TRANSCRIPT - Chris Correll on Accessible STEM And since we're using our. , computer sound, we're probably gonna use Chris's sound. Once I stop running my mouth so that you can hear him better. Alright. So we're gonna go. I think we're gonna go ahead and get started and just do our. Housekeeping. We're waiting for Krista Setup. Welcome to tea time, everyone. It's been a few weeks little bit a little bit excited to be back to see everybody. Today, we're going to have accessible STEM with Chris Carrell. I have to admit this a little bit of a selfish one for me, because I missed his presentation at T. A. E. R. And really wanted to see it, so I asked him if he would come and have a tea time with us, so I'm excited. He is agreed to do so. So let's get our housekeeping out of the way. Our goal is with tea time to build a community of practice for technology that's going to allow us to support each other while we're in the field teaching it's in the spirit of that goal that that we are recording these sessions and that we really encourage you to be interactive and speak out. Raise your hand, put it in the chat, break in, just talk on with us because we really want to know that we're meeting your needs. By registering for this session. You're granting us permission to publish the contents, and that may include your image or audio of you during the session. So just reminding you that we are recording. And so, while I give you time to set up, Chris, I'm gonna jump ahead a little bit to some things we've got coming up. Oh, yeah. Didn't see that. So mark your calendars for our upcoming tea times on April twentieth. We're doing a second part to our teaching voice over on the 20 seventh. We're doing another document accessibility this time. Focusing on Microsoft and Microsoft suite on the fourth. We're doing at assessments for Tbis. So that's how to embed that at assessment within your F. E. L. A. May eleventh. We're doing another document. Accessibility, this time, math, we're focusing on getting those documents produced that can then be sent to our braille devices, such as the brown up touch. And then may eighteenth, we're doing technology for students with multiple impairments. So keep those on your calendars. And you can let me know whenever you're ready. And some resources that are gonna be in your handouts. There's a new online, accessible equation editor. That's I encourage you to go check out, cause it is just really cool Pearson's curriculum for nimth is up and available and really exciting. And we're introducing the first real-time text call app worldwide with Moozumo. I don't know if I said that right? So check those out. And now alright, I guess. Can everyone hear me? Here am I. Is the room mic, is it? I can switch it to you if you want. Alright! Excellent! Cool. Well, I will go ahead and start my video, so you all can see me. Hello! Anytime you can see me here and here. Nice, cool. Well, I'm not entirely sure how this you know is gonna go if it is this kind of like a like informational or just whatever kind of want it to be. But I think, Yeah, I guess if we're all you know, teachers are working with students and we're a staff in some capacity. I am always very interested in getting technical and very hands on things out of presentations, so I guess I'll just kind of start there. And yeah, if anyone has any questions you can drop them in the chat. And if yeah, I could stop me so I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen. I have this whole slideshow here that I did at T. Aer, but I think you know, I just wanna dive into the meet here. So a little bit of background just to start. I am the STEM specialist at Texas School for the blind and visually impaired. I have a background in hardware and software engineering. I worked as a hardware engineer for a educational toy company for 2 years, and then a software engineer or data engineer for a legal aid firm Texas Rioground, a legal aid for around a year and I've been kind of often on associated with the school for 7 years now I started volunteering here with a program that ut offered where we came and talked coding classes after school so some of the students here and taught coding classes after school to some of the students here and I really enjoyed working with the students, and I wasn't super into my job as a software engineer. I was working at national instruments at that time, and so I decided, Hey, career, change! I became a substitute here, and then a teaching assistant in that was in 2017, and then eventually I got my teaching certificate. I was a math teacher here for a year, and then I went back to engineering to work as a toy designer, because that's that sounded awesome kind of combined. 