Post #2 – Identify how technology has been used in classes you have taken as a student, at all levels from elementary through college—providing examples of efficacious and inefficacious use of technology, i.e., good, bad, and ugly use of technology in the classroom.

Technology is used in my room every day. In the past I have always taught drawing and painting as a high school art teacher. Now however, I am teaching digital art 1-3 and digital photo. These are new topics for me to be teaching to students. I took many classes on the subject matter in college, however I have never formally taught it. A coworker of mine who is now at a different high school in the district blessed us with 20 woirking computeres, all with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator installed on each. Photoshop is my specialty and I primarily teach to that. Students complete many assignments throughout the semester and  are given a print portfolio of their work. You can view some of my students' works at

www.flickr.com/photos/americasher

I would have added more but the program only allowed for 200 images unfortunately.

In addition to photoshop, we use Microsoft Publisher to make webpages. That isn't going so well as our old program has issues saving. We also have Digital cameras that students can use and check out. They are given instruction in how to properly use the modes of the camers. Additionally, we have hot lights and a light box (all bought by me with my own money), an LCD projector, an old teacher computer, a color printer, and a scanner. I feel blessed to have all I have, but most items came from out of pocket, donations, and grants. Other schools in the district are not so lucky.