It's been a few months since I researched 3D printer apps, so I took another look at what was around. I came across 3DSlash (essentially like a sculpting tool) and wanted to trial it with our Gr3 students. As they're studying First Nations pre-European contact, in conjunction with the class teachers we decided to create Inukshuks. Once I had worked out how to save the student work (using a free account we're only able to log in two students at a time) we got to work. The first session was free play to explore how the app worked, then the second session focussed on the Inukshuk design. Not every student was able to finish, so we'll need one more session in order for everyone to have a finished product. The results speak for them selves!
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I'm keen to use the 3D printer with a whole class project. Next week I'd like to use it with the Gr4 classes making a bookmark. As they're going to be studying explorers I thought I could imprint a galleon shape using the hole function in TinkerCad, then the students could personalise their bookmarks. This seems like an intermediate step before they design their own products in TinkerCad. Here are some examples (note the bottom one was the first design where the galleon didn't imprint well!)
We've been fortunate to have acquired a Tinkerine Ditto Pro 3D printer. Now the task is to learn how to use it, and then to develop student projects so that classes can use it effectively. Of course one issue is the long time it takes to print projects. I anticipate being able to print multiple prints in one pass, but time will still need to be taken into account. As far as software goes it seems that tinkercad.com is the most straightforward to use as a design platform. The only iPad software that I found very simple to use was Cubify Draw. Students in 45MacS made their names into 3D prints which proved easy to finish, each one taking about 20 minutes to print.
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