This is our classroom.
Room 402 is the home of Christina Jenkins and her students at the NYC iSchool, a public high school in Manhattan. We study design, film, journalism, comics, maps, games, people and many other things.
Thank you for helping to fully fund our latest Donors Choose project in Fall 2011: dozens of markers for our 500 sq ft of whiteboard-surfaced walls! For details, click here.
Thanks to many generous contributions via Donors Choose in Spring 2011, Room 402 now uses IdeaPaint-ed tables! Take a look at the Flickr feed for pictures.
Christina is a teacher and designer whose interests are in design, learning spaces, illustrated fiction, and animation. She can be reached at cjenkins@mail.nycischool.org. Her work can be found at http://christinamjenkins.com.
News from Room 402 / Early April, 2012
Above: Kevin and Izzy working on their map projection project on the whiteboard walls Cartography: This course uses mapping to ask questions about how we perceive the world, how images are used to illustrate statistics and tell stories, and how we translate 3D spaces to 2D surfaces. We began the course by drawing outlines of the … Read more
Thank you, Sixteen!
Dear Sixteen, Ms. Fay and I found out a week or so ago that, thanks to The Sixteen Project, we will have the opportunity to travel through Southeast Asia this summer to do ethnographic fieldwork – the same type of work you all do in our classes. We’re expecting to visit Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and … Read more
News from Room 402 / Mid-March, 2012
Above: The final film in Sixteen is a documentary of a youth subculture. “Bronies” refers to boys (and men) who watch “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” Game Design: The final challenge concludes on Wednesday! The photo on the homepage of this site is of Maria working on her final game; you can find additional … Read more
News from Room 402 / Early February 2012
Above: The iSchool Technovation Challenge team, designing gifts for each other at their first meeting in late January. Our group of 11 girls, 9-11th graders, will compete against teams across the city to design a mobile app for science education. Game Design: We’ve spent the past couple of weeks working on two different challenges – … Read more
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