Myoats.com
This Web 2.0 tool is just as much fun as Sumo Paint but a lot less confusing. In other words, Myoats is a very similar application to Sumo Paint, but in a much simpler form. In took me far less time to explore Myoats .
This is a site for digital painting and design. This engine seems to have been created with symmetry in mind. One can create with up to 16 points of symmetry down to 2 points where the design is a perfect mirror image. Still another option is to create without symmetry, but I was not able to observe very many of these.
The tools tabs are simple and once you view the three tutorials offered on this site you pretty much have all you need. Sumo Paint could take a month or more to learn all features and tools, yet still you may not be able to duplicate your design.
This Web 2.0 tool makes recreation easier because there is far less guessing as to how something was done. Although my middle school students would enjoy this I think that even the lower grade levels could benefit from this fun little tool.
Important features for MyOasts include:
1. It’s totally free (I’m only looking at the free applications at this time)
2. It has a save-on-site feature, which is very helpful when students may be working in different computers in a lab over the course of a week or a quarter. Also, once saved the date is stamped with the piece. Great feature for looking back to see how one has improved through practice.
3. Myoats has several options for forums, discussion boards, and questions these include: announcements, introductions, suggestions, Help me!, and the Lounge.
4. One of my favorite features is that you can save your creation to a public gallery and then members can vote for your masterpieces and the vote goes up in real time. You can also comment to a piece and ask the artist questions.
As far as I can tell this is a safe site for all ages. Although I saw nothing on the site that was inappropriate, I did send a comment to the administrators to ask who monitors this site’s material. I’ll post the reply when it is returned.
http://www.myoats.com/
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ReplyDeleteHow cool Leah, this would have been a good find for Dr. Deason's class and our Website project. I have found my 5th graders struggling with using Sumo Paint, because there is so much offered that is not obvious unless you stumble upon it. I will be checking out this tool and have my students give me feedback as to which site is easier for them. Thanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed using this and the fact that it has videos to make the learning curve much quicker. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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