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Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

February 5, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity | | No Comments Yet

Go ask Alice.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity, programming | , | No Comments Yet

Scratch – imagine, program, share

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity | , | No Comments Yet

Ideas worth sharing.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. The site has a hundreds of videos available for free that are enlightening as well as inspirational.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity, videos | , , | No Comments Yet