Week13: 13/1 Final Project - A Hula Dancer Dance in 3D Printer

This project I tried to break up my original and traditional thinking way that I thought of a dancer dance in a 3D printer. Because everybody will think 3D printer as a tool or machine instead of think of a stage for dancer. Because of we have the machine, so we can create a lot of amazing shapes of outcomes. I want to describe 3D printer can be a stage for every single small object to express.

Week 13: 13/2 Documentation of Hula Dancer (Final Project)

Final Project Ideas: 


1. Create the model.


2. Send to Maker Bot: center and flat lay down the model.


3. Preview before send to printer.


4. Heat the printer, set up everything.


5. Printing.


6. Printing Process.
    

7. During the printing process, I also video tape the motivation process include song to show the movement of 3D printer. It's just like the dancer dance on the stage. Then I use iMove to edit the video.

Week 13: 13/1 Whole Course Reflection

My learning objectives:

1. Learn more new medias.

2. Integrate new media in traditional art assignment.

3. Increase my abilities to use technology.

4. Be creative in using new technology, and learn use digital devices to create a meaningful and interesting critique.

Reflection:

At the beginning of the class, I felt confused about taking this course. Because I didn't think technology can be a good tool to help create a meaningful and engaging class for students. All I think about technology is computer and game, it means students should far away from them because when students are obsessed with games and computer will bring bad influences on their study. I believed traditional education methods are the best way to educate. After I learned course, I want change my mind that new media bring so much fun to the traditional class and also a great way to help children learning and expand their knowledge in a positive way.

I think I'm pretty good to reach all my goals. I learned and made different projects use different medias and enjoyed learning process. These experiences helped me think about create the lesson. Because I have been experienced, when I teach I know what kind of problems students may have and help me understand how students learning. Also increased my abilities to use technology and solved the technology problem when I met. A lot of materials and machines I never used before, such as 3D printer and circuit, expand my knowledge of using different types of new medias. It also help me break my traditional thinking to use new media in a creative way, such as scanner not only for use scan paper and photo, it could also be a tool to create a meaningful lesson.

I loved this course and in the future teaching I will try my best to engage as much technology as I can integrate to different disciplines, such as science, nature, math, geography, history, and etc. to help students learning in a relax, interesting, and enjoyable classroom environment.

Week 12: 12/1 Motor & Circuit Boat

    

    



Yina and I first search online of how to make the boat, and then try on a piece of white paper to make it work. Then we made the test boat, finally we made the final yellow boat. It's a successful process and product. It's stressful when we got confused, but after we figure it out it's an interesting and easy.

Week 12: 12/2 Take away

Relationship between "making" and art classroom
Before I read the article, I have never thought about use computer as a tool to produce something in the classroom. Instead of always think use computer to help design the art lesson. I think it's a new method for both teacher and students to explore combine computer and traditional classroom to produce something. So the class must be an complex class integrate science and technology into art.

Also to produce something can be something easy and simply, just like we discussed circuit in class. It can finish in a short time also can make and produce something complex. As a teacher, we need to think about what we want students learn from the produce process. It cannot only be fun, also need them learn something from the working process.

Also from the article of Piaget's theories, he mentioned provide students with a learning environment grounded in action. Making and producing is a good new method for students create their own learning environment when they working and producing. During these process, every single student will use problem solving as a learning tool to solve problem in order to spread their knowledge and learning by themselves. Also most of students will feel interested in these working process and fully engage them in class.

Week 11: 11/2 Idea of Final Project

Basic Idea: Use 3D printer to print a dancer.

Week 11: 11/1 3-D Print Bunny

3-D project is more complex and really need time to explore the basic tools. Especially for middle and high school students or beginner to start with build the simple object. Then try something difficult and creative objects or design. When know the steps to create 3-D objects, it's really fun and have more opportunity and challenge to try something different.

Week 10: Classmate's Takeaways

Overall:
After looking peers websites I learned a lot, because everyones' work looks different. Everyone had very different, unique, and creative thought I can takeaway. It's very good process for me to learn from others and expand my knowledge. It's also can be used in the younger age students' classroom to help them learn more from peers.

Week 10: Final Project Idea

Week 10: 10/1 Laser Cutting

I use PhotoShop to edit the painting I painted and made it more contrast in black and white. Then use Laser Cut machine print different part of my painting.

I tried multiple times on one piece of paper and then work on final piece. Because testing is helpful to make the result more successful, I never used laser cutter before. It's also a good experience to learned from process. Now, I felt I'm enjoyed in working and can't wait go back to make more if I have time.

