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Last Updated March 1, 2013
Interactive online technology tools,
repositories, sites for storing and sharing
Animoto - Animoto turns your photos
and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free, and
simple. http://animoto.com/
Artpad - an online drawing
site (they call it a digital canvas). Students use online tools to draw and
paint, and view their art in a “gallery” setting. http://artpad.art.com/
ArtSTOR – Online art image repository
of art works from around the world, past and present. High-resolution images,
fully identified. ArtSTOR is available through many university libraries.
Subject to copyright restrictions. Sign In through your University Library
Login and Password.
ArtBabble - Art video-sharing site. http://www.artbabble.org
Artsonia – Artsonia.com is the world's
largest online digital art gallery for students and teachers. It offers a
searchable online image gallery, and may include artists’ statements. http://artsonia.com
Audacity - Free downloadable software
for audio editing (good for creating podcasts). http://
Aviary - Online free image and audio
editor. Also has a Screen Capture. http://www.aviary.com/
Bitly – Shortens long links, gives
real-time stats, helps you share, track, and analyze your links. See also Ow.ly
http://bit.ly/
Creative
Commons -
Alternative copyright licensing system http://creativecommons.org
Blip
FM -
Streaming Music. Search for free music to stream. Listen to free music
recommended by real people. Create your own free Internet radio station. A blip
is a combination of 1) a song and 2) a short message that accompanies the
music. http://blip.fm/home
Blogster - Free online blogging community
that features specific-interest blogs. http://www.blogster.com/
Calzles - an online site for
creation of digital stories or timelines using multimedia files (images, video,
music, blogs, documents, etc.) Could be used for creation and sharing of
albums, narratives, or research on topics of interest. http://www.capzles.com/
Creaza - An online multimedia
storyboarding site. Offers an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work,
both at school and in your free time. You use the toolbox along with
various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods,
fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as
climate/environment. Creaza tools: Mindomo is an online mind mapping tool
for visual learning, developing creativity and problem solving. With Mindomo,
you can organise and get an overview of thoughts, ideas, links, and other
information visually With Cartoonist, you can compose multimedia stories.
You can use the tool to create comic strips or more personal digital
narratives. MovieEditor is an online video editor to create movies, complete
with professional-looking titles, transitions, effects, animation, music, and
narration. MovieEditor is a full-featured timeline-based video editor, similar
to traditional desktop-based video editing tools. There’s just one big
difference: MovieEditor is web-based and a web browser with Adobe Flash gives
you instant access. AudioEditor is an online audio editor for recording,
slicing, and mixing audio. With AudioEditor you can produce your own audio
clips and soundscapes. http://www.creaza.com/
Creative
Commons Search -
Looks for material that is in the public domain, not its own search engine, but
works through independent organizations. Users need to verify the copyright
attributes of material found. http://search.creativecommons.org/
Common
Craft - 3-minute
user-friendly video tutorials on everything technology. (RSS, Social
Bookmarking, Phishing, Cloud Computing, etc.) http://www.commoncraft.com/about/who
Delicious - Social bookmarking site
that allows you to highlight, annotate, tag, save, and share links with others
you designate. http://www.delicious.com/
Digication - provides e-Portfolio and
Assessment Management Systems for K-12 and Higher Education Institutions. http://www.digication.com/
Diigo - Social bookmarking site
that allows you to highlight, annotate, tag, save, and share links http://diigo.com/education
Dropbox
– virtual storage site for
documents and files of all formats (docs, powerpoints, videos, images). You can create and share folders and files
with multiple people. Free. https://www.dropbox.com/
Facebook – Online social network with
text, video, image, link sharing capacities.
Flipbook - Make a flip book online.
you draw with your mouse on the drawing area and use the arrows to add frames
or to go back to previous frames. You can use the 'save' button to save your
work in progress without publishing it. You can reopen it again from 'my
flipbooks' and keep working on the animation until you are ready to publish it.
