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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technoartist

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the Microsoft paint program to examine artwork styles and recognize certain features. In this graphic art lesson, students incorporate computer technology with visual arts while acquiring basic computer knowledge....
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Website
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Incredible Ascii Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discusses ASCII art, which is art made using text. Provides links to lessons on ASCII art and to a variety of ASCII resources.
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Interactive
Other

Benetton: Benettonplay!

For Students 9th - 10th
Suite of games and animation tools where players can design, draw, and play a variety of multimedia games. Flipbook is great for creating frame-by-frame animations that tell stories or simply explode with color. Other games, Odd One Out,...
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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Listing of Digital Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's list of digital artists from the formation of the media to the present day. There are links to the digital artists' bio and works.
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Unit Plan
ACT360 Media

Act Den: Graphics Den

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have Paint Shop Pro on your computer you can follow these tutorials offered by Graphics Den to learn new ways of making graphic art. After your work is completed you can submit it to the online gallery.
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Website
Other

Paul Friedlander Kinetic Light Sculptor, Computer Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site showcases the artwork of "Light sculptor," and computer artist, Paul Friedlander. Beautiful photographs and descriptions are included.
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Website
Other

Digital Art Museum on Line

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the amazing ways computers can be a unique and fun art-making tool. This on-line museum features four artists, each with visually stimulating works!
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Website
Other

National Gallery, London: Take One Picture Ict

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use these project examples to inspire ways that you can incorporate technology into art and vice versa.
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Website
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Making Art Visible With Computers Harold Cohen and Aaron

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative site by Val Wiebe on Harold Cohen and his work with a computer (AARON) that generates art on its own following program written by Cohen.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Computer Art Using Ms Paint

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site by Diana Hunter, an educator in Indiana. This site uses common software in PCs to introduce the use of computers in making art. There are lessons on design, Tessellations, Butterflies, Piet Mondrian, Landscapes with Spraypaint,...
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Activity
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Color Away

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Put your crayons away and create postal themed works of art with this online coloring book from the National Postal Service.
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App
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Wallovers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A wallpaper-designing program that turns your freehand drawing into repetitive patterns. A good introduction to repetition as a design principle and to grid systems.
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App
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Paint Box

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This isn't your typical paint program. Cool buttons let players vary brush stroke size, color, and transparency and then let them animate, or warp, their drawings.