2 passions of mine into a job that paid me, and then I worked after Covid happened, and that the toy company sadly closed, and then I started working at the legal aid firm, writing a software for them to help them build their cases and build Maps and do public awareness and all all that cool stuff. So I have some technical background. But the good thing is about my goal, and what I'm gonna share with you today, you don't need technical or you don't need the most technical chops to do these things. And that's kind of what part of my role here is that the school is not only working with students, but working with staff and being like, Hey, this stuff like it might seem super overwhelming. It might seem like, you know, you have to have a bachelor's degree in engineering to do it, but it's actually pretty plug and play, you know. It's there's things to know. But once you know them, and once you get your hands dirty, you it starts clicking, and you can make really cool things nowadays with a computer and a 3D printer or a laser cutter, or even just even just yeah, a computer or an ipad, even. So, that's kind of I wanted to share with you all today. Some tools and a website that I'm working on for the school that will be published. It's published right now. But if, with a finalized curriculum on what I've been developing with our computer science class, and that will be out July. So stay tuned. But there's a nice sneak peek up right now that I will show with you all. But first without any further do, I would like to just introduce and encourage everyone here to sign up for Chat Gpt. So if you haven't heard of Chat Gpt, your mind's about to be blown. 's about to be blown. This is something that I've been using since November. This is something that I've been using since November, and I've been serving using it with students, students who are 13 years and older are able to sign up for an account. Anyone can sign up for account. It's free, and it's insane. Have you played at all with it? Donna I've been so excited to play with it. Yeah, then it's this is a thing, too. It's like I've you're gonna sign up right now because as soon as you get you sign up. It's great. And so I'm just gonna go quickly over the signup process here, and then we will. So all you gotta do. You go to chat.openai.com like. So you go to sign up, and then you. I encourage my students and the staff to sign up with a Google account, and then you go ahead and click your Google account. In this case I'm gonna use another account that I have not signed up with yet. And then. Oh! Let's see if that's right. I think that's oh, I know I know what's wrong. And you, said, Dot, open ai.com and then if you sign up with a Google account, it's gonna ask you for your name here. So fabrication lab is my name if you sign up with a Google account, it's gonna ask you for your name here. So fabrication lab is my name. But we'll just go by Fab, and then they use this to verify that you're 13 years or older. So if you are younger than 18 by older than 13, you need to receive parent parental permission, which we have covered in our tech agreement. But you know, if you're working with students, make sure you just talk with your their parents that there's not gonna be a whole lot, that it at at the beginning iteration of the projects, the the Chat Gbt. It's essentially a robot. That's going to talk to you and do things for you. And it may be said some things that were questionable because it's, you know, from the Internet. And we all know there's some questionable things on the Internet but they've gotten way better. And so there's really not gonna be anything that comes out of it. That's harmful or offensive. It's really good at not being offensive. And I'll show you that in a second. So you know, I'm just gonna give you a nice big birthday, and then I'm gonna go ahead and do my work phone. Actually, yeah. But anyways, I'm not gonna actually sign up with this account. If anyways the verify your phone number, you verify, you put in your cell phone. It'll send you a code. That's text. And then after that you can go back to Chat dot open ai.com. You can click login. You can continue with Google and Pam. Your account will be there, and then you should be able to log on, and if you get an issue, just refresh the page or go back so we're gonna just like, start off. So I have a whole different things I like to do with this one thing is lesson, plan, idea, generation. So you could say I need a lesson about credit scores or fifth graders. I your fifth graders. We're starting them early with their finance, education. So we have. Are there? I'd be happy to help you with a lesson on credit scores for fifth graders firstly, it's important to explain to a student what occurred. Score is, let's see. Yeah. Next we can explain that there are 3 main credit bureaus that keep track of credit scores in the United States equifax experience and transunion. And so it's giving you this. But the cool thing, the coolest thing I think about Chat gpt is that it's context. It keeps context. So we can continue so it has all this kind of written out in a narrative. It says that's great and be polite to it, you know, if if you start being mean, that's when things start getting back that you know, we might have issues but, like I said, it's pretty good at catching itself for and not being inappropriate so that's great but could you make it more in lesson plan form? And then so here, here's a sample. So now here we go. Topic, credit