Interactivity #4

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I chose this lesson plan because it gives students the freedom to express themselves through the use of collage and lets them experiment with the basics of computer art. Adobe Photoshop is a very broad program that has millions of possibilities, but can take some getting used to, so this is a good project to get students more familiar with the program.  I chose to tweak the lesson plan in the fact that the students would get to choose their own theme, but will have to explain their choices and ideas to their classmates through a critique as well as a short artist statement to hand in for part of the final grade of the project.  I felt that this would be a good way for students to have freedom with this project and to see how many different fascinating ideas the students would come up with and how different all the themes are from each other. In group critiques, students can learn a lot about their own work through talking about it to others as well as learn a lot from classmates. I don't believe these chosen strategies and standards had many gaps, if any at all, I feel as though they were linked directly to the assignment well. It reflects the ways in which artwork can communicate a theme or idea and also the importance of the artist's proficiency.  This project is also appropriate for the way it reflects and affects the role of technology in society and on a smaller scale, art classrooms.  For this lesson plan, technology is essential for achieving this goal. Students will use digital cameras and scanners to collect images at first, but the main part of the project is to be done on photoshop and experiment with collaging using different brushes, blending methods, and different opacities to achieve a well crafted collage on the computer.