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Skitch

This drawing application allows you to take a photograph or screenshot and annotate with text, arrows, icons, pictures and more! Skitch allows you to mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages.

Download on iTunes

Integration Ideas

  • Annotating: Send a PDF to students and have them annotate in Skitch
  • Math: You can use this app like a whiteboard to practice computational skills, solve word problems,  and draw geometric shapes and label vertices.
  • Science: You can use this app like a whiteboard to draw life cycles, draw molecules or annotate photos to label parts of a plant, or create diagrams for food chain.
  • Language Arts:  The text annotation can be used for fictional or informative writing assignments. The whiteboard can be used for word study in terms of learning syllabication, prefixes and suffixes or sight words. Create various types of concept maps or diagrams.
  • ELL: Use photos and label to help English Language Learners become familiar with common English vocabulary.

  • Geography: Skitch allows you to identify a point of interest on a map. Students can point out objects and locations within a photo. This app also has a world map that you can crop to show regions.   You are able to locate a region on the map during discussions to see where it was located in relation to where we were.  

Skitch Tutorial