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Open Space2 - K-Conference House Azalea Google SketchUp //Jeremy Sambuca Technology Coordinator at The Browning School jsambuca@browning.edu


 * Will be posting up a blog with Google SketchUp designs and pictures of final products... - Jeremy**

The SketchUCation Community Forum is a great resource. http://forums.sketchucation.com/

Bonnie Raskes has a great SketchUp website here: http://www.3dvinci.net/

I've collected a lot of my work with SketchUp over the years here: http://dws.editme.com

Andrew Nathanson, who graduated from RCDS last June, did a tremendous amount of work with SketchUp, so much that he was invited out to Google headquarters to present at the last SketchUp Basecamp.

Andrew's blog is here: http://3dbasecamp.blogspot.com/

A video of his presentation is here: http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/all-sessions-2008/making-your-mark-with-sketchup //

arvind's notes:

Used Sketchup to create new room layouts for tech center and library - presented to faculty/staff/board You can add scenes rather than moving through the environment - literally walk-through space Teamed up with art teacher to put together an integrated project on architecture - 7th grade Search for different architects and use some of their designs in their Sketchup project 4-6 weeks, meeting 2 times per week Printed them out, brought them down to scale In art class constructed 3-d models out of foam core, paint, etc In March made a cityscape of all of the buildings
 * Class Projects **

- - Anslee de Lastic, tech teacher @ Claremont Prep - I teamed up with 6th grade science teacher who assigned students to work in groups to create a 'Simple Machines Playground' where students created models of playground equipment that demonstrated simple machines, i.e. see-saw, etc. - I like this idea and would like to do it again, but will spend more planning time with science teacher before projet begins - we learned a lot as we went and realized that only about a third of students had the Sketch-Up skills to create what they had planned/envisioned in their plans.

[|Google Sketchup for Education website] - licensing information towards the bottom of this page. Pro version is free for educators, need a license for students. Jeremy just uses the free version and has found it enough for him and for his students.

[|Examples of K-12 work] in Sketchup (from Google's ed page)

[|K-12 case studies] of Sketchup projects (from Google's ed page)