Art Teaching with a touch of Technology

Look!  by  Mark's Postcards...  via CC2.0 Searching the internet is not hard.  It has actually gotten easier! There are lots of ways to find your information faster... by knowing how to search.  In the slides below, there are lots of tips and information to follow to make searches: Faster, Easier, and more accurate. Take notes and do your own search here: https://goo.gl/KKQs1p What did you find helpful?  Make a comment below!

Waupaca Middle School will be opening YouTube to students soon.  So... Why? 'introducing kobena super 8 for the creative film maker 1966' by Nesster  via CC 2.0 YouTube is a fantastic learning resource.  Don't know how to fix your garbage disposal? Chances are, someone on YouTube has already created a video to help you along .  Want to learn the basics of playing the guitar ?  Again, there is a giant pile of video content for that.  YouTube seems to be the way that people learn. But YouTube can also create new opportunities for your classroom.  Heard of 'Flipping' your Classroom?  YouTube is often a great way to change the dynamic of your classroom. What about homework help.... linking videos that cover content that you are sending home, that might be able to remind the student about what was discussed in the classroom. Here are my slides for the session: Here is my Handout :  https://goo.gl/hv5oZr Here is the shorte...

Life has been interesting moving back to the USA.  My new job has been interesting.  Still settling in, finding where to best use my techie skills.  I enjoy working with the fantastic staff at Waupaca Middle School. A big change for me this year is supporting Chromebooks mixed with iMacs as teacher computers.  It's a Google Apps for Education school, with Hapara dashboard mixed in.   Some good tools.  This is the first year of a 1:1 Chromebook initiative for the Middle School.  Although teachers have had Chromebooks in their classrooms in the past, the devices did not travel with the students around the school. The Chromebook program, at this point, has taken up most of my time. To help with the Chromebook program, I have started a new tech training blog for the Waupaca School District.  This is where I am posting information, tech tips, and training materials.  As the school year is young, I still have yet to start face to face t...

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It's been a great job, but it's time to move on... I've had the pleasure of working at Korea International School for four years.  I've had an opportunity to grow as an educator, and show my talents with technology.  I had the opportunity to work in the Fishbowl, KIS's training center. But this school has many talented people that I will miss. People that have shown me and my family friendship.  Many people that have been wonderful to work with and to coach.  Educators that have been willing to take calculated risks, and try new ways to improve their classroom with technology. Also, just some great folks with whom I have worked.  I was able to get some selfies with them, but sadly, I want able to get photos with everybody. Goodbye KIS album 27 new photos · Album by Art Schultz A I will miss Korea, and KIS, and many folks that I have been able to work with around the international school community around Asia.   I'm moving back to the Uni...

via Instagram http://ift.tt/24BPWfc Last day of students at Korea International School. I'll be moving on to Wisconsin, and Rick will be retiring! Best luck to the team next year! I'll miss this crew! 

This year, my school purchased not one, not two, but five 3D printers.  All of them, the same model, the  XYZ DaVinci Duo printer .  As an EdTech specialist, and self-proclaimed 'king-nerd' of the office, I chose to learn what I could to get them useable in learning activities in the classroom. So... here is a bit of where I came from, and where I got to... and a few of the 'how-to-fix' things I figured out. STL vs CAD file .STL files are a pretty standard file for 3D printing.  Basically, your 3D printer is printing lots of little triangles, stacked and arranged in different ways to build your model.  But, there are different types of STL files.  The XYZ printer likes ASCII STL files.  So, if you are downloading... conversion may be required. Making  Getting 3D designs made is a challenge, but there are a lot of tools.  A number of them come from AutoDesk for free.  Here are a few I like: Mac 123D Design ...