tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241163827365725460.post5817049366980595352..comments2024-02-15T10:25:33.740-08:00Comments on Project ART-A-DAY: Lesson: IDENTIFYING MY SKETCHBOOK: An Identity CollageJTaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15747107644302341340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241163827365725460.post-34538287083570295022013-07-12T13:20:07.923-07:002013-07-12T13:20:07.923-07:00Thank you for your encouragement and thoughts, Mia...Thank you for your encouragement and thoughts, Mia! I really appreciate it! The work is always changing and in progress and I think... hope that it gets better each year as I tweak or change it altogether! <br />Please feel free to give pointers or thoughts at ANY point! :)<br />JanetJTaylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15747107644302341340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241163827365725460.post-80699878427228111902013-06-09T13:26:29.853-07:002013-06-09T13:26:29.853-07:00I think your lessons are cool and I have done lots...I think your lessons are cool and I have done lots of things in a similar vein. I start my course with a similar assignment. Sometimes I teach basic Photoshop skills in the portrait "collage".<br />What I want to say is to not let your expectations get in the way of your students' creativity. I am a fan of not showing examples at the beginning, and doing exercises in our drawing/imagining time in class that totally take students into their lives, their histories, etc.Then we can start drawing or photographing, collecting, thinking about words describing me right now- you may do all this.<br />Then comes the design requirements and format if applicable.<br />They will tell you what they do and don't want to do, so let them make a substitution you both can live with.<br />If it is very personal to them, does it matter if we teachers are happy with it? It has taken me a long time to be fine with this. We won't know what fruit encouraging creative thinking and original work will bear. except when old students friend us years later on Facebook and wow us with their stuff.<br /><br />I don't mean to be anonymous but I don't have any of the other profile things.<br />MiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com