Two Great Resources for Flipped Classrooms

April 1,  2015
Flipped classroom or flipped learning is a methodology, an approach to learning in which technology is employed to reverse the traditional role of classroom time. If in the past, classroom time is spent at lecturing to students , now in a flipped model, this time is utilized to encourage individualized learning and provide one-on-one help to students, and also to improve student-teacher interaction. While the instructional or teachable content is still available in class, however this content is mainly designed in such a way to be accessed outside class which is a great way for struggling students to learn at their own pace.

Here are two great resources packed full of tools and app to help you flip your classroom:

1- Flipped Classroom Resources 

This is a list curated by technology coordinator Cassie Holewinski.

2- Resources for Creating Flipped Learning Videos 

This one is curated by education researcher Meghan Arthur.

By Mike co-founder of edshelf

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6 of The Best Web Tools for Organizing and Managing Citations, References and Bibliographies

April 1, 2015
One of the onerous parts in essay and academic writing is the bibliography section. Managing, organizing and citing references can sometimes be a real challenge especially if you don't keep track of what and who you cite. The last thing you would want after a strenuous writing task is a messy bibliography  with one reference missing page numbers the other needs publication date or, worse of all, having to go back to your sources to check for the source of  that quotation you included in your conclusion. If you find yourself constantly grappling with  problems  such as these, the web tools below are absolutely something you might need to consider. These are some of the best applications for organizing, managing, and publishing bibliographies, citations and references. Some of these softwares are integrated with Google Scholar.

1- Zotero

"Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes."
2- RefWorks

RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
3- Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:

• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research software
• Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
• Access your papers from anywhere online
• Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

4-Endnote

EndNote gives you the tools you need for searching, organizing and sharing your research. It allows you to easily create bibliographies while writing your next paper with features like Cite While You Write . Maximize your time with features like finding full text for your references and automatically updating records. Whether you’re on your desktop, online, or iPad, EndNote’s syncing capabilities let you access all of your references, attachments, and groups from anywhere.

5- EasyBib

Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service.

6- Citeulike

Citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.Some of its features include:

• Easily store references you find online
• Discover new articles and resources
• Automated article recommendationsNEW
• Share references with your peers
• Find out who's reading what you're reading
• Store and search your PDFs

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Stickyboard2- A Wonderful Sticky Note App (Free Today It was $9.99) Grab It

March 31, 2015
Stickyboard2 is a very good iPad app for creating sticky notes and mind maps. Actually, Stickyboard2 turns your iPad into a giant whiteboard with a never-ending stack of sticky notes. The regular price of the app is $9.99 but it is on sale today for free, at least here in Canada and also in the States. Not sure if it’s free in other places.

Taking notes and creating sticky notes on Stickyboard2 is super easy.The app supports a number of coloured markers you can use to write your notes. Arranging and organizing notes is also another powerful feature provided by this app. You can easily select a bunch of notes, then swipe with 3 fingers to instantly arrange them into neat piles or fan them out into a grid, columns, or rows. And the best thing of all is that you can export and share your stickies in text or PDF format.

Other features supported by Stickyboard2 include:

• Easily manage multiple boards and quickly switch between them with the gallery view.
•  It supports multiple colors with stutter-free drawing.
• Unlimited undo/redo and Copy/Paste: Undo/redo works with notes and ink, just as you would expect.
• zoomable board to capture all your ideas. Zoom by pinching, and pan with 2 fingers.

Watch this video from iPadagogy to learn more about Stickyboard 2.

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Get The Most out of Google Maps with These Excellent Apps

March, 2015
Google Maps is an excellent tool to use with students to develop their spatial thinking. Beyond getting driving or walking directions, this tool enables students to discover the world right from their classrooms. It is also a very good way to teach students about geography concepts, distance measurement, map readings and other fundamentals of mapping such as longitude, latitude, locations and many more.

Today, we are introducing you to 3 interesting extensions that you can use on your Chrome browser to get the most from Google Maps.

1- Tools for Google Maps
This extension provides you with several tools to use with Google Maps including distance Measurement,Query LatLng on Google Maps, Geography Encyclopedia, Capture screen of Maps and many more.

