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Monday, January 14, 2019

Creating #BookSnaps With Markup On The iPad

Recently I had the opportunity to share the idea of using BookSnaps as an alternative to traditional reading logs for independent reading books.

*Image from Mosquitoland

BookSnaps allow students to quickly create shareable visual artifacts of applying close reading strategies while reading their independent reading books, make connections to the text, and share text snippets with classmates like a mini book talk by digitally annotating the text and saving the result as an image.

Resources:

The steps for creating BookSnaps with the Markup extension in the Photos app on the iPad are listed below. You can also grab a PDF of these steps here.

I'm always looking for more great examples of student-created BookSnaps. If you would like to share some great examples of your students' work, please send them my way.

*Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Saturday, September 19, 2015

iPad Core Apps - Skitch

Have you ever wanted to add arrows and text to a photo to help explain something to someone or to point out something in the photo? If you answered yes, then Skitch may be the perfect app to help you annotate photos both on the iPad and on your computer.

What is Skitch?

Skitch is an app available for iPads and Apple computers that allows you to take a screenshot on Mac computers or select an image from Photos on the iPad or use the camera app on the iPad to take a photo. You can then use the built-in mark-up tools to annotate your photos or images with arrows, text, shapes, and stamps. There is also a helpful pixelation tool to pixelate faces, names, or text that you do not want to be recognizable in your photos.

Photos can be exported to Photos on the iPad or saved anywhere on your Mac computer and then can be shared via email or by Air Drop.

This is a great app to use with students to label items in the photos to demonstrate their learning or for teachers to give specific directions on how to use something or what to pay attention to in a photo.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Finding Creative Commons Licensed Images On Google Images

Image

How many times have you heard someone say that any images listed on Google are completely free to use because they are posted on the internet, right? Not necessarily.

Here are some quick tips on how to find copyright friendly images on Google Images.

Searching For Creative
Commons Licensed
Images On Google Images

Pictures and images on Google.com are copyrighted by the owner even though they are published on the web. One of the safest ways to use them in your work is to search for Creative Commons licensed images that give you the rights to repost and modify images as long as you give credit to the owner.

Here’s how to find images posted with Creative Commons licensing on Google:

1. Go to Google - https://www.google.com/ and click Images in the Google toolbar.

2. Type in your search topic and click the gear icon to Advanced Search options

3. Use the drop down to change the usage rights that you are searching for. You may want to choose the most encompassing choice.

4. Click the Advanced Search button.

5. Notice that your search results now list the usage rights.

6. Click on the image that you want.

7. Click on the View Original Image button.

8. Hold the Control button and click on the picture (Mac) or right click (PC) on the picture and choose Save Image As (Chrome and Firefox) or Download Linked File As (Safari) to save the picture to your computer.