Art

Augmented Reality Art

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

The Getty Museum has introduced a new way to view art, augmented reality. As employed byThe Getty, augmented reality creates 3D displays of art from printed PDF codes displayed in front of a webcam. The example that The Getty provides in the video below is a 3D display of one of the cabinets of curiositiescreated by Albert Janszoon Vinckenbrinck. If you want to try it for yourself after watching the video, the directions are available here.
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H/T to Open Culture for the story earlier this week.


Applications for Education
Augmented reality as used by The Getty introduces a new way for art history students to explore artwork.

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Interactive Romeo and Juliet

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

The Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Projecthas an outstanding interactive resource that everyone who teaches lessons onRomeo and Juliet should bookmark. Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet is an interactive display of the text of Romeo and Juliet. As students read the document they can click on any link in the text to view definitions, images, audio recordings, and videos related to the content they're reading.

Thanks to Donna Murray for sharing the link for this excellent site.  

Applications for Education

Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet looks like it could be a fantastic resource to help students comprehend Shakespeare's most famous work.


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The Art of Storytelling - Hear a Story, Tell a Story

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

The Art of Storytellingis a website hosted by the Delaware Museum of Art. On The Art of Storytelling visitors can listen to stories and read stories based on works of art. Visitors can also create their own stories. To create a story visitors select a work of art then type a story or record an audio through their computers' microphones. Visitors can also build stories after creating their own simple works of art using drag-and-drop menus. Either way that they're made, stories can be shared on the Art of Storytelling website.

Thanks to Kristen Swanson for sharing this excellent resource.

Applications for Education

The Art of Storytelling could be a good resource for art teachers and writing teachers. Students can record critiques of art works on the site. Students can also use the site as inspiration for creating short stories.

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Muro

from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero bydkapuler

Muro is a nice site for digital art. As w/ most digital art sites a user can change colors, adjust gradient, add effects, etc etc.


I highly recommend checking out Muro by clicking here!!!
Thanks to Free Technology 4 Teachers for the tip!!!

Best of the Web V. V

from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero bydkapuler

Best of the Web V. V is now up online. This is a free resource for educators that focuses on excellent sites for Digital Art and Collaborative Drawing.

Best of the Web V. V

bomomo

from The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness by noreply@blogger.com (Zimmer557)

Are you creative?  Do you like to draw or like to create images using different tools?  Bomomo is a site that allows you to create different looking pieces of digital art with an interesting method of creating that art

Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Art

from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero by dkapuler

"Digital art is an umbrella term for a range of artistic works and practices that utilize digital technology. Since the 1970s various names have been used to describe what is now called digital art including computer art andmultimedia art but digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella termnew media art. (Wikipedia)"

I've been into Digital Art for a couple of years now co-founding a Digital Art club back in my old district. That being said I've always loved the way how technology can be integrated into art and have decided to list my top 10 favorite sites for just that.

Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Art

1. Art Pad - A great painting site that records a picture while it's created to create a time lapse effect.
2. Slimber - An excellent site for drawing & painting w/ some beautiful examples.
3. Bomomo - A fun site where users can create unique pictures w/ different shaped templates (ie, Pixie).
4. Doink - A great site for creating animated art w/ a web 2.0 flare.
5. Odosketch - A wonderful site for creating beautiful sketches w/ colored pencils.
6. Sketchpad - Create excellent painting/drawing w/ this cool site. Lots of different styles, effects, gradients for users to choose.
7. Sumo Paint - One of the most popular digital art creators on the web, very similar to Photoshop.
8. Live Brush - A wonderful free application that lets users create some beautiful looking designs. A great gallery of examples to view too.
9. Crayola Digi-Color - An excellent site for kids that is very user friendly for creating digital art.
10. Voice Draw - A very unique site that lets users create art w/ their voice/sound.

Art Babble - Videos About Art

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art.Browse the video channels and you'll find videos covering a wide array of topics including abstract art, European Art and Design, African Art, graphic design, glass, sculpture, surrealism, and much more.

Picturing America - Teaching History with Art

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

Picturing America is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Picturing America is an interactive gallery of artwork related to events, people, and themes in American history. You can browse the gallery chronologically or by theme. Click on any image in the gallery to learn about the artist and the artwork itself. Along with the background information for each image, Picturing America provides links to additional resources for learning about the artwork and artists.
Applications for Education
Picturing America's Educators Resource page contains a resource book that you can download for free. The resource book contains printable background sheets about each piece of art in the Picturing America gallery. The resource book includes questions and activity suggestions for using each piece of art in elementary school, middle school, and high school classrooms. The resource book can be downloaded as one file or you can download chapters individually.

The Mystery of the Poison Dart Frog comes from the North Carolina Museum of Art. Students are introduced to three characters in an online picture book. Zoey and Zeke are visiting their cousin Camilla who works as a curator at an art museum in Costa Rica. Soon students are swept away in a mystery and adventure as they must use clues and match up the Costa Rica art pieces with the notecards that were written by the donors of the art. Along the way students learn to read for information, and learn about art, science, history, and culture of Costa Rica. From http://www.ilearntechnology.com/

Mutapic - Combine Two Images to Create a Third
from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)1 person liked this
http://www.mutapic.com/Index.html
Mutapic is an interesting way to create original artwork online. The artwork users create with Mutapic is based on combining two images to create a third image. Mutapic users select images from a gallery generated within a set of parameters they can define. Then the users can experiment with filters which alter the newly created third image. There are sixteen different filters that users can apply to their images. Within each of the sixteen filters are more variables that can alter an image. On top of the filter options are overlay options and image mixing options. If this sounds like a lot of variables, it is.
 
When Collages Collide: Shape Collage vs. Microsoft AutoCollage 2008
from Welcome to NCS-Tech! by Kevin Jarrett
Shape Collage http://www.shapecollage.com/  is a nifty free utility available for PCs, Macs, and Linux. There are limitations to the free version – most notably, you can’t save save & reopen projects (click here for the list of features available in the $25 Pro flavor) – but it’s super easy to use and the results are fantastic. Highly intuitive, the menus are simple to navigate, featuring clear options incorporated into a well laid-out workspace. It just feels natural, encouraging you to try different settings to see the result. This YouTube video does a terrific job explaining the program and its features. It’s absolutely worth the download to explore for yourself.

Choggerfrom Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero by dkapuler
http://chogger.com/
Chogger is a new (beta) site for creating online comic strips. After giving it a try it happens to be one of my new favorite free comic creators. While it doesn't offer you all the bells & whistles of a paid app (Comic Life) it more then makes up for that w/ how easy it is to use.
Also, not only can a user create a custom drawing from scratch, they can add speech bubbles and upload photos as well.
I highly recommend checking out Chogger by clicking here.
For a more detailed review check out Free Technology 4 Teachers.

http://board800.com/
from Educational Technology Guy by Dave
Board800 is a free, web based interactive white board that can be used by multiple users at the same time.
It is very easy to use and you can save your session. Tools include shapes, free drawing, and text. Your session can be saved as an image for later retrieval, archiving, or to embed in a document or web site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_chapel
Tour of the Sistine Chapel

http://www.arounder.com/
Arounder is a free site that offers 3D views of famous places in European cities, North American locations, and the Moon. The imagery is very clear and detailed. Visitors can explore 360 degrees of each image using the simple navigation tools that appear at the bottom of every image. When you're on the Arounder homepage click on a city to see a map of that city. Then click on the red(ish) placemark icons to explore the imagery.



http://bomomo.com/
Create painting tool.

http://smarthistory.org/ from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)
This site is being developed by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static Western art history textbook.