scores, objectives, students will create what's credit? Scores are. Why, they're important how to maintain a good credit score, what materials whiteboardards and markers hand out on credit scores, worksheets on calculating credit scores. And then, you know, we have our introduction with 3 steps in the lesson body, and it's it'll just keep going here. And then, so yeah, that's great. So you get ideas and chat. Gpt, you have make sure you're reading it. I mean, this isn't like, gonna be your lesson plan. But it could be ideas. And then, you know, we could say, could you modify it? Or a blind student. Alright, and then so you could even copy and paste the lesson plan into this system. And then you have a chat. Gpt. We'll go ahead and modify it so you could copy paste the lesson plan and say, could you modify this lesson plan for blind students? So let's see what modifications it did. I mean, added Braille, and audio handout computer with screen reader, software show an example using accessible materials. So it's cool. There's a lot of ideas here with lesson planning, and that, you know, I also like to use it, for, like plastic writing class, so that you write this into report format. And then, you know, you just have, like your bullet points, like student. Needs. Great reader. Instruction working on windows, laptop. Knows voice over is in 6 great, so. I don't know. It's, you know, gave you a spot for student name. I will say this is much better than this morning when we use this to program A to talk back to us. Yeah. Well, I think it's $20 a month is really good at programming chat gpts, not super great at programming. And it what it does. So whenever something chat, Gpt. Or AI model get something wrong. It's called hallucinating. It's just like the term they use in industry. So chat gpt will hallucinate information, which is why it's important for you to read what it says and test. But it's what I've been using it for. With students. A lot is like, it's a great teacher. So, if you know, and for staff like, let's say it's like, How do I access the windows? Desktop with keyboard shortcuts, and so here we go. We're gonna hear what Chat Gpt has to say about this, and sometimes it freezes so if it's kind of frozen here, I'll copy and paste my prompts just in case. But it's gotten better. It doesn't crash as much. So one press the windows key plus d. This will minimize all open windows and take you directly to the desktop to press the windows. Key. In this will also minimize open windows and bring you. Take you to the desktop. 3 press windows. Key comma. This will give you a quick peek at the desktop. Hold windows key while pressing comma and return both keys. So that's it's that doesn't actually work like some of these aren't like that's not true. So hallucinations they happen, but at the same time, you know, it's something that we can talk. It can be a learning moment for students it can be helpful for students. I have a student with severe distlexia. Amazing verbal communicator, terrible written communicator. So we can punch up his writing, you know. It's like, could you make this email more professional? And just, you know, like Hi, I am a student at the school for the blind. I would like to, for like you know, let's give him some more. I would want to meet with you to talk, hey? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. So, yeah. And then, you know, we talk about ethics as well and what's going on with, you know, is this ethical? If you are applying for an office job, if that if you're applying for it but you're letting your employer know that you need an accommodation like an AI. Writing assistance, you know. Is this, okay? If you know, is this okay? If I say, write a book, report on to kill a mocking bird and a seventh Gradder's tongue. And then, yeah, is that okay? Is this, okay? My English teacher, if I don't read the book. And so you know, it's there's ethical questions. But at the same time it's an amazing tool, and one thing I like to talk about and discuss with people is who knows how to draw portraits. But we all have camera phones. We all can take nice camera portraits. So you know, in the nineteenth century there were thousands of portrait artists, and you know, maybe tens of thousands. I don't know. There was a lot. But you know, twentieth century comes along. Mr. Kodak in the camera. And now how many portrait are? Are there, but people still like to paint for fun. People still like to write for fun. Communications changing. I think this is going to see a lot of development in the next couple of years, and we're going to be seeing a lot of this in the classroom, and it's not something I think we should be afraid of. But we should be working through and working on and then do you have a cher per chance? Getting slightly low, you could grab one, and so I see, yeah, Donna put the chat dot open. Ai.com recommend everyone check it out. It's cool, you know. There's just play with it. If you come up with anything that's interesting, let me know if you're accessing it with a screen, reader user, I found that kind of the most efficient workflow