Mug Your Own Business!

Ever been so inspired with a quote that you just want to engrave it on your mug? Or do you have a favorite logo that you want to show off to everyone well you’re sipping that well brewed coffee? Well, you’re in luck because Mr. Reed arranged a field trip for the CTS to a MakerSpace in Xenia, Ohio!

I finally made up my mind and chose the quote that is displayed on my homepage by the infamous Stephen G. Weinbaum. But just in case you overlooked it, the quote is “If you can’t excel with talents, triumph with effort.”. Sound quite simple, but we do have to create our own design with our choice of fonts and such.

I’m super excited for this field trip as not only we get to explore another MakerSpace but also be able to create our own design while being there! This’ll be another great learning experience beside listening to lectures in classrooms. If there’s any other question you’d like to be answered, please reach me here

Makerspace is The New Trend?

Hey! Have you heard about the new big thing in 2018? No? Well you’ve come to just the right place! Introducing…MakerSpace! Which is a library which allow access to tools and a supportive community of people who want to help you make your ideas! In our library here, the CTS can make full use of just that!

Yes, that’s MakerSpace for you. Ours is somewhat similar to theirs, including a couple of 3D printers, power tools and so on! Giving students the opportunity to be creative and innovative!

If there’s anymore question you’d like to be answered, you can reach me here

Throwback To The Drafts

Draftback can be easily installed and accessed through the Chrome Web Store. A video showing step-by-step can demonstrate for you below:

Specifically designed for educationalists to review a document and visualize who has been editing, copy-and-paste, and/or plagiarized informations. 

Teachers has dealt with a least a couple of students cheating here and there and with Draftback arriving on the site, teachers can finally kick those cheaters BACK to making their rough-DRAFT. Although, there are some pros and cons with Draftback.

The benefits are being able to some what and how much revisions the document have while also being to know when it occurred, while also able to see what was typed or copy-and-pasted. Contrastly, the con are the apps are still sometimes bugged with displaying the final product differently from the original document, although this only happens on huge documents that have enormous amount of revisions.

For more information you can click here

or get in touch with me at my email: triet.doan@wilmington.k12.oh.us

Getting Heated

Greetings! For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on project Arduino with my partner in crime, Autumn. We’ve been dividing our time between taking care of the usual business at the CTS Help Desk and the more intriguing exercises which are soldering and coding with Arduino Uno.

Arduino is an open source electronics platform accompanied with a hardware and software to design, develop and test complex electronics prototypes and products. The hardware consists of a micro controller with other electronic components which can be programmed using the software to do almost any task. The simplicity of the Arduino language makes it very easy for almost everyone who has an interest in electronics to write programs without the understanding of complex algorithms or codes.

We began our journey by gathering the solderless breadboard and the blink circuit, along with some solderless breadboard wires. Then we begin to connect the wires between the blink circuit and the breadboard, one by one accordingly. Next, we needed to input a resistor along with a red LED (light emitting diode). Then we linked the circuit board with an USB Cable to our Chromebook to be able to transmit the coding from Codebender into the circuit board. The code. in short, generate inputs into the LED and accelerate powers into it, allowing it to light up.

Next, we had to get up to speed on soldering, code libraries, addressable LEDs, and organizing code with functions. We’ll use soldering to attach wires onto a piece of NeoPixel strip, so we can plug it into the solderless breadboard. Soldering is quite a task to handle, so like always, we had to take safety precaution…GLOVES and GOGGLES!!!

For a more in-depth step-by-step walk through on how to perform this project, visit:

Arduino – https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction

Arduino Instructables – http://www.instructables.com/technology/arduino/

 

Keep on track!

Falling behind on assignments? Stay on track with this app!!!

Just the beginning…

Being able to enter the Cane Tech Squad, the well-known mysterious species, is rather quite an achievement. Not only I get to have a fun time with my classmates, but I learned how to replace our Chromebook’s monitor when needed and create my own website. I also get to show off how good I am at winning in chess with my fellow classmate. I am looking forward to say many more months of being a CTS’s member.