![]() ![]() ![]() We have designed and built a whole suite of Apps that help you create and communicate. If you like Air Sketch, you will also want to grab a copy of Vittle, which turns your iPad into a Recordable Whiteboard. Check out our developer page for the link.Īlso, be sure to follow us at /qrayon to get the latest news, and updates.I’ve been working on a new lab guide for my classes, and thought I’d share an early version. I now honestly believe this is a must have technology for design education.Note that this may become unavailable at any point the final version will go on, as the lab guide corresponds largely with Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches and Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches, as well as with several of the free ebooks here on. They will be able to take screenshots of the critique to refer to later, and can instantly open those in AirSketch for further work. The Next Step – If we go to a model where students have their own iPads, they can connect directly to mine for critique. It was transformative for both me, and the students I surveyed after class. For critiques that do not require me to have an actual interactive project in front of the class, this is now the standard method for design critique. With all this done in real time, applying my saved AirSketches to the class rubric took minutes, and the has freed up several hours I will gleefully waste with Plants vs Zombies HD. It’s a real chore to get those comments back to students in a timely manner. Normally, I sit down for a few hours after critique, checking my notes and annotating the student project in Photoshop. It was a far better experience than our first critique this semester, and I ended up saving a ton of time grading. Instead of waving a laser pointer at the screen to make “air sketches,” a phrase which is both accurate and simultaneously semi-unfortunate, we had a record of my running commentary. When composing the email, the iPad was searching Active Directory, so simply typing each student’s name in the to: field resulted in a good email address. The students can see my annotations in real time, and at the end of the discussion for each project, I was able to email the annotated JPEG to the student, with additional comments. ![]() I opened each student’s concepts, discussed them with the class, and added annotations and sketches to each project. On the MacBook Pro under Bookmarks, I selected my iPad from the Bonjour folder and voila – there is the first project loaded up and ready to go. I had my MacBook Pro tied to the classroom projector with Safari open. Step Three – Sit down for critique with the class, and open the AirSketch app. When Apple enables us to create subfolders of photos, it’s going to really be handy. Keep in mind, this the default location where photos are stored on the iPad, so it’s a little messy of a workaround. I downloaded the DropBox app to the iPad and used the app to save all the class JPEGs into my Photos folder on the iPad. Step Two – Get the files from DropBox to the iPad. It is now programmed to do the same with other file types (PDFs!) and send them to the same DropBox folder. How you gather files is up to you, I’m both a tremendous nerd and lazy, so I programmed a server to handle all that for me. Final Cut Server transcoded all the files to JPEG and copied them to my DropBox account. Step One – I had the students hand in their Web design mockups (which are Photoshop files) using Final Cut Server, which is a nerdy, Joel-specific step. Overall, it was a huge success – here are the details: Yesterday I used AirSketch in my Web design class to hold a critique. ![]()
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