Deviant art

There's some interesting discussion of Top Ten lists over on Art Ed 2.0, and rather than just respond like a normal person, I'm feeling the need to blog about it. Worse, I'm feeling the need to break it up into a few posts. I don't promise that they will be concurrent, but I don't think I'm breaking any hearts by keeping you hanging. One of the discussions was about top ten Digital Tools for Art Educators. I have confined my list to online tools, because narrowing that down is hard enough.

Student artist Lindsey writes in to suggest My Art Space as an interesting alternative to

Here's the problem that a lot of art teachers have with Deviant Art: a lot of the images are violent, exploitive, juvenile, and very often - really bad.This is of course, only a problem in the context of students logging on in the classroom. We're trying to teach Rembrant and the students are looking at images of scantly clad busty women with swords that are dripping with blood.