Typedrawing is an app that lets you draw with words or sentences. Typedrawing users have come up with some amazingly creative images, but I think it could also be an interesting way for students to review vocabulary. You can choose from the fonts available on your iOS device, pick a color and a font size to 'paint' with.
There are paid versions of Typedrawing for iPod/iPhone ($1.99) and iPad (2.99) as well as a free version. The iPad version allows for higher resolution images. After playing with it for just a short time, I decided it was worth the money to upgrade from the free app to the higher quality version for the iPad. I was glad I did, because when I encouraged a colleague to download the free version and she had a student use it, the student accidentally clicked on the ad at the bottom of the screen and became very confused as to where her picture had gone. When we explained about the advertising she looked at us in disgust and told us to make it go away because it was in her way!!
In addition to creating an entire drawing with words, you could use this app as a way to annotate a photograph. Choose a photo from your photo album on your device to use as a background and then write on the picture. When you're done, save it back to the photo album as a new picture. (You also have the option of sending the finished image as a PNG file or a PDF file to iTunes on your computer.) Here's an example I made with a drawing that I'd previously scanned:
Labelling a picture like this needs a good degree of fine motor control, so will probably not be appropriate for very young students. The app does have an undo button which can be helpful. It would be nice if it had a couple of other features: the ability to stop it from repeating text and the ability to move adjust the position of text once you've added it to your picture. Nonetheless, the 1st grade student I tried this app with really enjoyed using it.
You can't save drawings in the app itself, so if you want to stop work and come back to an image later you would have two options: 1) save the image to the photo album and then use it as the 'background' next time you want to work on the image, or 2) have no one else use Typedrawing until you have finished your creation. Option 2 may not be possible though in a school situation with iPads shared between classes.
Once you've saved the picture to your photo album, you can email it or print it (if your iPad is set up to print.) If it's not set up to print, you can import the pictures to iPhoto on your computer and print from there.
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In addition to creating an entire drawing with words, you could use this app as a way to annotate a photograph. Choose a photo from your photo album on your device to use as a background and then write on the picture. When you're done, save it back to the photo album as a new picture. (You also have the option of sending the finished image as a PNG file or a PDF file to iTunes on your computer.) Here's an example I made with a drawing that I'd previously scanned:
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| Click to see a larger version of this image |
You can't save drawings in the app itself, so if you want to stop work and come back to an image later you would have two options: 1) save the image to the photo album and then use it as the 'background' next time you want to work on the image, or 2) have no one else use Typedrawing until you have finished your creation. Option 2 may not be possible though in a school situation with iPads shared between classes.
Once you've saved the picture to your photo album, you can email it or print it (if your iPad is set up to print.) If it's not set up to print, you can import the pictures to iPhoto on your computer and print from there.
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