Where The Creative Kids Go
Posted by anastasia on 02-19-2008The other weekend I was speaking to parents at The Menlo School, an independent school here in Silicon Valley. One dad approached me afterwards and voiced his concern about how much time his kids were spending gaming. We discussed the whole passive learning aspect of gaming — and he got that but wanted to know of a site or social network that was focused on creativity. I suggested the long list of youth media programs in the Ypulse Directory, but I couldn't think of any sites that would be like "A YouTube for artists"….until I saw this CNET article about DeviantArt. Have you heard of other similar sites? If so, leave them in the comments.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
DeviantArt is a really great site, I love it! Another good site which I haven't looked at as much and seems a bit more confusing than DeviantArt but I know to still be good and have great art is http://www.elfwood.com. I hope you can suggest other sites like them eventually!
February 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
This is a different than DevianArt, but want to make the point that creativity comes in different ways. What we learned at AllyKatzz is that girls ages 10-15 LOVE using art to express themselves. So we just launched a new feature - girls create ads/posters to promote their blogs, poems, short stories, art, polls, contests… anything they post on the site. Here's a link to the section called AK ADS… http://www.allykatzz.com/page/forus/ak_ads/?url=/page/index.html§ion=forus&page=ak_ads&mediaPageId=20