Met a terrific young man recently who is heading up some exciting Maker things in the Vancouver area …
Vancouver Maker Education Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Maker-Education-Meetup/
Met a terrific young man recently who is heading up some exciting Maker things in the Vancouver area …
Vancouver Maker Education Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Maker-Education-Meetup/
This little paper was prepared as part of the Alberta Distance Education Review. All rights belong to Carbol and Associates and Alberta Education.
Using A Challenge Driven Innovation Approach and Design Based Thinking
Thanks to Angela for compiling a few vertical garden options for our consideration.
Thanks to our great students and colleagues, we’re well on our way to designing and implementing a vertical garden for the ILC. This addition to the ILC brings together elements of design (txs Serveh), trades (txs Rick), air quality, learning environments, belongingness (txs Angela), and curricular ties …
These images are from a facinating resturant in Cape Town, South Africa. Check out their site on urban farming – http://www.moyo.co.za/restaurant-moyo-va-waterfront/aquaponics.aspx
This is way too cool …
littleBits (spelled lower case L, upper case B, all one word) consists of tiny circuit-boards with specific functions engineered to snap together with magnets. No soldering, no wiring, no programming, just snap together for prototyping, learning and fun. Each bit has a specific function (light, sound, sensors, buttons, thresholds, pulse, motors, etc), and modules snap to make larger circuits. Just as LEGO™ allows you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are small, simple, intuitive, blocks that make creating with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers, students and designers.
To see what you can make, check out community.
To come up with your own Bits, check out dreamBits.
For education, press and distributor inquiries, contact us.
http://littlebits.com/momastore
http://littlebits.com/