A Brief Introduction to Debugging

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by Jaymes Dec - Wed, 12/31/2014 - 16:54

I did not have anything to do with this video series. It was produced by professors and students at ITP-NYU. But I think it's great and relevant to our community, so I am sharing it here. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

"A Brief Introduction to Debugging"
Written & narrated by Clay Shirky
Illustration & animation by Roopa Vasudevan
Photography by Tom Igoe and rik-shaw (via Flickr)
Music by Podington Bear

A Brief Introduction to Debugging: Introduction & Part 1 from ITP on Vimeo.

A Brief Introduction to Debugging: Part 2 from ITP on Vimeo.

A Brief Introduction to Debugging: Part 3 from ITP on Vimeo.

A Brief Introduction to Debugging: Part 4 & Epilogue from ITP on Vimeo.

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Fri, 01/02/2015 - 08:36 — Susanna Tesconi

Great!
Debugging as a way of life

Advanced MaKey MaKey: Remapping Pins

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by Jaymes Dec - Fri, 08/28/2015 - 16:51

The MaKey MaKey is a popular microcontroller that makes it easy to use any conductive object as an interface for a computer. When you plug a MaKey MaKey into a computer, the computer thinks you plugged in an external keyboard and mouse. So triggering the sensor inputs on the MaKey MaKey just sends keystrokes or mouse commands to your computer. The MaKey MaKey has 18 inputs that it can use to send those keystrokes and mouse commands

“Out-of-the-box,” the device comes pre-programmed to trigger:

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My Visit to the 'Iolani School

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by Jaymes Dec - Sat, 04/18/2015 - 18:42

Aloha! During Spring Break I spent one week visiting The ‘Iolani School, a K-12 private school with over 1800 students in Honolulu, Hawaii. I was fortunate to be invited by their Head of School, Dr. Timothy Cottrell, to attend some classes, teach a few workshops, and meet with his talented technology team.

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Running A Lab

Hacking the Life Sciences Classroom

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by Jaymes Dec - Tue, 12/23/2014 - 17:27

I recently helped to coordinate a “hackathon” with the Rockefeller University Science Outreach Program in part to address these questions:

How can “making” or “STEAM” play out in the Life Sciences classroom?
What role can digital design and fabrication tools have in the Life Sciences Classroom?
How can physical computing tools and creative coding contribute to the Life Sciences classroom?

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Makerspace of My Childhood

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by Jaymes Dec - Thu, 04/17/2014 - 01:54

This essay was written last year for the Learning Creative Learning MOOC at MIT. It was originally posted to my personal blog as a response to Seymor Papert's classic introduction to Mindstorms, Gears of My Childhood. I thought I might be appropriate to share it here.

My First Makerspace

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by Jaymes Dec - Sun, 04/13/2014 - 20:36

A few weeks ago, someone on the K-12 Digital Fabrication Google Group pointed out that there are some similarities between teaching making and teaching reading. There was a conversation about the "whole language" movement from the 1980s as well as Nancy Atwell and Laura Robb's Reading Workshop model of teaching reading. I knew nothing about this, so it peaked my curiosity and I purchased Robb's, Teaching Reading in the Middle School.

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