What is Sketchcast?
Sketchcast is a new way for you to communicate with your students and for your students to communicate with each other. It is a recorded online sketch, like an online whiteboard recording. Sketchcast offers the ability to record a sketch with or without voice narration. The movie file that is created can be embedded or linked. Drawings can be created using multiple colors and an eraser option is available. A teacher or student can use this tool to explain diagrams or math solutions and host it on the web via a webpage, blog or wiki. Watch the tutorial to your right to help you get started with Sketchcast
How can Sketchcast be used in the classroom?
As an edcuator, you can use Sketchcast to demonstrate new concepts, such as the example on the right for finding the area of a triangle. Another example is to solve a math problem while explaining the steps with audio. This can now be embedded on your class website or blog. If students are stuck while doing homework or studying for a test, they can watch your Sketchcast! Students can also use Sketchcast to explain how they solved a math problem. They can use it to create illustrations of science concepts, such as the phases of the moon. Sketchcast could also be used as an alternative to the traditional book report.
More tools!!
- Wordle - FAVORITE! create cloud maps
- Queeky - draw online with lines, shapes, and gradients
- Kerpoof Studio - create artwork online
- Bonomo - create and download artwork
- Art Pad - draw and paint and watch a replay of your artwork
- Brushter - from the National Gallery of Art, create your own artwork
- CubeScape - virtual Legos! Start building!
- DrawHere - lets you draw on any webpage
- Imaginary City - build your own city
- Jackson Pollock - create your own abstract art like the artist
- Jungle Art - create your own jungle scene
- Tesselation Creator - pick shapes, sizes and colors and create your own tesselations
- SnowFlaker - create snowflakes with the mouse
- Sumo Paint - similar features to Photoshop, but FREE
Drawing Tools
When you think of Web 2.0 you may not think about drawing applications, but just as audio and video toolshave found new life on the web, so have web based drawing tools. From the large desktop based drawing programs to the
paint programs that came with the operating system, there are now online versions that allow users to create their own
drawings from any place at any time. Online drawing tools can allow students to be creative with drawing tools and text to
illustrate concepts learned. Some online versions even allow students to collaborate on the same canvas at the same time.
Within this module you will learn how to use Sketchcast, a simple online program that allows the user to
record a drawing with or without voice and then share it online. There are also more drawing tools that
you can explore, some with more options than others. You can navigate through the drawing tools module
by clicking on the buttons at the bottom of each page.
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It’s a free online drawing program. No email registration required and the ability to save drawings as a jpg file.
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Free drawing app. No registration or download required. Export your creations as a .png file.
(Select the the "Pro" option instead of "Basic" to use layers.)
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Release your inner artist and put Pablo Picasso to shame with the finest painter software online. Free but registration with email required.
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Sketchcast allows you to record a sketch with or without voice. You can explain something, have fun, or create art. You may also embed the sketch player in your blog or point people to your sketch channel.
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| Inkscape |  An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
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| GIMP |  GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks asphoto retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. |
| Pencil |
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
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Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop.
Pixen allows you to create animations just as easily as you would single images. It's just drag and drop, then you've got an animated GIF, a QuickTime movie, or even a sprite sheet on your hands.
Free. Download required.
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With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a free, easy to use and powerful application. If you don’t need applications such Illustrator or Inkscape and you want to create some simple (or less simple) illustrations, DrawBerry is for you. Download required.
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CloudCanvas describe themselves as Adobe Creative Suite meeting Google Docs. Create digital art, design and other rich media right in your web browser for free.
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|  An online drawing pad that enables you to draw pictures online. Free. |
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TuxPaint is a free, award winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Download required.
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Paint on your computer. Starter Edition is free but download required.
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| LiveBrush |
Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics. Available for both Mac and PC. Download and install required.
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Queeky is an online platform for people who like drawing and online art. You can create animated drawings usingQueekyPaint, a unique and easy to use draw application.
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Part of Live Canvas, give SketchPan a try here.
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| Harmony |
Free web based drawing tool with some interesting effects.
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| Flame |
Free web based drawing tool.
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Draw anything you like and share it instantly.
Create and share simple drawings — like those you do on a napkin in real life. Draw for fun or to communicate an idea. When you're done you can share your drawing with a single click!
* 100% free — no signup required.
* Share drawings on Twitter, Facebook, email and more!
* Embed drawings in your blog or website.
* Add to existing drawings.
* Works in your web browser, no downloads required.
* Also works on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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Convert your photos into paintings.
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 | Doozla — a drawing application... for kids!
Many software programs are overly complicated, with lots of scary looking buttons! Not so with Doozla - the simple interface lets your children draw and be creative within seconds of opening Doozla.
Doozla — as simple as using a paper and crayon but digitized!
24.99USD
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45 Websites for students to create original artwork online.
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