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Mutapic.com is a web 2.0 tool for art students or graphic design students. This tools takes two images and will morph them together. The application then has various tools that allow for manipulation of the morphed design, giving numerious outcomes for the possible design.













How one could use this in the classroom would be as a tool for a lesson on Logo Design. Students could use the images, shapes, icons or symbols available on the application or they could import new images to work with for their design. This lesson could be organized as small group or individually developed projects.
The small group approach would promote collaborative learning concepts and citizenship in the classroom. This lesson would extend beyond just that of design development, but socialization skills and teamwork. Concepts traditionally thought to be fostered in athletics. This lesson would also use technology applications that would foster skills the 21st century learner needs to be productive in our future society.

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A post that Van responded to gives me yet another great tool for my classroom. Kuler is a tool that one can use for Art classes, to help students choose color combinations for their project. How they want their work to be interpreted, by suggesting mood or feeling through color. This application will help grab my Art 1 students with the use of color. It will help them understand the differences in color and it's three properties. How we see color and how we use color, can be explored through this tool. You can select color schemes through a variety of options. You can explore color through tempeture, seasons, mood and even some words and be inputted and creates a color chart of reference colors for you.
Always on the look out for tools that will grab my intro students, they may then sign up for up level classes, which keeps me employed.

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This screenshot of post to peer blog, belonging to Lori. Lori found a fantastic application for design/artwork development. I can't wait to try this with my art students.
It is like MUSHA or other 'smushing' type tools. The generator takes two images, stock or can be uploaded, and the tool creates multiple variations of the two images selected. You can select to rotate the images, scale the images, as well as tile the images. That is just a taste of what you can do with this tool. This application can help students with design problems and show them the number of outcomes that one could come up with using just two images. With those two images, and making some alterations, how the outcome can change and change and change.