The Canvas tool will deal with brand-new collections that you produce in your Smithsonian Learning Lab account and it will work with your existing collections. In both cases you can choose the design for the collection, the size of the images, and the color design of the notes in your collection. You can likewise share your Canvas so that your students can view it. Complete instructions for using the new Smithsonian Learning Lab Canvas can be found here. Directions for developing collections can be seen here..

Today the
Smithsonian Learning Lab
launched a brand-new tool that might be extremely handy to history and art teachers. The tool is just called Canvas (no connection to the LMS of the same name). Smithsonian Learning Labs Canvas tool lets you construct colllections of Smithsonian digitized artifacts and arrange the display of those artifacts however you like..

Applications for Education.

In the announcement of the Canvas tool the Smithsonian Learning Lab offered a couple of uses for the brand-new tool. Those uses consist of organizing artifacts for making side-by-side comparisons (great for art teachers/ trainees) and producing thematic collections that cover multiple areas.
This Canvas of postcards is a fine example of setting up a collection thematically..