SmartBoards and Other IWBs

enter the search string, click Google search, and a "screen cast" of the search string with moving arrow appers, along with a page of search results. Would be a good way to illustrate to kids what adding all those words in the string really means.

simple machines in motion. Build machines out of simple parts to solve problems

This movie provides an overview of how the art teacher, Tricia Fuglestad incorporates technology into her program at Dryden Elementary School, in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The movie was made by Craig Roland, with support from a College of Fine Arts Scholarship Enhancement Grant at the University of Florida. October, 2008

Spend a day with Kris Fontes, the Art and Graphic Design Teacher at Union City Middle and High School, in Union City, Pennsylvania. Visit Kris' website at krisfontes.com

Have students build and rotate mobiles

enter a word with 10 characters or less and this site will genereate a "poem" from the letters.

for money lessons

Fellow Educators, I am the deputy director of eduction at the Taubman Museum of Art located in Roanoke, VA (see http://taubmanmuseum.org). I have designed, and we have recently had created, a Web-based Art Interactive Tool (WAIT) that allows users to interact with works in our permanent collection in a unique manner. Using a scaffolding interpretive model that I also designed (REED-LO), users, through WAIT, formulate an interpretation of a work of art in our collection. WAIT provides the user with guiding questions and allows users to record their thoughts online - in the end, they publish their overall interpretation of the work of art online. Teachers can create, for free, "classrooms" through WAIT that includes all of their students. They can then assign a specific work of art to their students. The students then access the work using a unique username and password. After they publish their interpretations, the teacher can approve each interpretation which then allows the students to access what their peers wrote about the work of art as well as the "expert" essay related to the work. In essence WAIT allows users to formulate a personal meaning of a work of art before reading what others have written about the work. WAIT can be found both through the Taubman Museum of Art's website, under the "Learn" section, or by going to www.waitarttool.com - it is free to use. I was hoping some of you would check out WAIT and discuss your thoughts about the tool through this forum. Be aware, however, there are some minor bugs that we are working through - but for the most part it is working fine.

"SHOW® is an online informational tool launched in May 2008 by Mapping Worlds. The website offers users a new way to look at the world by resizing countries on the map according to a series of global issues. SHOW® covers a wide scope of subjects based on datasets provided by the most authoritative sources in their fields. New subjects are periodically added, please feel free to send us your suggestions. SHOW® allows people to easily download datasets, maps and animations. These can be shared across the Internet through websites, blogs and email. SHOW® is an independent project, liaising users with data publishers, online press & media, and implicated world organisations across the globe."

In this new issue of visual communication tools and services found, tested and picked for you by Robin Good and me, Nico Canali De Rossi, here is what we have selected for you this week: there are some cool new tools and services to create presentations online, arrange your pictures in slideshows, record any region of your screen, and also to download YouTube videos and add captions to them.

An extraordinary moment happened in the making of this commercial for SMART. Students were collaborating, storyboarding, visualizing, and coordinating their strategies for creating this video project on the art room's interactive whiteboard. These 4th grade students are hoping to win a SMART board for their classroom since they understand how transformational this interactive tool can be for learning. Luckily for them, their class is looping to 5th grade with the same teacher, so they would be directly benefiting if their video is chosen. See our behind the scenes video at: animoto.com/play/9i4RJibVJrLt2O0Qs1ZKDw

interactive activities from Sesame Street Workshop about health and wellness, respect and understanding, literacy an numeracy, emotional well being.

drag and drop words onto a picture to create a piclit.