At Carbonmade.com, you can set up a digital portfolio of your artwork. You can choose a specific type of art you like to create, keep an up to date profile of yourself including your location, favorite medium, about me, and much more. You can post pictures of work you’ve created, create captions for them, or even upload videos. You can also see the favorite portfolio’s that the website has chosen as a favorite for that day and look at other people’s artwork. This would create a great atmosphere for students to go in to look at what other people are creating to boost their own creativity. You can also email the artist asking them questions, read other people’s artist statements, or collaborate with other artists online. You may even have students log in and look and critique artwork to get students used to critiquing modern artwork in a productive way. One of my challenges in my classroom is students feel like they cannot talk about artwork because they do not know enough about it. This is a more secretive way to start where students wouldn’t feel inhibited.
You can choose to log in for free and upload up to 35 images. If you are willing to pay for more space, you can pay $12 a month and upload up to 500 images and 10 videos. It offers a URL that you can give out to people where they can come to see your work making it easy and accessible to showcase your work. Also, it offers a space for artists alike to come gather and see each other’s work online. It’s a GREAT tool!
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I agree that the tool has great promise and their examples from some of their users are very artistic, but I have to say that for $12 a month and some Dreamweaver/Photoshop knowledge, you could possibly make your own website with blogs and some video space and a personal domain (even though it's hard to find a good name that isn't taken already). I know that wouldn't give you the connectivity and the web 2.0 flexibility and such, but unless you are OK with the 35 images per album, it will be a little overpriced. But for what I see about them, they hold great promise. This service looks a little similar to figdig.com also, but without the hiring.
ReplyDeleteHello Meghan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information on carbonmade.com. Sounds great for art classrooms! I've been researching Artsonia and Flickr to do the same, but this seems great too. Its a perfect way to motivate our art student's to view other student's work online. Sometimes it helps to look through art in order to inspire to create. David does bring up a good point that paying for anything seems too expensive when it comes to the internet. Feel free to check out Flickr further it might be similar and also coordinates along with iPhoto. Also, I know you've viewed my video on Artsonia, but as a fellow art teacher I really think you would enjoy what this free website has to offer! so check out www.artsonia.com for the largest children's museum online.
Hope everything is going well for you this month!
Your friend,
Tyson