Art in 3-d for elementary classes

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Thing 19 Social Networking and YouTube

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I set up my Delicious site and gathered quite a few great Youtubes, some relating to arcology and some relating to claymation, and one of my historic faves of a drum contest between the Muppet Animal and the famous drummer, Buddy Rich. I have not been able to get them over to the k12learning20 list, [...]

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Arcology Progress

October 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Yippee! One sixth grade class has begun their pages on our Wiki, documenting the model arcologies they have been building. We have had a hard time scheduling the computer lab, so we have just been building and building and photographing along.  I hope you enjoy it as it grows!

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A Wiki for the Arcology Project

September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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