Creativity and collaboration are two fundamental pieces in today’s educational space. A new iPad app called Drawp is bridging both of those things together and at the same time making them easier
Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that’s built for more professional applications. This means that kids can get even more creative than normal on an iPad. More and more kids are using iPads in and out of school. According to a recent Nielsen report, 48 percent of children aged 6-12 in the US asked for an iPad last holiday season. With children’s rampant usage of tablets and parents’ demanding schedules, it is important for apps to be more than just e-babysitters and meet parents’ and children’s broader educational needs. Drawp was created to address the need for parents, family, and friends to remain involved and responsive in all aspects of a child’s life.
Drawp is great for collaboration too. Using the app’s SimpleShare technology kids can share their creation or their assignment with a teacher, family members, DropBox, Google Drive or other students, all depending on the parameters that either teachers or parents set.
This makes it extremely easy for students to collaborate with each other and send projects back and forth. They can do it without sending links to projects and without having to go outside of the app for any reason.
On the backend, Drawp has made it extremely easy and efficient for teachers to manage all of their students projects that they’ve created with Drawp regardless of how many classes they teach and how many students they have. The Drawp dashboard for teachers takes those assignments that were shared through SimpleShare and organizes them by student and by class. Again, the teacher never has to move out of the app. In fact right now Drawp is offering free unlimited accounts for teachers who sign up for the app by February 15th.
Other Drawp features include:
- Single-swipe sharing: Sharing is as simple and intuitive as a single-swipe to anyone in the parent-approved network. Kids can connect with grandparents or parents at work by swiping a drawing to their profile pictures.
- Collaboration: Drawp is designed with engagement in mind. Positively reinforce and collaborate with the child by adding color or audio to the drawing you’ve received and swipe it back to the child. Don’t have an iPad? Simply respond through email and it will appear as a Post-It note on the child’s drawing.
- Parent-approved network: Parents can rest assured their children are only sharing creations with those in the secure network curated and approved by parents.
- Dynamic and unique paints: iPads aren’t limited by the physics of paper and paints, so drawing apps should reflect that. Children can draw and paint with clouds, cotton candy, or messy monsters, without leaving a mess.
- Multiple child profiles: Each member of the family has their own personal profile to create and share.
- Offline accessibility: Drawp is designed for families at home or on the go with online and offline accessibility.
- Better than a refrigerator magnet: Drawp is an exciting new way to showcase a child’s boundless creativity to friends and family over email, social networks, or in the app.
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