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Featured Online Certificate

Are you interested in developing focused competency in instructional design or shifting your career in a different direction? 

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Instructional design certificate boosts recent graduate's career:
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Our Favorite Rubrics

Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment

Dates to Remember

July 18, 2021 - Summer Tuition Due

Tech Tip: Canva in the Classroom


Getting Started, Example Designs, And Tips!
Kathleen Morris walks you through Canva basics. You will find many links to beginner guides and quick start videos. Canva is a powerhouse with a 100% free plan for k-12 schools, teachers, and students. Register your school here: https://www.canva.com/education/ 

Featured Resources - How to Make Eye-Catching Graphics

Top Apps and Websites for Making Posters and Collages
Common Sense provides a quality curated list of 21 tools to help teachers and students create idea-rich classroom posters, collages, and more. Each resource is reviewed with the Pros, Cons, and Bottom Line highlighted.  

Creating Comics in the Classroom
"Students who learn how to make comics—even simple ones—become stronger storytellers and gain confidence in their ability to be creative." Dan Ryder explains several creative ways to use 'doodles, collages, and digital composition' to engage students and trigger their interests. You'll be surprised!  

My Amazing Movie Poster: Free Project Plan to Teach Graphic Design
Vicky Davis provides a 16-day project-based learning unit intended for students grades 6-12 with rubrics to help you teach graphic design. Everything you need, including free trials of Adobe Photoshop, Spark, Lightroom, can be found on the Adobe Education Exchange. https://edex.adobe.com/.  

The AIGA Design Teaching Resource
AIGA is a professional association for design. The resources are community-generated. Designers, high school and college educators are invited to share ideas, techniques, lessons, materials, project examples, and inspiration. AIGA offers an impressive curated list of resources. They are also looking for online learning examples.  It's a place to share and network. 

How Students Can Learn from Judging a Book by Its Cover
Rose Reissman shares how creating book covers by critically evaluating the text and graphics hits a sweet spot for students grades 4-12. Think engagement, inquiry, and cross-curricular collaboration. Suitable for face-to-face, blended, and online classrooms.

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