Watch the video below to learn more about Tools for Google Maps

2- Mini Maps
It is a handy tool to look up the map of any location in the world and explore its nearby places of interest. It is simple and easy, without leaving your current page. 

3- Send to Google Maps

"Send to Google Maps allows you to send a selected address or POI on any website directly to Google Maps. This extension adds an item to the Context Menu if text is selected. By right clicking on the selected text the context menu opens and you can click on "Send address to Google Maps".

Courtesy of Lifehacker

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Everything Teachers Need to Know about Evernote (Great Tutorials)

March 31, 2015
Evernote is definitely a great utility to have in your EdTech toolkit. Evernote combines a bastion of  powerful features all in one single platform: you can use it to create notes, add reminders to your notes, separate your notes into notebooks, clip web articles, snap photos to add to your notes and many other interesting features.

To help you learn more about Evernote and tap into its full educational potential, the video tutorials below are a must-watch. They will introduce you to some interesting things you can do with Evernote and expose some of its hidden gems.

1- Evernote Scott tutorials

Scott’s YouTube channel features some wonderful tutorials on Evernote. This playlist includes 28 videos that cover a wide variety of Evernote tips such as:

• How to manage and organize your notes on Evernote
• How to create your own calendar on Evernote
• How to link notes together in Evernote
• How to easily use Evernote to store and access digital information in the future.
• How students can use Evernote to be more organized
• How to create a to-do list on Evernote
• How to create a journal using Evernote

2- Dottotech’s tutorials

Dottotech channel is one of our favourite go to places for EdTech tutorials.  Dottotech has some excellent video tutorials on Evernote. Some of include:

• Switch screen capture and annotation
• My 5 favourite Evernote features
• Going paperless with Evernote
• Capture everything with the New Evernote web clipper
• 3 Evernote features that will make your day

3- Evan’s tutorials

Evan Carmichael’s channel on YouTube has some very good video tutorials on Evernote. Here are some that stood out to us:

• How to organize your life and business with Evernote
• How to schedule your daily tasks
• Evernote: The paperless office
• How I use Evernote on my Android
• Manage your to-do lists with Evernote

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Two Very Good Apps to Enhance Students Reading Skills

March, 2015
Below are two good Chrome apps to help students improve their reading skills. The apps provide reading practice using passages specifically designed to challenge learners reading abilities. Students will have access to a variety of built-in tools to assist them with listening to and practicing reading passages.And in the case of Fluency Tutor, they can even record entire passages and listen to themselves reading them aloud.

1- Read & Write for Google

Read&Write for Google™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading and writing, including:

•  Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries
• Hear text translated into other languages
• Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type
• Turn words into text as you speak 
• Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents
•  Simplify and summarize text on web pages

2- Fluency Tutor

This is an app we learned from EdTech Guy. This is a web-based program allows students to open Fluency Tutor™ for Google reading passages in Google Drive.Some of its features include:
Allows students to open reading passages via Google Drive.
Provides support tools to assist students when listening to and practicing reading passages.
Allows students to record passages and listen to themselves reading aloud.

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The Land of Venn : A Math Game to Enhance Kids Geometric Skills

March 30 , 2015
Math games can too often present the learning goal as an obstacle to overcome. Shooting aliens to solve fractions is an example.  The result is a moment of fun punctuated by the chore of performing a task.  In other words, the game actions—or core mechanics—do not match the educational goal.  This is chocolate-covered broccoli.

The Land of Venn is an ingenious geometry game that aligns learning to fun.  It smartly avoids being “edutainment” by putting play first.  It is a universal mobile application in which you draw lines and shapes to learn about lines and shapes.  The narrative, which is silly and amusing (as is the catchy music), is a tower defense game.

By performing the actions of geometry, players internalize the concepts.  It is a clear example of constructivist learning—learning by doing.  For example, children  connect points (each point is a different enemy) to draw an isosceles triangle.  As a result, confidence in abstract mathematical concepts is built as mastery of levels is met.

