Week 4: 4/2 Idea of Impact 25

Inspire people the benefit become a vegetarian:
1. Environment protection
2. More health for people
3. Save animals

Project outcome:
1. Take the photo of people holding vegetable frame.
2. Use photo printer to print out pictures.
3. Use printed photos to make an art sculpture outcome.


Frame and Carrot Sculpture Sketch

Nebular's eBook

Week 4: 4/1 Creative Assignment

Ideas:

1. This photo remind me come out from the darkness. The blurry light seems like the hope from the life or society. People grab that light and create better life they want.

2. This photo looks very mystery. Just like the single person. Everyone's different, they have multiple different roles in the society, different behaviors, and different ways to deal with different problems. If you want to really know a person, you need to touch and communicate with that person. Instead of how that person you think of just depend on single things or appearance.

Outcomes: Idea 2.

Week 4: 4/3 Digital Photography connect to Children

1. Bring pride and high satisfaction to children. Children can't make art working in high quality because they have limited practice and use art materials in art. Digital photography is easy to use and select the place or people children want to take a photo. When the result turns out, it brings confidence for children.

2. Develop both art and science appreciation. Photography as an art is a marvelous tool of creative, self-expression. It can open a person's mind use photos to communicate with others. As science, it teach children technical tool that how to adjust light, math, etc.

3. Encourage children learn from new perspectives. Before learning digital photography, we ask what's in the picture or artwork? By use digital photography children decide what they want to put in the photo and decide what's the main subject. It also help children develop decision making skills.

Class Activity - Digital Photography

Week3: 3/1 The Cool Yoga

During the working process, we found out it's interesting and creatively. We have a lot of idea came out and always want to changed to the perfect result. But also it need a lot of patient and problem solving skills when problems came out. We need to do a lot of search in order to solve the problem. It's very good experience work with Photoshop and to feel what kind of problems students may have. 

Week 2: On/Off Experienment

I turned off the computer and digital devices for two days. In these days, I trying to live as normal as possible, but it's not doing very well. I find out leave digital devices the first day I'm became boring and nothing to do at home. I can't see the TV show, listen to the music, and contact with friends. On the second day, I started to go out to the art museum, go to gym, bring the book to the century park had a wonderful time with natural. I think my life without digital devices is more healthy and natural, but not as fun as with digital devices and convenient.


Without digital devices: close to natural but everyday kind of the same.



With digital devices: Everyday is different such as search interesting things online, use different apps to share your life with others, see TV shows, and so on. It's very colorful and different.

Week 2: 1/4 Quotes

1. Make questions easy to reply to. Answer each one individually.
It's clearly for people to understand.

2. Copy & paste peoples' names to avoid misspelling them.
Because misspelling people's names is not polite, especially when you apply the job.

3. Always apologize for a belated reply.
Be nice when you reply the email and makes people feels comfortable.

Reference: http://eetiquette.com/page-4/

Week 1: 1/4 Take Away

By reading the Chapter 1 - Time, I'm agree with Digital technologies are based away from time, and toward asynchronous. The big example is email, nowadays email become more and more popular than phone. People can response their email when they want to response instead of immediately just like phone call. It also give people room and time to think about the content they want to response. The reason of email become more popular is it doesn't cost a lot. People can go to the place have wifi or stay at the public with wifi work with computer do anything they want to do. Also you can set up the email comes offline instead of going online to get emails. It's create the personal space that make people feel safe. In this way people email to engage with the digital that to connect to the net work and also can use others to links to blog comment, social networking message, or tweet and so on in order to build the relationships to other people, work, or gaming with each other. And people also enjoys on it. Digital media engaged in our lives from decades ago and it slowly becomes the important part of our life. It expand the way we think and use.

By reading the Chapter 2 - Place,  from Gina's example I thought especially for  young people in nowadays, they are super related to the technology instead of networking and communicating with people in person. They are slowly forget to be active in the place they want to enjoy instead of pay attention to the technology such as post pictures online to share with people in a digital environment. But the digital offers more opportunities to know from others in the world and increase the quality of working when interact with media. People do not need to go to the Europe to know the history of Renaissance and the building strictures of artistic buildings. People just need to find the informations they need via media to help understanding and learning. It's more in high efficiency. But under this situation, I think people need to combine the real world and digital world to find the way they wish to live and work.

Week 1: 1/3 Technology School - New York City College of Technology

New York City College of Technology was founded in 1946, under the name "The New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences." It basically focus on technology study separate to several areas of Study - Engineering Technology, Applied Arts & Sciences, Design & Media, and Information Technology.
Engineering Technology - Civil Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, Construction Management Technology, Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications Technologies, Environmental Control Technology, and Mechanical Engineering Technology.
Applied Arts & Sciences - Chemical Technology & Applied Chemistry and Professional & Technical Writing.
Design & Media - Architectural Technology, Emerging Media Technologies, Entertainment Technology, Communication Design, Communication Design Management, and Industrial Design.
Information Technology - Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computer Systems.

Week 1: 1/2 Technology Artist - Michael Demers

Michael Demers was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1975, he is a new media artist and educator. He received his BFA at Florida Atlantic University majoring in Printmaking and his MFA at Ohio University. From 2007 to 2010 he taught Digital Art and New Media courses at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 2010 he is an Assistant Professor of Fine and Digital Art at Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Arteira "Internet Livre" (Sao Paulo, Brazil). He is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York), and the Rhizome Curated ArtBase (New Museum, New York). He is interested in how the things people do, the ways in which people occupy time, affects place in the world and the ways in which people move through time and space. Michael Demers is best known for his web-based Color Field Paintings (2009), in which a website visitor generates a series of browser windows, each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece.

Reference:
Color Field Paintings http://www.michaeldemers.com/colorfield.htm

Week 1: 1/1 About Me

In 2010, I finished my high school in Shanghai and moved to United State with my family in Seattle. I started my college in University of Cincinnati in Early Childhood major. in 2012 I changed my major to Art Education and transferred to Miami University in Oxford campus. I complete a B.A. at Miami University in May 2016. Currently, I'm study in Columbia University Teachers College in M. A. Init Program. In my first year of high school, I had opportunity to learn drawing and painting. So, the experience influenced me want to be a art teacher. During my undergraduate years, I had a few experience work with new media, such as Illustration, Photoshop, iMovie, and sketch-up. In last semester, I taught high school in Oxford, Ohio. I designed a class that students use iPad to take bunch of photos, and they used these photos to create a small movie to introduce themselves. In that experience I found that bring technology to class encourage students be active in class assignment. Help students engage in class and with each other to solve problems. So, I really want to learn more different new medias in order to create a interesting, engagement, and high quality learning environment for my future students.