Doodle Buddy

Doodle Buddy - the application that allows students to draw, scribble, annotate, and create. There are many things you could do with this app in your classroom and it is very easy to use; even better, it's free! Whiteboards are a common form of quick assessment in elementary classrooms, and Doodle Buddy could serve as a digital whiteboard to avoid an extra material needed in your classroom.

With Doodle Buddy comes some features that I will explain. As I stated before, it's really easy to use and you will pick up quickly once you start playing around with it! First of all, there are buttons across the bottom of the screen. Beginning on the left, we have the undo button. By selecting this it will undo your last action. Moving to the right, we have the trash can button. This will clear your entire drawing and leave only the background. The next button is the drawing tool. It allows students to select a color and type of writing utensil. The size of the pencil or brush can be changed by moving the white dot across the link at the bottom of the gray screen. Then they can begin drawing, annotating, or scribbling.

The next button is for stamps, or stickers. You can select small or large based on the size you need. There are many different types of stamps/stickers. I added this cute smiley face!

Next are the stencils. Pretty self explanatory - they work like regular stencils!

The next button is labeled "Tt". This allows you to add text. By selecting the button, a text box will appear and you can type your desired text. The choices across the top are the font options (helv, type, felt, times).

Then we have the option of selecting a background. There are some included within the app, but you can also use a photo you've already taken or take another.

I chose an existing picture on my iPad of the beach.

When you're all finished, select the wrench button on the right side of the screen. This will give you some options. Saving to the camera roll is the easiest for students! They could upload the finished product to Showbie so the teacher has access.

There are many ways you could use Doodle Buddy in your classroom. As you can see below, you could ask students questions and they could use the app to record their answers. Spelling tests could also be given using this app. 

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