WhiteBoard

Name: Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative
Price: Free
Category: Visual Arts, possible integration across curriculum
Grade(s): k-12
Devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Standards:
Use of this app can be integrated across curriculum.
Visual Arts:
Grades k-12: Artistic Perception, Creative Expression, Historical and Cultural Context, Aesthetic Valuing, Connections, Relationships, and Applications

App Description: This app gives the user the ability to write or color on a blank white document or the option of writing or coloring on a chosen picture.  The app allows you to create six colors and choose the width of color.  The user can also adjust the width of the eraser.  There is a button that allows the user to undo a feature that you recently added to the image.  If you upgrade to a higher level of the app you are able to add a layering effect to your image.  The app also allows the user to add text to the image.  The user can choose from a variety of fonts.  One of the very unique features of this app is its ability to connect to another device so two people could add to the same image.  Peers can connect through WiFi or through bluetooth. Additionally, if connected to the internet, the user is able send their image to anyone through email.

Home Screen:

Uses in the Classroom:
Teachers can integrate this app into their lessons when they wish for students to express their findings or understanding of a topic through artistic representation as opposed to a purely textual explanation.  This method could be effectively integrated into a variety of lessons.  The app's capability to spend creations through email makes it very easy for students to send their works to the teacher's email so he/she could project their works onto the classroom projector or Smart-board while the students/groups present their interpretation of their assigned topic.  This app offers a venue for students to express their artistic abilities. Teachers could integrate this app into a variety of Language arts, history or social studies, and science.

Possible Assessments:
Teachers can use student work on this app to assess their understanding of a particular assignment.  Teachers can also use this app, when they issue a device to each student, and have students show their answers to in-class questions by recording their answers on the app.