is to you know, go to the first. Element. So you know, control home and then navigate by graphic because you're the each of these elements. Here are graphics. So you can get to your graphic and then Arrow key from there to hear your question. And then a response, and then you can, you know, enter into a form I forgot. If this is a labeled as a form, what the actual moment is, there? So, yeah, no, it is a text area. But there is a button for the send, so you can navigate by button. But typically I just have them do control end to go to the end of this page and then shift tab twice we'll take you to this link and then to the inbox. So that is just some screen reading adaptations or keyboard non mouse use or using chat gpt, it's not the most accessible, but it is accessible. So they have a discord and collaboration trying to get them to live their buttons here, because it's just so easy to label a button like you can just I could do it now. But yeah, , all we need is an audio label here, and we'd be good to go. But sorry I'm getting distracted. If this worked cool. So that was one thing that I wanted to share. I feel like it's something that people are talking about. But not as many people are talking about in education. And this is my, you know, my busy work tool here. So anything that's like busy work that you know, like report writing like I do all my data collection. I omit any sensitive data. And then I put in a chat Gpt, and it helps kind of write my report, or if I have a a really silly form like that's well, I can. You know, copy and paste into Google docs. The all the student name or the you know, the school or birthdays or whatnot, copy and paste in the Chat Gpt, and then ask questions about it. So it's good at, you know, knowing things from information, you can give it information, and it'll it'll tell you things about. It's cool. Take a story even, and say, bring it down the grade level yeah. Well, I mean, like this book report. That is a good book report. Can you write it for a fourth grader and so, you know, you can. It'll modify things, it'll you know you can. It'll it'll modify things. It'll you know. You can give it tones. You can say. Write it with a sarcastic tone. You can be like, yeah, punch that up a bit. Make it funnier, you know. But it's it's a helpful tool, for sure. And we've had some questions to see if you'd be able to share this in a handout form for them. Sure I cannot send this my little chat Gpt. For teachers. Presentation. Just my bullet points here, but we'll post it on my website. So everybody after the session will post any handouts that Chris has. Oh, and on the website that usually go to the Google outreach, cool. Yeah, alright. So I am charging now, which means I will be here for another 30 min. Uhhuh. It's fine as long as it keeps. Keeps me on. That's totally fine, so that the next portion of what I wanted to talk about is the website that I'm developing in the Curriculum, I'm developing so this is accessible stem.org and it is a website where I've been posting lessons that have been writing and working through with 3 different classes at the school. Hey? And with some of the staff at the school for trainings, and so the goal is here. By July I will have the curriculum published for fundamentals of computer Science class. And so this is learning how to code through 3D. Printing, and then also we have a laser cutter. So I have some stuff with AI artificial intelligence resources for Bbi students that probably should be updated. And maybe yeah, go somewhere else. But what I like to do is I love using open S. CAD. So what Open Hascad is is a programming language for designing 3D. Models, and so I am all about using 3D programming or modeling as a way to teach students how to program as well as teach them how to use a computer and text at it, like not all my students are going to be interested in programming or you know find the aptitude with it. That's fine, but they all need text editing. They all need to learn how to use their laptops. They all need to learn how to use their accessibility. Software. So I am all about using this as a way to motivate and using tech. And so you can you write code? So, for instance, I wrote Code code cube, open parentheses, 10 close parentheses bracket, I mean, oper brackets, semicolon, and then in our preview window we have a nice Cube. Here, and so we are, you know, using this to create shapes. So you know you can translate them here and we're getting into math, and just so much cross like curriculum. So I moved it to the right. By 10 or I moved it rather up in the Xy coordinate system. Xyz by 10 in the Y dimension, and so we you know, there's so much you can do just with open S CAD, like the the amount of skills that you can hit. And Ecc with an academic skills are, it's just in crazy to me when students love it. Because after you make your cube we go to our 3D printer, and so I am a huge fan of this 3D printer, the Pressa Mini. And so this is a, I guess $450 printer. If you buy somewhat assembled semi assembled, or if you buy it, so you have to do all the assembly assembly