, go ahead and get them in the questions section. And we will answer them when, even though the show was officially goes till 11 a.m. Central Time, we'll go as long as it takes for all of you to have your questions answered. Anything you wanted to talk about or share before we wrap things up. I will share really quick. And this is like an unofficial hack, Canva would not want me telling you about. But the way I started using Canva education was I had a colleague in another school district that she and she had her Canva account set up. You can create a team when she added to her team. And any time I was on her team creating content, I had access to the pro version content, even though my personal Canva did not have pro. So if you know someone, if you wanted to do like something, a joint account with other library locations or something, you could have a team that I think you can have like five people on a team. It's one of those official things. Canva probably doesn't want me to tell you. But yeah, it's just how it works. Yeah, one of the comments someone said, a color code search. Very neat to learn. So they were really excited about that, the color code searching. Let me mention that earlier. So we have a couple of questions that have come in here. So I want to know, how do you get the timer off of a presentation once the countdown is done? There is a little subtract button. So I can actually I'll share my screen again. And I can do that. You should be able to do research. Yeah. Yeah. So if I go to. I go back here. To. You need to show your screen again, though, because you did stop doing that. Oh, OK. And go to webinar. OK, there we go. Yeah. OK, click the wrong button. That's why. OK, so I go to present and let's go a couple slides in. So if I did a timer for one minute up here in the corner, I have to start the time and then when it's done, I can minimize it right here and then it will disappear. So and there's a volume button. Maybe it makes sound that I haven't tried that one out. But yeah, you just minimize over here. In the corner to minimize actually delete removes it. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yep. Have a timer. A minute. Another question or we'll comment some of the thank yous coming in. Great. These tips are so helpful. You're welcome. Can you make a survey in Canva? Is it a way that you know or that you've done to do surveys? Um, I have not. I go, I think they just have, like, if I search survey, they have like paper copies. I have not seen a digital one. Sure. OK. So yes, if you're talking about a template for something that you would hand out. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But you could also kind of like think of work around if you create one of these, now you wouldn't be able to adapt it into Google. So I'm not sure. Yeah. Yeah. So there are test survey is a template category, obviously. Or yeah. A lot of a lot of templates in there for surveys, definitely. Yeah. All right, that's more thank yous. This was very useful. Must leave to go to staff service day now. OK. Bye. That's better than I'm going to go to sixth grade lunch duty and have to hear it for two hours. So I think I'd rather staff meeting. Another question came in. I use Canva often for at newsletters, flyers, et cetera. Have you ever tried using Canva for brochures? Does it have a brochure? I have. I don't even know. I can spell brochure. They do have templates. I have not used them for it before. All right. Yeah, that looks like I think I always need like a tri-fold thing or whatever, fitting stuff on to each part. Yes, that looks gorgeous. Yeah. And I know one thing people have complained about and I haven't tried it in a while to see if they've fixed thinking about brochures is bookmarks. These are like really great. But when it comes to like printing them, I've heard it's kind of a hassle because it's like doesn't adjust to the page. Might be after you download it, you might do some tweaking. Yeah, like it'll just download it as a PNG and you won't actually have access to like where to cut. You have to like adapt it or print so many to a page and things like that. But they do have brochures. So yes, there is the brochure template in there that you can use to very easily... They answer your question from the audience, yeah. Yeah, and if you are not sure like what they have, they have over here a design spotlight I kind of mentioned. It goes through like all the different things that you can create, which is really cool. And I saw there was one you were doing there. So there's something for posters and things too. This is something I know I have a friend and colleague who did use Canva to make the design for Giant. Like those floor to like like five, six feet tall pull up poster signs that you'd like those portable signs for like conferences or just anywhere. And she did the design in Canva for that. And then just got the graphic file from here to send to the company to make this, their big permanent signed advertising their library or whatever. So it can be, we're talking about little things like brochures and flyers, but you can even use it to do big things. You get that graphic, that file, it can then be used to put on all sorts of things. Yeah, and our, the Nebraska School Library and Association last year, we started talking about like redoing our logo and just kind of updating things. And that's what we were just creating it based on graphics that we found in Canva and everything though. So yeah, more thank you, great tips. And someone says, I've created images for banners in Canva, yep. Yeah, so think big too. All right, it's getting a little all to five after 11 and I wanna be respectful of everyone's time. So I think we will work on wrapping it up for this morning. You will have access to the slides and you can always reach out to Kelly at the school for any other questions, if you wanna collaborate anything or ask her tips and things how she's done things. Like I said, I'm willing to share my emails at the end of the presentation. So if you saw something you'd like or you want some tips or help or suggestions, don't hesitate to reach out and happy to help. Awesome, all right. I'm gonna pull presenter control back to my screen now to do my little wrap up for the show. There we go. So thank you everybody for being here. Thank you so much, Kelly. This is a great presentation. Like I said, I've used, and I saw that you were doing that had done this presentation. I was like, ooh, I wanna learn more. I love using Canva, but I'm sure there's so much and there is still so much in there that I have not even touched. But now I wanna do some more. I do wanna explore a little more, especially that removed background thing. I do have a couple of different headshot photographs of myself, also not done professionally that I use. And I've had someone here years ago edit out a background and it's okay, but I'm sure it could be done much better with something more made for on purpose like this. So I'm gonna be digging into more into Canva. So thank you so much for being here with us this morning, Kelly. This is great and so useful to people. And thank you everybody for attending. As I said, the show's been recorded. And it'll be on our archive page. If you use whatever is your search engine of choice and type in Encompass Live, you will come up with our pages. Nothing else is called that on the internet yet. Nobody can use the name. So we come up first in the search results, our main page in our archives. This is our main page with our upcoming shows showing here. And then right underneath them is a link to our archives. So this is where you go when the recording is ready. It'll be at the top of the list here and the most recent ones at the top. Everyone who attended today's show and registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know when it's ready. We also push it out into our various social media. 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And Sally Snyder, who is our coordinator of children and young adult library services here at the Library Commission is coming on to do her annual presentation of books that you might want to use for summer reading next year. So if you are doing your summer reading or children's and youth services, this is a show for you. This is for those of you in Nebraska know at the end of the year, Sally always does her summer reading program. And then she does have coming up, if you're looking for it, her best new teen reads of the previous year. So for 2023, that's coming up in January 24th. And she already did her best new children's books of 2023 in November. So if you're looking for children's titles that she came across over 2023, there's her children's one and her teen one is coming up in January. I'm at the end of the year, Sally always does these three sessions for children's books, teens books and summer reading program for the next year. So again, thank you everybody for being here. Thanks Kelly, good to see you. And I hope you all join us on a future episode of Encompass Live. Bye-bye. Thank you, bye.