Lots of examples available on the site. http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/guest.php
Flickr – Online image repository,
frequently used by artists, operates under Creative Commons/Public Domain
Licensing. Popular photo-sharing site. http://flickr.com
Foursquare - a location-based social networking
website, software for mobile devices. This service is available to users with
GPS-enabled mobile devices, such as Smart phones. Users "check-in" at
venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application
by running the application and selecting from a list of venues that the
application locates nearby. http://foursquare.com/
GIMP - Free/downloadable
image-editing program http://www.gimp.org
Glogster - A Glog is an interactive
visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing
multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings,
and data. A Glog is created using a very easy to understand, drag and drop interface
that is relevant, enjoyable, and scalable for students of all ages and learning
styles. Glogster EDU meets or exceeds national educational technology and
content area standards for teachers and students of all ages: K-12 & Post
Secondary. http://edu.glogster.com/
Google
Art Project –
interactive museum sites, view galleries in street view, create your own
gallery. http://www.googleartproject.com/
Google
Docs - Create and
share your work online and access your documents from anywhere. Manage
documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, etc in the Google interface. https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&pa...
Google
Groups – online
groups using the Google interface. Often used as a closed social network. http://groups.google.com/
Google
Sites - Free
website or wiki builder http://sites.google.com
Google
Maps: Street View.
Lets you explore places around the world through 360-degree
street-level
imagery. You can check out restaurants, visit neighborhoods, or plan your next
trip. http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
Instagram
– not really an Internet site, but rather a mobile imaging app and social
network with 90 million members.
Internet
Archive - The
Internet Archive works to bring together anything and everything that resides
in the public domain texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as
archived web pages. http://www.archive.org
Issuu:
You Publish -
Online site for self-published materials. Collect, share and publish in a
format designed to make your documents look their very best. Customizable
templates make self-publishing easy. Explore a world of publications by people
and publishers alike. http://issuu.com/explore
Jing – real time screen capture
application, online and free. Interfaces with screencast.com. Take a picture or
make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. Captures audio as
well. Limited to 5 minutes. Share it instantly via web, email, IM,
Twitter or your blog. Just tell Jing where to send the screenshot and it's
there and ready to share. When you send to a destination like Screencast.com or
Flickr, Jing even places a hyperlink on your clipboard. Simply paste the link
into an IM, e-mail, forum post, anywhere…and when the person clicks it they see
your freshly-uploaded screenshot. Uses: collaborate on a design project, share
a snapshot of a document, comment on students' homework, demonstrate how to do
something in a computer, etc. http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Kerpoof - Created and operated by
Disney. Online site where students and teachers can: Make artwork, Make an
animated movie, Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug , Tell a story, Make a
drawing, Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made.
Kid friendly and mostly free. (classic embedded Disney commercialism, but not
too bad.) Has an educator’s page just for teachers, and a parents’
page. http://www.kerpoof.com/
Kidblog - Kidblog.org is designed for
elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with
their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to
publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging
community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. http://kidblog.org/home.php
The
Learning Network
- Run by the New York Times. Through subscription online (free). News features,
lesson plans, interactive. To honor The Times’s longstanding commitment to
educators and students, this blog and all its posts, as well as all Times
articles linked from them and from our Twitter and Facebook accounts, will be accessible
without a digital subscription. Teachers and students can use The Learning
Network to engage with the news, whether by commenting, taking quizzes, playing
games or reading articles. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/
Livebinders - Free online site to
organize and present your resources and teaching materials. http://livebinders.com/
Lulu.com – On-demand Publishing site.
Lulu.com lets you make, self-publish, print and sell print-on-demand books, e-
books, photo books and calendars with free book publishing. http://www.lulu.com/
Ow.ly – Allows you to upload text
documents, images files and (soon) video files; creates a shortened URL
(weblink), and interfaces with Twitter – where you can post a short message to
accompany the linked file. http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url
Paper.li
– Paper.li aggregates and then
publishes in magazine format Twitter posts, with their accompanying images and
video links) according to the hashtags you designate. Also says it publishes
from Facebook and Google+. http://paper.li
Picnik – online image editing
software. Imports images from Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, or your
desktop. http://www.picnik.com/
Pinterest
– A content sharing service that allows members to
"pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard. Also
includes standard social networking features. http://pinterest.com/
Prezi – Free. Create astonishing
zooming/rotating presentations live and on the web. Prezify your PowerPoint or
Keynote slides http://prezi.com/
Pixlr – Pixlr is an online photo
editing site. Looks and works a lot like Photoshop. Ypload images, edit them, and save to your
desktop. Free. http:// http://pixlr.com/
Scoop.it
– online social bookmarking
site, formats bookmarked sites into a magazine-like interface. http://scoop.it.com
SAM
Animation- Stop
Motion user-friendly downloadable software designed specifically for students
and teachers for classroom use. SAM Animation is a software platform that
allows the user to make stop-action movies using a USB or fire-wire real-time
camera (i.e. web camera or webcam) and whatever props the user desires. The
software is both Mac and PC compatible and free to all users willing to
register with www.samanimation.com. http://www.samanimation.com/
Screencast-O-Matic - the original online screen
recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux
with no install for free. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com
Scribblar - Simple web-based interface
for online collaboration. Multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image
collaboration, text-chat and more. http://www.scribblar.com/
Scribd - Free social publishing
site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents. http://www.scribd.com/
Skype - Free Internet video
conferencing site. Because you can share your screen with anyone on Skype for
free, you can present slice shows, websites, word documents, etc to anyone you
are connected to through Skype. http://www.skype.com/
Slideshare – Free. Offers users the
ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations,
Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios. Searchable archive on about every
topic. http://www.slideshare.net/
Second
Life (SL) - a
virtual online environment in which you create your avatar (online persona) and
visit SL sites and interact in various environments with other SL avatars. http://secondlife.com/ You need a
fairly good graphics card and a computer with lots of power.
