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3D designing & printing Xingming Yin (personal name seals) in Class 8 Mandarin. @BrearleyNYC #MakerEd #NYCISTk6
I’m currently working with Yue Tang and Yusi Gao, Class VIII Mandarin teachers at The Brearley School, on a Xingming Yin (personal name seals) project. Historically and currently, a yin is a seal or stamp used to “prove identity on documents, contracts, art, or similar items where authorship is considered important.” After learning about Ian Klapper’s medieval seals and “moveable type” projects at Construct3D conference, I was inspired to suggest this to the Mandarin teachers.
Yue and Yusi allotted three class periods for students to design a seal in Tinkercad, print their stamp on our Makerbot printers, and try using the finished product. The steps involved are:
Use Photoshop to isolate the ink
Convert JPG to SVG (with online converter)
Place SVG onto a box
Here are the slides I shared with the Brearley girls to help them navigate the Photoshop and Tinkercad steps at their own pace:
Today, I’m going to run to a stationery store to purchase sealing wax (which melts via an embedded wick like a candle) and wax glue sticks that can be heating through a glue gun. With better planning, I would have ordered these three items below via Amazon:
Here are my slides from a presentation about this project at a NYCISTk6 meetup with other technology teachers from NYC independent schools:
Tagged as 3D, 3d design, 3D print, 3D printer, 3D printing, 8th Grade, Brearley, City and Country School, Construct 3D, Ian Klapper, Karen Blumberg, KarenBlumberg, Mandarin, NYCIST, NYCISTk6, Photoshop, The Brearley School, TinkerCad, Yue Tang, Yusi Gao
May 7, 2017 · 11:57 am
Notes from Day 3 of #Construct3D — can’t wait for the next event! #MakerEd #STEMed #STEAM
Keynote, Sallye Coyle of Shopbot shared the story of the company – primarily her husband wanted/needed a tool to help him build a boat, and initially they intended to sell to garage hobbyists. As it turned out, they now help Boeing, NASA, communities, machine shops, schools, and self-employed folks design and manufacture parts.
Darlene Farris-LaBar‘s session, Empowering Creative Minds with 3D Printing for Art & Design, including gorgeous examples of her art and inspirations. She is a co-founder of East Stroudsburg University’s G3D Super Lab. She shared many lovely examples of pieces printed with a Stratasys full color, multi-material 3D printer – they are just awe-inspiring.
Next, Jennifer Grayburn and Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati led a session, Remaking the Past: Teaching Art History and Material Culture Through 3D Printing. They talked about having students locate, analyze, and print monuments and other works of art and how the process is most important (similar to what Corinne shared yesterday).
My friend, Ian Klapper of City and Country School, led a session on Visualizing the Past Into the Present and Future. He talked about the constraints of space in a NYC independent school located in Greenwich Village causing him to integrate and bring things into the classroom rather than have the luxury of a designated “Makerspace” — I too am very familiar with this workaround. At C&C, 3D printing is primarily done in Grades 5 and 6, but Ian has been working with teachers to 3D print with younger students too. He shared projects including Viking chess pieces, Medieval wax seals, Mesopotamia cylinder seals, Islamic clay tiles, Renaissance architecture, game pieces, Lenape legends, and moveable type for C&C’s printing press. Three more resources shared at Ian’s session: Thingiverse’s Universal Connectors Kit, Reflow recycled filament, and Mcor ARKe 3D printer which uses paper rather than plastic to form models.
And finally, the last session I attended was an energetic and remarkable share by Chris Sweeney entitled, 3D Printing and Digital Fabrication in the Design Classroom. Chris shared tons of tips, ideas, and photos of student projects including TurtleArt, MakeMakey cardboard instruments, Community Chess pieces, prosthetic tools for a student with cerebral palsy, and more. He also mentioned algae filament, Trnio (a phone scanning app), and using rock tumblers to smooth and polish 3D prints. Chris’s slides from the session are here: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/construct3d2017/db/3D%20Printing%20and%20Digital%20Fabrication%20in%20the%20Design%20Classroom.pdf
After Chris’s session, I caught the last two minutes of Exploring 3D Design Software and Best Practices consisting of panelists Matthew Borgatti, Sean Charlesworth, Michael Curry, Darlene Farris-LaBar, Eric Schimelpfenig, and Laura Taalman and moderated by Matt Griffin of Ultimaker.
