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Saturday Arts Lab 9/23
Dear Parents, Welcome to Saturday Arts Lab! Our names are Katy, Jojo, and Jane and we are senior Art Education students preparing for student teaching. We are looking forward to creating enriching, exciting, and (most importantly) fun artistic experiences for your child over the next 10 weeks. We are hoping to create hands-on learning experiences …
Final Lesson Plan, Zoetropes Continued
RATIONALE Why this lesson worthwhile?(reference developmental stage of students, significance to the “Big Idea”, importance of specific skills and knowledge that could be used for other purposes etc.) In years 11-14, adolescents fine motor skills, and motor skills in general, are improving. At times, adolescents can have swift shifts in mood and have dramatic contrasts …
Final Lesson: Zoetropes
This lesson plan was a process for me. I first started out teaching myself how to make a phenakistoscope. Here is a video of examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqwkdlwmHig First, I tried to recreate this example of moving images. GIF of images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OKd7_iQT8 Here are some videos of my Phenakistoscope in motion. It is spun in front of …
Arduino
Arduino was a great process to learn. The amount of examples Arduino had within the program helped me figure out the program writing. My construction process was the hardest part. The lamp was a project I did with kids from the Brooklyn workshop last semester. We used small tea lights and glow sticks to make …
Maker Day at SUNY New Paltz
The Learning in Digital Visual Cultures class prepared a Maker Day workshop. My group, as I've talked about previously used recycled materials to create moving and lit hats and headbands. (Previous Blog post) Three activities were set up in one room, making moving vehicles, light up pens or moving head pieces. We used four tables …
Laser Cut Glasses
My laser cut glasses came as an inspiration from my learning segment in another class, Curriculum and Instruction. I designed a lesson where students would make a personal symbols tag, for a class mural. here's a photo of my design. Learning to use adobe illustrator was pretty easy with the instructor in the lab. I …
3D Printing
I received my 3D printed container from the SUNY New Paltz FabLab. The process I really enjoyed with this project was the virtual designing. I found it very neat that creating geometric and radial designs is precise and easy with TinkerCAD. I didn't get to see the actual printing of my object, but overall it came …
Imaginative Chess Sets
Photos coming soon!
Collaborative Memories
COLLECTIVE MEMORIES Students begin to design and create sculptures relating to a personal memory or experience. As creative shapes begin to take form, the class passes their sculpture to their neighbor--with a new form in front of them, individuals continue to work their memory into another's sculpture. This repeats until the class feels ready to …
W. Main Handmade 