Teacher, Steve Lai is a guitar tutor from Richmond, BC, Canada who incorporated skitch as a teaching tool to "create colorful, interactive visuals that help students learn." Mr. Lai teaches French to 6-10 year olds as a second language at Richmond Christian School, in addition he also teaches children how to play the guitar.
Mr. Lai uses the app skitch as a different way to teach French and guitar that engages his young students.
There are tons of possibilities when using skitch on an i pad, such as the example above while teaching French. In this classroom, Mr. Lai takes pictures of images pertaining to words or categories such as colors, clothing, and diagrams of the body. He then hooks up his i pad to a projector for the class to see. Skitch is used to annotate the image and for the whole class to participate on what's going on. For example, as shown in the picture above Mr. Lai will color a pair of pants, draw an arrow, and ask students to name the color in French. To make the lesson even more enjoyable for the kids, Mr. Lai takes pictures of willing staff and teachers at the school where students are able to draw funny hair and silly clothes on them.
Another example how skitch is used for the French language instruction is for illustrating motion as seen in the picture above. Mr. Lai's school uses the Accelerated Integrated Method which is similar to sign language. So Mr.Lai takes a picture of himself that way the students are able to see a visual of what is being taught. He does the same thing for his guitar lessons. He takes pictures of where he places his fingers on the guitar and also labels them that way students can visually see where they need to place their fingers.
Mr. Lai finds that skitch is not just a fun app for the students to work with at school, but they can also explore it at home. What's great is any artwork done on skitch, Mr. Lai is able to post it onto his blog where parents are able to see their child's artwork and also use it as a communication tool. It's always exciting for students to do away from the traditional paper and book to have the opportunity to work with i pads and the different apps available.
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