I unfortunately did not complete Interactivity #4 in time for grading so I made sure to complete that activity thoroughly so I could complete this activity successfully. I chose a lesson called "Power of an Image". I was drawn to this lesson because I would like to teach photography. This lesson works over multiple days. The first section of this lesson is to have students find 30 photographs and place them into different groups. The lesson stated that they should find these pictures from newspaper, postcards, and magazines so I added an internet search for technology part of this lesson. For the copy right and fair use, this section may have to be altered. Students can not exceed 15 images from the same artist. Therefor supervision and more time may be allotted so this does not happen.
The second section of this lesson is to teach students how to take a successful photograph and then have students go out and complete the process by themselves. Students are taught how to use a digital camera therefor technology was already incorporated in this section of the lesson. However I added Flickr to this section so students could upload there pictures onto the website and show both students and the teacher their photos in an easy manner. There are no Fair Use or Copyright laws for this section. Students can create any type of pictures they would like. There is no law stating they can not however if they are photographing someone on the streets they may want to ask permission of the person they are photographing.
The third section of this lesson is to have students create a powerpoint about their final project. Once again there was technology already incorporated into this section of the lesson therefore I did not have to add any more to it. This section does not need any alterations because the powerpoint program can be downloaded at home which does not cause any problems. The only section that could cause problems is the fact of where they got their information and if it is plagiarized and if they exceed the amount of words in which they are allotted to use.
There were not that many changes to the lesson from activity #4 because the lesson already incorporated technology. There were a couple more added to the lesson to make it more complete. I believe this lesson is very successful in every aspect.
I also used this lesson for my Interactivities 4 and 5 and I loved the way it incorporated technology and so many different art aspects. It is the perfect lesson for a course like this to show us how we can use technology someday in our art classrooms. I think we need to remember that technology is something beneficial for us, but not something we need to always so heavily rely on when using it in the art classroom. Sometimes getting dirty and using your hands is what needs to happen, but it can be enhanced with digital art.
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