ISTE Standards for Students
6. Creative communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.
6b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity.
Utility: Creative art application for making collages out of a variety of facial features, shapes, symbols, and pictures taken by young users on their iPad or already on its picture roll.
Cost: $2.99
Target Age Group: Pre-K-6.
Applicable Subjects and Skills: Arts, Creativity.
Platform/deceive compatibility: iPadOS devices.
Review Site Credibility: Common sense is one of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations providing information for families and their children.
Draw and Tell HD - by Duck Duck Moose
Utility: A creative application with art tools and a voice recorder for young learners to draw and color pictures and then add their voice to record a story to go along with them.
Cost: Free.
Target Age Group: Pre-K-1.
Applicable Subjects and Skills: Arts, English Language Arts, Communication & Collaboration, Creativity.
Platform/deceive compatibility: iPadOS devices.
Review Site Credibility: Common sense is one of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations providing information for families and their children.
Artsonia Kids Art Museum
Utility: An online art museum for kids to post and exhibit the art they create, and for those who can write, explain their art. Great for teachers to view and evaluate students work, and family and friends who wish to provide encouragement.
Cost: Free.
Target Age Group: Pre-K-12.
Applicable Subjects and Skills: Arts, Communication & Collaboration, Creativity.
Platform/deceive compatibility: Android, iOS, iPadOS.
Review Site Credibility: Common sense is one of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations providing information for families and their children.
My Pick:
I believe my first application, Faces iMake, designed for the iPad by iMagine Machine Israel Limited, was the best one of the three applications to meet the needs of parents who want to nurture “young” Pre-K-6 creatives. My grandson falls into that category.
With an easy-to-use experience, the application helps young children make the cognitive connection between representative and abstract objects as they use them together to construct pictorial collages of faces and other objects, dragging a wide selection of facial features and shapes to create whatever they want.
If their iPad, and or parents, permits them to take pictures they can integrate pictures they take, or from the camera roll into their collages. There is an inspiration gallery to get the ball rolling, and a somewhat shaky music scoring capability that adds little to the app. Once done they can save, e-mail, or message their creations.
At a current price of under three dollars, its affordable for most. The downside is that as the name iMake hints, its only available on the iPadOS platform, limiting its availability to those with iPads.
Faces iMake seems like a great app to incorporate into a kindergarten classroom. I have never used the app in my classroom, but I am looking forward to introducing it to my students. This app appears to provide a variety of materials for the student to create artwork. Using shapes, objects, and pictures to make a collage would be a great extension activity for kindergarten students. As a kindergarten teacher, I believe it is vital to provide opportunities for creative play in kindergarten. This app is an excellent way for students to have fun, create, and most importantly use their imagination
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