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Last week Canva opened access to their highly anticipated Canva Documents tool. It includes all of the features that you'd probably expect to find in a modern document creation tool. Those include collaboration, commenting, and many formatting options. ...

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"Free Technology for Teachers" - 3 new articles

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Canva Documents
  2. Tract is Coming to an End
  3. Webinar Today - How to Create & Sell Your Digital Products in 2023
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Artificial Intelligence in Canva Documents

Last week Canva opened access to their highly anticipated Canva Documents tool. It includes all of the features that you'd probably expect to find in a modern document creation tool. Those include collaboration, commenting, and many formatting options. Canva Documents also includes an artificial intelligence feature that's called Magic Write. 

Magic Write is the artificial intelligence tool built into Canva Docs. Magic Write works in a manner that is quite similar to the ChatGPT tool that I wrote about yesterday. To use Magic Write you simply select it from the insert menu in Canva Docs. Once Magic Write is opened you then enter a short prompt like "green screen video tips" and Magic Write generates a short list or paragraph for you (formatting depends on the prompt). You can then insert that writing into your document as it was written or you can edit it before including it in your document. Watch this short video to see how Magic Write in Canva works. 

Video - How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Canva Documents

 


Applications for Education
As I wrote yesterday, there are a lot of potential ramifications of this kind of technology in school settings. Some of those are good, some are bad. Later this week I'll publish a longer blog post about the use of AI writing tools in school settings.

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Tract is Coming to an End

One of the unfortunate realities of the educational technology market is that sometimes really good products and services aren't sustainable businesses. That appears to be the case with one of my favorite services, Tract. 

Yesterday afternoon Tract announced that they are shutting down on January 1, 2023. That means you have just a couple of weeks to download any content that you or your students have uploaded to your Tract accounts over the last couple of years. 

I'm a bit sad about the closure of Tract because I really thought it provided a great way to engage students and learn about their interests. But I'm hopeful that the team behind Tract comes back with something new and even better for teachers and students in the future. 

   

Webinar Today - How to Create & Sell Your Digital Products in 2023

One of the ways that I'm able to keep Free Technology for Teachers going is through the support of generous people like you who purchase my digital products like 50 Tech Tuesday Tips and my Practical Ed Tech courses like Animated Explanations. None of those things on their own provide a living, but they do help me save a little bit more for my kids' college funds. If you'd like to learn how to do the same, register for the webinar that I'm hosting today!

This afternoon at 3pm ET I'm hosting How to Create & Sell Your Own Digital Products in 2023.  In this live webinar you'll learn how to create and sell eBooks, webinars, video courses, lesson plans, and more. In some ways creating digital products is easy. Selling them is the harder part. I'll show you my top strategies for selling digital products without feeling like your "that" salesperson.

Watch this video to learn more.

 


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