Blender and Bloom’s
The free technology I’ve chosen for today’s post is Blender’s downloadable software. This is an amazing site with more examples in their gallery than I can even wrap my head around. It’s amazing how artistically talented some people are.
But, on to the educational stuff. This software allows the user to created a virtual 3-D model of any project they are currently working on. The fact that its free is outstanding as most schools don’t have the budgets to purchase necessary software and I’m pretty sure this would fall into the “extras” column at any board meeting. What I see this software providing is a means for higher level STEM collaborators to engage their students in building a project, yet cutting down on the actual materials (read money) and space needed to perform some of the experiments.
This is a software that I would definitely need someone with more hands on knowledge to assist me in, but the possibilities rattling around in my head are endless. Not only could a STEM collaboration class use this, but physics and any higher level art class if the school is lucky enough to have one.
This software would allow a physics class to create a lab based on a book problem. They could then virtually build the lab, apply the laws a physics, see it played out and alter their variables. This would take Physics (a traditionally hard class that I believe is due to the lack of ability to act out the problems) and bring it to life before student’s eyes, all inside a classroom.
Megan S Lewis 