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Adobe provides free lesson plans for using Photoshop with kids- lessons, assessment tips and finished examples are provided for each lesson.

Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources will get you started.

This is the first in a two-part series that will provide some tips and resources for starting and maintaining a parent-led art program at the elementary school level. (This is a good thing???)

"Ten years ago, Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton wrote a book on how to manage for maximum creativity called Weird Ideas That Work. After studying some of the most innovative people and companies, Sutton concluded that what is right for routine work is consistently wrong for creative work. The best way to manage for creativity, he discovered, is to simply take every tried-and-true management trope and do the opposite. .... "

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.

No matter how you use blogs in your classroom, these tools will help you get started, enhance your experience, or bring the students into the fun.

Create your own interactive white board using a Wii Remote. Aproximate cost: $50.

This actually works! I don't have a commercial interactive whiteboard, but I am able to get an infrared light pen and a Wii remote set up to use as a cheap substitute. I bought my infrared pen from this source: http://www.wiiteachers.com/ I prop my Wii remote up with a piece of cardboard. Tip: if you're not a tech wiz yourself, borrow a few minutes from your tech aide to help you figure out the software download and Wii calibration.