Art

media type="custom" key="748321" ARTSONIA for ZMS- http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=4352 This online art museum includes student work from all over the world including a gallery for ZMS. Students in 7th and 8th grade year long art at ZMS have online portfolios which they can share with friends and family. Visitors may choose to join a fan club or comment on student work. Teachers can use this website to find lesson plans for art and show examples of work at different age levels and multiculturally.

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ You can post images of paintings and students can create HOT SPOTS by selecting areas of the picture and then adding comments about those areas.

Voice Thread: http://voicethread.com/#home Post an image, video, screen shots. Students can give feedback using a voice recording (which can be called in on a touch tone phone if they don’t have a microphone). They can also add their comments via text. Finally on video’s they can stop them and draw on them while they narrate their thoughts on the video.

TUX PAINT - http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

KERPOOF - http://www.kerpoof.com/ This program provides a blank slate to create your own digital sketches and drawings, but it also has an animation side to it as well. It also includes resources for teachers, but that it targeted more for creating stories and then animating them through the animation side.

Create a drawing in Kerpoof's Super Doodle and send it to us by June 1st, 2008 and you could win a Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet! The contest is free and very easy to enter, and there will be winners in several age groups.

CANVASTIC - http://canvastic.com/ Canvastic is the fantastic student-focused graphics/text publishing tool for K-8. It features easy to understand tools and options with a clear, clean interface. There are no "toy" features that waste the students' time. Canvastic presents the perfect interface for any user by adjusting automatically. Packed with dozens of new user-requested features, refinements, and fixes, Canvastic v3.0 is even more flexible, powerful, and easy to use. Teachers have expanded options to customize the application to meet students' needs. It has the best spell checking feature for students ever, transparent color choices and more.

DISCOVERING ART - http://www.ima-art.org/education/creatures/index.html

ArtWorks Basic-[|www.artellmedia.com] The software is a benefit to an artist by showing more about values in an artwork, putting a grid on the picture to enlarge or reduce your picture, and using the Golden Mean to enhance a composition.

PICNIK - http://www.picnik.com Picnik is a surprising fast and powerful online photo editing application. You can upload pictures from popular photo-sharing sites, including MySpace, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, etc., or you can upload them directly from your computer. Editing capabilities include rotate/straighten, crop, sharpen, resize, exposure (including shadows/highlights), colors (including a white balance), and red eye reduction. Numerous effects, similar to Photoshop Elements filters, are available as well. Edited photos can be saved directly to a photo-sharing site or your computer.