Natalie Freed

I have a longtime daydream about a class that combines both

@sfnexmap This is pretty fascinating to think about. FYI I think "ht" on Twitter means you are giving me credit for sharing this, rather than the other way around!

“….a more friendly front-end to Stack Overflow” - really interesting comments from @blprnt on GPT as a modeling tool with edu implications; the details on prompting, tweaking and iterative demonstrations +100 ht @eilatann

i just published my talk-turned-blogpost, discussing software that delights & amuses...desktop pets, older design philosophies that surrounded Clippy, & the place this has in modern games or software. The Joy of Silly Useless Software: nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-j… RTs appreciated!🙏💕

@RockyTolt @sevaseviene @sweetisme3 @TelegraphLife @RosaSilverman 😮 In what insane world does this make motherhood sound more appealing?!

@sevaseviene @sweetisme3 @TelegraphLife @RosaSilverman Yes, agree she still has to work, which is why I stipulated flexible hours. I’ve got several new moms working for me in different time zones. They get up very early or work late, so the daycare need drops along with the cost.

With some blocks in the geometry library of TurtleStitch it's so easy to make designs for cardstock cutting and output as dxf files. Children made these triangular pyramids this afternoon. #turtlestitch

Customized Repetitions 🔢 Today we’re announcing a powerful new feature for working with repeated shapes in Cuttle...

In one of the final sections in the #RepairMindset #Toolkit, we explore objects in our everyday life that may be broken, and how we might be able to repair them, in a thoughtful way. Try this lesson with your students! Download resource at: resources.makered.org/resource/culti… #MakerEd

I want this SVG learning tool/sandbox to make it easy to learn how path commands work - dragging points won't act similar to in a typical design tool! to make it also useful as an editing tool, I added a way to convert the commands to absolute ones, which are a bit more familiar

@davidalsdorf @chibitronics To me the biggest affordances of the Chibi Chip are a) clippable to & removeable from a sheet of paper, b) super-thin for book arts / papercraft projects once you take it off the clip, and c) quick and easy to reprogram and to teach to beginners

@davidalsdorf @chibitronics I don't think there's an easy way to read that audio as data to a program, that might require changing the firmware even if it is possible. github.com/chibitronics/l…

@MMagdowski @hanhaiwen @chibitronics @physikanne The booklets are made to be cut in 2-page spreads and stapled together in the middle. So the page order doesn’t look correct until you assemble!

@hanhaiwen @eilatann @chibitronics Nettes Booklet, leider sind die Bildchen bzw. Beschriftungen für "continuity" und "voltage" (also die Durchgangsprüfung und Spannungsmessung) genau miteinander vertauscht, oder? Ich habe das mal korrigiert: cloud.ovgu.de/s/omZYoAsz5pXo… #physikEDU @physikanne #IchLehrPhysik

@solitarysnail In retrospect this was a really random thing to reply to, but I was like omigosh, someone else is going down one of these find-just-the-right-object rabbitholes! I am very familiar with those!

@solitarysnail Under shelf mug hangers? Also seeing lower profile things as under shelf placemat holders and under shelf roll holders

So excited about this new interop between @CuttleXYZ and the origami simulator. Lots of possibilities for parametric origami design! 👇

@susanettenheim I ended up regretting not getting more RAM on my new iMac! All the reviews I read said I wouldn’t need it, but maybe I tend to have a lot of things open at once.

8GB or 16GB on a new Apple Air laptop... will it make a huge difference for teaching Unity?

There's just over a week left to enter the @Instructables Made with Math Contest! Teachers have a chance to win a Gift Card along with an Autodesk Innovators Kit for the Classroom! instructables.com/contest/MadeWi…

A client teaches her child with creative thinking. To encourage the child, she build the 3D model of toy bags from doodles from the kid and 3D print them out. They prepared to paint the bags together. 3D printing can be the best teaching aid. #3dprint #prototype #toy #teaching

@CeMoCreates We got the grant to continue working on it! More soon :D I love the idea of coming full circle from physical to digital and back again

@zackboston and more generally, design of everyday apps / software so that the digital tools we use every day for home and life purposes aren’t just those imposed by people who know how to build them. Like learning to cook vs pre-packaged food.

@zackboston parametric clothing design for all bodies and genders. Code the pattern for a garment in a way that friends can remix for their own shape and style