Creativity in Chrome
Explore Your Inner Chrome Artist
(K-5 Ed.)
Christy Fennewald
Fennovation.org
Experienced Educator
Technology Integration Coordinator
Google Certified Innovator
Google Certified Trainer
Edmodo Certified Trainer
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GEG CENTX Leader
Getting Creative in Chrome
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
― Ken Robinson
1.
Imagery & Design
Let’s find tools and activities to make beautiful imagery.
Canva - It rocks, Seriously
Use Canva (also a Chrome app) to make graphics for Websites, presentations, documents, social media, invitations, and more. It makes graphic design easy!
Canva Project Ideas
Infographic
Put your findings to work in a clean an concise infographic. Check out Canva infographics.
Advertisement
Create an advertisement for a classroom event or special occasion (student-designed makerfaire for example).
Invite
Make an invite for a historical figure to a dinner party or make invites to characters in books.
Book Cover
Re-create a book or movie cover with a new theme or topic.
Presentation
use the clean and creative presentation templates to design simple slides like the pros do!
Headers & Graphics
Design custom headers for student portfolios or student reflections. Let the picture say 1000 words.
PicMonkey makes pics Awesome-er
Edit images from your computer or Google Drive and make fun graphics with text and cool themes.
Pic Monkey project Ideas
Observation collage
Use SmartPhones to take photo observations and compile them in a PicMonkey collage with text to explain.
Self Portrait
Edit an existing photo of yourself or a historical person from the viewpoint of another character or person.
Infographic
Like Canva, create an infographic to explain a concecpt or teach a new concept to the class.
Google Drawings Does All
A collaborative tool to create image maps for Websites, graphic organizers, newsletters, templates & more!
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Google Drawings Ideas
For Drawings Ideas, visit this presentation with many resources for the class.
Pixlr Editor - the new photoshop
Do advanced photo-editing for free from your browser. Add and edit layers, make transparent backgrounds, and more!
Loupe Collage Brings it all together
A collage tool that organizes images into shaped collages. As a Chrome App, it is integrated in Google Drive. Make collages into the shapes you want!
Loupe Collage Idea
Create a photo portfolio collage of all the key moments of a student’s learning throughout the year: a year in photographs
SketchPad - The artist’s choice
Use SketchPad to create whatever you desire. Edit old photos, start a blank canvas, or create mixed-media designs of your choosing.
Sketchboard - The Collaborator’s choice
Collaborate in real-time on Sketchboard. Solve problems and create ideas like using pen and paper on endless board
InspirARTation - Paint without the mess
Open your creativity with this easy to use painting application. Number of amazing brushes give you a way to create beautiful artworks just in few strokes.
Sketch Toy - make professional sketch lines
Remember those old cartoons where hand drawn lines appeared to vibrate because of slight variance between frames? This app lets you draw sketches like that right in your browser and share replays with friends!
Build With Chrome without the pain
Design buildings in the cloud with Legos. Recreate famous buildings or design your own. This Chrome Experiment even allows you to share designs on Google Maps.
Building ideas
Build a perfect room or a building from a place of study. Design a solution to a problem like wildfires through 3D modeling.
Lego Builder - when you can’t get enough legos
Very similar to Build With Chrome, Lego Builder creates 3D buildings with Legos.
Floorplanner designs your future room
Design 3D floor plans with furniture, building materials, and custom designs.
For the Advanced Users
Designing with Tinkercad is child’s play. Drop shapes on the workplane and punch holes to create the things you want.
This is a modeler that lets you build models from your browser. Create them as advanced as you please.
Similar to Build with Chrome, this application builds more than buildings. Model as you please.
“You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.”
-Ken Robinson
2.
Presentations & Film
Let’s find tools and activities to make engaging film.
WeVideo - the new movie maker
Connect audio, images, film into collaborative videos. Use pre-set themes, cut clips, and share through Google Drive. It’s the new Movie Maker, but online!!
YouTube Editor - The YouTuber’s Choice
Add closed captions, overlays, audio tracks and trim clips to existing YouTube videos you have uploaded. Add edited videos to channels and playlists to share out.
PowToon adds a little animation to life
Use animation to create videos with custom audio and text. Choose from a variety of free animated packages and icons or upload your own images.
Movie Project Ideas
Digital Story
Use WeVideo, PowToon, or VoiceThread to tell short story that envokes change.
Awareness
Use Animoto or Magisto to create a short slideshow that brings awareness to an issue.
Resume/Portfolio
Use a film-creation application to create a film that promotes yourself and showcases your learning.
Observations
Use film to put observations (video, image, audio, text) into one concise spot.
Book Trailer
Create a book trailer for a book that you are about to read or just recently finished.
TED Talk
Create TED talks with any of the film animation tools to encourage students into moonshot thinking.
Animoto makes slideshows awesome
Fancify slideshows with pre-made themes and creative commons music. A one-stop shop to a custom slideshow.
Magisto turns movies into magic
Like Animoto, but with videos. Use pre-made themes and custom audio to edit existing film clips.
VoiceThread - the Digital Storyteller’s Tool
Use voice and images to collaborate on a single digital story. Comment via voice or text to tell a story with images and audio.
PresentMe gives voice to presentations
Presentations are great, but they are even better when you can add voice to them! Thanks to PresentMe, you can!
MoveNote Adds Audio to Presentations
Like PresentMe, Movenote adds voice and video to presentations. It is free and available via Google Play and the Apple Store!
Screen Record your Presentation
If you don’t want the flash of MoveNote or PresentMe, try using Screencastify or Snagit to record your screen and thereby add audio to your presentations!
Pixton Comic Creator for the inner comedian
Though, some portions cost money, you can create free comics to insert on portfolios, presentations, and more.
Stop Motion Animator
Though, some portions cost money, you can create free comics to insert on portfolios, presentations, and more.
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”
-Steve Jobs
3.
Music
Let’s find tools and activities to make exciting music.
SoundTrap - the Audio Trap
Import audio or create your own as if you were in your own studio. Share music later or embed it in another media.
Twisted Wave - The cloud Audacity
The cloud version of Audacity. Edit tracks, record voiceovers and share the finished products in Google Drive or Sound Cloud.
Audio Ideas
Write a poem or story, create your own beat, and record your voice reciting your lyrics to your very own beat. Add the final version to a video you have created and insert in your portfolio!
BeatLab to make your beats
Choose your beat pattern and instruments and then, create an instrumental to accompany any audio track. Download or grab the URL when you are done.
UJam - where you Jam
Use your voice to start your own track. UJam will match your singing and assist you in creating your very own Jam.
For the Advanced Users
Create music from the cloud with a variety of new and vintage music devices. This is for those who are masters of the the audio effects
This is a full-featured audio workstation available in the cloud. It’s rather easy to use, but detailed in its tasks.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
-Sylvia Plath
4.
Portfolios
Let’s find tools and activities to make interactive portfolios.
Create Website templates for students to use as portfolios or have them create their own directly from their GAFE accounts. Permissions are changeable.
LucidPress - better than publisher
Make your own template or choose a pre-existing template to create multimedia portfolios. Insert audio, video, images, and collaborate!
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
― Ken Robinson
Resources
For Creation
Resources
Find more Chrome resources on creativity!
Thanks!
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Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:
Rights
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