Light Up the Guitar!

We are working on a LED-lit and app-programmable sculpture. The rebar sculpture of a (bass) guitar has existed for about 5 years and begs to be lit up. This was a dream I had which led me to try and take steps to make it happen. I attended a couple SparkFun events through Women Who Code and began looking into IoT, and joined the Denver-Arduino-Meetup and learned to solder. In August the Denver-Arduino-Meetup identified the project as a good group project for the team, and now we are going to make the dream a reality.

"Neo-Pixel Guitar" Project: Please Join Us!

Scheduled meetings:
Wednesday 9/14/16 [kickoff meeting]
Wednesday 9/21/16 [demo string]
Wednesday 9/28/16 [electicity]
Wednesday 10/5/16 [leds]
Wednesday 10/12/16 [topic tbd]
Wednesday 10/19/16 [topic tbd]
Wednesday 10/26/16 [topic tbd]
(more dates tbd)

Meet at Tennyson’s Tap
(4335 West 38th Ave, Denver CO 80212)

An incredible hands-on learning experience! Light up the Iconic Denver guitar sculpture with Arduino-programmable neo-pixels and make it even bigger and better by 'teching it out' and bringing it to life. An awesome opportunity for all Arduino "geeks" and women and men interested in IoT!

All experience levels welcome, including newbies.

Denver-Arduino-Meetup has been meeting since January 2016, Hosted by Silicon STEM Academy, and this is our first group project!

More details here: Denver-Arduino-Meetup We are also using a Slack channel to communicate.

https://www.meetup.com/Denver-Arduino-Meetup/
https://siliconstemacademy.com/
Contact me for further info! Adrienne

#Hashtag - Where to Find the Good Stuff

Learning about something takes knowing where to search! New to #lxd (Learning Experience Design), I want to start following the convo online-->

Some hashtags I've discovered to date:

• #lxd (learning experience design)
• #digped (digital pedagogy)
• #diglit (digital literacy)
• #ds106 (edtech digital storytelling)

(I'll add more as they come up, comment below and I'll copy your hashtags up here too!)

Sources and Resources:

• COLTT 2016 presentation by Susannah Simmons, CU Denver The Knight’s Squire: Open-Source Community for Teaching Assistant Technologists
• https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-elearning-twitter-hashtags-being-used-right-now
• 100+ Education Twitter Accounts to Follow
• Crowdsourcing Hashtags for Connected Educators

Slick and Attention-Grabbing Promos. Quick, Easy, and Fun!

Trying out Adobe's free online generator spark.adobe.com. Specifically their awesome social post tool called "Post." 5 minutes to a slick and attention-grabbing promo.

There are 3 tools available through spark.adobe.com:

• "Post" for social posts and graphics-- great for memes, inspirational quotes, announcements, invitations, and more
• "Page" for web stories-- great for photo journals, event recaps, portfolios, catalogs and more
• "Video" for animated videos-- great for lessons, pitches, presentations, greetings and more

So great to create something beautiful and effective quickly-- how rare is that?!

Pedago.me Has Inspired Me!

Pedago.me has inspired me to learn more about learning! First step: create a blog. Step two: blog. Done and done! Looking forward to working with the Pedago.me team!