Arts+2.0

**Arts Connected - **http://www.artsconnected.org/ Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector.  **The Artist's Toolkit** - http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html Explore the tools that artists use - like line, color, and balance, to build works of art.  **Photoshop.com** - http://www.photoshop.com A free version of Photoshop. Although certainly more limited than the full, for-pay version, it can still be used to do some minimal editing of digital images.  **Picnik ** - [|__www.picnik.com/] A free, online photo editing tool. **UJam **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.ujam.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A free app that allows you to create your own music. Users can also “rejam” existing template tracks. Files can then be saved and shared. Will require that you create an account within the service. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagzedo **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__tagxedo.com__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will require the installation of Microsoft SilverLight in order to run on your computer. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TagGalaxy **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__taggalaxy.de__] Using tags as sort criteria, this visually stimulating tool searches the entire Flickr library for images that can be downloaded and used in any number of ways. Users are also able to connect to the original in the Flickr library to learn more of the image from the artist who originally uploaded the image. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aviary Myna **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.aviary.com/tools/audio-editor__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A free site that will give teachers and students the ability to create audio recordings and podcasts. You can also create private, student accounts and register a class for an organized project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">** Top 10 Audio Applications - ** [|pdf_top-10-free-oss-education-audio.pdf]


 * Top 10 Desktop Applications - ** [|pdf_top-10-free-oss-education-desktop.pdf]


 * Top 10 Graphics/Design Applications - ** [|pdf_top-10-free-oss-education-graphic-design-video.pdf__]