Teacher tips
http://sketch.odopod.com
With an attractive, muted palette, this digital tool is simple to use. Students can begin sketching straight away by clicking on Create a sketch. Students should not register since their user name is automatically generated from their email address and this will compromise their anonymity. They can create a painting without registering and then save it in a screen capture. Primary teachers will jointly construct a painting with their students.
• Registration: Oo tk h is a free tool. Students must be 13 years old to dsec
sign up and save their sketches. If registering, students need to use an email address based on a pseudonym to create an anonymous user name. This is because their email generates their user name on sign up. A
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• Sign in: Each time after the first visit, students sign in. • Modelled and guided practice: On an interactive whiteboard, show
students the examples in the Featured and recent sketches and also the Sketch slideshow which shows a drawing unfolding before their eyes. Demonstrate how to click on the colours in the dashboard and then onto the canvas, clicking on the thicker sections for broader brush strokes. Invite students to jointly create a sketch with you, if required.
• Save: Students press the Save button in the bottom right of the dashboard. They choose a title which does not reveal their identity.
• Screen capturing: Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys on the bottom left of the computer keyboard. While these keys are held down, press the PRINT SCREEN key swiftly on the top right of the keyboard to take a picture of the image. Open a new W dsec
od document, and press CTRL V to r paste the captured Oo tk h image into the document. Click on the
cue tos appear above the F ar t menu. Click on Pcue tos and C p the image to size by dragging the corners to fit.
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Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink
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