I am setting up a Wiki for my sixth grade classes to document their work building model arcologies. We look at the work of visionary architect Paolo Soleri, the inventor of the arcology, and talk about how we might structure a community so that cars are unnecessary. Students self-select groups of two, three or four and plan and build together.
A Wiki for the Arcology Project
September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments
3-D Art lessons
Tagged: arcology, collaboration, community, constructed sculpture, elementary art, Soleri
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Shelley Paul
// Sep 30, 2008 at 5:35 am
Oh, I love the environmentalism inherent in this project. I hope you will share your wiki address. I will be curious to know if you see a difference in the students’ work or motivation from adding the online component…
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Ric
// Sep 30, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Couple quick notes: the link to Arcosanti’s web site is not correct. It looks like the URL for this page got prepended to http://www.arcosanti.org.
Also, my wife and I lived at Arcosanti for about a year, so feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Arcosanti.
Good luck with the projects! Sounds like fun. While we were there, a couple of the residents built a gingerbread Arcosanti (http://www.arcosanti.org/today/2006/12/22.html). I don’t know how well that idea would work with 6th graders; likely more eating than building….
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susanclifton
// Oct 3, 2008 at 5:50 am
Thanks to Shelley and Ric for your comments, encouragement and information. I very much appreciate the heads up on the site I tried to link. I’m new at this, so after I tried it again a couple of times I just wrote it in until I can get some help.
I’m photographing classes as they work and moving toward each group being able to enter their thoughts on a separate page on the wiki, but so far have only signed up for the site. The students are looking forward to posting, so we will do it soon.
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jamieashley
// Oct 13, 2008 at 11:10 am
I was looking over your blog as part of our Web 2.0 homework . . . I’m really looking forward to seeing your students progress on this project. I think you’re going to have some really cool outcomes, especially with the collaboration! Great lesson!
I’m an art teacher as well and was hoping to find out what other art teachers are doing with the blogs, wikis, and so on! Thanks for sharing.
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