Tuesday Tech Tidbit

With a recent iPad system update (iPadOS 16.2), Apple released a new collaborative whiteboard app called Freeform .  According to Apple: Freeform helps users organize and visually lay out content on a flexible canvas, giving them the ability to see, share, and collaborate all in one place without worrying about layouts or page sizes. Freeform offers an unlimited canvas.  Users can continually add content and never worry about running out of space.  Within a Freeform board, users can add sticky notes, photos, videos, audio, shapes, charts, PDFs, and a wide variety of document types. You can use your iPad's camera to add photos and videos to a board.  Freeform magically appears as an app on all iPads that are updated to system 16.2.  Our school iPads are eligible to receive this update.  Please encourage your students to update their iPads so they can engage with Freeform. If an iPad's storage capacity is too tight to allow for a system update, please view my...

CocoMaterial is a website that offers thousands of copyright-free, hand-drawn illustrations.  If you are looking to place an image into a document or slide, CocoMaterial is a one-stop shop that provides high-quality clipart illustrations that are simple and easy on the eye.  I hate sifting through millions of blurry or overly complicated images in Google when all I want is a simple graphic that looks good on my document or presentation.  If you agree that simple is better, then CocoMaterial is a great place to look for images. You can customize the images in CocoMaterial before downloading them.  You can change the stroke (outline) color, and you can fill the image with a chosen color.  By default the images are black-and-white illustrations with black outlines.   When you download an image, CocoMaterial provides you with a compressed zip file that contains both a PNG file as well as an SVG file.  You will probably never use the SVG file; thes...