As digital media continues to advance along with the expectations of the consuming public, there is greater pressure on students in the discipline to keep up with technological change. My goal as a Digital Arts professor is to teach in a way that helps my students balance the technological challenges of our discipline with the need to create expressive works of art. By artistic expression I mean using visual, and in some cases audio tools to communicate multilayered and meaningful ideas that are aesthetically coherent. This is not an easy task, as many students often get lost in the sea of software functions and special effects that the computer graphics industry constantly feeds us. Students also often lose sight of their artistic purpose when they become focused on a specific career, ironically making them less suited for their goal since corporations desire creative artists with not only skill, but also insight and originality. Thus my primary goal is to help  (continued)