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Chrome Canvas

Chrome Canvas is a basic, straightforward online whiteboard tool. Whereas Whiteboard.Chat and Whiteboard.fi both allow users to collaborate with one another and teachers, Chrome Canvas does not support collaborative activities. Nevertheless, it is still quite useful for demonstrative purposes in the math classroom, art classroom, or in the virtual classroom. One could easily use this in conjunction with a screencasting tool to record the techniques and procedures involved with assigned classroom tasks.

Created by E Bryan

The Tasks

To Earn Your Badge:

Watch the introductory tutorial video to the right.
Go to Chrome Canvas (canvas.apps.chrome) and begin a new canvas drawing.
- Hint: Canvases created with this tool will not sync with your Google Drive; however, they WILL save automatically in the Chrome Canvas platform.
- Tips:
  1. This platform is NOT collaborative, so students do not have the ability to share a canvas with others, and the same goes for you as a teacher.
  2. Chrome Canvas can get as detailed as you would like. Check out some of the other videos included on this page to see its range of potential.
  3. Unfortunately, non-touch screen Chromebooks will be more difficult to use with this app, but it is still very doable!
  4. Teachers with a touch screen Chromebook can take excellent advantage of this, especially if you have a stylus.
Here are your artifact options to get your badge:
- Option 1: Create a canvas that either demonstrates something for your class's lesson or relates to the content/topic of your lesson.
- Option 2: Assign your students to create their own Chrome Canvas project pertaining to a classroom lesson.
Save the canvas you created into a file image (or download/save the image a student submitted to you) and share it using the Google Form below.
Briefly explain how this whiteboard/canvas tool might be useful (or has been useful) in your classroom.

Chrome Canvas Introductory Video

Advanced Chrome Canvas Videos

Submitting the Evidence

GET THAT BADGE!

Please follow the instructions above and carefully complete the tasks in steps 4 and 5. Submit your artifact(s) using the Google Form below.

*Instructions for taking screenshots on a Chromebook:

Full screen screenshot: Ctrl+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key).

Partial screenshot: Ctrl+Shift+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key). Click and drag around the area you'd like to grab.

Screenshots will be sent to your Downloads file (small blue circular icon with a file folder inside found in the apps menu -- click the small circle icon in far bottom left corner of Chromebook screen to find the Downloads file).

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