For workshop questions contact: (505) 819-3905,
stemartslab@gmail.comFor venue questions contact:
taoshive@unm.edu
STEMarts Teacher Bootcamp
July 22, 2023
10am-5pm
This registration form is to sign up for one of the STEMarts Bootcamp FOR TEACHERS taking place at the HIVE in Taos on July 22, 2023. Coffee and croissants and lunch will be provided.
Purpose:
Teachers will learn about XR/AR/VR technologies and how to integrate them into their classrooms. This will be a hands-on workshop. In the morning session led by Alison Johnson (in-person), participants will learn how to use Oculus Quest headsets to explore immersive 360 experiences with a focus on STEAM concepts. In the morning session, led by Agnes Chavez and Monica Storss, with STEMarts Ambassadors, participants will learn about Augmented Reality and create their own AR experiences as part of an exciting educational STEMarts project. Teachers walk away with pedagogical knowledge, resources and confidence to implement their ideas using these new technologies.
STEMarts Teacher Bootcamp
July 22, 2023 | 10am-5pm
AGENDA
10:00-10:15am
Meet and greet with Coffee and croissants
10:15- 12:30pm
Agnes Chavez, STEMarts Lab Director, and Monica Storss, together with STEMarts Ambassadors, will be demonstrating how to use an Augmented Reality app called Hoverlay for classroom applications. Agnes will also share how teachers can become part of the Space Messengers international youth exchange.
Monica Storss: "In
this session, learners will go from having no prior experience with
Augmented Reality, to creating and interacting with their own Augmented
Reality environment. No coding knowledge or prior extended reality
experience is required. Using the no-code platform Hoverlay Spaces, we
will engage in account creation, understand object libraries and
anchors, and even go on to place content in an AR environment and
interact with it ourselves. You will need a phone capable of supporting
the Hoverlay app, and a computer or Chromebook capable of running a web
browser. We will also engage in building a community of practice, and
understand and discuss how AR may be used in a classroom practice or in
pedagogy at large."
12:30-1:30pm
Complementary Lunch box from Kokos
1:30-3:30pm
Alison Thomas, Digital Ant Media, will be presenting on the history of VR technologies, explain the differences between AR/VR/XR and allow participants to experience different types of VR experiences such as 360 videos and interactive VR. She will then share classroom strategies for integrating VR in the classroom.
3:30-4:30pm
Teachers practice session with new tools, ask questions, explore.
4:30-5:00pm
Closing session. Share ideas for classroom integration
Bios:
Alison Thomas, Digital Ant Media
Alison is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and media artist, with an M.A. in Digital Media. She was teaching film and media arts courses at Santa Fe Community College until recently and is now focused on producing VR content through her business Digital Ant Media, which she runs with her partner, Thomas Vause.
Monica Storss, Learning Management Specialist
ML (Monica) Storss is a poet and technoculturist who believes the future belongs to everyone.
She is the founder of Digital Poetics, an intersectional collaborative of poetry and emergent technologies.
In 2019 Digital Poetics created The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine, which debuted at MIT's Hacking Arts conference. In 2021, The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine was sent to Earth's moon as part of a larger payload delivery with Astrobotic.
She
works at MIT on technological solutions to humanistic challenges and
works with educational technologies and k-14 instructors globally. She
has created technical skills training programs, including in Augmented
Reality, for millions of users around the world, most recently for Intel
and HP. She believes that anyone can master any technology, and that
tech is a place of belonging for everyone.
In
her creative work, Monica is a humanities futurist. She works with
off-world art, poetics & emergent technologies. She founded the arts
collective known as Digital Poetics and is the creator of the Augmented
Reality Poetry Machine. The AR Poetry Machine debuted at MIT's Hacking
Arts Festival in 2019 and was sent to Earth's moon in February 2021 as
part of a larger payload delivery with Astrobotic.
Agnes Chavez, STEMarts Lab
Agnes is a new media interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates art, science and technology to create immersive installations combined with youth educational programs that empower youth to develop critical 21st century skills.