does require vision, or, yeah, it's pretty visual skill assembling it. But once it's assembled and ready to go, takes maybe an hour to get it assembled. It is a great little printer that requires little maintenance, and is pretty accessible, has a sound assist mode, so it'll beep at you. But you just plug in a flash. Drive with your model on it, and then it'll print it, and so the lessons for open Sqat. We learn about, you know how to make a cube, and then immediately we come and figure out how to print it and slice it. So with 3D. Printing, there's the software that we've used to slice. It is called Prussa, and it's not. It's not super accessible. You'll you'll have to get it fixed up for your students if you wanna use the graphical user interface. But what I do with my students is that they all learn how to use the Powershell. So I love the Powershell as a means of integring with a computer. It's the old style, terminal. And what's super cool about the Powershell is that Linux commands work in the windows, Powershell, so that means that anything that I'm doing and learning about in the Powershell and the way I teach it is that they're essentially learning. Linux commands. So it means it'll work on a Mac means it'll work on a chromebook. It means it'll work on a Linux machine as long as you have access to a terminal or command line shell so that's what this is, and I go over those basics here on my website. So that's what this is and I go over those basics. Here. On my website, which I seem to have closed. So I'll just launch that again. Cool, while you're open to that cause. I love how this would open up some of the classes. That's so far have been inaccessible for us. So a lot of the dropping in the camp classes. We could use this information definitely to show our our genet teachers that you know, our kids can participate. And this is so much, yeah, yeah. And I'm so excited to get this website and curriculum finished like, right now, all the code that I've been going over with my clients is on my Github so if you're interested, it's probably better just to. So here. And yeah, so I have the open scout lessons. And yeah, so this is all this, like the code samples for the lessons we've gone through I believe there'll be 4 total lessons to kind of get people up and running with 3D printing and coding. And okay, and part of that will be learning how to use the basics of the command line. Shell, and so the the information's there. I just need to write it into the curriculum. So that kind of how to's. So people can access it outside of here. Let me just close all that. So outside of Oops. Sorry of the yeah. Outside of our school. And yeah, so I'm oh, end of day, guys, I'm sorry I'm feeling tired but it's great cause. And for those of you that are on right now, who maybe are a little bit overwhelmed if you're talking to your technology teachers, they're gonna know what they're gonna know yeah, what us Kevin is. And you're gonna be able to work with them to give them this information to use with our students and support them in that way. Yeah, and that I mean the coolest thing about the Powershell. It's a tech based way of interacting with the computer. So we're not dealing with, you know. The file explorer, and having that, you know, F. 6. And to the IM view or the tree view, like you learned the basics, and then you can. You know you can go, and to your documents and see all the different you know, folders or something. So it's, you know. It's great, like first students who are accessing their computers with the with the screen reader or braille display, because it's all text based. And that's what we want. That's what makes sense for screen readers. And it's what's efficient and what people use in industry and yeah, it's it's a great tool to learn and be a kind of a foundational tool. When when I got here it was I was like, Why are more TV eyes teaching students how to use a command line shell like to me? It's just like that makes sense. But it's because there's overhead. And there's overhead of knowledge, and it's a technical thing. But it's not that scary, you know. There's a couple of things that you can learn, and that I will have made accessible. And you know, flavored for Bvi students on my website. So it'll it'll be, you know. Have screen reader basics that help and Braille display suggestions. But you. You learn a couple of basic commands how to move around. Change Directory and the structure of a path. What a path is! It's just an address to a file or folder on your computer. And then, like the list, commands to list it, and then, Bam, you're, you know. You learn a couple of these things, and then we're good to go, and there's some adaptation. So like we list with a flag dash in that will only list the names. So our screen reader, isn't reading all this extra stuff, and you know, I think the coolest thing for me is that it's all cross platform. So I am able to use the same command here on my Linux machine. Or my Mac, or my chromebook. And I just yeah, it's really great. That's possible. You know it means that I'm not teaching 4 different