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The 21st Century Classroom 

Learning to make with arduinos

December 23, 2014February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 6 Comments arduinos, digital art, makerspace ideas, Rachel Hooper, Vermont
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The journey from learner to educator In this episode of the podcast, I talk with local digital artist and educator Rachel

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Maglev Cars in a makerspace
Stories from VT Students 

Make maglev cars with Google SketchUp

October 18, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 2 Comments Edmunds Middle School, Google Sketch-Up, makerspace ideas

Concept to reality with Edmunds Middle School makerspace Hear from a group of 6th grade engineers who got to use

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Augmented Reality 

5 off-beat ways to use QR codes in the classroom

September 29, 2014September 28, 2014 Audrey Homan 6 Comments arts, coding, makerspace ideas, nutrition, QR codes

By now, almost everyone’s familiar with QR codes, the distinctive-looking black-and-white graphics which, when scanned, take the scanner to a

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