Aviary For Education Gives Students A Safer Way To Get Creative

Aviary , the startup that makes a suite of impressive web-based creative applications, including editors for images, vector graphics, and audio recordings, is targeting a new class of customers: school teachers and their students. Today the company is launching Aviary Education , a product that allows educators to encourage creativity on Aviary in a safer (and easier to manage) environment. Cofounder Michael Galpert says that Aviary has been popular at schools for quite a while. The appeal of Aviary's apps are obvious — they're free, and they offer more than enough functionality for most common media creation tasks. But Aviary.com has a few features that aren't ideal for students. For example, it offers a section for popular creations made with its products, and some of these user-submitted contributions aren't exactly 'G' rated.