Again, it was a little disappointed at first when searching for how Adobe programs like Photoshop and Illustrator are being used in the classroom. I think this disappointment was brought on from my high expectations so when I was first looking, I wasn't thinking about it with an open mind. I wanted to find the "perfect" site when the teacher showing how she uses Photoshop as an aid for her teaching plans, and not necessarily this is student work from using Photoshop. After waiting a few days I took another dive at it with a different mind set and I've found some good links from the Adobe Digital School Collection under teacher resources. These are lesson plans for using Adobe programs in school projects, not just in the art room but also for all subjects. This is something that I like, using art to help understand something else, and not just making art to make it.
Here are some links to a few projects that I liked:
Visual Pun - In this lesson, students create a visual pun — a play on images where students use two or more images to form a new meaning. Using Photoshop Elements, students combine unrelated images and employ interesting effects to create their visual puns. This lesson helps students use technology to enhance their language arts skills and to improve communication of their ideas.
Visual Dictionary - In this lesson, students define a word visually using Photoshop Elements and add it to their class visual and audio dictionary. Students analyze a word and construct a visual representation of its meaning, thereby building higher order thinking skills.
Digital Dali - In this lesson, students turn every-day digital photographs into surrealist-style artwork by using Adobe Photoshop Elements. This activity helps students enhance their creativity and better understand surrealistic techniques by working with lighting, color, and movement to turn their pictures into surrealistic works of art.
This website is very helpful for planning projects for students to use, but still wasn't exactly what was looking for in terms of specific examples of teachers using Photoshop and Illustrator as a teaching tool.
Other links that were helpful but still not exactly what I was looking for:
http://artsociety.suite101.com/article.cfm/photoshop_teaches_art
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/ReliefSelfPortHS.html
I'm intrigued by the visual pun, visual dictionary assignments for two reasons: one, it's a way for me to dig into photoshop w/ some manageable parameters and two, I love language and bridging the gaps among speakers of different native tongues (peace corps!) and this lies precisely in that realm. Thank you for sharing - I always learn a lot from you.
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