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Our final meeting was intense - that matched up with the entire week. And, as a matter of fact these past two weeks have been rather intense as I continue my Diving Deeper into Design Thinking. I have still not shared this New Learning Portfolio. I am about to do that soon

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I would have loved to have met him. My children and I watched many of his programs together. We were so fascinated by his factory tours. I often can be heard saying, "Correct as usual King Friday" to a student. Some of them get it, but most have to hear an explanation.

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Thursday - Seeing the Glow Forage in Action

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Thursday - Seeing the Glow Forage in Action

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We created a design on a small piece of white paper with a thick black marker. In no time, the Glow Forage precisely cut out all of our designs. I have put my on a chain. In the center I have the letters LED. I hope to add led's to the back of this piece. LED's and circuits were a big part of my new learning this past week. Oops - i notice that my necklace is backwards. If I have time, I will flip the image.

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Jill is amazing - she made sure that there were moments of success. Even though she had another class coming in, she made sure I was set up for my project. It took time, but there was success. I will have to spend some more time on my own to get to a place where I am comfortable using the IDE software and programming the arduino devices. Jill was also willing to help me out with a WeVideo project by posing in front of the green screen.

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Jill not only taught me so much about coding with LED's, but she was nice enough to get in front of the green screen so that I could practice using WeVideo with the green screen background. We have used the chroma color with iMovie and WeVideo a bit, but I always need more practice. Her clip was a bit short, so I brought it into iMovie to reverse the clip, and then added that reverse clip to the movie. Now I am adding a red sparkly graphic (this is all happening 8/7). Now I have spent way too much time on trying to select a different beginning thumbnail. Yikes, i can't give up! I uploaded the WeVideo into Vimeo and was able to easily choose a new thumbnail. Guess that is a step I need to lean on WeVideo. I notice that sometimes the thumbnails come up, and sometimes they don't. Whatever. Problem solved- for now.

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Thanks, Craig.

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Wednesday - afternoon fails and successes

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Wednesday - afternoon fails and successes

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I was super excited about the toy hacking lesson, but I ended up stepping out rather early. After opening the solar powered Kitty, I was too puzzled to begin. Maybe I'll give this a try another time. Instead, Craig was there to help me with soldering. And help he did! He showed me how and continued to encourage me along the way. I did not give up, and finished the badge. That was special.

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Wednesday - first two morning sessions - Tinkercad and the 3D printer

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Wednesday - first two morning sessions - Tinkercad and the 3D printer

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Tony and Caty and Sarah were great teachers. I feel confident that I will be able to introduce Tinkercad to my 5th and 6th graders. Now, I am thinking about a project or a prompt to make it a deep learning experience. I thought about having students create their initials - I'd also get them to print out extra vowels - and we'd see what words we could create from the letters - and then later hang them in the "new" makerspace for a while - and then, of course, they'd string them up and hang them on a backpack. It is a simple idea, but maybe could work for a beginning lesson.

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Thanks to Tony, Caty and Sarah

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A short video about the light-up bookmark.

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Also - thanks for letting us know about Google Photos and the Assistant. Gotta love this animation maker!

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Yes, this is a great lesson for young students. I so appreciate the cautionary tales of battery and tool use. Good citizenship and safety policies are a must. Surprise candy is also important. Thanks, Lucie. Say, don't those twizzlers look like a string of lights making a circuit? I must be getting tired.

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Started off the day at Champlain Elementary School, and after lunchproblem of stacking the heavy went ovewr to the Generator. At the school I participated in two workshops: paper circuits and making with cardboard. I was informed and inspired in many ways. Caty and Shannon are experts. They do want us to excel. When we solved the problem of using one sheet of paper to hold a ream of paper up 1", I quickly crumpled a ball of paper, and it worked. Caty would not let us get away with that answer, so we went ahead and rolled 4 small tubes that also did the trick. What was great about this ( and also the cardboard challenge ) was the huge difference in how the teams solved the same problem. I will use these prompts with some of my classes.

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Until this brushbot gets legs, it will continue to just scoot along. I liked the part of the lesson where we took the motor out. It was tricky to get the wires into the small holes of the motor. I'm sure this could have been done with a soldering iron much quicker and better. I will continue to work on this scootbot tomorrow

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I am enjoying Padlet to create my reflections for my first day at Make Create Learn. This is a site that my students will love. It is easy, will hold different media, and can be shared.

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This is the book we assembled. We did not cut out the designs, but we used the drill press to make the holes.

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Here is one of my videos for the reflection. I hope to learn how to solder. I did not get a chance to create the glowing badge. I have bought 2 soldering irons for one of my schools.

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This is a collage made from Google Photos on my phone. This is something we will do right away at school. It is so fast and easy.

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I have made many interesting things today! It is awesome fun. Our maker box is filled with so many goodies. Lucie is the best, but all of the other instructors are great. They will not let us fail - not for long anyways.

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I have made many interesting things today! It is awesome fun. Our maker box is filled with so many goodies. Lucie is the best, but all of the other instructors are great. They will not let us fail - not for long anyways.