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Alisha Spjute's classroom was very enlightening. She was a very energetic and involved teacher. You could tell that her students loved her and respected her. She knows how to get her students excited about her different projects.

I loved the assignments she used to teach her students the different Adobe products. She added a personal quality to all the projects, which helped inspire the passion and excitement for the students. She used a project where the students were supposed to make a "geek" version of themselves on Illustrator that showed what they loved to do. The kids got super into it and learned tons about Illustrator in the process. A Photoshop project her advanced class did was an assignment about what kids would do if they were invisible for a day. They were supposed to take pictures of themselves doing something and then Photoshop out all the skin so it was just clothes in the pictures. They had to fill in the background realistically using the clone stamp tool or filtering through a second picture. Her project to teach the basics of Flash was simply to have students have the letters of their name fly in and change colors. It gave them the groundwork to be able to do bigger and harder future projects.