This document discusses how technology can enhance art education. It suggests using Adobe programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to teach art. Blogging is presented as another technology that allows students to critically reflect on artworks and develop online portfolios. The document outlines how schools have integrated Adobe Creative Suite applications into art classes to teach digital skills and help students pursue careers in design fields.

1. How can Technology enhance art Education To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movement, line, color, sounds or forms express in words, so to transmit the same feeling – this is the activity of art -Leo Tolstoy

3. Blogging

4. Art Educator’s ResourcesThis presentation was designed with the classroom art teacher in mind. It can serve as a general reference for specialists, or as a practical guide to delivering Art Technologies for those with less experience in art or design. Wherever possible a variety of ways of exploring topics are suggested. This was done to ensure that schools with different types of equipment, and teachers with different combinations of skills can participate, while ensuring that students receive a meaningful exposure to the technologies being explored.

5. Visual learning Visual texture discrimination has been shown to induce long-lasting behavioral improvement restricted to the trained eye and trained location in visual field We tested the hypothesis that such learning involves durable neural modifications at the earliest cortical stages of the visual system, where eye specificity, orientation, and location information are mapped with highest resolution. Within-subject comparisons between trained and untrained eye for targets presented within the same quadrant revealed higher activity in a corresponding retinotopic area of visual cortex. Functional connectivity analysis showed that these learning-dependent changes were not associated with an increased engagement of other brain areas remote from early visual cortex. We suggest that these new data are consistent with recent proposals that the cellular mechanisms underlying this type of perceptual learning may involve changes in local connections within primary visual cortex. Our findings provide a direct demonstration of learning-dependent reorganization at early processing stages in the visual cortex of young adult humans. [Karni, A. &Sagi, D.] (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 4966–4970].

6. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, creating stunning images and graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity. Realize the full promise of cross-media design and discover innovative ways to collaborate, all within a single unified creative environment. Eligibility for Education Product Adobe Education products are for purchase by primary or secondary schoolchildren, full- or part-time students and full- or part time faculty and staff employed by an accredited Educational establishment. Restrictions on use of Education Product: You may purchase only one license of any Adobe Education product per academic year.

7. Lincoln Public High School- Career prep in print and web publishing uses In Design, Dreamweaver and Photoshop. School Yearbook Photo-journalism 4th and 5th – illustrate poems and create a travel brochure Middle School- uses adobe to make a collage for Martin Luther King Jr.’s life Equips students with an Adobe certification that builds professional level skill to help students obtain a job. Students are achieving higher grades on standardized test scores. More students stay in school. Students are graduating with competitive skills required in today’s work place. How schools have used Adobe Lee County

8. Why Adobe? Learning by Doing Students will learn more about the issues and concepts being discussed, if they are able to work with their new knowledge in an experiential way. It is recommended that a broad range of art media be made available to students, both traditional and contemporary. Students should be encouraged to explore, and experiment with different art technologies in the completion of assignments. All forms of visual media are acceptable.

9. Why adobe and not something else Talk about how This is the standard of what is currently being used…. Support this… “Because Adobe Creative Suite applications are considered the standard, they are what students will need to know if they decide to pursue careers in digital media.” Jana Hambruch Project director, Office of Zone and Attractor Programs and Technical, Career and Adult Education Lee County Public School.

10. Earnings and Employment of Graphic Designers

12. Pricing of Adobe Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium software The cost of the Suite 4 is $495.00 per license As noted on the previous page only one license is allowed per year.

14. Wikis

16. Duffy and Burns (2006) The use of blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A conversation of Possibilities. pg 31-38 Educational benefits Promotes critical and analytical thinking Potential for increased access and exposure to information and current artists and their works. Combination of solitary and social interaction. Create and online gallery Encourage reactions, reflections and ideas. Develop a students portfolio. Work Collaboratively Marketable Benefits of Blogging Educational Uses for Art

17. Duffy and Burns (2006) The use of blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A conversation of Possibilities. pg 31-38 Wikis Groups of web pages that allow users to add and edit content. Similar to blogs but the content can be edited and are more about a network. Highly flexible Infinitely expandable

18. Duffy and Burns (2006) The use of blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A conversation of Possibilities. pg 31-38 Wikis in education Developing research projects. Summaries of thoughts to readings or artworks. Teachers can publish class materials. Concept Mapping Presentations

19. “Rich Site Summary” or “ Real Simple Syndication” Allows users to subscribe to a websites content. Uses feeds No longer necessary to visit many individual sites in order to obtain up-to-date information about the content. Information is collected and organized by the aggregator Duffy and Burns (2006) The use of blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A conversation of Possibilities. pg 31-38 RSS

20. Duffy and Burns (2006) The use of blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A conversation of Possibilities. pg 31-38 Educational benefits of RSS Efficient use of time: using an RSS websites of topics of interest can be read easily daily. No Spam Teachers can track student blogs “Push” is better than “pull” Customizable

21. Online Galleries Cyberbee- Art and Cross Curriculum Ideas http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ Incredible Art Department – Lesson Plans and Ideas for art http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html PBS- Art 21- Extensive videos of current artist pbs.org/art21 Other Technological Resources

22. References Graph http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/oes271024.htm http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.htmlhttp://www.artcyclopedia.com/Incredible Art Department http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.htmlpbs.org/art21 http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/page/Student+Created+Wikishttp://olympusstudents.wikispaces.com/ Blogs wikis and Rsshttp://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/1/5398.pdf (http://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/ ) Lee County School http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=756910&loc=en_us Lincoln Public School http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=288517&loc=en_us Art Technologies 1201: Perception, Art and Technologywww.ed.gov.nl.ca/edu/k12/curriculum/.../art/art1201/introdtn.pdf Teaching visual culture: curriculum, aesthetics, and the social life of arthttp://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JCsAY15OwKoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=is+teaching+art+and+technologies+necessary&ots=mT6V6PK7P4&sig=e49iiQO6kx14qE47_XKzsQU6K6s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Rethinking Learning in the Digital Agehttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=rethinking+learning+in+the+digital+age&btnG=Search&as_sdt=20000000000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0Adobe and Avitarhttp://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/adobe-and-avatar/#save-to-library