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Description: A superb Windows app which turns your touchscreen PC into a powerful note and sketch pad with a huge range of tools.
Category: Art, Craft & Design > Drawing, Painting & Designing Applications
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artpad.art.com/artpad/painter
Art Pad Painter is a nice simple online paining application. Great for younger children and good for whiteboards.
wiiplayable.com/playgame.php?gameid=230
A great drawing site which is simple to use. It has a great feature of playing back how the drawing was drawn. [Be aware - Site contains advertising]
psykopaint.com/index.html
Psyko Paint turn photos into real works of art with amazing results. Not just a 'touch of a button' tool, but the personal touch makes all the difference.
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/chrome5.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/jedimind.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/mindgem.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/wavy.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/potent.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/oldschool.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/throwup.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/flava.htm
graffiticreator.net/htm/black/bubbles.htm
A collection of virtual graffiti makers with lots of options and great for displays.
crayola.com/coloring_application
A nice simple drawing/painting resource from Crayola. Lots of colours and lots of tools.
abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm
A drawing/painting tool, simple enough to be use by younger children. Drag virtual stickers and colouring pages on to the canvas for extra fun.
sprintsweets.com
Design a Gingerbread man with colourful sweets. Great fun. A lovely activity if you are looking at the story of the Gingerbread Man in KS1. Avoid if you are dieting!
thisissand.com
A lovely, simple site for making art with virtual sand. Takes me back to my childhood.
sketchfu.com/draw
SketchFu is a great drawing program that lets you playback how the picture was drawn. Great for art classes.
repperpatterns.com/tool
A great tool which makes kaleidoscope-like patterns using images from the site your images you upload. The basics are free, but 'paid for' features are available.
flockdraw.com
A great drawing site where users can make collaborative drawing chat rooms to create art together in real time.
doodlewall.com
Collaborative drawing wall. Share your link to invite others.
nga.gov/kids/zone/seasaws.htm
A fabulous art creator. Make designs from virtual scraps and recycled materials.
wallpapers.x3studios.com
An amazing desktop wallpaper designer which makes stunning images that are good enough to be works of art.
breadartproject.com/#/workshops
An interesting offbeat art project where you can toast virtual bread with patterns and even upload images to burn on your bread. Use in science when discussing irreversible changes.
drawisland.com
A nice drawing and animation site. Draw you image, then save or download it.
iamteacher.net/inter-activities/area-perimeter.swf
A beautifully made area/perimeter whiteboard resource. Move the corners around to change the numbers.
tholman.com/experiments/html5/beautiful-curves
A fun little art site where your every line grows into interesting shapes.
canvastic.net/assets/codes/Canvastic_up.swf
A useful, simple drawing site with pen, line tool and shapes. It also records all the strokes you make and you can replay this and add a message. Then download the result to your computer.
drawzit.com/drawzitLoader.swf
A useful drawing application which works well on whiteboards. It has lots of tools and easy to use for children.
mudcu.be/sketchpad
A useful online drawing tool for making interesting pictures and fabulous patterns.
kleki.com
This is a useful drawing site with a good set of tools to allow your students to be creative. You can upload images on to the canvas.
artflowstudio.com
This is a great Android drawing app which has a good array of tools to help you and your students show off their artistry skills. You can share your creations online.
didlr.com
A superb site and set of apps for Android, Apple and Windows to draw and share sketches. The images sync to your account making it easy to continue a sketch anywhere. Share your drawing with the site community or share the link with anyone online.
This is an astounding digital canvas app for drawing, sketching, painting, note-taking, writing, annotating photos and even making to-do lists. The input is pressure sensitive, meaning that you can produce some amazingly detailed drawings and painting which look as good as doing it with traditional methods. Customise the app to your needs by downloading the free tool sets.
A superb Windows app which turns your touchscreen PC into a powerful note and sketch pad with a huge range of tools.
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drive.google.com
Fantastic online office suite. You can share documents with your children or collegues and edit them together in real time. Best used when each child has an account, but Google only lets you sign up a few accounts on one computer per day, so setting up may be a summer holiday job. Also, store any small file online instead of using a USB stick.
scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
A really nice free alternative to MS Publisher, Scribus is easy to use and it can load/create compatible Publisher files for easy sharing. Lots of great functions including some useful templates.
quietwrite.com
A really simple online word processor which seems to work on any device. Easy sharing and exporting to blogs like Wordpress.
shutterb.org
A great quick online document editor. I often use this to start taking notes and download to finish later.
ietherpad.com
ietherpad is a superb real-time collaboration writing pad where you and others can write text at the same time.
springpublisher.com
A nice publisher program download that lets you design and print cards, flyers and leaflets.
titanpad.com
A great real-time collaboration writing pad where you and others can write text at the same time.
sync.in
A collaborative notepad where users can share the link and make changes together in real time.
hashify.me
A wonderful, but simple notepad site which generates a short link and QR code. Add text, links and images to your notes.
notes.io
A quick and simple notepad site. Write your note and share the shortened link.
pen.io
A text based, no frills notepad site. Works on every device I've tried it on (and I have many in various states of decay), so it makes an ideal site to work with text across platforms. Download text as a PDF or save it on the site and retrieve with a link and password.
onedrum.com
Ever wanted the full functionality of Microsoft Office with the collaborative element to Google Docs? Collaborate on documents in Microsoft Office with this great downloadable app. How very exciting!
wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
A good office suite designed for young learners and is based on Open Office.
hackpad.com
A superb collaborative notepad site. Easily link to and embed videos, audio, images, websites and other notepad pages.
This is a simple, elegant writing site for a collaborative writing. Users don't writing in real-time like so other sites, but exchange versions which clearly show the changes made. The other users can accept or decline the changes. It is useful for groups to draft their writing and for teachers correcting pupils work. Each version is archived in case the team changes their mind about the accepted changes.
An innovative iPad app for annotating documents, including PDFs, Word & PowerPoint docs, and even websites. Documents can be imported from and exported to popular cloud storage platforms and be saved as PDFs or RTF formats. Highlighted text can be view in isolation, meaning you have a ready-made set of notes.
A great note-taking app for iPad. You can type, draw or write handwritten notes and save or share them.
This is an astounding digital canvas app for drawing, sketching, painting, note-taking, writing, annotating photos and even making to-do lists. The input is pressure sensitive, meaning that you can produce some amazingly detailed drawings and painting which look as good as doing it with traditional methods. Customise the app to your needs by downloading the free tool sets.
A superb Windows app which turns your touchscreen PC into a powerful note and sketch pad with a huge range of tools.