Kerpoof

"Kerpoof is a website where your children can engage in creative play. The site is designed for students ages 3-13 but could be used by older students and adults. Kerpoof currently has eight dynamic activities that allow children of all ages to express themselves:

* Make a Picture
* Spell a Picture
* Make a Movie
* Make a Drawing
* Make a Card
* Make a Story
* Make a Storybook
* Doodle Pad

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative."
The site has a wealth of resources and even lesson plans. The featured lesson plan today was Tall Tales. Check it out here!

GIMP for Photo Editing and Digital Art

Why pay beaucoup bucks for other photo editing software when you can download and use the GIMP for free? The GIMP is another open-source tool with a plethora of easy-to-follow tutorials one can find online--on youtube, for instance. Crop, scale, alter, enhance, remove red eye and blemishes, copy and paste, add text and borders to images, and so much more! Students and teachers can use the digital art tools to create posters about topics being studied. Someone from the open-source community used such tools to create the image above. The art tools work great and are so much fun on the Smart Board--use finger painting for writing math problems and facts, drawing geometric shapes, site words, etc! Click on the image above to download GIMP 2.6 for FREE! Happy GIMPing!