An inquiry into: How we express ourselves

Guest Post: Is There an App for that Brushstroke? | The Teaching Palette

Sun May 13 09:47:55 +0000 2012

thanks to creative uses of mobile devices, the museum has been able to extend that artistic experience to a wider audience without spilling a drop of paint. In a recent Teen Studio Workshop on Experimental Painting, museum education staff—using an iPad app that simulates painting techniques—provided teens with a digital canvas and virtual brushes and paints.

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Your Paintings - About

Sun May 13 08:35:15 +0000 2012

Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

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iPiccy - Online Photo Editor

Sun Apr 29 13:40:34 +0000 2012

iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online and show your creativity with iPiccy editor!

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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history

Fri Apr 13 09:32:44 +0000 2012

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

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Kleki

Fri Apr 06 10:36:58 +0000 2012

web app in html 5 for creating art online. Save with a screen shot

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ReadWriteThink Printing Press - ReadWriteThink

Tue Apr 03 07:17:32 +0000 2012

The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events. The tool allows for multiple pages as appropriate. Text added to the templates can be modified using a simple toolbar, which allows students to choose text features, such as font size and color. Documentation for the Printing Press includes folding and printing instructions, as well as an extensive guide to using the tool. Customized versions of the tool, which include additional instructions and more focused choices, are included with some lessons. A basic planning sheet is available to help students gather ideas before working at the computer.

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Text Layout | Festisite

Tue Feb 14 06:53:09 +0000 2012

paste in text, choose a layout, create a text/image, download the pdf

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Why I’m so excited about QuadBlogging « Learning Mosaic

Mon Jan 23 09:54:39 +0000 2012

QuadBlogging is a 4-week experience with 3 other classes around the world. During each of the four weeks, one class blog is designated for viewing and feedback.

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Watch Documentaries and Animated Films Online - NFB.ca

Fri Jan 13 11:47:27 +0000 2012

NFB.ca is a website where you can watch films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Our mission is to make these films accessible to all Canadians.

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Incredible Landscapes Carved Into Books

Mon Jan 09 09:54:46 +0000 2012

Hailing from Quebec, fellow Canadian Guy Laramee is a man with many talents. Not only is he a very accomplished painter and sculptor, but Guy is also a highly regarded musician, composer and stage director.With more than 30 years of practice, Guy’s work has been seen and heard in galleries and theaters around the world. And when he’s not involved in his artistic pursuits, he finds time to pursue an investigation in the field of anthropology.Below you will find a collection of his incredible book carving work from his series’ titled The Great Wall and Biblios. In these series, Guy carves magnificent landscapes into relevant volumes of work, some pieces using well over ten books. Enjoy!

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Dean Wesley Smith » The New World of Publishing: Writer vs. Author

Mon Jan 09 09:14:36 +0000 2012

— A Writer is always focused on the story they are writing at the moment, always focused on the story coming next to write. — A Writer is always focused on the future. — An Author is always focused on what they have written. — An Author is always focused into the past.

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A Year of Reading: Mentor Texts in the Digital Writing Workshop: Writer as Decision-Maker

Mon Jan 09 09:04:48 +0000 2012

Mentor texts in our classrooms could open up students' possibilities to these decisions-the options they have as writers. They can see that they are the decision makers and that multi-media requires creators of digital text to make many decisions so that their messages are clear and powerful. Rather than be formulaic, I want my students' mentors to be pieces that open up what is possible in their own work.

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ePub Bud - Publish, Convert, Store, and Download free children's ebooks online for the iPad and nook color!

Sat Dec 31 08:12:54 +0000 2011

Free Children's eBooks * for the iPad, nook, and other readers; and even some books for adults too!

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WikiPaintings.org - the encyclopedia of painting

Fri Nov 25 11:01:21 +0000 2011

wiki of fine art

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Living Things | Ideas and Thoughts

Mon Nov 21 10:49:16 +0000 2011

The book contains a songwriting guide and 8 lessons and original songs as well as a video. She would love if you would download the book and ideally use them with your students. The topics will obviously span a range of grade levels as well as the songwriting guide would be useful for many ages

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Book Broadcasting | Madeleine Cox

Sat Nov 19 10:04:18 +0000 2011

This week was the ‘Book Broadcasting’ project launch in my two Grade 6 English classes. Prior to their podcast introduction the students finished reading their Sakura Medal book and completed a podcast ‘script’ – support framework that I designed for their oral book review. It helped structure and focus the students’ responses, in addition to encouraging their use of key literary terminology when referring to their books.

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A 3x3Links Speed-Dial Page

Tue Nov 08 05:22:44 +0000 2011

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Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Sun Sep 25 06:40:39 +0000 2011

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

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>> MUSEUMSLUPE.CH >>>>>>>

Sat Sep 03 07:48:29 +0000 2011

a web page which helps children explore art - in German. Entdecken Sie gemeinsam mit Kindern und Jugendlichen die bunte Welt der Museum und bringen Sie diese in Ihre Nähe - sei das bei einem Museumsbesuch oder auf der Museumslupe. Trans from German: "Information and inputs for adultsDiscover together with children and young people the colorful world of the museum and bring it near you - is that with a visit to a museum or on the magnifying glass museum. We hope you enjoy!"

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Limelight’s guide to the Virtual Concert Hall - Classical Music - Limelight Magazine

Tue May 24 13:20:38 +0000 2011

How to stream classical music live and on demand from the world's greatest orchestras and opera companies.

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