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At an early age I was diagnosed with a seizure disorder for which I was heavily medicated. My parents prior to pre-K enrolled me in a catholic school outside...

EDU692: Culture of Poverty, Material Consumption Activity

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Topic 5: Poverty, Stereotypes, and Curriculum Assignment 5: Read, “The Myth of the Culture of Poverty,” by Paul Gorski

Welcome to Jekyll!

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You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different wa...

2018

My Teaching Philosophy

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My approach to teaching has been heavily guided by my experiences operating and teaching in makerspaces in Philadelphia. I have been a heavy proponent of the...

My Ideal Classroom

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My ideal classroom is a room with four clearly defined zones. The first is for storage student bags, projects, and a locked area for materials. This is ideal...

Why do I teach?

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Ever since I stepped into the woodshop in college I have been interested in teaching. The exchange of skills, ideas, and critique in design studios were eye ...

Reflecting on my Favorite Teacher

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Mr. Foldesy, my High School art teacher was one of the best. Mr. Foldesy seemed like a laid back art teacher, but his design courses were engaging to all. He...

How can public schools be improved?

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I believe public schools can be improved by allowing students creative agency in personal projects. Looking back on my time as a student as well as my curren...

How important is writing in your discipline(Industrial Design)?

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Although heavily dependent on visual communication my discipline requires one to be comfortable and confident with their writing. One must be able to communi...

The skills or attributes to be an outstanding teacher

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In experience both within the classroom and in informal instructional roles I have found three qualities that help one become a better educator: amiability, ...

On addressing a wide range of skills and abilities

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As most of my classrooms have been project based I have found cycling through my methods of instruction to be most beneficial. Throughout a project I will le...

2016

Summer Institute 2017 Art, Media + Design LookBook

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Summer Institute 2017 Art, Media + Design LookBook

2015

Make Your Own Field Reports

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Originally posted November 25th, 2015 in the Library Journal. [gallery type=”slideshow” size=”large” ids=”238,239,240,241,242,243” orderby=”rand”]

Summer Institute 2015 Art, Media + Design LookBook

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Summer Institute 201 Art, Media + Design LookBook

Badging 101

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Archive: Mentors Kenny and BK @ Maker Camp!

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Originally posted August 15, 2015 on the a http://makerjawn.org/blog/2015/08/03/makercamp15/

Archive: Open Letter to Librarians on 3D Printing

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Originally posted April 10, 2015 on the Maker Jawn Blog:

Archive: The State of Digital Badging at the Free Library

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Originally posted January 9, 2015 on the Maker Jawn Blog: One of the great things about working for Maker Jawn is watching learning happen in spontaneous, an...

2014

Archive: Making Possibilities at the Village

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Originally Posted June 30, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog:

Current Prototypeon The Right Keeping My

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[gallery] Current prototype(on the right), keeping my fingers crossed!

OneKey: Update 3/21

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[gallery] With the new circuit I’m working on … because it uses the Arduino IDE to program it Ardublock can be used. Ardublock is an interface t...

I Began Working On A New Circuit That Halves The

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[gallery] I began working on a new circuit that halves the cost of the MMM. It’s slowly coming together.

Maker Corps Info and Q&A Session 3.04.14

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Maker Corps Info and Q&A Session 3.04.14<div class="link_description"><blockquote class="link_og_blockquote">Find out more about Maker Corps,...

We Were At Stamp Act Day At Hamilton Hall Uarts

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[gallery] We were at STAMP ACT day at Hamilton hall @ UArts. It was a day filled with youth and young adults interacting with our stuffs and looking for summ...

We Got A Vinyl Cutter At Our New Space In The

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[gallery] We got a vinyl cutter at our new space in the library! ^_^ We’ve also acquired a 3D printer in our newly named “5A lab”!

Victor Made His Own Makey Makey Today He Was So

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[gallery] Victor made his own MaKey MaKey today. He was so stoked about it. “I can’t wait to go home and break my computer!” “Can we ...

Victor 9 At Kensington Was Playing With One Of

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[gallery] Victor, 9, at kensington was playing with one of my prototypes. He found some LEDs and began powering them by shorting the traces. He seems really ...

