What is Digital Art?

After an exciting first class teaching Digital Design I'm increasingly inspired by the ability for an individual to define digital design in such a variety of ways. I found myself inspired by the variety of work I saw from past IB Visual Arts students and my conversation with my Visual Arts department chair. I'm excited to explore how to use the laser cutter, 3D printers and our new milling machine with both practical as well as creative applications. It's amazing how many digital tools now exist that weren't available when I was in school. I can't help but think how exposure to these tools and proficiency with them will shape our world in the near future.

As part of our first class I used a google form to ask the students which type/s of art interest them and why. I played around creating a word cloud of their responses and found it a fun and meaningful interpretation of where I see them not only on their first day of Digital Design, but as 9th grade students starting their journey through high school. I then cut this wordcloud into wood. Check out the video below!

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Making Custom Shapes in TinkerCad!

In browsing through tutorial videos for Tinkercad I came across this video, a timelapse of a watermelon being created . Cool stuff, but fast-paced on timelapse so I consulted with one of our 4th grade TinkerCad experts here at Stuart Hall and we figured out the steps he used. Check it out below and start making your own Tinkercad custom parts. Digital Design Students here at Convent & Stuart Hall will be starting on this tomorrow.

Screen Recording & Embedding Your Video in a Blog

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