Tablet Talk

On Monday I will be working with a group of teachers on “Teaching With Visual Aids.”  We’ll start with the basics of using Picasa 3 to work with photos and cover three photo sharing sites. We’ll learn about several places to get great posters and visual aides online and then move in to making visual aides out of text.  We will cover online whiteboards with multiple users and how to use free tools to edit images. I don’t have a presentation prepared but thought I’d share out my links I am planning to use.

Working With Your Images:

Picassa Tutorial

Photo Sharing Sites Picassa, Flickr and SmugMug

Class Posters:

Motivational Posters (Create Your Own)

Classroom Posters (Poster-Street)

Visually Appealing Classroom:

http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/sparklyclassrooms.htm

Art from Text:

Wordle and Tagxedo

Images For Prompts:

“The Best Year End Images” (Ferlazzo)

“The Best Places To View Unique Architecture” (Ferlazzo)

Oddly Specific (Use Discretion)

Online Whiteboards and General Art Links:

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/
Create original artwork, play back drawing and modify existing artwork

http://bomomo.com/
Create original modern art with unique abstract brushes

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
Create artwork in the style of Pablo Picasso

http://repper.studioludens.com/
Create tesselations and geometric pattern out of your photos

http://thisissand.com/
Create sand art.

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
The Art Zone. Create many styles of art (Collage, brushes, many more)

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/index.php
Viscosity, a modern art creator

http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm
Artisit’s Toolkit. Watch Demo, Find Examples, Create your own!

http://cosketch.com/
Multi-User online whiteboard

http://www.brainpop.com/free_movies/
BrainPop rotates a few free movies as a service and selling point.

http://my.doink.com/
Draw and animate online, easily embed in class page or blog. Registration optional.

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/sketch-paint/
Draw, paint online

http://www.kerpoof.com/#/activity/draw
Simple drawing online. Check out the bomb that clears the page.

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
Create art in the style of Jackson Pollock

http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/loader.html
Art Games

http://www.livebrush.com/
Draw and paint online. Use gestures and brush strokes.

http://sketchfu.com/home
Draw online, easily replay illustration.

http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/art_everywhere/final/
Art Glossary

http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/
Use Crayola tools such as crayons, markers, colored pencils

http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/art_everywhere/final/
Art terms glossary

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