(13/3) My 'Seflie'

This class has both expanded and challenged my pre-existing views towards technology. Coming from a traditional art background, I was always most comfortable within the realm of ‘safe’ materials such as paint, pencil, clay, etc. I never had formal training with photoshop or illustrator, and felt like a dinosaur despite being in my late 20s. I knew that I needed to modernize myself first, in order to even incorporate technology into the classroom. I believe I have met my learning objective, and built up quite the arsenal of ‘technology’ vocabulary and tools. This survey course has provided me with the basic knowledge of all these different mediums, many of which I had never even heard of before! I thought that the order of the mediums was also very well thought out, and reduced my initial fear of technology by ‘easing’ us into it. One learning objective that I believe changed for the better throughout the semester was the potential of collaboration with classmates! This has been something I struggled with in the past, working with others collaboratively on an art project, since I believe that aesthetics can be subjective. However, the emphasis on working together instead produced meaningful work, and I was pleasantly surprised about how I was able to push myself beyond my ‘safe space’ to try out new ideas, themes and techniques. There are definitely specific mediums that I hope to learn more about, for instance, Scratch, as I believe it is a powerful tool that I hope to teach to my future middle schoolers. I’m also eager to use stop-motion as I believe it’s an easily accessible medium should the school not have the resources for one-to-one computing. I’m eager and excited to bring these new tools into the classroom to foster interest-based learning, and also re-define and re-vitalize art lessons by incorporating technology. The possibilities are truly limitless.

Showed my process - tons of documentation of all the different projects per week, and I like that it's all on the blog so I can access it.
Explained my outcome - I enjoyed the class discussion time with my peers, was able to get feedback on my work, and suggested on how to push it in terms of meaning and message.
Linked to vocabulary - learn a lot of new vocabulary of how to properly discuss art, also I enjoyed the readings as they provided me with both a theoretical and practical framework of how to think about the weekly assigmnent.
Found multiple possibilites - I thought that re-visiting scanography for my final project really pushed my understanding of it as a medium, and to mix it with painting (something I am more familiar with) 
I preserved through the work - for the projects towards the latter part of the semester, I did face some technical difficulties. I also had some blocks on how to incorporate themes and topics I am interesting, but managed to apply the technologies to my crafting work (something I am passionate about in my free time).
Eliminated carelessness - there were times that I felt like my projects were not as neat as I had hoped, but I thought that going through the process of making it once taught me about how to use it effectively. I think if I were to revisit the tools again, I would be more time efficient and overlap different pieces of technology to make neater, more professional looking projects.