EDIM 514 Photo-A-Day Review

Well the week of sharing is over. This was a fun activity. One of my friends who is a teacher and a professional photographer did this for an entire year. It was really cool to look through his photos for an entire year and watch his newborn grow. Since I only took photos for a week long, I decided to post pictures of what was a big focal point of the day. Some days that was a project that I personally did, what my student's did, or what I was a part of. Posting the pictures was an easy process. Each day I made a new Blog post, inserted the picture, wrote a small caption, and added the same label to each post. If I was to continue this challenge or do it again I would try to focus more on one topic. For instance, I would take pictures of my student's daily activities or projects to show their growth and engagement with the material.

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On Friday, I took my 3D printer home in hopes of fixing it over the weekend. After working on it for several hours Saturday and Sunday, I finally fixed my 3D printer! The above picture shows my large test print of the Moai Statues. If you are wondering, the weird plastic under the chin is support material so that the chin had something to start printing on.

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On Saturday my frustration of my trying to fix my 3D printer, driving an hour to and from work, and fighting off a cold caught up with me. With that being said, I decided to make something fun for my friend's wedding I am going to this weekend.

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Friday was race day! The students cars levitate due to the repulsion of the magnetic field on the bottom of their car and the track. Electricity is sent through the aluminum walls of the track, and up through the wires that they soldered onto their motors. The motor spins, causing the fan blade to spin.

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On Thursday my 9th grade engineering students finished making their Magnetically Levitating Cars. Ironic this student's car is a space ship because it flies like one. Interested to see how it does in the tournament tomorrow.

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On Wedensday, I finally hung my graphics design student's introductory Puzzle Piece Design Challenge project. If you can't see what it is a large puzzle. The students were tasked with designing their puzzle piece with their interests and hobbies. They were also tasked with working with the other two students that connect to their piece finding either a common interest / hobby or a design element. The middle is currently blank because I haven't hung up the class banner yet. Also, giving students the middle pieces would make it unfair for some students because they would have to work with 4 people.

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I was forced to switch classrooms over the summer. At some point over the summer the chiller in the AC unit in the ceiling broke. Water spilled everywhere and the humidity in my room rusted / potentially ruin a bunch of equipment. On Tuesday I tried 3D printing my student's project. Unless you think their project was to design plastic spaghetti, you can see the humidity took its toll on my 3D printer.

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On Monday, over 400+ teachers, family member, and friends all wore red to show unity while attending the school board meeting due to our unsettled contract.