Make Your Students Part of History

An Art and Social Studies teacher can work together to have students photoshop themselves into photographs from history they are currently studying. Students will get excited putting themselves in the middle of history, they can present the doctored photos, explaining to their classmates what is occurring at that time and place.

"I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop."

Art Class 2.0

Should designing a computer font be a skill we teach students in art class?
"Down with Helvetica:Design Your Own Font"
The article talks about the need to create new fonts to personalize in the digital age. The article includes websites with software ranging from free to $1,000 in price to create your own fonts.

Google Earth/Sky/SketchUp

Studying Architecture in Art class, bring up famous buildings in Google Earth. Why not have your students create their campus with Google SketchUp and place it on Google Earth.
Don't keep your feet on the ground, use Google Sky to study the stars in Science or Astronomy class.

Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is an affordable CAD style program. This program will let students build 3D homes, parks, or stadiums Along the way they will learn area, perimeter, and volume.

http://sketchup.google.com/index.html