Titles listed on the CLO (Common Learning Objective) COSER are eligible for some state aided funding reimbursement.Check with your district’s technology purchasing coordinator.

If you have a program that you are using, please let us know so that it might be added to the COSER. Two or more districts using a program make it eligible for the Common Learning Objective COSER and therefore the software cost can be covered through state aid when it is purchased by additional districts.

Titles from the COSER of special interest to art teachers:

A is for Art, By Philadelphia Museum of Art
An introduction to art and museums in a fulfilled museum tour, including 33 masterpieces in the museum's collection.
Target Users: Intermediate, Grades 2 - 6

Art & Music, By Clearvue
From medieval era through surrealism. Presents parallels between art, architecture, and music.
Target Users: Intermediate, Commencement, Middle - High School

Bryce, By CorelDRAW
An illustration program dedicated to designing, rendering and animating natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D sculptures
Target Users: Commencement, High School, Middle School

CorelDRAW 9.0, By Corel
Along with powerful applications for illustration, page layout, photo editing and painting, this program also has professional color management software.
Target Users: Intermediate, Commencement, Middle - High School

CorelPAINTER, By Corel.
A painting tool for graphic designers and fine artists. The tool set offers an extensive array of brushes, textures, canvas choices, and art materials for high-quality output for print and the Web.
Target Users: Commencement, High School - Adult

Paint Shop Pro, By Jasac Software
An image editing program to enhance scanned or digital images.
Target Users: Intermediate, Commencement, Middle - Adult

Poser, By Curious Labs
A 3D-character animation and design tool.
Target Users: Commencement, High School

The Louvre Museum, By Voyager
Introduces children of all ages to the thrill of looking at wonderful works of art and is an exciting introduction to the history of Western art.
Target Users: Elementary, Intermediate, Commencement, Grades K - 12

With Open Eyes, By Voyager
An interactive CD-ROM tour of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Target Users: Elementary, Intermediate, Commencement, Grades 3 - 12

Adobe Acrobat, By Adobe
A document exchange program that lets you convert any document, including web sites, with its original appearance preserved.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe GoLive, By Adobe
Software that helps design, create and manage a professional looking web site.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe Illustrator, By Adobe
An illustration program which allows the user to achieve sophisticated results. Integrates easily with other desktop and web publishing software.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe InDesign, By Adobe
A page layout and design program that readily integrates with other Adobe software.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe PageMaker, By Adobe
A desktop publishing program that produces brochures, newsletters or on-line documents.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe PageMill, By Adobe
This software allows you to design, build, post, and manage Web pages. There's no need to learn HTML or master complex applications. Integrates seamlessly with most office and graphics applications. Integrated site-management help to keep pages up-to-date.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe Photoshop, By Adobe
An image editing program best known for modifying photographic images. It can be used to design interactive Web graphics or prepare sophisticated images for print.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Adobe Premiere, By Adobe
A powerful tool for professional digital video editing. Designed for video professionals, this software can produce broadcast-quality movies for video, film, multimedia, and the Web.
Target Users: High School - Adult

AutoSketch, By AutoDesk
A flexible program lets you create all types of drawings, from floor plans to detailed part assemblies, with customizable toolbars, a symbol library and measurement features.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Dreamweaver, By Macromedia
Software for professional Web site design and production. It can be customized using HTML, Java Script, and XML.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

HoTMetal, By SoftQuad
Web site creation and management software with advanced capabilities and productivity tools.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

HyperStudio, By Robert Wagner Publishing
A multimedia authoring tool that allows you to communicate and deliver your ideas on diskette, CD-ROM or over the Internet
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Inspiration, By Inspiration Software
A visual learning tool that uses concept maps, webs and other graphical organizers to help students organize their thinking.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Kid Pix Studio, By Broderbund
Six unique painting, drawing, and animation projects to select from and a present in multimedia format.
Target Users: K - 6

Kidspiration (K-3), By Inspiration Software
Kidspiration is a visual learning tool especially for K-3 students, emerging readers and writers. Like its older sibling, Inspiration, it helps students develop confidence as they learn to organize info, understand concepts & connections, create stories and share thoughts.
Target Users: Elementary

Microsoft Front Page, By Microsoft
FrontPage is a user-friendly web design tool that allows teachers and students to quickly create web sites and pages without learning HTML. Images, text, tables, and even MS Acccess databases and Excel spreadsheets can be placed on a website with a miniumum of training.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Microsoft Office, By Microsoft
An integrated suite of productivity programs that include word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation & web publishing components.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

Microsoft Publisher, By Microsoft Microsoft
Publisher 2000 helps you easily create, customize, and publish materials such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, catalogs, and Web sites. Publish easily on your desktop printer, at a copy shop or commercial print shop, or directly to the Web.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

PowerPoint, By Microsoft
A complete set of tools for creating powerful presentations. Organize and format material. Illustrate points with your own images or clip art.
Target Users: Middle - Adult

The PrintShop, By Broderbund
A pioneer in desktop publishing software. Makes greeting cards, signs, banners & much more.
Target Users: Grades 3 - Adult

Visual Communicator, By Serious Magic
Visual Communicator Plus is a software application that enables PC users to create video messages, presentations or shows that look professional. Its intuitive interface is easy to use, enabling start to finish in literally minutes using just a Web cam or camcorder. It even includes a built-in TV teleprompter and Hollywood green-screen magic.
Target Users: Elementary, Intermediate, Commencement, Middle - Adult

Read the entire CLO approved software list.