Digital Content Creation


Apple iPad Pro + Apple Pencil The functionality of the Apple Pencil is great for students who are learning to hold a pencil to write, color, and draw. Using the Apple Pencil gives greater control for creating digital content.	Adobe Draw Adobe provides the free Adobe Draw app to provide it's users with an easy content creation app. The user can change the brushstrokes, width, color, and a variety of other options to create works of digital art.	TouchCast https://www.touchcast.com/ TouchCast, much like Educreations, Voicethread, Microsoft Sway, and other presentation alternatives, this is a great tool to have students add a personal touch to early learners' portfolios.

Apple iPad Pro + Apple Pencil

The functionality of the Apple Pencil is great for students who are learning to hold a pencil to write, color, and draw. Using the Apple Pencil gives greater control for creating digital content.

Adobe Draw

Adobe provides the free Adobe Draw app to provide it's users with an easy content creation app. The user can change the brushstrokes, width, color, and a variety of other options to create works of digital art.

TouchCast

https://www.touchcast.com/

TouchCast, much like Educreations, Voicethread, Microsoft Sway, and other presentation alternatives, this is a great tool to have students add a personal touch to early learners' portfolios.


Paint http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm Simple paint tool that is web based where learners can easily create images and save.	Pixel Art http://www.abcya.com/pixel_art.htm Simple art creator tool that is web based where learners can easily create pixel art images that can be saved.	Little Birds Tales https://littlebirdtales.com/ iOS app that allows learners to draw within the app pictures and record or write their story.

Paint

http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm

Simple paint tool that is web based where learners can easily create images and save.

Pixel Art

http://www.abcya.com/pixel_art.htm

Simple art creator tool that is web based where learners can easily create pixel art images that can be saved.

Little Birds Tales

https://littlebirdtales.com/

iOS app that allows learners to draw within the app pictures and record or write their story.


Book Creator https://bookcreator.com/ Easy way to create digital books for learners of all ages.	Storybird http://storybird.com/ "Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." (from Storybird's website)	Google Slides http://www.google.com/slides Google Slides allows users to create a presentation that can be turned into a video, a digital or print portfolio.

Book Creator

https://bookcreator.com/

Easy way to create digital books for learners of all ages.

Storybird

http://storybird.com/

"Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." (from Storybird's website)

Google Slides

http://www.google.com/slides

Google Slides allows users to create a presentation that can be turned into a video, a digital or print portfolio.

Can learning portfolios be used with early learners?

Portfolios have long been a part of higher education in order for committees to see a true representation of a student's growth and progression towards mastering learning concepts and goals. K-12 education has seen the idea of the learning portfolio trickle into the classroom as a way to gain a holistic approach to assessing mastery of standards.

The GOAL: Use learning portfolios with early learners, specifically first graders, to track progress towards mastery of writing standards. Using apps that are simple to use for students of all ages my goal is to create reflective student learning portfolios that create content rather than consume content to track their learning and mastery.

Cristin M. Dillard

Cristin M. Dillard is the Technology Integration Coach. She is the former Library Media Specialist at Fort Rucker Primary School, a Department of Defense Educational Activity (DoDEA) institution. She has worked as an educator for the last nine years in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. She began her career as a secondary social science teacher in a rural school in the Wiregrass area of Alabama. She has been a Library Media Specialist for 6 years.

Mrs. Dillard worked to integrate an interdisciplinary classroom pedagogy in her library media center which serves grades Pre-K through first grade. Collaborating with classroom teachers, she works to create interdisciplinary lessons that focus on key learning concepts to help with mastery and providing qualitative data to show progress towards mastery for each student she works with. Now she works with teachers to provide professional development to integration technology that transforms learning and shifts the way we learn.

cristin.m.dillard@gmail.com cristinmdillard.com

Cristin Dillard

Digital Content Creation

with Early Learners

Digital Content Creation

with Early Learners