Source: http://www.queeky.com/
What it is: Queeky is an online, interactive are experience. Students and even teachers can get online to create their very own unique artwork. Queeky does not require a membership but you have the option to get the premium edition which does cost.
Educational Uses: This site can be used for so many things in the classroom. This can be used in an art class to address the standards that require to incorporate digital technology in the classroom. This is also a place where students can explore digital art art and evaluate and look at other artists work. This tool could also be used to allow students to illustrate stories or extensions to stories. Students could illustrate personal stories, classmate stories, or even for a books that’s already published.
Content Standards: Possible content standards could be:
W.K 6. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing including in collaboration with peers. This would be a good standard to reinforce the use of the digital online tool. Every writing needs illustrations.
WK3. Use a combination drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order that they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. I would unpack this standard to where the students are using this tool to illustrate a story that they have written.
Assessment:
I think the assessment of either of these standards would be to assess the students thinking and not specifically their work. At this age students aren’t going to draw an illustration that only the might be able to recognize and connect with the text. I would assess the students based on how they explained the illustration to the text.
Value:
PRO: students can have the experience of creating artwork without the mess and students can interactively work on the same piece of artwork at the same time. This works well if students are able to use ipads or maybe even more than one computer.
CON: This is not a pre-monitored site so some of the artwork already posted to this site might not be appropriate for students, especially early childhood.
Reference
Information retrieved from http://www.queeky.com/ on February 27th, 2014.