things, and then I'm just gonna go over there and see. And then, so yeah, so you can, what? Once you get it all set up, you can go into, you know your models. You can get a model, and then we can. We can slice it so we can use. I have configuration files on my Github, and it goes through all this on my website. But we can go and find the model. Let me find the model here. See, I'll throw in an error, need a. Yeah. So whenever you make a model and open S CAD, and you save it or export it, it comes out as this stl, and then we can use the command line version of our slicer, and then we can, you know, give us a flag and then give a was it. I see, and I forget the command all the time. So, referring to my website, also use that. Oh, dash, dash, load so! And then I write the past to the config file, and then what's in here? I should see our kids going, at the speed of light with this. Once they were the basics and their the teachers that are teaching this content area teaching, programming or teaching the 3D modeling groups. We'll know this material and be able to interact with our students in a way that they haven't before. And that's what really excites me, even though it's it throws me back into the old days days. So I kind of understand what's going on on the screen. But really giving that power to that teacher to interact with our students. I think it's the most exciting part. Yeah, and that I like, I think this there's more overhead. And this is the thing. It's like a lot of these skills are achievable. But there is definitely more overhead knowledge. It's not simple, unfortunately for our bodies students to, you know, a 3D. Print a model as this for sided students. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. And not what I find. That's cool is that the accommodations here, the the means to like get around the inaccessible slicing software is a skill that is applicable to all sorts of different coding, so any type of coding you're gonna be using you know. once you get to a certain level, you're gonna have to use a command line shell. You're gonna have. You're gonna have to know. Linux commands. If you're going into this. So it's like it's not this, like, Oh, I have to learn this like niche skill that's not applied to anything to make this successful. To me it's oh, I'm learning this foundational skill that's allowing me to 3D printing opts. So I get this nice tactile reward for the things I'm learning. And then, you know, I'm able to apply it to other things. I'm able to learn. HTML, or I'm able to learn python code. And use that, and use the my knowledge of the command line. Shell commands to help with that. And so I like using the motivation of making, of making something physical for our students, because so much of learning to program the reward is a it's a visual thing. And you don't get that same. That same reward, that same dopamine rush, seeing the cube, or hearing about how a cube just appeared on your screen, or how your website just appeared on your screen like you know a screen reader reading your website to you isn't as exciting as having a, a 3D. Model, and I mean, I think that's for every student like cited or blind or low vision, like the getting a physical object out of your code is, I think, super cool. So I'm all about using it as a tool to kind of dip your toes into the the process, and you know there's if you don't have a 3D printer, or you know your 3. D printer is controlled by your Maker space, or the librarian like you can send them the Stl. File, and then they can slice it for you. And then so the students you know, don't necessarily have to know the Powershell. If they have low vision. I have instructions on accessing the slicer that we use for low vision students, or if you you know, if you set up the slicer for low vision students, you can still use it to help slice for your blind students. And the slicer, you can access the graphical user interface, which is just the typical app. You can access it with keyboard shortcuts. There's some things that you can't access. But if you set it up with a configuration when you install it, then the system pre sets, and all this is pretty robust, and then you can just, you know, control eye to import your model and then control r to slice your model according to the presets you have here. And you know this, if you just have it saved, so that your presets are your printer presets, and they're always the same then you're good to go, and then you can do control. G. And export to G code, and you have a nice save as file explorer, dialog. Ue. So it's there, and there's ways to scaffold it to your students ability and to. You know your technical limitation, or the lack of, or the, I guess, excess of, whatever machinery you have. But yeah, I also like how you mentioned, because with python those would be that have characters, if I remember correctly, decode, which is come out in in the Bermuda touch, it's gonna be python. So, you know, if they're getting exposure here, they're getting exposure here. They're getting exposure with key code, and Eco can then be exported to the little