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3D Dream Makers Idea Challenge
2014 Students with special needs often need tools and learning aids that are expensive or don’t exist. I started the Dream Makers Ideas Challenge at the Intermediate School District 916 to quantitatively measure the need, collect a list of things that are needed, and to generate awareness of 3D printing as a solution. After recruiting…
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Unit 2 – Programming
Originally posted JANUARY 18, 2014 The second unit was about two weeks long and introduced students to computer programming. I really lucked out this year by having the nation wide “hour of code” push happen at about the same time. In past years I started out teaching students processing and then arduino. Processing is great…
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Outdoor Conductivity Fun!
Originally Posted: APRIL 22, 2010 This quarter’s Physical Computing class is focusing on making interactive music. The first topic is resistance. We’ve gone over what a regular circuit resistor is and now we’re testing the resistance/conductivity of everything else. Today we a simple circuit to test the conductivity of plants outside. It was amazingly successful…
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Student’s Review of Physical Computing
Originally posted JUNE 14, 2010 I just finished teaching my third quarter long Physical Computing class. It had its ups and downs but was overall very positive. I have my students fill out a Course Review sheet to give me some feedback about what they liked, didn’t like, and what improvements to make. There is…
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WordPress for student run class sites
Originally posted NOVEMBER 2, 2010 I’ve been using WordPress Multi-site for my class website for a few years. Last year I began experimenting with the plugin BuddyPress for student blogs, groups, forum posts, and communication. Students really enjoyed having their own website to customize and the facebook like abilities of updating their status, friending classmates,…
