Resources
Curriculum and Certification
- Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production: Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.
- Adobe certification programs: Announcing a new certification to validate entry-level digital communication skills — creating, managing, integrating, and communicating information using Adobe's dynamic multimedia, video, graphic, web, or design software.
Online
- http://www.adobe.com/education/ – This site is Adobe’s education support page, with links to class activities, online tutorials, and other handy things. Some of the free tutorials require free registration to use.
- http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/ - This site has great lessons, training and much more.
- http://studio.adobe.com/ – This site is for more serious users of Adobe products. Free registration is necessary to use it, but loads of resources.
- http://www.photoshopuser.com/ – A web site just for Photoshop users. Some free materials, some for-fee. Well worth the money!
- Adobe Photoshop Express: Photoshop Express is your online photo sharing and editing resource. Upload, tweak, rotate, edit, share and store your photos.
Tutorials: Kelby Training Videos (These are great!) - rsizer: This site will do some basic image editing.
- Wordle: This is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
- Sliderocket: SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
- BuzzWord: Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there's no installation required.
- Flickr: Online photo and video sharing and editing tool.
- Picasa: Free software from google that lets you organize, edit and share your photos.
- Google Docs: Create, upload/download or share your Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.
- Animoto: Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
Free Stock Photos
Stock.XCHNG: http://www.sxc.hu/ Read licensing
MorgueFile: http://www.morguefile.com/
Unprofound: http://www.unprofound.com/
FreeFoto: http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
Pics4Learning: http://www.pics4learning.com/
Public Domain Photo Database Photo: http://www.pdphoto.org/
Public Domain Photos: http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
Flickr Free Use Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeuse
Government Sites
NOAA: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
NASA: http://nix.nasa.gov/
Clip Art Web Sites
Classroom Clipart: http://www.classroomclipart.com/
Clipart ETC: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/
Awesome clipart for Educators: http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
Free Fonts
1001 Free Fonts: http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Font Freak: http://www.fontfreak.com/fonts-a.htm
Type Now Themed Fonts: http://www.typenow.net/
DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/
Copyright
- The Four Biggest Mistakes in Thinking You Can Make: This spells out some basic mistakes people make when thinking about copyright. Read this one!
- Copyright in an Electronic Environment: Make sure to read the fourth bullet about Fair Use online.
Design
- Kuler: This is a great site for developing color schemes.
- ColorBlender: your free online tool for color matching and palette design.
Other
- Filezilla: This is a free FTP application I use at home and in my classroom.
- Web Developer Toolbar: This is a great add-on for Firefox.
- Validating: This site will check your coding for errors.
- Editpad Lite: This is a great text editor.
Books
- Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book
- Manny - Get to know your manual! Make friends. Take him out to lunch.
- The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams
- How to Cheat in Photoshop by
- Digital Photo Projects in Easy Steps
Tutorials
- http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home - Subscription-based online software training accomplished through brief "atoms" of learning
- http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp - Subscription-based online software training. Great selection. My students favorite.
- http://www.totaltraining.com/ - DVD and subscription-based online software training. I have a bunch of their DVD's.
- iTunes Photoshop Killer Tips - These are 2-5 minute free tutorials that are a great way to start you class or keep you constantly learning. Just download and install iTunes (free) and then go to the music store and search for the tutorials.