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3D Graphics

Course

Overview

Students enrolled in 3D Graphics

envision and complete projects that introduce and reinforce creative thinking strategies.

Working primarily in Maxon Cinema 4D, students create original 3D models and motion graphics that require careful observations of the world around them.

How do color, texture, light, gravity, and spacial relationships work in the "real world"?

How might an artists convincingly translate these phenomena into a 3D graphic?

For more information about the course, review the Course Syllabus.

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Student

Websites

Over the course of the semester, students document their growth and progress by building an online portfolio in the form of a website.

Their websites are artifacts that illustrate growing proficiency in using digital media to both create and present original works of art.

Student Websites >

Instructional Practice Resources

Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/
Educational Leadership: http://www.ascd.org/
Casel: https://casel.org/what-is-sel/
Project Zero: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/

Classroom

Culture

In the digital studio classroom, I aim to create learning experiences and environments that help students feel seen, heard, and known. Here are some of the ways I try to create a student-centered culture:

Support students in building positive and supportive relationships, both with me and with one another
Encourage students to ask for help and to share ideas with me and their peers
Embed opportunities for customization and student choice within the learning process
Create curriculum, procedures and routines that encourage students to find, practice and share their voice
Work with students to create a space that feels “student-centered”, “comfortable”, and “full of inspiration to be creative”
Design a classroom space that feels safe and comfortable for students to express themselves and advocate for their success
Encourage students to be compassionate and inspire them to be creative (help them to see the connection between those two spaces: compassion and creativity)