{"id":3206,"date":"2015-04-09T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2015-04-09T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:52:34","slug":"3206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/3206\/","title":{"rendered":"Cr8 w\/ Canva, Learn w\/Canva, Use Canva:  A Month of  Creative Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"scoopit-container-4041004582\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/brain-movies-visualization-for-learning\/p\/4041004582\/2015\/04\/09\/canva-design-school-blog\">Canva Design School Blog<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/embed-scoop\/4041004582.js?maxwidth=457\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/\">Canva<\/a>. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those\u00a0perfect hothouses for creative work&#8211; any age and skill level.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0It\u00a0provides a healthy balance between templates and free rein. What I hadn&#8217;t realized before was how much it is designed for the informal learner. There is a sweet course-in-a-blog that I outline in the Scoop.It embed above. There&#8217;s\u00a0a blog for newsy\/teach-y stuff, tutorials to get you started in the world of design and teaching resources. I especially like the design post below: <a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/designschool.canva.com\/blog\/menu-psychology-design\/\">10 Menu Design Hacks Restaurants Use to Make You Order More &#8211; Design School<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>I also plan on adapting one of their lesson plans on using Canva to create what amounts to a social media ad campaign. \u00a0How handy is that!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/designschool.canva.com\/teaching-materials\/author-innovation-social-media\/\">Author Innovation through Social Media &#8211; Design School<\/a><script src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/h3>\n<h3>Lately, I have been trying to exercise my creative muscle as part of my <a href=\"http:\/\/tachesdesens.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/pense-betes.html\">&#8216;pense-betes&#8217;<\/a> motto, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Just Derive, Create and Thrive&#8221;.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3209\" style=\"width: 794px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dont-justderive.cr8-thrive-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3209\" src=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dont-justderive.cr8-thrive-1.png\" alt=\"poster with motto\" width=\"794\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dont-justderive.cr8-thrive-1.png 794w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dont-justderive.cr8-thrive-1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dont-justderive.cr8-thrive-1-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t just derive, create and thrive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>I acknowledge that part of everything we do is &#8216;derived&#8217; from what someone else has done, but I also want to promote the idea that we can step out onto the creative cloud by putting the stamp of our own lives on the tools, ideas, and acts already out there. \u00a0I was inspired to do this by blogger James Altucher&#8217;s post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2014\/05\/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine\/\">&#8220;The Ultimate Guide to Exercising our Creative Muscles&#8221;.<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>His\u00a0post is an inspiring outline of\u00a0how he does a creative workout by writing\u00a0 down ten or more ideas every day. \u00a0That&#8217;s it. \u00a0He says the practice helped save his life. \u00a0So what are the ideas about? \u00a0Anything. Do they have to be all good ideas? No. \u00a0It is quite unlikely that any of them will be, but without pushing that capacity, we all know what happens&#8211;we \u00a0descend into the world of the xerox, of the routine, of the solely derived.<\/h3>\n<h3>Here is \u00a0a hackpad with my ten ideas for today:<\/h3>\n<h3><script src=\"https:\/\/hackpad.com\/tjnclIEnb7A.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n&lt;div&gt;View &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/hackpad.com\/tjnclIEnb7A&#8221;&gt;April 9, 2015&lt;\/a&gt; on Hackpad.&lt;\/div&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;<\/noscript><\/h3>\n<h3>And <a href=\"https:\/\/hackpad.com\/The-10-Creative-Ideas-Club-lQtZ3D1hY7x\">here is where to go if you want to add your own to each day&#8217;s version<\/a>. I am making this a priority for the next month. Every day. Wander through, lurk about, report on, or create your own list here or elsewhere. Just let me know how your month of ideas is progressing. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2014\/05\/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine\/\">read Altucher&#8217;s post<\/a> for more ideas and further discussion on what to do with these ideas going forward.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those\u00a0perfect hothouses for creative work&#8211; any age and skill level.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/3206\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,3,65,45,11,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-clmooc","category-collaboration","category-future-of-learning","category-personal","category-scoop-it","category-story","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}