HW7.6 Self-evaluation Selfie

As a self-evaluation for the semester so far, I am going to break down the various things I have learned:

• Technological Art Media: 
• This class has taught me how to use many art media that I had never really handled before including, scanners, digital collage, and stop motion animation.  Although we have not dived deeply into any one art form in this class, we have skimmed the surface of many different types of technological media and I have a better understanding of New Media Art as a whole now.  The research into artists who use technology has also allowed me to understand actual artists' take on the form, and not just my own.  
• Teacher Difficulties:
• By listening to my classmates' past experiences as teachers, I have come to learn the difficulties that are inherent in teaching new media art in schools.  The lack of resources and technical instruction needed make technological art more difficult in some ways than traditional art to use in a classroom.  The most interesting difficulty I have discovered is the inaccessibility of technological art for students of lower socioeconomic backgrounds.  If students do not have access to computers or cameras or iPads at home, they are less prepared to use them in class.
• Technological Art Opportunities:
• I have learned that technological art offers certain opportunities that traditional art media does not.  Technological art materials are often a one-time up-front cost, such as purchasing Photoshop or some other computer program, while traditional art materials, such as paint, run out and get old with time and have to be continuously repurchased.  Technological art also has multiple possibilities for display including online or in physical galleries.