Jun 26, 2019

Chatterpix Kids

Just learned about ChatterPix Kids, a free app that allows students to create talking pictures. Just open the app, snap a picture or import a picture, draw a face on the picture, and then record yourself talking for up to 30 seconds. It can be a collaborative project in which the individual clips can be stitched. Think it will be an interesting app to encourage oral practices as well getting the little ones to unleash their creativity.

Very interesting way using ChatterPix Kids in this video made by Kindergarten students with a little help from their teacher.
http://www.nextvista.org/a-healthy-meal/ 

 The video clip produced can be uploaded in thinking routine in SLS for their peers to look at and comment too! I tried to record one with a talking statue in Chineseand it is so cute. Good for creating short video message too!





Jun 16, 2019

Autodraw

Sharing autodraw.com 

Using AI, fret not even if you cannot draw as the AI can guess what you are drawing and make suggestions of objects e.g. when you draw a line which is crooked, you can click on the suggested straight-line above. Icons or objects will be suggested and text can be inserted. You can also select each item and shift it. It is easy to use and can be downloaded as a picture file. 
No login or download of app needed and it works on browser. 

I have gotten the students to draw a poster and then download the picture which is air dropped to me. You can also get them to upload in thinking routine  so that there is a virtual gallery and their peers can also comment in SLS.  In a much earlier workshop which I attended, drawings are used to help build up student's vocabulary.
https://geogshare.blogspot.com/2012/07/building-academic-vocabulary-in.html

Drawing has been used as a pedagogical tool  and its great in getting the students to understand concepts. 

"Though drawing’s representational function waned in the twentieth century, there has been growing interest in what drawing is and does: as gesture, mark, notation; as observational, generative of thought and creative idea, communicative; deploying different media; engaging with, and confronting or expressing, states of being, themes, issues. Part of this growing area of study is the educational significance of drawing" A study by Brighton University
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/drawing-as-a-pedagogical-tool-in-medicine-and-the-allied-health-professions



Drawings are suggested for you.


Try this game on drawing
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

You can fill it with colors and also move it around.