ART
We have added a range of apps that you may find useful for Art. Feel free to browse them and find which ones you think you could upload or invest in.

Look at the cost, description of features and reviews first before downloading 

Kahoot

This is one of the most popular apps among teachers and pupils alike. It is used to create interactive quizzes which pupils can play in the class. The students with the quickest and correct answers win. This is a great way of ending a class and recapping learning.

Morfo Booth


This is your chance to create a 3D talking head. Choose a famous artist such as Van Gogh or Picasso. Students can voice the words and record them. This can be used to help students explain famous works or styles.

Quizlet

This is a very handy revision tool. Create a variety of revision games using the easy to use app. You can add pictures and try to match them with the correct artists for example. You can also add voice memos to these Quizlets - helping with pronunciation


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Turn your iPad into an Art Pad. This is a widely used and liked app in Art and Design in Lagan College. It has a great deal of versatility and some wonderful work has been produced using it. The app can allow for watercolour work, sketching or pastel effects to name but a few.

How can you use this with Art?
  • You can create checklists, spotlight details in photos, and sketch diagrams with speed and ease.   The photo spotlight tool helps you quickly clarify essential details.
  • You can easily combine  text, photos, and sketches together. Keep your ideas organized, and see everything in one place.


Strip Designer

This is an excellent comic strip app. You can use it to design storyboards or Work in some Pop Art creations.

How can you use it in Art ?
  • Pupils could be inspired to use it to create a story with each panel of the Comic being designed by a different pupil and the work displayed in large size in the classroom or corridors.
  • Create storyboards
  • Tell the life story of a famous artist illustrated with their works

Weebly

This is a fabulous, easy to use web site design site. It has an education site which is free for teachers and can be used to create websites for the school. for subjects or for pupil projects. It is highly intuitive and very easy to produce a website in minutes!

How can you use it in Art?
  • Use it to create online art galleries of your pupils best work. Students love seeing their work displayed like this.
  • Use it to create an artist focus - Combine text, pictures, a gallery and Youtube links on a page to enable students to research
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