Why did you pick this chapter? I’m still not sure what I officially want to do for my final lesson plan. So I decided to read a chapter on ATtiny85s titled “Tiny Adventures in Affordable Physical Computing”. After talking to my professor about them, I wanted to learn more about them. Without knowing it, we […]
Partner Scratch Game!
Reflect on you and your partner’s design thinking process. What was your contribution? At first, due to some technical difficulties, we did not have as much time to talk about conflicts and what we wanted to do for our game during class. However, we were able to brainstorm a little through texting. After thinking, we […]
Response Post 6: Meaningful Making
Why did you pick this chapter? I chose this chapter to read because before creating a final project, I wanted to really understand why you should bring making into the classroom. This chapter was very inciteful and taught me the significance of incorporating making into the classroom. Many of the articles in this chapter came […]
Response Post #5 Mitch Resnick’s Ted Talk
Integrating Art and STEM: Resnick talks about how nice it is to see young students creating things on scratch. For example, he was happy to see how many children created mother’s day cards on scratch. He feels that students are becoming fluent in new technologies. He brings up a good point he brings up the […]
Art and Scratch
Reflect on your design thinking process. When I started this assignment I was confused as to where to begin. I was not completely comfortable with scratch so it was difficult. To begin I looked at the professor’s sample and followed her coding. This helped me understand how the coding worked specifically for creating a moving […]
First Scratch Game!
Reflect on your learning process, using the Design Thinking framework Since scratch is new to me, my first steps using the design thinking framework was to research and understand what scratch is. By writing the blog post on creative computing, I learned a lot about using scratch in the classroom and how using scratch can […]
Response #4: What Is Creative Coding?
What is Creative Computing? Compare and contrast with your prior knowledge of art and art education. Creative computing uses scratch in the curriculum. “Scratch is a programming environment that enables young people to create their own interactive stories, games, and simulations, and then share those creations in an online community with other young programmers from […]
Marble Run
The theme of our marble run is recycling. We represented our theme by using items around the house and that should be recycled such as water bottles, paper towel rolls, straws, etc. Our idea was to start the marble near a garbage can go passed it, and travel to a reusable bag instead. I personally […]
Tribute Card Assignment and Blogpost
Address your design process and how design thinking relates to this project I decided to make a card for my boyfriend and represent our favorite thing to do which is to walk the boardwalk at the beach. My overall goal was to create a pop-up card that when opened, the walking couple popped up and […]
Circuit Prototyping Blog Post
How did you prototype? Having never worked with paper circuits before, I had to really tinker and play around with the materials. I first had to learn how to get the LED light to light up with just the battery. I learned that putting the positive side of the light on the positive side of […]