Because I can’t remember things like I used to, here are some links from Sarah O’Rourke King, Consumer Youth Marketing Manager at Autodesk, of sites and people I want to follow up on:
Hip Hop Architecture and Brandnu Design http://brandnudesign.com/
Ashoka for Social Change https://www.ashoka.org/en
Creative Reaction Lab http://www.creativereactionlab.com/
Sarah is also a big fan of Emily Pilloton and Christina Jenkins of Project H Design and Girls Garage. She spotted my Unprofessional Development tote bag and understood it’s awesomeness. #FearLessBuildMore
Finally, the ever-inspiring Corinne Takara suggested getting ideas and motivation from these sources:
Brigham Young University’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Department https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/node
Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering  https://wyss.harvard.edu/
MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab (headed by yesterday’s keynote, Skylar Tibbits) http://www.selfassemblylab.net/
Corinne also honored me with one of her mycelium lights – she even gave it to me in a plastic corsage box! I told her I would absolutely go to prom with her — luckily she laughed. 🙂
Tagged as 123D Design, 3D, 3d design, 3D print, 3D printer, 3D printing, Chris Sweeney, City and Country School, CNC, CNC Machineshop, Construct 3D, Construct3D, Darlene Farris-LaBar, Handibot, Ian Klapper, Jennifer Grayburn, Karen Blumberg, KarenBlumberg, Sallye Coyle, ShopBot, Stratsys, TinkerCad, Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati
November 24, 2014 · 1:03 pm
Yay for another #edcampnyc and mazel tov to @hadleyjf for her new position as Executive Director of @edcampusa!
An empty session board at the start of any edcamp is full of promise. On Saturday, I helped organize another edcampnyc event (our 7th!), and like all other edcamps, it was a day of participant-driven learning and sharing. Attendees arrived and posted conversational strands onto the empty session board, and people who posted to the board were responsible for facilitating a conversation rather than presenting or lecturing.
It takes a village, and edcampnyc couldn’t have happened without generous help from the following angels: The NYEdTech Meetup Group for again sponsoring a wonderful breakfast, Ian Klapper and Alex Ragone of City and Country School for hosting and supporting the event at their beautiful school, Katy Gartside and Ann Oro for their planning and organizing prowess!
Hadley Ferguson is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Edcamp Foundation. Hadley discussed her new role via #SatChat live from @edcampNJ. (#SatChat is a weekly Twitter chat about education and administration which takes place on Saturday mornings.) Hadley then hopped a train and joined us at edcampNYC! Kim Sivick was also in attendance at edcampNYC. Hadley and Kim (and an amazing group of inspiring and innovative educators) organized the first edcamp in Philadelphia (@edcampPhilly) in May of 2010 and later founded the Edcamp Foundation to support and grow the Edcamp movement. This group of awesome people altered the traditional model of Professional Development, empowered teachers around the world, begat communities of educators sharing and learning together, and changed my life.
Besides hanging with Hadley and Kim, it was gratifying to greet many familiar faces, many new faces, and even folks who had never been to an edcamp before. It was also awesome to follow the tweets generated during the day and gather/promote these from the @edcampnyc account. There were some great topics offered, and luckily many sessions had notetakers or someone who started a shared GoogleDoc. See our November 2014 session board with links to any notes below:
I’ve had a few people ask me for advice on how to organize an edcamp. Here are some bare essentials:
Reserve a Gmail account with edcamp***@gmail.com (where *** is your theme or geographic location).
Use the Google Drive associated with edcamp***@gmail.com to create a digital spreadsheet for your event’s schedule (this can be linked and embedded on your event’s website).
Use this Gmail address to reserve edcamp*** on Twitter.
Reserve edcamp*** on a blogging platform (like WordPress or Blogger) to communicate details about the event. Buy the edcamp***.org, edcamp***.net, edcamp***.com, or edcamp***.info domain name if you like.
Add your event’s info to the official edcamp wiki.
Find a space to host your event, preferably a school with a robust Wifi network, easy to locate rooms and bathrooms, projectors or screens in classrooms, a large common area for announcements and networking, space for a physical paper schedule, space for breakfast set up, and hopefully one who will foot the insurance bill.
Locate a breakfast sponsor.
See what help the Edcamp Foundation can provide in terms of sponsor and insurance.
Set up a ticketing page using Ticketleap or Eventbrite or Meetup to handle registration.
Promote! Use Twitter (get other edcamps to tweet about your event), your PLN, Google+, Facebook, call schools directly, contact graduate schools of education…
Tagged as City and Country School, EdCamp, Edcamp Foundation, edcampnj, EdCampNYC, edcampUSA, Google Apps, Hadley Ferguson, Kim Sivick, NYEdTech, NYEdTech Meetup Group, professional, professional development, Twitter
I couldn’t find a satisfactory wall mount for a mini glue gun, so I made one with @Tinkercad and an @Ultimaker. You can find it on the @thingiverse… @BrearleyNYC #MakerEd #STEAM
Pics from my visit to @DwightSchool’s #SparkLab designed by @lesa_wang! #makerspace #MakerEd #STEAM
Gathering my notes and tweets from yesterday’s mycelium workshop at @GenspaceNYC (organized by @STEMteachersNYC)… #STEMintheCITY #scichat #STEMed
Finally finished this chandelier made from the rolled up flyers that flooded my mailbox in June before the mayoral primary. #MakerEd #STEAM #ArtEdTech
Presenting “Experiences As A Maker Educator (Before, During, And After COVID)” at @Make Education Forum, 12pm EDT. I’ll share a variety of projects from @BrearleyNYC. #MakerEd #STEAM
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