My Animations
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What is PBL |
Why PBL is important |
Planning and letting go |
How To Schedule PBL |
Authentic Education |
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What PBL is not |
Ping-Pong Collaboration |
Peanut Butter Cup Collaboration |
Notice and Connect |
Curation is Art |
Cover Your A** |
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Melanoma Tech High Fall 2013
This painting is the prototype for the fall semester (2013) Robin-Robinson team. We will be collaborating with DermTech, a biotech company that has created a breakthrough test for Melanoma. The students will research the biology, treatment, and prevention of Melanoma, and they will also perform lab experiments to increase their understanding of biology through the lens of cancer. This class work will inform their illustrations that will then be exhibited at DermTech Laboratory on Torrey Pines Mesa.
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The New Path of the Buddha |
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The New Path of the Buddha is an interdisciplinary project between Art and English. The students will develop a new Buddha story using the vernacular of a specific time and place. They will need to do visual and idiomatic research and synthesizes the story of the Buddha in this new place and time. Then they must tell their new story. |
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La Jolla Light, article about exhibition |
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Behold, High Tech High |
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Frontiers in a high school?
A Partnership with San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
This project began in May 2012 when the education directors from the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, Anne Kindseth and Christina Scorza, contacted my teaching partner, Kelly Williams, and I. They asked if we wanted to bring our students for multiple visits to the museum so that they would gain a greater understanding of the artwork and have a chance to make their own art as well.
Kelly and I presented the project idea to the students and called it Behold, High Tech High! The project entailed three visits to the SDCMA, research of the art, and an exploration of the concept of frontiers. Then students would ultimately present what they learned at a showcase at the museum. |
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55 Word Short Stories with Collage |
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Ghosts. Phobias. Memories. Love. Lust. Death.
All topics covered in stories of only 55 words. Storytelling in its leanest, most fun and challenging form. Every word matters. Only the essential to advance the plot is necessary. Success depends not on lengthbut on depth. It’s a shorter short story. –Kelly Williams (my team teacher) |
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7.7 Mile Box 47 Students |
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| As a team of 47, we walked and drove to Bird Rock Coffee Roasters 5627 La Jolla Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92037 from High Tech High 2861 Womble Rd, San Diego, CA 92106, a total of 7.7 miles. It took 3 hours just what google maps said it would take, however we had a 12'x4'x8" boxs with us.
Watch Video, music donated By Namism
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Graphic Novel Spring 2012 (too)
Weclome to the Monkey House |
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This project is homage to Kurt Vonnegut and the 20th century. The students will study, discus and debate the short stories in Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House. The stories were all first published in magazines like Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Playboy from 1950 to 1962.
The subjects rang from 1950’s predictions of the end of civilization, the space race and men coming home from the Korean War. Then the students will deconstruct the stories and re-specify those stories using images and text.
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Mater to Master Spring 2012
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I went to the LA Louver gallery in Venice Beach and saw an inspirational show. Artists like David Hockney, Tom Wudl and Rebecca Campbell and other Contemporary Masters were showing work that was inspired by an old master’s paintings and sculptures. My students emulate this idea using the the themes and compositions of Old Masters and the Style of Modern or Contemporary Masters.
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The Show in the News |
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Motive and Motif
We are going to go to San Diego Museum of art. There we will discover artists that we may or may not have heard of.
Each student will take a painting and find the artist’s motive for creating the work and the motifs that inspirited them. Then using the Artist's Motive and Motif each student will make a painting or sculpture. |
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Phys-Newton
In this project an Art teacher (Jeff Robin) and a Physics teacher (Andrew Gloag) had students design posters to teach the California State Physics standards. We concentrated on the first two realms of the standards which cover mechanics and Newtonian physics. The physics concepts were presented as explanations for the images they put together and painted. |
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Get Bent
This year Andrew Gloag (Physics& Math) and I did a project with our students called “Get Bent”. The idea came from us working together in the past where we used art and calculus to explain each other. It was called “Calculicious making calculus delicious”. This year we decided to try and move in a different direction, just a little bit. Get Bent will uses three-dimensional geometry, calculus and physics to explain design of chairs, lamps and to write a books about the experience.
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Get Bent in SD Mag. |
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Economics Illustrated
Dan Wise and I shared 45 students that studied and wrote about economic theories in his class and illustrated them in mine. This was not easy; the concepts were complex and sometimes difficult to explain and convey with images. The students worked hard to understand and explain their concepts, and Dan and I worked hard on not killing each other. There were hundreds of linoleum prints, and posters explaining their work, and a book on blurb.com that features their best work. I would like to thank Kai Wells for helping put the book together. |
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Rome
In January 2010 my intersession class went to Rome. Mostly to see ate, but also for the experience. I shot the trip with my I Phone, and made a B&W book on Blurb. It’s about $10, check it out it might give you ideas. |
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Calculicious Spring 2009
Calculicious was a cross-curricular project between me and Andrew Gloag, the Calculus teacher.We came up with the title of the project and logo before we even decided what the project would really be. We both knew that art has math and math has art, so I guess it was faith.
The students designed their Watercolors, Acrylic Paintings and Sculptures using the calculus that they learned in class. We later exhibited the work at the San Diego Airport. You can purchase a book ofour work at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/675796 |
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The Blood Bank Project
This project was a collaboration between the San Diego Blood Bank and High Tech High seniors. It was also a collaboration between the Biology / Multimedia Teacher and the Art teacher.
The students learned about blood, blood diseases, blood in the body, blood banking, and blood politics. They also educated the community and brought awareness to the issues that surround our San Diego Blood Bank. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/946957
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Analog Flash for Windows
This project was meant to focus the students' minds around the concept that they were either making art about Physics and Engineering or using physics and engineering to make Art.
We decided to use the school’s interior window boxes as a constraint and to display their work. The 24 x 24 x 5 inch windows were perfect for: Analog Flash for Windows. Analog: because most of the projects are mechanical. Flash: references the program for interactivity. For Windows: not for PC but the actual windows at High Tech High. |
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ROME |
*Not approved by anyone at HTH, please don't call my boss to complain.
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| Rome Maps |
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| Dad's Test Page |
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