iPad: Week 13 - DoodleBuddy

Doodle Buddy is basically just a doodling app. I first came across is when Kami from teachingwithAppitude shared about her students drawing Santa faces on themselves with the app! I loved the idea and had immediately added it to my lesson plans.

Exploring Doodle Buddy a little more, I found even more features to love. First of all, you can add cute little emojis to your drawings (and whose kids don't LOVE emojis). Also, I liked that you can add backgrounds to Doodle Buddy. Some of the templates include hangman, tic-tac-toe, dots and a few mazes. My students love to use these to complete these games virtually. There are also shapes & images that you can add to the drawing as needed. Obviously, there are a million colors and lots of different sizes and styles of pens that you can use for the actual doodling part.

My one complaint about Doodle Buddy is that if you shake it, it clears the whole screen. So encourage your students to draw with the iPad flat on the table, and not to move it until they have already screen shot or saved it.

If you want to try Doodle Buddy, check out my "how to" for Doodle Buddy in my TpT store.

Let me know if you like it,

Hilary

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