Three Maker Apps to Spark Young Imaginations
…Their comments highlight what the maker movement is and isn’t. It’s not about the stuff: the 3-D printers, the soldering irons, the sewing machines, the iPads, or the craft materials. A successful experience is about learning and innovation.
The first one, Foldify, works well even with a limited number of iPads and the characters created can be used for all sorts of project, like stop motion videos.
Source: Sploder – Make your own Games, Play Free Games Before learning Scratch, Sploder could be a good introduction to game programming for students. There are 5 types of games that can be created, and one, Retro Arcade, has a version that runs on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. To save and share games, students will…
Create your own face emoji with Emojibuilder. Emoji Builder lets you build different face emojis. The site could be used by students to create an avatar for themselves or to create characters for a story or animation. Once created, the emojis download as a .png file. To create an emoji, you can select the various parts…
Create your own Chrome homepage with iChrome. Source: iChrome – everything you use, in one place I’m a big proponent of setting up your computer to make you as efficient as possible. I currently use Start.me, but I also like having options. iChrome is another way to set up a customized home page. The quicker you…
Source: Pixelorama I love 80s videogames and creativity tools, so put them together and you get the pixel editor Pixelorama. Pixelorama starts out as a pixel editor, letting you and your students create that 8-bit look that you see in a lot of games. The graphics can be downloaded as .png files and used in…
Source: Create citations, reference lists, and bibliographies · Citationsy Another day, another citation and reference tool. This one looks pretty slick. All of the major features are available with a free account and there is also a pro level available for $20 a year.
I ran across this review of GIF Brewery 3 and was blown away at the app. When creating tutorials for posts, I prefer to use animated gifs since they will play right in the browser and are lighter then including video clips. Unfortunately, my workflow for creating them required me to record a screencast in Screenflow,…