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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
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Education Development Center

Digital Media Arts: Introduction to Visual Arts and Digital Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital media curriculum for teaching high school students how to communicate through media. Students learn the fundamentals of art and design and the technical skills to prepare them for careers in the arts, media, and entertainment...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
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Interactive
Google

Google: Experiments With Google: Creatability

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring how creative tools can be made more accessible for everyone. This is an excellent set of digital resources for students to try analyzing how easy they are to use and how effective they would be for those with disabilities.
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Article
Other

Ditch That Textbook: 10 Ideas for Digital End of Semester Final Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Final projects can help students summarize and review content from the entire semester. This article describes the value of final projects and ten ideas for integrating digital content, for example, designing a webpage or website,...
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Other

Creating Multimodal Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This website is an evolving compilation of resources designed to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions (both print and...
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Other

Nat. Library of Nz: Digital Content Finding, Evaluating, Using and Creating It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is directed at teachers and teacher-librarians. It provides helpful information and links to resources for developing digital literacy skills in a school. Many of the suggestions can be passed on to students to help them find,...
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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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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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Multimedia Storytelling (A Lesson Plan Family Memories)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.
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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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Activity
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Seasaws

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using photographs of natural and man-made objects, students assemble the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition.
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Article
Other

Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Off Book Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the art, the people, and the culture of the digital revolution with Off Book. This revolutionary program from PBS Digital Studios combines top-tier journalism with the underground, and often ignored, subject matter of today's...
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Other

Bomomo: Art Tool

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Design an artistic masterpiece with this new take on PC's Paintbrush.
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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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Other

Say Cheese: Information on Digital Imaging

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site about digital imaging. There are nice tips on equipment, links to photographer's bios and simple instructions to every step along the way of digital imagery.