002 Photoshop Tool Box

Comm Tech 1 and 2 students:

Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience. Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Experiential learning focuses on the learning process for the individual (unlike experiential education, which focuses on the transactive process between teacher and learner). An example of experiential learning is going to the zoo and learning through observation and interaction with the zoo environment, as opposed to reading about animals from a book. Thus, one makes discoveries and experiments with knowledge firsthand, instead of hearing or reading about others' experiences.

Experiential learning requires no teacher and relates solely to the meaning making process of the individual's direct experience. However, though the gaining of knowledge is an inherent process that occurs naturally, for a genuine learning experience to occur, there must exist certain elements. According to David Kolb, an American educational theorist, knowledge is continuously gained through both personal and environmental experiences. ^[4] He states that in order to gain genuine knowledge from an experience, certain abilities are required:

• 1. the learner must be willing to be actively involved in the experience;

  2. the learner must be able to reflect on the experience;

  3. the learner must possess and use analytical skills to conceptualize the experience; and

  4. the learner must possess decision making and problem solving skills in order to use the new ideas gained from the experience.

To that end, here is your assignment.

Design a single page which displays a description of each tool in the Ps toolbox.

The page shall have an image of the tool and what maneuver the tool performs.

Use the following websites as resources, search the web for others if necessary.

Use the Design process to build your "Ps Tool Cheat Sheet"

http://www.freetimefoto.com/photoshop_cs3_toolbox

http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/tool/

http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/

http://www.un.org/events/workshop/dpi-unitar/2003/photoshop/tools.html