Create a Newsletter in Canva

by | Dec 9, 2025

Create a professional and engaging classroom newsletter in Canva with this easy step-by-step tutorial for teachers. Learn how to set up your layout, add text and images, customize colors and fonts, and save or share your finished newsletter with families.

This tutorial is perfect for elementary and middle school teachers who want a simple, effective way to communicate classroom updates, upcoming events, and student highlights.

In this video, you’ll learn:
• How to choose a newsletter template in Canva
• How to customize text, fonts, and colors
• How to add photos and graphics
• How to download or share your newsletter

Getting Started in Canva – For Teachers

by | Dec 8, 2025

Welcome to the visual phase of curriculum design! In the posts for Notebook LM, we created some valuable learning resources using Google’s Deep Research feature in Gemini. Now we use Canva to effectively visualize that information, and we turn it into useful classroom resources that our students can navigate and understand.

This video is an absolute beginner’s guide, focusing on the features teachers need most: quickly creating historical infographics, building custom timelines of Canada’s path to sovereignty, and formatting assessments for maximum readability.

Learning Canva is the fastest way to add professional polish and boost student engagement, ensuring your hard-earned research doesn’t just sit on a page!

Deep Research for Teachers – Google Gemini

by | Dec 7, 2025

Google Gemini has a feature called “Deep Research”, and this tool goes beyond the typical chatbot. This AI feature rapidly synthesizes extensive, detailed research into a cohesive, structured resource, allowing you to instantly generate the foundational text for a new unit of study. It can translate complex curriculum outcomes and guiding questions into complete, curriculum-aligned learning materials, significantly streamlining the resource creation process.

You can also see the list of references that it used to create the deeply researched output that it provides.

AI Prompting Tips for Teachers – Get Better Results

by | Dec 6, 2025

Prompting is not a difficult skill to develop, and certainly, it’s not a required skill for using generative AI, but a good prompt does improve your odds of receiving the output you are hoping for. 

This video suggests the CTR approach to prompting. Context, Task, Refinement. Tell the chatbot what the role is they are playing (e.g. an instructional designer for grade 9 social studies). Specify the task you want the chatbot to do (e.g. create a list of ten projects students could choose from to demonstrate their understanding of how urbanization can shift and shape a society.) Then tell the chatbot how you want the output to look (e.g. generate a list of the project choices along with a brief description of what the student would be asked to do). Including those three pieces of information will improve the result you get from the tool.

NotebookLM to Create Classroom Resources

by | Dec 5, 2025

A continuation from the introduction to Notebook LM where we create a video resource, an infographic, a mindmap, a report, and an interactive quiz.

Now, the real magic begins inside NotebookLM. We’ll show you how to take that dense history text and instantly turn it into usable student resources. Watch us quickly generate mind maps, infographics, instructional videos, reports, and design custom quiz questions based specifically on the curricular content we gleaned from Gemini’s Deep Research. This is how you shortcut hours of manual content creation and get straight to the art and science of teaching!

NotebookLM To Create Amazing Classroom Resources

by | Dec 3, 2025

You know how much time it takes to map out a new unit, especially when dealing with super specific curriculum points, or new curriculum such as we will be receiving soon for grades 7, 8, and 9? This video shows  you how to use Notebook LM to help generate beautiful and robust learning resources for your classroom. This example used the new Alberta grade seven social studies curriculum, covering content including the evolution of the NWMP including the legal details of the Statute of Westminster. 

This tool is essentially your instant research assistant. It quickly synthesizes complex historical information and organizes it into a coherent, chapter-ready text that aligns perfectly with your detailed learning outcomes. This means you skip the headache of deep-diving into sources and get a ready-made content foundation, giving you back valuable time to focus on designing the fun, engaging activities for your students.

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