Interactivity #3

After collaboratively creating an inventory of technologies and programs used in art education, I’ve noticed that a few technologies help aid students find and edit references, scanning their work to computers, cameras to document their work and also do editing on the computer. There are also many programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Sketchbook Pro for the Apple iPad that are probably some of the top programs used by artists and students all over. In high school, I took a class that was specifically used to teach us all about Photoshop and Flash. It was a computer art class and even though I didn’t become a Photoshop expert, I learned a lot of techniques within the program that I still use when editing references or creating original artworks. I think the only reason I have trouble thinking of the technologies in art classrooms is because in my high school we didn’t have on campus access to these all the time.  I was surprised to see the final list on the Spreadsheet that my group created and has helped me realize some of the influences that these play in art classrooms and college art classes daily.