The+Art+Zone

=The Art Zone = =Interactive art you can make online through 18 different tools from the National Gallery of Art=

Click here to [|discuss art]in an open forum!

=__Click the links below for sample pages__=

**Pixel Face**
**Photo Op** **[|Jungle]** **[|Tips and Samples]**

**SWOT**

**Strengths**
 * **Gives students the opportunity to explore and create different art mediums**
 * **Great editing palletts**
 * **Endless variation**
 * **You can Print what you create or take a screenshot and send to a friend**
 * **Good explanations of the medium and how to attain the characteristics of the medium.**
 * **Gives students tips and samples for using each medium**
 * Weaknesses **
 * **Younger students may be intimidated by the extensive choices to maniplate the mediums **
 * **Younger studnets may have a hard time learning how to use the pallettes **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">You cannot save the pieces that you create unless you take a screen shot of the pictures. **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Opportunities **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Exposes students a variety of art mediums **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Allows students to create their own versions of each medium **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Can be used to demonstrate examples of artistic design concepts **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Threats **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Threats are minimal because this is a National Gallery of Art website **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ideas for the classroom **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Great tool for the art classroom when there is no money for supplies **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Great Ideas for kids to be creative **
 * **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Can be used in conjunction with a presentation by students **