http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:35 PDT Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:35 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=748663 TypeDrawing for the iPad is an art-type app designed for creating typography art and/or a unique watermark over your photos. It is currently priced at $2.99 (3/31/13) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721678 'This stunningly beautiful app is like having a virtual art set right inside your iPad. Paint and draw via the photo realistic interface with tools that look and feel like the real thing.Art Set gives an alternative to complex and mechanical like paint apps for all to enjoy - artist or not! But simplicity comes without sacrificing quality, from pens to pencils, paints to pastels, each has been carefully crafted to produce natural results in real time.The 3D textured oil paint gives amazing thick gloopy strokes or thin delicate detail via virtual pressure sensitivity. Sparkle and glow with special metallic and fluorescent colours. Build up subtle tones and textures with oil pastels, wax crayons, coloured pencils and marker pens. Add fine detail via multitouch pinch and zoom. Choose from different paper colours and textures, or import your own photos. The blending tools give you many ways to mix and smudge color around on the canvas with varing effects. Create anything from smooth gentle gradients to roughly textured scratches and splatters. - thick 3D textured oil paint- five blending tools- metallic colours sparkle and shine- fluorescent colours that glow and dazzle- zoom and pan for fine detail- import your own photos and images- export to your photo album- multiple paper textures and colours- recent tool list keeps used colours and tools to hand- virtual pressure sensitivity- undo and redo- real time high performanceArt Set is a wonderfully creative addition to any iPad!'This app costs $0.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721644 'Autodesk SketchBook® Express for iPad is a fun and intuitive drawing application. Get a taste of the SketchBook Pro experience with SketchBook Express. Use professional-grade tools and brushes to create doodles, quick sketches or artwork on-the-go. Features:✓ Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation✓ Canvas size: • 1024 x 768 (1st & 2nd Gen iPad)• Retina Display for 3rd Gen iPad (2048 x 1536 Canvas Size)✓Multi-Touch Interface:• Two finger pan & zoom navigation with 2500% zoom• Three finger tap for controls• Three finger swipe gestures for quick access✓High Quality Brushes and Tools:• Professional-grade paint engine delivers smooth and precise brush strokes•15 preset brushes, including pencils, pens, markers and Fill Tool•SketchBook Store to purchase brush packs• Draw styles for creating straight lines, rectangles, and circles• Dynamic symmetric drawing✓Layers:• 3 Layers allowing easy build up of a drawing• Import layers from Photo Library• Duplicate, Merge and Reorder Layers• Move, scale, and rotate layers interactively using Multi-Touch• Toggle visibility and adjust Layer Opacity✓Text:• Create text with a variety of fonts, colors, sizes and placement.✓Colors:• Color Wheel with HSB and RBG color space• Eye-dropper color selection✓Gallery:• Store and view work in progress• Export to Photo Library• Browse images in full-screen mode✓ iCloud Support∙ Option to set iCloud as default location to save canvases∙ Controls in Gallery to upload or download from iCloud✓Stay Connected:• Built-in SketchBook News panel for live info about Sketching events and announcements'This is a free app. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=721677 'Get creative with paint without the mess and expense! Explore a packed toolbox of intuitive, natural painting tools like oils and watercolors that let you experiment with color blends and textures on a realistic canvas. ArtRage places the tools of a real art studio at your fingertips.ArtRage doesn't just place color on your canvas. It keeps track of how much paint there is and how wet it is, so you can blend color under the brush as you paint, or lay down thick lines of pigment for smearing with the Palette Knife just like the real thing. Watercolors react to the wetness of the brush and paper, to create hard edged strokes or blend to soft gradients. Canvas grain affects the paint, and dry pigments break up on the surface to create textures. It's not just a special effect, it's a live simulation of the properties of real paint.Main Features:Real world painting tools include Oils, Watercolor, Paint Rollers, Pencils, Crayons and more. Each tool has a range of settings that reflect familiar properties such as how much thinner is applied to the paint, or how soft a pencil tip is. Tools apply texture as well as color, and blend under the brush.Add Layers to your painting and work on individual elements without damaging others. ArtRage supports a wide range of Layer Blend Modes, and layer contents can be scaled moved and rotated independently.Import photos, converting them to oil for smearing or as Reference Images pinned to the canvas as a visual guide. You can load photos as Tracing Images which are overlaid on the canvas, and have ArtRage select colors from them automatically as you paint.The interface has been designed specifically for the iPad, compacted to maximize your creative space without hiding away critical functions such as tool and color selection. As you paint, it gets out of the way so that you don’t have to stop and manually adjust panels. With support for Multi-Touch gestures, important shortcuts are available without needing any interface.Record your paintings! The ArtRage Script system lets you record strokes while you paint for playback in desktop versions of the product at higher resolution.Tools:- Oil Brush, Watercolor, Airbrush, Palette Knife, Paint Roller, Paint Tube, Inking Pen, Pencil, Marker Pen, Chalk, Crayon, Eraser, Flood Fill.Layers:- Unlimited layers, Photoshop standard blend modes, visibility and opacity controls. Scale, rotate, and position layer contents independently.Recording:- Record your paintings then play them back in a desktop version of ArtRage Studio or Studio Pro at higher resolution. Note: Studio does not support some palette knife features present in the iPad version.'This app costs $4.