Watch this video to learn more about The Land of Venn

By :Matthew Farber
Matthew Farber teaches social studies at Valleyview Middle School, in Denville, New
Jersey, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Educational Technology Leadership at
New Jersey City University. Look for his book, Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to 
Game-Based Learning, and follow him on Twitter @MatthewFarber.


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Evernote Keyboard Shorcuts Cheat Sheet

March 30, 2015
This is a quick post to share with you this interesting resource we came across on Pinterest. This is basically an Evernote cheat sheet that features some useful keyboard shortcuts to use with your Evernote. Evernote keyboard shortcuts below are available for both Mac and Windows users and are meant to help enhance your productivity and save you so much time. Some of the tasks you can do with these shortcuts include; creating a new note, merging notes, creating and editing tags, formatting and many more. There is also a section in the lower section of this cheat sheet where you will find shortcuts for Evernote Web Clipper.

This cheat sheet is created by Jason Frasca. Click here to view and access the original enlarged version of this graphic.

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An Indispensable Google Scholar Tip for Teachers and Academics

March, 2015
The power of Google Scholar as an academic search engine lies in the various hidden gems it contains. Digging a little bit deeper into the features it provides, you will definitely discover some amazing functionalities indispensable for academics and research students. We have already covered a number of these features in previous posts which you can access through this page.

Today, we are introducing you, in case you don’t know it yet, to another useful functionality integrated in Google Scholar.The citing feature is  by far one of the hacks we love the most about Google Scholar. The Cite button that appears under links in a Google Scholar search result allows you to generate citations of that reference with a single click. These citations are offered in 3 main formats: MLA, APA and Chicago. And if you use a citation manager such as BibTex,Endnote, RefMan, or Reworks, you will find links to easily export your citations to these managers.

To locate the cite button, head over to Google scholar and conduct a search query. Look for “Cite” under the links that are displayed in the search results as shown below.

When you click on it a pop up window will be displayed featuring the citation formats together with links to citation managers

Thanks to Mashable for reminding us about this excellent feature.
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A Very Good Resource of Educational Posters for Chemistry Teachers

March 29, 2015
Here is an interesting resource we want to bring to your attention. Compound Interest is a blog by Andy Brunning, a chemistry teacher in the UK. Andy creates and shares a wide variety of educational posters and graphics on everything related to chemistry and chemical reactions. We spent sometime browsing Andy’s collection of graphics and we found them really worth mentioning here.

Andy’s graphics are licensed under Creative Commons License, free for educational uses. You can find more about this site's copyright guidelines from this page. Also, the graphics are available in high quality PDF format which you can download and use with your students in class. Andy’s graphics have been featured in several popular media sites including:The Guardian, Huffington Post, Forbes, Business Insider and many more.

Here is an example of one of Andy's posters on how to spot bad science. We learned about this poster together with Compound Interest from Educational Technology Guy.

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Some Amazing TED Talks on How to Be A Leader

March 28, 2015
Leadership comes with hard work but successful leadership entails more than just laboriousness, it calls for special traits that only a select few possess. Whether these traits are skills that can be developed or are a matter of biological endowment is something which still needs scientific back-up. Generally speaking, successful leaders do have something in common. They share a set of common characteristics such as : confidence, focus, trust, far-sightedness, accountability, enthusiasm, persistence, communication, determination, love of their work, and patience. Also, successful leaders are a joy to be around. They listen empathically and are a source of inspiration and zeal to the people around them.

The TED list below features some really wonderful talks on how to be a leader and how to inspire others to action. If you have sometime this weekended you might want to watch some of them. our favourite talk in the list is Simon Sinek’s “How Great Leaders Inspire Action”.

1- How great leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek

“Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers…”

2- What it takes to be a great leader by Roselinde Torres

“The world is full of leadership programs, but the best way to learn how to lead might be right under your nose. In this clear, candid talk, Roselinde Torres describes 25 years observing truly great leaders at work, and shares the three simple but crucial questions would-be company chiefs need to ask to thrive in the future.”

3- Listen, learn ... then lead by Stanley McChrystal

"Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning — and addressing the possibility of failure."