Sendspace – Free. Large file hosting
sharing service. Upload large files; tell Sendspace where to send them by
e-mail. Recipient gets email download link. http://www.sendspace.com/
Sumopaint - Online image editor
with lots of tools for image creation and manipulation. Upload images or start
from scratch. Almost as good as Photoshop (even has layers, etc). http://www.sumopaint.com/app/
ThinkQuest - ThinkQuest is a
protected online environment that enables teachers to design and carry out learning
projects within their classrooms or in collaboration with ThinkQuest’s global
community. Projects come to life when students create pages with text,
pictures, multimedia, votes, brainstorms, debates, and messages. ThinkQuest is
designed to make it easy for teachers to set up learning projects within their
classrooms or in collaboration with other students and teachers around the
world. The environment is flexible so that teachers can design projects to meet
their specific teaching and learning goals. Developed and hosted by the Oracle
Education Foundation, Thinkquest – Interfaces with Twitter, you can
log into Twitter, upload a document from your hard drive, and Twitter creates a
shortened link to the document, which is hosted on Scribd.com. http://www.thinkquest.org/en/TwitDoc
TwitDoc – Interfaces with Twitter,
you can log into Twitter, upload a document from your hard drive, and Twitter
creates a shortened link to the document, which is hosted on Scribd.com. http://twitdoc.com/
TwitPic - lets you share media on Twitter in real-time. You can post photos or
videos to TwitPic from your phone, from the site, or through email. Similar to
yFrog. http://twitpic.com/
Twitter - Micro-blogging and instant
messaging tool. 140 characters. Numerous #hashtag groups share content on
specific topics. Twitter hashtag groups also sometimes organize online meet-ups
at specific times to discuss specific topics, post conference highlights. You
can sigh up for RSS feeds to your website or email. http://twitter.com
Tumblr - is a microblogging
platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and
audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or
choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. http://www.tumblr.com/
Vimeo - Video-sharing site, used
more often by artists. http://vimeo.com
VoiceThread - Record and playback
conversations around images, documents, and videos http://ed.voicethread.com See http://www.artjunction.org/voicethread.php
for advice on using VoiceThread in the art room.
Weebly – Online free web hosting
site with easy to use web templates and a drag and drop editing interface. http://www.weebly.com/ * Art teachers I
have worked with seem to like Weebly.
Wikispaces – Wikis are simple web pages
that groups, friends, and families can edit together. http://www.wikispaces.com/
WordPress - is an open source Content
Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application. WordPress
is used by over 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites. WordPress has a web
template system using a template processor. http://wordpress.org/
yfrog - Similar to TwitPic. Share
your images and video on Twitter with yfrog. Upload the image or video, add a
message, and tweet it to followers. yfrog offers a short URL service that can
be used anywhere. You can email the short URL to friends. Your images and
videos are stored online in your yfrog account. http://yfrog.com/
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/ See also -
Richard Byrne's alternatives to YouTube: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/30-alternatives-to-youtube...
