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Madison County Schools
Lended Learning
Skitch is a great tool to use on the MacBook, iPad, or iPhone, it is a product of Evernote. Recently you can use Skitch with Windows PC, but not their phones, yet.
Skitch is basically an annotation program, that allows you to add text, diagrams, highlight, and so much more. You can annotate on a picture, map, or have a blank white board.
Skitch in the Classroom:
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Makes learning more visible by labeled pictures
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Step by Step instruction with visuals
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As teaching a unit have Students choose a and tell one thing they learned
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Take a picture to document student work of evidence
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Take picture of different objects and let students circle the sets as they count
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Use as a white board, students work out problem explaining their thought process
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Use as a white board, for a quick draw or quick write
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To show places on map
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Take a picture of student work annotate with feedback then email it to students
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Annotate over a short answer response
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Explain the steps of a math problem
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Have students take their own pictures and draw a speech bubble to create dialogue
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Foreign language students label pictures or create dialogue with pictures
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Record student thinking
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Draw out projects
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Draw Graphs
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Draw attention to a piece of art
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Label pictures
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Provide feedback to students
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Check for understanding
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Highlight important information on a webpage, article, etc.
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Annotate a process
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Image resizing, cropping, and adding text then make a pdf
Check Out These Links!
Getting Started with Skitch: MAC
Getting Started with Skitch: iPad, iPhone, iPod
Getting Started with Skitch: Android
Getting Started with Skitch: Windows
How to Take a Screenshot with Skitch
Skitch as a Teaching Tool by Stefanie Fazzio
Apps in the Classroom - Photo Editing with Skitch
by Steven Zimmerman
Key to a Paperless Classroom, the Skitch App by #tt4t
Skitch: Background Information from ipads in the classroom wiki