On iPad and other i devices, also available for Android devices.
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| A screenshot if Skitch on my iPad |
Cost: Free
Grade Level: Kindergarten - Grade 5
What it does: Skitch is an app that allows you to label and type text right over a picture, map, webpage or screen shot, to make your point more clear.
How's the App: I love this app, in particular because of its simplicity and ease of use for early years students. You can either take a photo or screen cature from your iPad, upload a photo, website image or map, or start with a blank canvas. Once you have your photo in, you can draw an arrow, create a box or circle around a portion of the photo or draw on it. There is the option to have the text, arrow or drawing be one of 6 colours, so there are some options, but not an overwhelming amount. The most interesting feature I found was the blur button, which allows you to blur a section of the photo. This is great for privacy as students can use a photo of themselves, or their classmates and blur out the faces to make them anonymous. The one draw back is that in order to save your Skitch diagrams, you must also download Evernote, but that program is also free and useful, so it wasn't a big deal for me.
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| A sample of what I did with Skitch in under | 10 minutes |
What it could be used for: Students could use this to show their understanding of a topic through labeling a photograph. It is a different way to explain their learning to someone else in a visual way. You could ask students to find photos to represent a specific topic, patterns for example, and once students have taken the photo, they could open it in Skitch and label the pattern to explain their thinking. As a teacher, Skitch allows me to take screen shots on my iPad, which I can then use to create tutorials about a program, or a slides shows in which I want to highlight a certain aspect of each slide.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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