Some Pics From The Instructors Workshop It Was

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[gallery] Some pics from the instructors workshop. It was interesting to see how many questions came out of every little step throughout the process of makin...

Those Striped Jawns Are Resistors They Are

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[gallery] “those “striped jawns” are resistors. they are like water taps for electricity that only allow a little [water] through”

What Even Is This I Dont Understand What Is

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[gallery] “what even is this… …I don’t understand what is going on there…“ Eric’s response to K-Fai showing him pictures @ ...

makerjawn/jawnware

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makerjawn/jawnware

Had An Idea Today As I Contemplated A Usb Toy

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Had an idea today as I contemplated a USB toy business-card. One of the larger costs is the usb cable, which up to this point I’ve been able to scrap o...

I Had To Get Windows And Install Atmelstudio 6 To

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[gallery] I had to get Windows and install AtmelStudio 6 to work on recompiling a .hex for the Attiny85. After a bit of research and tinkering it worked. It&...

Got My Code Recompiled

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//instagram.com/p/krfgC0Gcth/embed/ got my code recompiled!

2.21jawnware check-in

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//e.issuu.com/embed.js<p>✔ Material Exploration.</p> The vinyl cutter pushes the copper tape past just making simple circuits(with ease). ✔ Code...

Teen Tech Week

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Teen Tech Week<div class="link_description"><blockquote class="link_og_blockquote">Celebrate technology for teens at your library this March with...

Collaborative Work

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[gallery] This sort of collaboration was awesome to see. Shanaya(12), Brandon(9), and Judas(14) worked in a team to hold the soldering iron, the solder, and...

User Testing / Test Workshop

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[gallery] Peeling the sticker was not an issue, but it was a bit difficult for the kids to keep it together in the transition and peel back the excess. &frac...

Initial Kit Used

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[gallery] This is the kit I utilized for my first workshop / testing with the MakeyMakeyMakey. (l-r) Safety Glasses Soldering Iron Solder Helping Hands, &ldq...

Prototype & Tolerance

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[gallery] I’ve finally gotten the hang of the process of cutting them without too much waste. Notice how close the cuts are now! If i make them closer I risk...

Resource Images

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[gallery] components to help me prototype in illustrator + for documentation/instructor materials

K.I.S.S.

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My earlier(and hastily done) circuit sketch is leading me to consider focusing on simplified units(K.I.S.S) to deploy as my first iteration. These simple ver...

Vinylcut Prototype Update

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[gallery] There is still a little bit more work needed on the actual cut circuit, it’s not fully functional yet. Just a matter of retracing my steps and maki...

Hardware limit

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[gallery] A thought occurred to me, so far I have only been working with one key input . This has allowed for my circuit to remain simple as there is only th...

Two Circuits

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[gallery] I forked Flip’s 4-key-keyboard to begin the second iteration. This evening I took the dive into compiling my own .HEX files. The process of compili...

Design Specs for Copper Tape

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[gallery] This past week I iterated with physically to push past my initial units shortcomings. I was focused on two things in my iterations: usability ad fu...

2013

Research Book Done

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Archive: Triluminazey Makey Makey MakerParty Awesomeness

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Originally posted August 8, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog: This past week working on our Connected Messages mural I could sense that the leaving the theme topi...

Archive: Makey Makey Workshop @ Spells

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Originally posted August 8, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog: Last Wednesday I held a Makey Makey workshop at Spells Writing Lab. Our game controller workshop was...

Archive: Testing, Learning, and Failing.

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Originally Posted July 27, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog:

Archive: Who cares about saving the Princess, we’d rather win some Pizza.

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Originally posted July 17, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog. [gallery type=”slideshow” size=”large” ids=”238,239,240,241,242,243” orderby=”rand”]

Archive: Magnet Explorations

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Originally Posted June 20, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog [vimeo 68745627 w=640 h=360]Paul started toying around with LEDs today and just “wanted to make someth...

Archive: Camp begins at the Village

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Originally posted July 10, 2013 on the Maker Jawn Blog: This past week has been pretty rad for us up at the Village! Earlier in the week Camp started so we h...