4- Why we have too few women leaders by Sheryl Sandberg 

"Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite."

5- Learning from leadership's missing manual by Fields Wicker-Miurin 

"Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three."

6- Everyday leadership by Drew Dudley

"We have all changed someone’s life — usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives."

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7 Effective Ways to Use iPad In Your Teaching

March 27, 2015
You have probably already used iPad on your lessons before, and you know that children love everything connected with modern technology. In this article, we will go through 7 interesting and fun ways to use iPad in your classroom. Let’s see what we have.

1- Coding
Do you want to be the first to teach kids coding? Code.org allows you to use kid-friendly programs to learn the basics of coding with nothing more than an iPad. Colorful blocks and AngryBirds animation will make it easy and fun for you and your little students to learn one of the most needed subjects today. Connect your iPad to projector and get ready for children age 6 and up to write their very first program.

2- Educreations

You can use Educreations to explain a difficult Mathematical concept or assist in a difficult homework task. The app allows you to engage students with a video or colorful infographics. You can also engage students to take an actual part in making a video.  Make a table with questions and record each student while giving the answers. After you are done, you can send the video to your students and their parents, which will be an exciting memory to share in future.

3- Google map treasure hunt
Imagine changing a boring field trip into a fascinating treasure hunt. To do so, you will need to create pins on a Google map and ask your student to find them. Orient student to most important places during your trip, whether it is a lesson on a local history or geology it will make a big difference for students. If you are having an open air lesson nearby your school you can even use Skype as a walkie-talkie.

 4- Video conference
 If you want to upgrade your pen pal projects you can make an online video conference with your sister school via Skype. Make it a big deal, ask your students to prepare 5-7 sentences about your sister school’s culture, language, traditions etc. Add ethnic dresses of your school or learn their national anthem. This will teach your scholars to respect another culture and will be a great surprise to your colleague teacher on the other side of the world.

5- Augment reality

Take Layar app or Aurasma to create a fantastic lesson using augment reality. Take geography lesson as an example, ask children to scan the black map for the answers. You can make multiple layers, quizzes and games. Be sure, students will love your digital ideas.

6- Drone lesson
Practically every school has a robotic program, so why not to use modern technologies and our beloved iPad to navigate a very first personal drone? With a help of this video you and your students can enjoy an easy and fun lesson with lots of creativity and technology included.

7- Stop motion movie
 Add some digital storytelling to your lesson with Lego movie maker application. Use iPad to create clay figures, illustrate historical event or explain a difficult mathematical concept.

 P. Green is an author of “7 ways to use iPad on your lesson”. She is an IT specialist who is taking an active part in technological education for children. Right now she works as a contributor for college papers writers.

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Geogebra- An Excellent Platform for Math and Science Teachers

March, 2015
Geogebra is an excellent platform that provides a wide range of materials and resources on everything related to mathematics and science.Materials featured in this website are various and work for all levels of education. Geogebra brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.

Some of the materials you can access and use with your students from Geogebra include worksheets, books, tools, links, and spreadsheet data files. Geogebra is also a powerful community that hosts millions of users brought together by their love for STEM subjects. You can join discussions, rate materials, comment on what others share and even upload your own materials to share with others. Geogebra is a free open source software freely available for non-commercial users.

Some of the features Geogebra provides for its users include:

* Free to use software for learning, teaching and evaluation
* Fully interactive, easy-to-use interface with many powerful features
* Access to an ever-expanding pool of resources at tube.geogebra.org
* Available in many languages
* A fun way to really see and experience mathematics and science
* Adaptable to any curriculum or project
* Used by millions of people around the world
*Geogebra works across different platforms

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Make The Best of Your Gmail with These Excellent Apps

March 27, 2015
The tools we have curated today are particularly useful for Gmail users. The purpose is to empower you with some interesting apps that would enable you to  tap into the full potential of Gmail. These tools will help you enhance your mailing experience and boost your productivity. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: a quick way to compose a Gmail message embedding the URL of any webpage you want to share with others, easily manage multiple email accounts, create, edit and manage tasks in Gmail, track your emails to know when they have been read, schedule emails to be sent later, access your Gmail offline and many more.

