11.08.19

Drawing Tools (Drawing Carl and Chrome Canvas)

"What tools can we use for students to create digital drawings?"

My two favorite tools for students to use to create digital drawings are Drawing Carl (on iPads) and Chrome Canvas (on Chromebooks). Check out the details below.

📱 What is Drawing Carl?

Drawing Carl is a simple, fun drawing app. Students can make beautiful drawings or import pictures and draw over them. They can even play with talking stickers that repeat anything said with a funny voice. Plus, students can write words and practice their word work using the alphabet stamps. The app includes pencil, crayon, marker, paintbrush, roller, stamp, stickers, and more.

Check out these Drawing Carl features.

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Drawing tools

Use Multiple colors

Paint with patterns

Add talking mouths

Create Mirror drawings

💻 What is Chrome Canvas?

Chrome Canvas is a drawing tool offered by Google. This tool is different from Google Drawings. Using pencils, pens, markers, and chalk, you can create your own designs with Canvas. Your drawings are synced to your Google account, so you can get to them anywhere.

Follow these instructions to create your own Canvas drawings.

Create a drawing

On the Chromebook: In the bottom left corner of your screen, select the Launcher O; then click the Up arrow. Scroll down and Open Canvas.
(On a laptop, go to https://canvas.apps.chrome/)
Next, at the top left, choose what you would like to draw on:
- To draw on a blank canvas, select New drawing.
- To draw on a background, select New from image.

Draw a desgin

Choose a drawing tool: pencil, pen, marker, or chalk.

Share your drawing

Open Canvas.
Select the drawing you would like to export/ share.
At the top right, select More icon (3-dot button).
Select Export drawing.
To open the drawing in your Downloads folder, select Show in Folder.

How do students switch between Seesaw accounts?

Now that we have Seesaw for Schools, students can easily be enrolled in multiple Seesaw classes.

To join another class:

Students click their name in the top left-hand corner.
Next click the + button (join class).
Then students type the class code.
This class (text) code can be found on the teacher dash board. Teachers, click the +Students button on the bottom right of the screen. Scroll down slightly to see the text code.

To switch between classes:

Students click their name in the top left-hand corner.
Students then click and select the current class.

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