Image making

Presentation tool: FlipGrid (web). Purchased recently by Microsoft, Flipgrid is 100% free for all educators, learners, and families. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together! Educators create Grids and add Topics. Grids are the meeting place for your classroom, your school, your department or any learning community to discuss your Topics. Learners share their ideas, stories and work. Invite families to the discussion. Share individual learner videos with family members or curate MixTape collections of videos for families to follow. Create a QR code for every Flipgrid video and view the magic of student voice in augmented reality. Transform family nights, homework, school events, book reviews, science fairs, art galleries, classrooms and your entire school by sticking these codes ... everywhere!

Image Making Adobe Spark (web, iOS) Create impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos with Spark’s free graphic design app. Simply type the words you want to appear on the image, and Spark automatically places them into a layout. This would make it a great choice for projects where you don’t want students to spend hours playing around with images.

Image Making Canva (web, iOS) Canva provides teachers and students with a simple new way to design. Its drag and drop functionality enables them to create presentations, posters, one-page documents, and social media posts. Students can create designs to be shared with the entire class. They can provide view-only access or give classmates or their teacher an opportunity to collaborate on the same design. Integration with Google Apps mean teachers can work with classes quickly and efficiently, without having to worry about maintaining additional logins and passwords.

Image Making Piktochart (web) access to a weekly updated library of over 600 professionally-designed templates. Finding a style that fits your message is easy. Edit text, fonts, and colours. Change as much or as little as you want to. Find icons to fit any purpose from thousands of designer graphics. Ready-made text frames will help you save more time. Share your creation in print, web or presentation mode.

Image Making Sketchpad (web) A very simple alternative to Photoshop, as a versatile, web-based illustration tool, that offers all kinds of drawing tools (pens, pencils, paintbrushes, spray paint, etc). For every tool, you can adjust the width of the tip and the colour you write in. You can also create shapes, add text, choose from a small library of clipart, or upload your own image. Sketchpad also has a layering tool that allows users to build layers on top of each other. Download illustrations in a variety of file formats such as a JPEG or PNG.