1- Send from Gmail

This extension will open a Compose window in Gmail when you click any email address on a webpage. It also provides a button that will create a Gmail message when clicked, using the page title as the subject and selected page text and link address as the message.

2- Checker Plus for Gmail

Get desktop notifications, read, listen or delete emails without opening Gmail or Inbox by Gmail & easily manage multiple accounts.

3- Todoist for Gmail

The new Gmail plugin keeps you organized, focused, and more productive. Todoist is there wherever you need it—on Google Chrome, your mobile device, desktop, browser, Gmail, and more.

4- MailTrack for Gmail

Straightforward email tracker that tells you when the emails you send have been read. Without any cost or sending limit for Gmail.

5- Right Inbox for Gmail

Right Inbox integrates seamlessly with Gmail and lets you schedule your emails to be delivered at a future time. You may set reminders to the conversations and create recurring emails.

6- Gmail Offline

Gmail Offline beta is a Gmail app built to support offline access, allowing mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived without network access. After first start-up, Gmail Offline will automatically synchronize messages and queued actions anytime Chrome is running and an Internet connection is available.

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A Handy App for Converting Google Sheets into Google Docs

March 27, 2015
Save As Doc is an excellent Google Sheets add-on that you can use to convert any spreadsheet created in Google Sheets into a Google Document.The app is especially helpful in improving the legibility of lengthy cell text entered manually or through a Google Form. Some of the features Save As Doc provides to its users include:

The ability to choose any number of adjacent cells to output
Customize column headings by choosing any heading style you want
You can add a page break after each row of data
Generate a Google Doc to keep in your Google Drive

Here is how to use it:
1-Choose "Save As Doc > Start."
2. Select the cells to include or choose "Select all data".
3. Enter a file output name.
4. Modify the output settings in the sidebar.
5. Choose Save as Doc.

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A Great Google Tool for Multilingual People

March 26, 2015
Google Input Tools is a very good Chrome extension that allows you to type using any language you want.This is especially helpful for multilingual people who would like to navigate the web using languages not supported by their keyboards.With one simple click, Google Input Tools enables you to switch to typing in a different language and switch back just as easily.

Google Input Tools provides virtual keyboards for over 90 languages and handwriting input for 40 languages. Here is how it works: When you first install the extension, click on the extension icon, then select "Extension Options" in the pop-up menu. A new tab will appear where you can select your preferred languages or input methods. The keyboards, IMEs or handwriting input you add to 'Selected input tools' can be enabled at any time from the extension itself. You can always return to this options page to add, remove, or change the order of your input tools.

Watch the video below to see Google Input Tools in action

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Andragogy Visually Explained for Teachers

March 26, 2015
Andragogy is a teaching strategy developed for adult learners. Andragogy has been around for more than a century but it gained more momentum and came up to the surface in educational literature particularly with the work of Malcom Knowles. Andragogy marks a clear departure from the traditional pedagogy informing child learning in that it is predicated upon 5 assumptions related to the characterstics of adult learners :

1. Self-concept: As a person matures his self concept moves from one of being a dependent personality toward one of being a self-directed human being
2. Experience: As a person matures he accumulates a growing reservoir of experience that becomes an increasing resource for learning.
3. Readiness to learn: As a person matures his readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly to the developmental tasks of his social roles.
4. Orientation to learning: As a person matures his time perspective changes from one of postponed application of knowledge to immediacy of application, and accordingly his orientation toward learning shifts from one of subject-centeredness to one of problem centredness.
5. Motivation to learn: As a person matures the motivation to learn is internal (Knowles 1984:12)

To learn more about Andragogy, eLearning Industry has this wonderful visual to share with you. Enjoy

Courtesy of eLearning Infographics

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A Beautiful Graphic on Emotional Intelligence

March 25, 2015
In the midst of this digital hype instigated by social media and web technologies, much of the  concern and discussion emanating from education community is centrally focused on the digital and technical skills required for thriving in a knowledge economy.Unarguably, digitality is an important part of our students' lives and knowing how to handle it is definitely a pressing requirement, but there are also more important areas that students need to attend to in order to maintain a balanced individual growth. One of them is the emotional part.

