AutoDraw - create your own icons

Thanks, Cheryl Torrie for taking this online workshop.  Was a cool tool to play around with.  

Auto Draw 

Today's workshop was all about Auto Draw and turning scribbles into interesting and engaging icons.  There are lots of ways that this could be used in the classroom both by teachers and students.  

One way is for a visual timetable for students, as well as making icons for sites and slide presentations.

I found that you could also use it on the iPad just as easily.  You could also download the drawings to the camera roll and then by opening another chrome tab you could also remove the background.

It will be interesting to see if this can be incorporated into 'explain everything' and other apps that we use in class. - But that will be another day's task.

 Link to Slide deck

Link to Remove Background

Incredibox - Workshop by Phil Margetts

Thanks, Phil for taking this workshop to share with us all another tool to fill our Kete.  

Today's workshop was on a tool called Incredibox.  This is a quick and easy way to mix music to create and record a sound that can then be used as part of a video (as a backing track).  The examples that were shared of this in use were screencastify's that had this pre-setup incredibox sound playing in the background (e.g. in another tab).  This then became part of the screencastify recording.  This is a fantastic idea and so easy to just add a little extra pizazz to a recording.  Loved the workshop.

Link to first trial of this tool

Link to presentation

This was a great tool for Chromebook users as a free "web version", however was not so great for iPad users.  I couldn't find a way to use the web version on the iPad and it kept prompting me to download and use the paid version.  

Still think Garage Band is a fantastic tool for creating music on the iPad - and the kids like to create using it.  Key point to take away ... CREATE MORE!