There is a way to get more than the 3 font options in Tinkercad. Here is a great Instructables  and I made a short video based on it. Basically : 1) download a font file (free ones obviously) (here is one possible site) 2) convert the .otf (open the zip to get at that) to… Read more »

Last week we went to The Club at Crosspoint, a co-working space in Fishers, for the Launch(ed) Women in Technology Conference. The conference is hosted by Indiana University President Pamela Whitten and offers opportunities for middle school girls to learn, explore and interact with innovations, tech products, and STEAM professionals. About 200 young ladies attended…. Read more »

On Feb 27, we went down to Jasper to the Southern Indiana Education Center to do some #MakerEd #MakerSpace training with about 2 dozen educators. All tables had a pile of stuff to create with, and the assignment was “make something”. We gave them about an hour to create. We went around the room, chatting… Read more »

In 2020, we were all looking for remote/virtual things for our students to do. With the help of my Twitter friends, I compiled a list of ~80 sites where students can design & create a variety of things. There are coding sites, virtual robotic environments, picture editing, drawing, vector graphics, audio recording, avatar creation, music… Read more »

We rotated through 5 Kindergarten classes (~30 minute each) at Linton-Stockton Elementary to explore ideas of why things sink/float. We asked “why things sink (or float)…” and there were lots of good ideas about “heavy” and “light” and “big” and “gravity” and “pushing up”. One young scientist said that the water was heavier than the… Read more »

I am going to work with some kindergarten kids on “sink & float” because they are doing some content that is about boat voyages. We will give them a variety of items to conjecture then test whether they sink or float. We will try making a foil “boat” to hold some pennies and see how… Read more »

The Hoosiers Association of Science Teachers (HASTI) annual meeting was Feb12-14 in Indianapolis (#HASTI23). It was actually combined with ICTM (Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics). It was your traditional conference setup… lots of session choices available in each time slot (8-10) and a vendor hall. Having Mathematics and Science in the same place gave… Read more »

One way to help build that #MakerMindset is to give learners many options for being creative. A Lego wall is one way to do that. It could be in your room or in the hall. It could be “permanent” or portable. Dr. Jacie Maslyk, a Pittsburgh are educator, writes a nice post about how to… Read more »

The City of Bloomington has some events for Black History Month and we are working with them on some things. Thought we would fidget with the logo and hashtag to laser cut/3D print some items to see what works and might be useful. Reminder : not all fonts laser cut well.

Here is a great article about Maker Centered Learning (aka #MakerEd) and the need for #MakerSpaces and #MakerMindset https://www.nsba.org/ASBJ/2023/february/maker-space