Week 9 9/2 Experience on Scratch

When the first time used Scratch in class, I felt it's really hard. Although we had 30 mins to make a small movement, I felt stressful. It's not easy tool I used before that really need time to experience it and get familiar with it. When I did homework, I felt it's much better for me to work with Scratch. I began enjoyed the whole planning process and felt it's interesting that should have a lot of opportunities to connect with the art class. It's also really challenge for teacher to use this tool. I think the earliest age to work with Scratch should be middle school. Before do the assignment, the teacher should have a brief explanation class to help students explore Scratch, and then include some practices will be better to know students are understand. It's a good tool to connect with other disciplines in art classroom, such as create the game for gamers to practice math, reading, or writing. Students to create a story help them naturally develop logical and critical thinking skills in the art class, because they will focus on how to make the story rather than practice the thinking skills. So that's why I think art classroom is essential and important for people to make them growth and practice skills.

Week 9: 9/1 Scratch - Crab Game

Week 8: 8/2 Stopmotion - Documentation

Week 8: 8/1 Stopmotion - Build A House

Week 8: 8/3 2 Take aways from the Article

During the progress of Do-It-Yourself (DIY), students be the leader to decide what they want to create. It's develop not only the art working skills with different media, also the ability of problems solving, logical thinking to create the story, planning skill, design, and ect. It's the great way for students develop in a complex way.

Good ideas need to think outside of the box. Although technology expand quickly in today. Students also need to inspire from some traditional places. Attend or create some opportunities for students, such as plan a different activities, go to the museum to see the traditional art works, and etc. will help students collect ideas. When combine these ideas with technology, it always has some amazing out comes.

Week8: 8/3 Lesson Plan - Stop Motion Animation

Target Audience: Third Grade

Idea: Ask students bring 2-3 toys to class. Separate students in group of three. With small group students use toys and iPad (with app Vine) to create a narrative story and share with the whole class.

Objectives:
Students are able to
- Create a narrative story with iPad use toys they bring.
- Work with peers to discuss the idea of the story
- Share their story with other students

Material:
Toys (students bring)
iPad (Vine)

Week7: 7/2 Audacity

Week 7: 7/2 Reflection on Sound

I think sound is another interesting media can include in art class. Before touch and edit the sound, I never thought sound can be an art media. It's separate that can't combine together. After edit the sound I found out students can create different and interesting use sound to help explain their artworks.

Week 6: Impact 25

This project we found people who are vegetarians hold the frame we made took a photo. And also we asked them how long they have been a vegetarian depend on years. Then calculated how much gallons of water they saved depend on years they have been a vegetarian with the diagram we found online. The calculation is depend on the average a person eat beef yearly. 

For this project, we trying to inspire and impact people become a vegetarian because it's relate to the environment and protection of the animals. And fortunately after this project, two of my friends become a vegetarian. 

Week 6: 6/2 Video in the classroom

Include video in the tradition classroom it will consider video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, help students make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom. Video as visual tool also help catch students eyes and make them pay more attention to the class and fully engaged in class activity and discussion.

Use video in lesson project also help students open their traditional mind that use different way to do the work and develop their problem solving skills. Because in the progress of make video will meet a lot of problems. It's important for students to solve problems by themselves. Video is a tool can help teacher create various different interesting lesson, such as make a video to tell personal story. 

Week 6: 6/1 If You are Genius Solve This

This video was made by colon the video I found on Youtube.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07ADwmuj8A

Week5: 5/1 Movements

Week 5: 5/3 Three Take - Away from Reading

1. I'm agree with the author that no remix, no culture. Every person has different background culture and experiences. Such as when artists create a new piece of art, some of them will go to the museum, gallery or exhibition to learn from previous works to get some ideas, some of them will inspire from the app called Pinterest (especially  for art teacher), and so on. This learning or inspiration process also the process learning from different artist's cultures. When make a new piece of art will add another culture because a person's idea or thinking always relate to his or her person culture influences or personal experiences. So if we don't remix things, it will not have the culture communicates. Because artists communicates always use the artworks they create.

2. I think it will have more opportunities and interesting outcomes by using techniques, such as Adobe and music remix apps. Because it's very quick to see what two pieces work together and make the change immediately. For example, use photoshop we can overlap the photos and combine photo together and also do the photo collage (cut the part you want to include). It's encourage people creatively to use different and variety photos and tools to remix a new piece. It's much more interesting.

3. Include Digital Devices in class teaching will engage more students enjoy the learn process. And also help them learn from variety communities useful to expand their knowledge in a short time. Because students can search online such as YouTube, blog, etc. to find the information or sources they want to learn. During the finding process, they also will learn a lot of things to see the different stories and combine these all together to create the new knowledge and idea they want to share.

Week 5: 5/2 Potential of Scanography

I think the potential of scanography is not only for fun, but also encourage students or people engage in making art and expressive their idea through scanner. During the working process, students or people will find amazing outcomes they never thought and brings a lot of surprise. Sometimes that surprise will inspire students or people more ideas. It's the continuously and creatively thinking process combine technique media and art to make artworks. It's also help students and people to solve the problem when using scanner that they need to decide what kind of outcomes they want to create and deal with where lights comes from, the color matching, and the whole composition. In other way, it also the process of aesthetic training.

Week 4: 4/4 Scanography