How to Teach Photoshop
Teaching a new technology is not easy, but with a few pointers your job will become easier. When teaching a new technology like Photoshop, start with the most basic skills. Your students should have a sound understanding of the basic skills before moving on to more advance skills. Basic skills should be provided in a variety of ways to help students commit them to memory. This may take longer but will give students a solid ground to build upon.
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Instructions
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Create skills levels such as beginning, intermediate and advanced.
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Decide which skills need to taught in each lesson such as: the tool bar for beginners; the first part of the main menu; "Edit," "Image," "Layer" and "Select" for intermediate skills and the second part of the main menu; "Filter," "Analysis," "View" and "Window" for advance skills.
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Create a lesson plan to present these new skills in a variety of ways.
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Type up the lessons and then test them in Photoshop, adjusting as needed.
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Make copies and practices files available to students.
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Create assessment tests to help students monitor their learning.
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Collaborate with students on a final project. Encourage students to apply new knowledge in a different context such as: creating grunge art work, creating a poster or creating a graffiti style art work.
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Tips & Warnings
Learning Photoshop's tools is vertical in a hierarchical sense; students need to know how to use a tool in order to apply it to lateral skills such as adjusting images, creating layered images or adding effects to an image.
Create an online community support area for students to ask questions, get help and share ideas.