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718867 'Figure is the fun music-making app for instant inspiration. Create an addictive beat before the next bus stop or lay down a beefy bass line while waiting in line at the bank. Figure will have you making music within seconds yet is deep enough for endless play on a transatlantic flight.Figure highlights• Make songs with Drums, Bass and Lead Synth• Play by sliding your finger across the play pad• Always stay in key and on the beat• No previous playing skills required • Tweak and twist your track on the fly• Sounding amazing has never been this easy• The sound of Reason on your phone!Truly designed for mobile user on the go, Figure gives you drums, bass and lead synth, controlled by an incredibly easy to use touch interface that gets you sounding great literally in seconds. Slide your finger across the play pad and hear your bass line play. Tweak the Rhythm, Range and Scale Step wheels to get the result you’re after. Programming drumbeats is just as easy. Set the rhythm and play the drums with your fingers. You won’t want to stop. You won’t believe how amazing you and your phone can sound.If you are new to music making, getting started making great sounding tracks has never been this easy — and sounded so great!If you are a seasoned musician – music creation has never been this fun!The nitty gritty details:• Bass & lead parts use Reason’s Thor synthesizer • Drums powered by Reason’s Kong drum machine • Play in different keys & modes. Set once or change on the fly.• Increase the Shuffle to loosen up your beats • Turn up Pump to add a club sound to your tracks• Adjust levels using Propellerhead’s legendary mixer• Save, browse and load song files • Set length of loop (1,2,4,8 bars) • Export audio to iTunes File Sharing'This app costs $0.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=717305 Try out an audio playground. AudioSauna is a lot of things – recording software, a digital synthesizer, a series of filters and a sequencer. All of this and more runs entirely from your browser, meaning anyone can have access to these tools from any computer.It’s remarkable how well this software works – set your browser to full screen and you’ll forget it’s web-based at all. The first thing you’ll want to do is play with the virtual analogue synthesizer, because it’s just cool: you can use your computer keyboard to virtually play the on-screen keys. It works better then you’d think, and you have full control over all the settings that exist on actual analogue synths.But there’s more. Another synthesizer — the Frequency Modulation Synthesizer — helps achieve that classic 80′s sound. You can record yourself and add that to the mix. You can upload MP3 or WAV files to use in a full-featured sampler – a sampler that gives you the freedom to layer, loop, distort, transpose and do just about anything else. It’s a remarkable amount of tools for an online audio editor, and a downright amazing amount for a free one.FeaturesBrowser-based audio suite for musicians and hobbyists alike.Record and edit audio online to make your own music. § Use your computer’s keyboard to perform and record melodies.Numerous synthesize settings built in.Try out filters to get just the right sound.Advanced sampler lets you layer sounds however you like. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=709006 Application on addition of fractions.Working with italian pizzas, improper fractions and mixed fractions.The program raises the problem from a hypothetical party where the guests ask for a specific pizza fraction. Guests can only choose two types of pizza for each party.The program calls for the total amount you end up ordering pizza.In order to solve the most difficult problems is a tool to help solve, finding the common denominator.There is a video as support material: http://youtu.be/TVTzNwDPmLU(Video soundtrack: 'O surdato nnammurato' (written by: Aniello Califano Composer: Enrico Cannio) Voice by: Beniamino Gigli) (In Neapolitan language)This program has a castilian (spanish) version and catalan version in the nummolt site:״Cuanta pizza encargamos?״ & "Quanta pizza encarreguem?״There's a free Android (V2.2 and up) version in the mirror link: (multilingual version: en, ca, es, fr, it)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nummolt.howmuch.pizza http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=699587 'Create your own digital silkscreen print, just like Andy Warhol would have with the Warhol: D.I.Y. POP app from The Andy Warhol Museum.Learn the Warhol silkscreen process step by step: Take a photo. Crop. Expose. Underpaint. Share. And print a virtual silkscreen. Each step offers detailed information from Museum curators.While you’re at it, meet staff from The Warhol who demonstrate silkscreen printing and give you inside information on the artist and his work.Learn more about The Warhol and connect with us all over the web.'This app costs $0.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=690037 This site is part of the new Google Web Lab, an effort to educate and promote at the same time.'Universal Orchestra is pretty self-explanatory, with you taking a role in an orchestra made up of different people both in the Science Museum and online. You choose an instrument from the following – temple blocks, steel tongue drum, crotales, vibraphone, drums, marimba, kalimba, and mixed percussion – and then choose when to play your notes to add to the global symphony. This experiment is designed to demonstrate real-time collaboration on the Web. And it’s also a lot of fun.'You can try to use this with another browser, but it works best with Chrome. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=683860 'GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Gather your friends to play and record like a real band with Jam Session.* Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share in email or send directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud.Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument• Play dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects • Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects • Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses, using upright, electric, and synth sounds• Create and use custom chords for any Smart Instrument• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums Start a Jam Session with your friends• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends*• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice• Tap Record at any time to capture your band’s best moments• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and sharedCreate a song anywhere you go• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume —solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo • Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track MergeShare your songs• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud• Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC (AAC or AIFF uncompressed)• Send a multitrack project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand or Logic Pro to continue refining your song• Send GarageBand songs directly to iMovie for iOS to add a custom soundtrack for your video'This app costs $4.99