In their popular report entitled the Learning Curve, Pearson features emotional intelligence among the the top 8 skills the world is looking for. Similarly, in his classic book Emotional Intelligence:Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, psychologist Daniel Goleman provided a convincing account backed up with a variety of scientific studies highlighting the importance of emotional intelligence in our life . To better understand what emotional intelligence is all about and why it deserves much more attention from us, University of Maryland Online MBA has this excellent graphic to share with you.

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Here Is A Good Way to Grade and Annotate Google Drive Files

March 25, 2015
Looking for a good tool to help you annotate files on Google Drive? Challkup is the answer. Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. Chalkup lets you post discussion prompts, add comments to discussions, distribute announcements and assignments and view files.

Chalkup also provides a very good functionality called MarkUp annotator that allows teachers to easily annotate files and documents they receive from their students. MarkUp is ideal for grading students assignments. It lets you comment, draw and highlight right on the file and students can always submit additional versions of the file. Chalkup has recently integrated rubrics for teachers to use when assessing students assignments and projects.Watch the video below to learn how to use rubrics for grading:

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10 Good iPad Apps for Doodling, Drawing and Sketching

March 25, 2015
Do you like doodling? How about some iPad apps to help you create beautiful doodles? The collection below features some interesting applications you can use on your iOS devices to help you carry out a variety of things that include: doodling using different colours, text and fonts, drawing using simple and powerful tools, sketching out your ideas, and sharing your productions in real time.

1- You Doodle: Draw on Photos

"You Doodle is widely considered to be one of the best photo editors on iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You Doodle contains the features of dozens of other photo editors combined, and is the fastest and easiest way to draw on pictures for iOS. Create amazing pics and share to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and be the envy of all your friends."

2- ASKetch

"ASKetch brings the experience of charcoal drawing to your iPhone, iPad or iTouch and its deliberate simplicity makes it perfect for beginners who want to learn to draw without thinking about palettes and tools."

3- Draw for iPad

"The new iPad version of this app offers the same great cooperative drawing games as the iPhone version. With Draw for iPad, you'll be able to play sketching games over Bluetooth and upload your favorite drawings to Twitter."

4- Jot! Whiteboard

"Jot! is a simple, fast whiteboard that lets you sketch out your ideas and share them in real time. Draw, take notes, or wireframe on your iPad quickly and easily as soon as ideas come to you. Share your ideas via email or save them as photos. Collaborate in real time over the internet with Live Sharing."

 5- Flipink

Flipink is a neat app for you to sketch, share and organize your ideas, thoughts, write down your memos and notes.you can insert images,type texts,and draw graphics as you want, It helps you stay organized and improve productivity, capture ideas flashed through your minds, either at home, at workplace, or on the go.

6- Paper 53

Paper is the simplest way to express your ideas. You don’t need to know how to draw. From sketching out a new product design, to drafting a kitchen remodel or outlining a great business plan, Paper sets your ideas free. It works the way you think, with no fussy settings or distractions. Available with Paper are five beautiful tools to Sketch, Write, Draw, Outline, and Color.

7- Adobe Ideas

Adobe® Ideas gives you the ability to draw freeform vector illustrations wherever you are. Replace your pen and paper with a huge virtual canvas, customizable brushes, and pressure sensitive stylus support. With a Creative Cloud membership, easily sync Adobe Ideas projects to Creative Cloud and open them for refinement in Illustrator.

8- Air Sketch

Air Sketch is great for presentations in the boardroom, classroom, or on the go. Just fire up Air Sketch on the iPad and open the specified URL from any HTML-5 compatible browser on the local network. Your photos and drawings show up natively in the browser. There's no additional client software to install, or services to subscribe to.

9- Brushes

Brushes is a painting app designed exclusively for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Rewritten from the ground up, Brushes 3 is universal — the same version runs on both your iPhone and your iPad. Move paintings between your devices and keep working wherever you go!

10- Sketchbook Pro

Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

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