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January 28, 2008
How to Teach
Teaching is hard.
And using Adobe's Photoshop program is hard.
Which makes teaching people how to use Photoshop especially hard. Luckily, Donnie Hoyle is here to teach us all how to suck less at Photoshop. To date, Donnie's released four videos in the series, and you owe it to yourself to watch all four. His teaching style is... unique.
For me, one of the interesting things about Donnie's videos is that he really is communicating useful information about Photoshop, and he's doing it in a contextualized manner that helps his viewers to care about what it is he's doing and how he's going to do it.
I'm also reminded of the perennial problem I face when I teach: how can I maintain the focus I want to have in my classes (on the material and the students' growth and development) while also being an out and visible queer presence and resource on campus and in my classes? I'm not sure that this is exactly the approach I would recommend, and yet... Donnie has me wanting to do more with paths and filters!
Posted by reparent at January 28, 2008 11:40 AM