Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Tux Paint 0.9.21 beta 3 for Windows XP/2000/Vista/7

[henry t. <tor...@ya...>]

Its a challenge I'll say that.

I DO figure more of my students will be more likely to have a computer handy for most of their lives than traditional art supplies... I figure the serious ones will find traditional media in middle school too.

Tux tools allow younger students to work more with composition even though their developmental level won't let them manipulate media with much skill... They are not without
practice using other mediums in their classrooms where the teachers are for the most part tech phobic.

I look at it mostly as a pilot program, an experiment to see what can be done and what happens.

I get some good work back from time to time..

I also had them opening their Tux work with Irfanview last quarter and then using Photoshop filters to do all kinds of fun stuff... very neat when 1st and 2nd graders can think about working on files using multiple platform by themselves. They also had fun making gradients using MS Paint and saved them to Tux for starters.

-Guy


--- On Sat, 6/20/09, Caroline Ford <car...@go...> wrote:
>> Remember some of us are Art Teachers and it is hard to teach a
>> concept if the software doesn't support it very well. All I have is
>> a computer lab now... no traditional media studio left.

:(

I dunno how you can teach art without paint, paper etc.



Caroline