Canvas Learning Management System
Parenting Teens Adult Learning Canvas Page
Content Created
Teenagers make up one of the largest demographics that are currently within the foster care program. Simultaneously, teens are one of the demographics that foster parents are most apprehensive about bringing into their homes.
For this Canvas page, the content was compiled via scholarly articles, evidence-based websites, foster parent interviews, and meetings with subject matter experts. This Canvas page is an introductory portion of a multi-part training. This Canvas page is used to introduce potential foster parents to the different experiences and ideas that a teenager would bring into a new foster home.
Within this course, several different pages cover different influences on teenage behavior. The research-based content is broken up with pictures and stories told by field agents.
Tools Utilized
Adobe Illustrator: I created each of the icons, headers, and module checkpoints within Adobe Illustrator. I checked accessibility using an outside assessment ensuring that this course is accessible to all learners.
Audacity: For this course, I got the opportunity to work with voice editing within Audacity and the creation of animated videos with Powtoon Animation.
Powtoon Animation: Within each of the “influences of teenage behavior” there is a story from a case manager. These stories are real-life examples of how these influences impact teenagers. To break up the content and keep it varied for the learner, I created several Powtoon Animation videos to depict the stories told.
Page Features
This page was created with a simplistic one-time-use course to meet the needs of all learners. This introductory course primes the learners for the live portions to follow.
First Grade Canvas Page
Over the years I have created numerous courses in Canvas learning management system. I recently worked with a team of first-grade teachers to create a primary education-friendly canvas page. I worked with the teachers to come up with frequently used topics and content covered in class that they would need separate pages for within their course.
Page Features
Daily students can find their morning message within Canvas, this is where their daily morning routines and activities can be found. Within reading and math is where the differentiated “small group” content is kept for each of the student’s assigned groups. The writing page was used to help remind students of essential content that was taught during class, this can be used to “jog” student memory or teach students who may have been absent. The content within social studies and science changes based on the unit that the teachers are currently teaching. Bonus work is used for the early finishing students who need additional educational things to work on while other students finish their work. Finally, the tech help and e-learning buttons are for the monthly e-learning days that the students participate in, information within these pages is updated with each e-learning day.
Content Created
The teachers needed discussion boards, quizzes (both new and old), pages and videos created and embedded in Canvas to help set their students up for success. I worked with the teachers on several occasions to train them in the basics of Canvas. We worked together to link content from outside sources into Canvas to help ease the burden for young students who are newer to the educational format of technology.
Canvas as a Tool
All in all the early introduction to Canvas helps to set the first graders up for success in later grades where Canvas is the primary home for many of their academic courses.