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.