Aviary is a suite of online tools for anyone to use to build, edit, and share their digital work. Upload an image to enhance colors, sharpen resolution, rotate, flip, resize, crop, brighten, add text, and more.
You can also create your own music with Aviary. With more than 50 free instruments and a great beat creator, anyone can experiment as a music producer.
Teachers and students can use Aviary in the classroom to:
- Add text to lab photos
- Adjust color to nature photos for a muse during the poetry unit
- Enhance yearbook photos to whiten teeth, take out redeye, decrease blemishes
- Draw on photos to include in the school slideshow playing at the school entrance
- Resize images to include in classroom newsletters
- Turn new photos into old when dressing up for Renaissance week
- Add labels to common images for second language learning
- Record audio to explain difficult Math problems
- Students pretend to be Picasso and record an explanation of a painting
- Create original music during Band class
- Make a beat to go along with lyrics that explain an important historical event in Social Studies
- Teach a cross-curricular lesson in Science and Band class examining sound vibrations of different stringed instruments
There are many more applications of Aviary in the classroom. With it's suite of online tools and a great Aviary Education site, students will be up and using the tools in no time and creating great digital content that compliments everything their learning in the classroom.
