REsponse to Nick LaFountain

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Imagination is one of the tools we are all born with. Some excel with their gift and create beautiful works of art, while others (myself included) only dream of the ability to create something as easy as a stick figure. Thanks to my pick of the day, all you need is a little imagination and your creativity can flourish. Kerpoof.com is owned and operated by the Walt Disney company and according to their website "is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative" (Disney, 2009). Some of the things you can do in Kerpoof include, making an animated movie, drawing a picture, creating a card or a story, and even designing t-shirts and mugs. Kerpoof has an educator resource side called Kerpoof Scholastic where teachers can create accounts and setup an online classroom. The best part about Kerpoof is that you do not need the artistic skills of DaVinci to create a Mona Lisa. All you need is your imagination and Kerpoof's technology to turn your ideas into a work of art.

Below are a couple of videos to help introduce you to Kerpoof. The first is from CEO and creator of Kerpoof, Krista Marks, showing some of the things that can be achieved within the website. The next is a tutorial on how to create an animated movie in a flash and the final video is an actual user submitted drawing. If you would like to view more tutorials and even get some lesson plan ideas, head over to Kerpoof's tutorial site and learn more.

Great new site for my collection, NIck. Thanks! And great to see that you are still interested in color Theory. There is so much to it. And we all take it for granted, but it is a fascinating topic for study. What do your students do with the Kerpoof site? I am about to check it out further, and imagine many things my little ones will enjoy about it. Just the name Disney causes them to perk up. Do you think he is as great a genius as Davinci, artistically? From a business standpoint I am sure he exceeds most, and his early art was phenomenal, but so much of the more recent stuff, closer to his death, was short of the original standards, I think.