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Art Education
A research guide to support exploration of topics in Art Education.
PowerPoint Tip
For help with sizing images appropriately for your PowerPoint presentations, check out this short YouTube tutorial video produced by the Visual Resources Center in the School of Architecture at the University to Texas-Austin. Now you know ....
Beyond PowerPoint!
Some of these tools we've tried and recommend (as noted). All others are tools we've heard about but don't have direct experience with them. Many of these tools are free for students and educators.
- Animoto"Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images, video clips and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television & film."
- Offline Image Viewer (recommended)"Allows users to download much larger images from ARTstor, at up to 3200 pixels on the long side. Users may combine ARTstor images with their own content to create digital slide show presentations that feature side-by-side comparisons, zooming and panning, and the ability to customize text on the slides. Enables users to give reliable classroom presentations using both high-resolution ARTstor images and local content without being connected to the Internet."
- CapzelsA visual storytelling tool. "Create interactive, rich-media timelines online using videos, photos, text, music, audio and most documents."
- Prezi (Recommended)"Bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details." Text, images, video, audio, and animation.
- VoiceThread"Collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice, text, audio file, or video. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies."
- VuVox (Recommended)"Create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Facebook, or your personal collection."
- Zoho ShowPowerPoint + web conferencing software = Zoho Show.
Image Storage & Search Tools
Use these sites to find free--but not necessarily copyright free--images online.
- CreativeCommons SearchSearch multiple sources for images and media, including Google, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons & more.
- FlickrThis online image storage and presentation tool allows users to limit their advanced searches to images shared under Creative Commons licenses.
- Google Art Project"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."
- TinEyeFind out where images are posted and how they're being used.
- Wikimedia"A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone."
Cool Graphic Communication Tools!
- Graphic Guides"A series of graphic guides that covers many key thinkers and topics in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas. Each book is written by an expert in the field, and illustrated by a leading graphic artist." IN MARRIOTT LIBRARY CATALOG, SEARCH: "introducing" and "icon books"
- Information is Beautiful"Visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words." Consult the book, VISUAL MISCELLANEUM, Fine Arts Library Colleciton AG243 .M33 2009
- PhotoSynth"Photosynth takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in."
- Wordle"A tool for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes."
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