newmedia_pedagogy

Penn State's Educational Gaming Commons list of virtual world links.

2009 winners of digital games

For those of you interested in Child Art Exchanges, InSEA has added a category on their website with that title (left hand column). It contains several projects in which invitations are sent world wide for child art exchanges. InSEA also has a FaceBook category - for anyone who wants to dialogue with other art educators from around the world! Sign up if you are interested.

Digistories, a wiki about creating and sharing digital stories

Scroll down for a great resource list for finding images licensed as creative commons for use in your own work

This past week, I had the opportunity to take all five of my classes to the digital lab in our school. The students experimented with Voki, creating speaking avatars. They explored www.thisissand.com and www.bomomo.com. They were enthralled. Perhaps in the future, we will have more time for experimentation with these new media arts. James Rickard Thisissand.com changes pixels into virtual sand for sand painting on the screen.

changes pixels into digital sand for sand drawing on the screen

Online real-time image and video collaboration with Cizimo--free up to 10MB.

Students can draw in real-time with others in one of the PaintChats boards or work with a specific artist in one of the collaboration rooms. Upon joining, you will also have the ability to enter the chatroom, usually teeming with life 24 hours a day. A remix aesthetic, the creation of images based on fan animes allows people to creatively imagine a story or situation from the story. The oekaki boards are divided by quality of art and theme (e.g., realism) and thus provides a site for visual culture critique.

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