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M3 Week 1

Assignments

  • This week you would need to fabricate a 3D object with a 3D printer. The 3D object should provide some support for your class or some of your teaching lessons. E.g. a box to store materials, a tool to help with a specific activity, a model to explain a concept, etc.

Process

  • This week I worked on two projects, one of them was using AI to design and 3d print and object thinking about how to use it for a painting class. The other project was starting to experiment with 3D modeling using TinkerCad to create from scratch pen holders, and yarn holders and dispenser, this late one because students have struggled a little bit to maintain the yarn organized, so I wanted to see if this organizing method would work.

  • For the first project, I went to two different AI platforms, the first one was Gemini; the first thing I did was asking Gemini to create a funko imaged based a picture of myself specifically adding the instructions don’t place it in a box and make the background white this instructions were added because it was going to be useful for the other AI platform I was going to work with. After getting the first picture I thought there were too many details so I asked for a variety of pictures until I was able to get one that I thought could work. After getting the final picture I went to a different AI, this time it was Copilot Labs, I just uploaded the picture and got the 3D design ready to download. After that I set up the 3D printer with the help of my instructor using white filament.

  • For the second project, I used ThinkerCad and started experimenting on modeling 3D objects, I made a simple pen holder that I’m thinking of printing on different colors so that students can organize the colored pencils by color which will be very helpful for our art class organization. The other object I designed was a yarn holder, which is intended to work as a dispenser too, so this idea basically gets inspired by the chaos that is trying to organize yarn when we use it for our different projects, so the idea is to have a space where yarn is organized by colors and can be easily dispensed and each student gets to do it independently. Hopefully it’ll work. This is the link for the ThinkerCad Design page Yarn and Pen Holder

Reflection

  • Are you planning to use the fabricated object in your classroom? If so, how? I’m planning to use everything. The idea of the funko is to work on self reflection by asking students how they see themselves in ten years, making them create their 3D model based on their goals in ten years, and then having a painting activity to work on our art standards. The pen holder and yarn holder and dispenser I’m planning to use as an organization tool in the classroom. Also, I want students to think of other organization tips they think can be beneficial in the classroom and maybe they can design some other organization tools for our classrooms or other teachers’ classrooms.

  • Consider a learning activity involving 3D printing. How could it be aligned with your curriculum / standard? What are the challenges? Since I’m beginner in learning about 3D modeling I think thats the bigger challenge: learn about 3D modeling and design lessons for students being an apprentice myself. But there are many ways I think this activities are aligned with art standards. For example, one of the standards of 8th grade Visual Arts is Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of artmaking or designing. So I think for students to investigate, model, and create aligns to this standard very well.

  • Explain one successful educational activity in which you collaborated with other educators. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with other educators? What are the main aspects to take into account to prepare an education activity among 2 or more educators? I have collaborated with teachers in different activities which involve art and their class related content, for example creating story books with Language Arts students created their stories in LA class and and in our visual arts course they represented visually those stories. Another example, would be working with science explaining senses to students and for the sight sense we made some experiments with colors and paintings. Advantages could be that students see how other subjects connect to Art, a colleague can give you feedback on the project or can help you plan the activity, it’s good teamwork. Some disadvantages could be trying to sync up prep periods or classroom time. Some of the considerations are troubleshooting on main activities, prep time, standards alignment for both courses, lesson structure and teaching styles.

Tools

  • For printing: 3D printer: Creality K1
  • For modeling: AI: Gemini, Copilot Labs, and ThinkerCad
  • Filament