Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute
 http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/?hl=en#!home:page=1

Google says it better than I would  "We have created this site to provide a visually rich and interactive online experience for telling cultural stories in new ways."

Classroom idea.  Great resource for studying an era or event.

Found this on  Richard Byrne 's website

Google Art Project

Google Art Project http://www.googleartproject.com/



Classroom idea: C'mon!

Going with Geography

Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers is a great blog to read. I get so many ideas and inspirations from his posts. He wrote about Geo Coded Art recently. I liked this tool for showing landscape paintings and the actual inspiration for them via Google maps
Classroom ideas:
1)A class studying a country could use this gathering of art and geography to personalize the study.

2) Create your own class database of Geo-coded studies. Chemistry classes doing element study could Geo-code the elements.

Imagination Cubed

Imagination Cubed http://www.imagination3.com/


is an interesting site where one can draw,share and and via email. It creates sort of a video of your drawing process. Look at this link to get an idea

Classroom idea - Math seems like it might actually work as a web 2.0 tool here, as you draw equations, etc..

Pixton

Pixton http://www.pixton.com


This takes a little effort, but allows you to create your own comic strips.

Classroom ideas:

• Use comic strip to give directions . Comics definitely make you pare down the words and stick to the essentials!
• Have students create comics representing book character
• Have students create political cartoons from current events.