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Ira

Educator's space on the board
Mar 12^th, 2009, 9:59pm

Hi all,
Recently back from the fabulous artandcode conf at CMU, which had a wonderful Processing showing, including Ben, Casey, Dan, myself, numerous other instructors and many users. Ben and Casey gave a really inspiring presentation!

During the conference, in a Processing workshop I led, a few instructors asked about space on this site for more pedagogical related discussion on Processing's use in the classroom. I thought it was an awesome idea, and it was followed up with some more positive chatter on the conference site. Casey did mention that at one point such space existed but had very little activity.

So, I think we'd like to perhaps revive this effort in some way, maybe with a new topic to the discourse or maillist. What do you think. I have pledged to help moderate this effort (and I think Professor Shiffman will be assisting as well).

Best,
Ira

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cloister Full Member Offline Posts: 138	Re: Educator's space on the board Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2009, 11:34pm I don't think I would have much to contribute to such a forum myself, but generally speaking I think it's a great idea!

fjen

Re: Educator's space on the board
Reply #2 - Mar 13^th, 2009, 9:43am

hi ira!

it sure would be nice to get in touch with other educators .. just knowing who teaches what and where. beyond that i can't really see what i'd want from such an effort / place, so maybe you can outline the ideas that came up at AnC?

... or maybe that's just it: install a meeting place and see what comes up.

best and thanks!
F

cloister

Re: Educator's space on the board
Reply #3 - Mar 13^th, 2009, 5:46pm

Further food for thought: here is a blog post I wrote a while back for the Northwest Progressive Institude, advocating for an integrated math-and-art curriculum, in which we get kids to learn math skills as tools for realizing their artistic impulses:

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2009/02/math-and-art-in-education.html

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: Educator's space on the board Reply #4 - Mar 14^th, 2009, 4:32am FYI, you can see the old Educators space from the ALPHA board on the bottom of the page: http://www.processing.org/discourse/yabb/YaBB.cgi

Ira Full Member Offline Posts: 238 Dallas	Re: Educator's space on the board Reply #5 - Mar 14^th, 2009, 4:37pm Thanks Casey, It's really interesting reading those old posts, in the context of the discussions I'm having with art/design (and even CS) depts I speak with now - we really have come a long way.
	Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430219798 Center of Creative Computation Meadows/Lyle SMU, Dallas

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