I’m sitting in an airport cafe, typing on a laptop. Almost every person of the 100 or so people in my vicinity is either connected to a digital device or has one sitting on the table near them. My students’ lives are so entangled with their devices that, it seems to me, that even when [...]
In a few days Bill Darling, Linda Wooster and I – and twelve printmaking and drawing students – will depart for two weeks of drawing, printmaking and exploring in Florence Italy. This is the first time in ten years of making this trip to Italy that we have (with the help of Josh Seamon and [...]
A discussion has been started within the technology group about creating a technology lab that goes beyond a computer writing lab. This would be a place where any student (or faculty member, for that matter) involved in a project requiring specialized software that is not commonly available on Academy computers, such as Photoshop or FinalCut, [...]
A paintbrush is a tool. A computer is a tool. Years ago, when I had recently finished my study of painting at the Art Students League of New York and was working hard in my studio to further develop my skills and voice, I had a conversation with my father that has stuck with me [...]
This semester finished with a heavy emphasis on video production and editing within my capstone class. Four students in my visual art capstone used video this year, while last year only one student had video as part of his presentation. I have some general observations about students and video: Their everyday involvement with YouTube has [...]
During last week’s NECAP Schedule morning meetings I worked with the Art Department faculty on some basic portal functions, such as creating calendars and uploading resources. I also helped those Visual Art faculty who were unfamiliar with GoogleDocs explore the possibilities that it offers, and we began to organize the ways in which we can [...]
Documenting student artwork and storing it in an organized, retreivable and editable way is a challenge that the Fine Arts department has been struggling with for some time. The digital images that need to be stored, edited and organized with useful file names – and in a resolution high enough to allow for reproduction of [...]
At the beginning of this year I was given a Macbook to integrate into my teaching process, and a task tech-relateded to pursue. My initial task – that of getting a wiimote whiteboard system up and running – was frustrated by physical limitations of the school’s buildings and codes. Particularly, without a ceiling-mounted projector, all my [...]
While having a dedicated projector and screen set up in my studio – along with a working laptop – continues to add a strong new dimension to my classes, I have yet to get the wiimote whiteboard working well enough to use it in class. Thinking that the delays and inaccuracies might be mainly a [...]
I’m a bit behind on my Blog posts. In recent weeks, working with students on capstone papers has taken precedence over everything else, and I’m not our from under it yet! For this reason, I have had no time to attempt to solve the disfunctions in the wiimote smartboard set up, but I have been [...]