Posts made in February 28th, 2009

Sumo Paint

Posted on Feb 28, 2009 in Art Resources, Interactive Whiteboards, Resources, Software | 0 comments

Sumo Paint is awesome! I love online painting programs, and this one really impressed me.

Some of the paint packages I’ve found and blogged about have been fun, but you always feel like you are just playing with a cut-down web application- Sumo Paint looks and feels like a proper, fully-featured art program like Paint Shop Pro and suchlike.

It supports layers, shape tools, different brushes, ink, gradients and clone stamps. It really is a superb piece of software. And like all my favourite bits of software it’s free!

You can save images to an online gallery to share, or save them to your computer. There’s a community aspect to the software where you can share your images with others to work on – or work on pictures other people have produced.

This would be fantastic on an interactive whiteboard – it’s is after all just a massive graphics tablet – but this would be equally as awesome to use on regular computers as a cheap replacement for other graphics software. You will need to make sure that you have the most recent version of the Flash Player installed (Version 10)

More information about Sumo Paint can be found here, or you can launch it direct from this link: http://www.sumopaint.com/app/

Digital Microscope

Posted on Feb 28, 2009 in Hardware, Science Resources | 0 comments

I’ve just bought myself a hand held digital microscope for training days (the one’s I’ve used before are owned by the Scitt I work for)

I bought a Veho  from Amazon for about £45. I’m quite pleased with it, although the one annoyance is the software coming on a mini-cd which wont go into my laptop CD drive – I had to copy it onto a large CD before I could install.

It has a small stand, for hands-free operation, or you can detach it from the stand and hold it.

I’m starting to build up a bank of microscope images on Flickr. I hope to get more things under it soon!

I also forgot, when playing with sites like PhotoPeach, that you could make photo slideshows from your sets directly from Flickr itself. So here’s a slideshow of the images I’ve taken so far.