Technology in the Classroom

Media Arts is an art form that has grown over time and now is used all the time.  Photoshop is a program that many of these artist use.  I think it is important for students to be exposed to this type of program in the art class. Although it's expensive, it is very beneficial and should be included in your school budget.

First, I would have a lesson on Photoshop with using the basic tools.  Once they learn these, I would allow them to play around with the program because there will be many students that have never heard of it or even used it, while some students will be experts with the program.

For their project, I would have them incorporate photography by taking pictures of themselves and doing the "Many Me" project using Photoshop.  I think this would be something they would highly enjoy, especially if this is their first time using the program.

Sometimes, there are some instances where the school can't afford Photoshop.  If this was the case for me, I would have my students create a series of gifs, moving images, because there are many free websites that you can use to create these like:

http://gifmaker.me

http://ezgif.com/maker

https://imgflip.com/images-to-gif