Aviary for Education

I’ve written about the fabulous Aviary before. If you haven’t seen it, Aviary provides a suite of online tools that allows you to take create images, edit screenshots, edit sounds and create music. All for free, and all through your browser. I was rather pleased to find out that there will soon be an special [...]

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12 Art Resources for your IWB

There’s nothing better than playing with an art program on an interactive whitboard and literally drawing with your finger. It really works like a massive graphics tablet. And there are some excellent, free, online drawing packages. Some are quite simple, and others really mimic real-world art materials. For the entire list, check out my Delicious [...]

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Artrage – natural media painting

One type of software that is really cool on an interactive whiteboard are the various painting packages. Drawing is hard with a mouse, but better with a graphics tablet – and you can’t get a bigger graphics tablet than an Interactive Whiteboard. If you own a Promethean board then you might be interested to know [...]

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10 avatar generators for profile pictures

With the release of the James Cameron movie (which I highly recommend you see, by the way) everyone has now heard the word Avatar. In computing, an avatar is often the name used for the little picture you use on profile pages for things like blogs, twitter etc. If you are blogging with students – [...]

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Spice up images with Big Huge Labs

If you’re bored with the usual images and want to add some special effects to your pictures, then check out Big Huge Labs. This site provides hundreds of different filters than can be applied to your photos to add many different special effects. You can give the site access to your Flickr or Facebook photo [...]

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Collaborative drawing with Flockdraw

I’m always a fan of collaborative tools that let you work on the same document across the internet. I’m also a fan of online drawing tools. So I really like collaborative drawing tools Flockdraw is another collaborative drawing tool that’s well worth taking a look at. It’s free to use, and you get a unique [...]

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Remake the Stars – Art and Second Life

This video was shown at the Essex ICT conference I attended last week. I think it’s a very powerful example of how modern technology can give you a different perspective on things. What better way to understand a piece of artwork than to jump right into it. It’s called Watch The World by an artist [...]

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Livebrush – another painting application

Thanks to Cali Lewis on GeekBrief.tv for mentioning an application that I just had to go and check out once i saw it. Livebrush is another free paint package, that should work well on an IWB. The size of the brush stroke depends on the speed you drag across the page, the faster you go [...]

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Make easy screenshots with Aviary

Here’s a new website that will make it easier to take screenshots of other sites to save to your desktop or to embed into your blog or your wiki. It’s called Aviary. And it’s a neat, free, image editing application. You can create images from scratch, and share them with others online. But as well [...]

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Pixlr

A very quick post to make you aware of yet another excellent online painting package. It’s called Pixlr and you can play with it here: http://pixlr.com/ No need to say a lot about it. Just go and have a play for yourself!

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