A new generation of students is here and they have grown up with computers and they expect them to be an integral part of ceramic education. Digitalfire has been here developing these products for their entire lives and longer. We are about giving people the information and tools they need to understand and control ceramic materials, glazes and bodies.
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Students want quality reference information on the web, not in books. You will not find another traditional ceramics reference website like this. It is a comprehensive project to document the traditional ceramic process from a materials-centric approach and in an interlinked way that mirrors the real-world hierarchy of oxides, minerals, generic materials, name-brand materials, recipes and testing. This database is completely open and free to anyone and has no advertising or trackers of any kind. Google will take students here for hundreds of searches. |
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It is about the data now. Documentation. A group account at insight-live.com will enable you to maintain your recipes, test results, firing schedules, pictures, materials, projects. Import your data. Do the chemistry. Link, share and publish. Works from any device having an HTML5 browser. All the students can contribute to a growing knowledge-base year-after-year, instructors can have full access. |
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Desktop INSIGHT: There is no getting away from it: there is a direct relationship between the way ceramic glazes fire and their chemistry. Without glaze chemistry your students will never really be able to properly fix problems, substitute materials, adjust, identify weaknesses, formulate or optimize glazes properly. No student can be fully competent without at least realizing the role that chemistry and mineralogy plays in fired glazes. INSIGHT is the international standard for interactive ceramic calculations. Anyone with an account or group membership at insight-live.com can now get Desktop INSIGHT free (download it from the Files panel in your insight-live.com account). |
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Training Videos: These step-by-step lessons on our site take students through every aspect of using desktop INSIGHT and their account at insight-live.com. They will learn the program and site mechanics and dealing with a host of glaze adjustment, formulation and trouble shooting issues.. To view them click here. |
If you have special needs and would like Tony Hansen to visit your school for a seminar, please contact us. Also, please login on our home page and then click the register button and fill in the seminar feedback questions to help us refine the program.
'; ?>There are thousands of ceramic schools around the world and we have a pretty good chunk of them registered here. Click here for the beginning page of this project, the bottom of the page has more info. Please click the register button on our home page and use the affiliation section to tell us about your craft, art or technical school or university.
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