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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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@ ArtsMatter21, I found a post about a web site I had come across awhile back the first time. Like ArtMatters21, I was not overly impressed with this site at the time. What had led me there, I had to really scour the site to find the desired material. Since then I, like ArtsMatter21, have found that the site has re-organized to make more user friendly. Finding an old site that has re organized to make itself marketable among the many websites available on the web.
This site has lesson plans, art samples, link resources, suggested reading lists and more. A one-stop shopping place for elementary to middle school level student lessons in the arts. There are high school level lessons that I have reviewed and found them to not contain the level I am looking for. So I take bits and pieces that I can use and create new lessons with the materials I need for my curriclulumn.

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Disney sure knows how to captivate kids, young or old. This application is no exeption, as it gives you many tools in one place to be creative. Create your own greeting card...I think I may develop my Christmas card here, you can develop your own movies and many other applications in one tool location. I will have to go back and explore more later. Great post!

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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.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arg9N-Ay548

Having trouble uploading audio with my screenshot. I'm having to trouble shoot the problem. I have an inquiry into FSO. Check back later for full post.

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Jesus and Cristina both had a Flickr lesson posted that I really enjoyed reading as I also plan to start using Flickr in my lessons. As I commented on Cristina's blog, I have several students that already have Flickr accounts and I had been in the process of viewing their posts when we were instructed to set up a Flickr account of our own.
Using a tool like Flickr will allow my students to store a great deal more work (images) in their new Flickr account than they would on their 'student folder' provided by our school district. Having others give a thumbs up on a tool is reassuring when there are so many tools available. Using iGoogle as our PLE helps, as with district filters many sites are blocked, entering through iGoggle gets around many of the blocks. These tools will help our teaching, our students advance forward when the establishment is reluctant to let go of the reins.

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My third Web 2.0 tool I chose, I will use in the classroom, but also use personally. MixTape.me is a site that you can put together a variety of music into a 'tape'. Allowing several people with varying tastes in music to share what is being played. The radio tends to be on a loop and radio stations have to air ads that help to keep them on the airwaves. MixTape.me is free and commercial free. MixTape.me would allow my students and I to have music in the class room that we all have selected and no one is left out in the type of music played. When iPods and electronic devices are banded, this will allow us to have music that we have control of what is playing and change it at anytime.