Online Social Networks and
Sites with Resources for Art Educators
Art
Education 2.0 -
Social Network for Art Educators, hosted by Ning, 8000 members worldwide
sharing ideas in blogs, images, videos, uploaded teaching resources, and
chats. There are 111 Groups of varying sizes in Art Education 2.0, some
are more active than others. Groups include: AP Studio Art Teachers,
Artists Teaching Students with Disabilities, National Board Certified (art)
Teachers and candidates, Artist Trading Card swaps, One Day On Earth, Comics in
the classroom, Artists who Teach, Art Café @ Second Life, Artsonia Users and
Wanna be Users, etc. http://arted20.ning.com
Adbusters - a global network of culture
jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way
corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society. Lots
of resources for teaching critical visual literacy here. http://www.adbusters.org/
Art21 - PBS series on contemporary
artists in the US. Lots of high quality images, content about
contemporary artists, thematic lesson ideas. http://www.pbs.org/art21/
Artsedge - ARTSEDGE is the Kennedy
Center's free digital learning platform for arts education. Resources include
lesson plans, guides, audio stories, etc. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx
Artsednet - Education-related
activities, lessons, and resources offered by the Getty Museum for teachers,
students, professionals, and the general public. Lots of lessons and resources
on artists for K-12 art teachers. http://www.getty.edu/education/
Boing-Boing – Originally a zine and now a
blog, Boing Boing provides weekly snapshots or archives in the form of short
descriptions and images, videos, and links of/to art, culture, technology,
literary publications, music, science, gadgets, games, and just about
everything else found on the web. http://www.boingboing.net/
BuzzFeed - website that combines a
technology platform for detecting viral content with an editorial selection
process to provide a snapshot of "the viral web in realtime." Every
registered user of BuzzFeed has a homepage that contains links to their most
recent contributions to the site. The BuzzFeed homepage consists of a
time-sequential list of posts from users and staff members. The content of the
posts is usually either a video, image, or link. These posts are the site's
attempt to capture the essence of viral media currently resonating on the web. http://www.buzzfeed.com/
Deviant
Art – deviantART
is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote,
and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site's
social network environment receives over 100,000 daily uploads of original art
works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital
art, pixel art, films and anime. http://www.deviantart.com/
Digication - (NAEA) Hosted on the NAEA
website with e-portfolio with lesson plans, images, and blog posts by teachers.
http://naea.digication.com/home_guest.digi?sid=1601&cid=0&t...
Digital
Art Education -
Social network for students at the Digital Arts Technology Academy http://digitalartsed.ning.com
Edmodo - leading social learning
network for K12 education, offers online classroom communications tools for
teachers and students: including online library, blogs, webinars, and free
private microblogging in the Classroom with built-in security features that
give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms. www.edmodo.com/
Educators
PLN Ning - Online
social network for educators. Everything you find in a good Ning: Groups,
Blogs, lots of conversations and posts about trending topics from the
classroom, lots of “how to”, access to educators’ lessons and multimedia files
(whatever they shared), etc. See their Twitter Edchat Page - a feed from
#Edchat on Twitter. (Members of the Educators PLN may view Twitter Edchat Page
page. Interaction in #edchat requires a Twitter account. http://edupln.com/
#edchat – a Twitter hashtag group of
educators, mostly k-12, who share and discuss issues and experiences in
education. This group posts throughout the week, but also meets online in
twitter on Tuesdays at noon EST and 7 p.m. EST to discuss topics selected in
advance by the group. Need a twitter account to participate. Anyone can see the
Twitter feed online.
Edutopia – Online site developed and
maintained for teachers and learners by the George Lucas Foundation, dedicated
to the development of 21st-century skills. http://www.edutopia.org/
Merchants
of Cool - PBS
Frontline documentary about the creators and marketers of popular culture for
teenagers. Lots of teacher-created lessons here, and feedback from teens.
