Hello Everyone!
What an adventure with Dean Walton today from 3D printing to informational search methods to artistic exhibition of scientific images in the Scientia Venustior exhibit. We hope you were able to take away some basic ideas about producing exhibits as well as knowledge of using UO library databases to find strong peer-reviewed sources for your proposal in Report 2 due next Thursday. Also, don’t forget that you have to access FREE 3D printing and campus Makerspace (laser cutters, foam cutters, and infrared cameras, oh my!) when it becomes available.
Pop Culture Reference for the Day:
Failure Achievement Write Up Guidelines:
For those of you working on the “failure achievement”, here are guidelines for how to develop your journal postings about such activities:
Post within existing assigned Journal entries about your creative and research process and/or post a new Journal entry specifically addressing an element of “failure” you have dealt with in this seminar. For new postings be sure to identify that the posting is addressing the ‘Failure’ Achievement by addressing the following:
1. What was the “failure”?
2. How will you learn from this failure and build upon it for the next stages of your creative and/or research process in the seminar?
3. Reference the BBC article “Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure” and how the writing connects to your specific failure and/or your learning from that failure (article link: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34775411?post_id=10207428879533532_10207428879453530)
4. (If possible answer this, but may not fully apply to the failure you are addressing so #4 is optional) Do you have examples of how this failure has informed experiences you are having outside of the seminar; such as, did what you learn from this failure help you in another class, work, your approach to a project, your mindset about the failure, etc.? Or did you have a “failure” learning experience outside of the seminar that is informing ways in which you are approaching your work in this seminar? (Thank you, Erin Meyer, for this idea!)
Reminders for Next Week (Week 3)
1. Bring your 9 Dots exercise to Tuesday’s class. We will be using this activity as part of our work with our guest speaker, Lisa Freinkel.
2. Finalize Report 2, your proposed artist/science intersection to explore throughout the term. Remember to pick someone/something that HIGHLY interests you and will keep your interest, even passion, throughout the term. Due next Thursday.
3 & 4. Read the article in your course packet by Marshall & D’Adamo’s “Art practice as research in the classroom” and post your reading response about ideas presented in the article.
As always, please let us know questions you have. Enjoy your weekend.