Featured iPad App: Skitch
The cart iPads were recently updated, including the installation of several new apps!
Skitch is a free app that allows users to add highlights, captions, drawings, or other markings to any image. Students can sketch ideas, mark-up photos, make diagrams, create and label maps, and even annotate text.
Here is a step-by-step tutorial for introducing the app to students, as well as a tic-tac-toe choice board of activities, by MsJordanReads.
Here are some other ways to use Skitch with your class:
- Create diagrams (e.g., stages of a life cycle, layers of the ocean, planets in a solar system)
- Label states or countries on a blank map
- Take a screenshot of non-fiction articles and annotate to promote active reading
- Label fiction story elements
- Label non-fiction text features
- Make vocabulary come to life by taking a picture or sketching an example
- Deconstruct word problems (snap a photo of the problem & mark it up!)
- Show work for math questions
The possibilities are endless!
