Drawing Tools: AutoDraw, QuickDraw & Ziteboard

Google has released a couple fun artificial intelligence tools for drawing. Use them yourself or have your students try them out!

AutoDraw
You can use traditional pens and colors to draw pictures on your own, or if you need help drawing, you can use the AutoDraw feature. Simply press the AutoDraw icon, start drawing and thumbnails of professional drawings similar to your sketch will appear. Click on a thumbnail to magically change your sketch into the professional drawing! Add fill color, text, etc. if you wish. Your finished images can be saved or copied.

Quick, Draw

This is more of a game. It's like playing Pictionary with the computer. The computer gives you a word to draw, and you have 20 seconds to draw it well enough for the computer's artificial intelligence to guess what you are drawing. See how well you can do!

If you want to learn more about either of these tools, check out this 5 minute tutorial video.

Ziteboard

This is a Chrome extension that gives you a collaborative drawing board. You can draw, add text, insert images or pdf's and then export your finished work as an image. The board can be shared via email or link to promote collaboration. Add the extension to your Chrome browser!

Create Graphic Organizers with Google Draw

Graphic organizers are a great way for students to see the relationship between the
facts and ideas they are learning, and Google Draw is an easy tool that you and your
students can use to create them.

A team of teachers met last week and quickly designed a nice variety of samples.
Please feel free to copy and tweak these samples to meet your learners' needs.

To learn how to use Draw, here is a short video tutorial.