Critical visual/media literacy orientation. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
Pew
Internet & American Life Project - one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research
Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides
information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families,
communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and
political life. http://www.pewinternet.org/
Project
Gutenberg -
Online open access site where you can download over 33,000 free e-books to read
on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable
device. http://www.gutenberg.org/
Rotoball
2009 -
International Animation Project http://www.carrotrevolution.com/rotoball
National
Art Education Association - NAEA is the world's largest professional art association,
with 22,000 members worldwide. NAEA's website is rich with information,
teaching resources, policy documents, portfolios, and links to additional
resources and networked online communities. http://www.arteducators.org/
Second
Life (SL) - a
virtual online environment in which you create your avatar (online persona) and
visit SL sites and interact in various environments with other SL avatars. http://secondlife.com/ You need a
fairly good graphics card and a computer with lots of power. See system
requirements: http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/
There are 78 Education & Nonprofit groups in SL http://secondlife.com/destinations/learning,
and 88 Art Groups in SL. http://secondlife.com/destinations/arts
Second Life (Education Group) Wiki: See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Education
Taking
It Global -
Collaborative learning community that provides youth with access to global
opportunities, cross-cultural connections and meaningful participation in
social movements for a better world. See the educator’s section. http://www.tigweb.org/
Teacher
Tube - Online
teacher-made videos for teachers and students. Demonstrations, lesson
plan videos, etc. http://www.teachertube.com/login.php
See: Teacher Vision (part of Teacher Tube) - content is organized by subject,
grade and theme. Theme pages feature cross-curricular lessons, graphic
organizers, printable handouts, quizzes, books, etc. for every area of focus,
making it simple for teachers to create a study unit that is inclusive and
varied. http://www.teachertube.com/teachervision.php
TED
(Technology, Entertainment, Design) - a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth
Spreading”. Hosts conferences and videos of inspiring and informative
speeches online. Almost 900 TEDTalks are now available. http://www.ted.com/
Twitter4Teachers
wiki
- http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage
Sites and Blogs Created and
Maintained by Art Educators
Art
on The Move - Created
by Susan Bivona, Art Teacher at Mount Prospect School, Illinois. http://art-on-the-move.blogspot.com/
Art
Junction - A
collaborative virtual environment in blog format, offering activities,
projects, and resources for teachers and students. Created by Craig
Roland. http://www.artjunction.org/atcs.php
The
Art Teacher’s Guide to the Internet - ideas, tools, and resources for teaching art and
design in a post-digital age. Created by Craig Roland http://artjunction.org/blog/ Check out
links to other sites on Craig’s Blogroll (right side of his Blog)
The
Carrot Revolution
- David Gran's art education blog and resource page http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com
Dryden
Art - Elementary
school art website created and maintained by nationally recognized art teacher
Tricia Fuglestad, Arlington Hts., Illinois. See Tricia’s links: Fugleblog
Wiki, Artsonia, and Vimeo. http://drydenart.weebly.com/
Graphic
Design - Union
City, Pennsylvania Graphic Design and Middle School Art, created by Kris
Fontes. http://www.krisfontes.com/
The
Imaginarium -
Online gallery of Rebecca Rohloff Plummer’s artists’ sketchbooks and
journal writings. http://rprgallery.com/gallery/main.php
Incredible
Art Department -
Founded in 1994 by Ken Rohrer as a showcase for his elementary art students in
a school in Indianapolis, Indiana, and now one of the most resourced and
visited art education sites in the country. You just gotta see it. http://www.incredibleart.org/
The
Teaching Palette
- A Blog dedicated to the teachers who constantly work on perfecting the art of
education. Created and maintained by Hillary Andrlik and Theresa McGee http://theteachingpalette.com/2011/03/24/artsonia-artist-statements...
Zonkey
Street - Website
created and maintained by Ian Sands, Art teacher, Apex, N.C. http://www.zonkeystreet.com/ “The purpose
of Zonkey Street is to encourage artists everywhere to make Zonkey Art. “You
should get involved by creating Zonkey Art and posting it on The Art of
Zonkey Street Facebook Page.”
Other sites, blogs, ed-tech
how-to tutorials, and random things I liked
Mashable
– Their description doesn’t do this site justice. Mashable covers the top social media news on topics like Facebook,
YouTube, Gmail, Twitter, Amazon, Pinterest and More. http://mashable.com
11
Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year. By Richard Byrne - crate a blog or a
website, build a wiki, create videos, use an online service to save your
bookmarks (social bookmarking), make a podcast, etc. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/08/11-techy-things-for-teache...
See detailed but east to understand explanations with great diagrams - http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/how_to_do_11_techy_things/1
The
Super Book of Web Tools for Educators By Richard Byrne - http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/super_book_of_web_tools_for_educ...
30+
alternatives to YouTube. By Richard Byrne - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/30-alternatives-to-youtube...
6
easy ways for students to publish videos online. By Richard Byrne - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/11/six-easy-ways-for-students...
