Skitch for iPad is an app that lets you annotate (mark up!) a website, map, photo or any other content captured to Photos. There are pen tools, text boxes, shapes and fancy pointers to draw attention to content on your screen. Skitch is connected to Evernote, so your finished products are easily saved!
Let's get started!
Ideas for Classroom Use
- open Skitch
- if you are opening the app for the first time, you will come to an Evernote sign-in page - if you have an Evernote account, you may sign in, or you can choose to 'Do This Later'
- when the 'New Skitch' window pops up, you have 5 choices of content - Take a Photo, Choose a Photo, Draw on a Map, Start with Blank, or Capture from Web - if you choose Photos - Skitch will ask you if you want to access photos - say YES
- once you have brought content in, there will be a tool bar along the right edge - play with the tools to see what they do! - the bottom tool allows you to select a portion of your content - the second from the bottom will blur selected parts of the content
- please notice the 'Undo' button at the top!
- when you are finished a project, you have 2 options to save:
1) choose the Export /Share button in the top right corner to save to the Camera Roll
2) choose 'Sign in and Save' top left to save to your Evernote account - easy eh?
Ideas for Classroom Use
- capture a map of your neighbourhood and point out areas of interest
- capture a map of a place in the world and point out areas of interest!
- take a photo of something you've created with pattern blocks, art materials, etc. and point out your strategies used and/or highlight certain parts
- capture a portion of a webpage and draw attention to specific areas
- bring your completed Skitch project into Educreations or Explain Everything and use the record feature to give further explanation
- the possibilities are endless!