card, and so I mean it really is not just. Something we talk about anymore, our kids are being exposed to it through their devices. Now with key code and through items like code jumper where we're teaching them that basic so they're really starting to think about what careers could be available for our kids and making their brail devices work with so excited that you mentioned python with I am all about getting the students on the laptop and keyboarding asap, and like having a you know. You can have a second Gradder, you know. Write this code to queue, to write the cube, and then you can. You know. Send it the Stl. File to your librarian to print it, and it's like then they made it, and they can decide. Oh, how big do you want it? And so open scouts, all millimeters and then it's like, you know, you get the choice in there. They're learning. Keyboarding skills. Yeah, it. It doesn't have to just be, you know, the we've got mass measurements in there. We've got for doing X, Y and z axis, and we can never leave the portal of with 3D. Printing and doing that kind of definitely a little bit for everybody. Yeah. And like a lesson I like to do when we're first starting to learn how to 3D. Print is, we go on a thingiververse. And this is this website successful, you can access it with a keyboard and a screen, reader, and then you're able to, you know, you're not. Gonna you might not be able to see the photos, but you can describe and see, yeah, sorry. The. But yeah, so we can dial our own, you know, file here, and then we have like, yeah, we can go through all the different designs that people make. And it's, yeah, there's a there's a whole lot that you can do with a just using other people's stuff. All about it until my students, I'm like, Yeah, they use what's already out there. Get something done. Make something cool with what's out there that you're gonna learn a lot printing it independently. And like, Yeah, I'm like, once they learn how to use a 3D printer. They? I'm trying to encourage them to print every class, and that way they're practicing slicing. They're practicing using command line shell if they're accessing it. Non visually. They're practicing, you know, loading filament into the printer, or, you know the getting the printer started and running. So it's fun. I film it's pretty cheap. And so you know, it can be. And it's just. It's great for them to. I love these things. By the way, the tactile millimeter calcers I mean the tactile inch ones are fine, but, like millimeters all the way they get that base. 10 don't have to worry about fractions, you know. To a certain extent, but these are great. The every student gets one of these things, you know. It's only 1 resolution. But for most of the stuff we're doing, that's all we really need is just getting it to the near smell. A meter. And that way we're using these to make design projects to get students interacting with measurements and then putting it, taking it from the real world, putting it, to a measurements and then putting it taking it from the real world, putting it into the virtual world and then bringing it back out into the real world, with 3D printing. So you know, one of the first projects I like to do is copy this shape. And so, you know, I make a shape. They measure it, and then they copy it and open scan, and they print it, and they make sure it all came out right. So in a, you know, if you make a small shape, the prints can come out and like 10 min. So you get that in a class period you have your feedback, and I use, you know, the draftsman I use embossing wheels to wrigg up like quick, like ideas of where their shape is and what it looks like for my students who are are blocked so that they can get a feel, gotta use the graph board, use the graph board a whole bunch. Yeah. Use? Play-to-hole bunch to, you know. Help students visualize their models tactically before 3D. Printing them. And yeah, that's that is my spiel, hey, if you haven't checked out universe, it is pretty awesome. They? You can search. Braille. You go to the education portion of the website and you have to be a little careful with the Brail portion, because a lot of it is made by people that don't know braille, or they use or don't art a vision professional we're just talking about this this morning. Their hearts on the right place they've done my contests and things like that for. Well, I can customize them with with. There is my favorite on, and I have it still at my house. They have a frog, a biology teacher, bit of frog, with all little pieces. So you can actually dice that the frog and you can print your own, dissectable frog and have it in different colors. So it really is, you know, there's a lot of cool stuff on there, and he will get lost yeah, yeah, printing other people. Stuff is so much fun. I'm all about it. But yeah, it just what you said, reminding me like, open Sq, has braille built into it? I mean you don't get the nice dome shapes you have this like, you know the cylinder Braille, but you know I'm not a huge fan of 3D printed braille. I think that embossed Brail is a I've been playing with using 3D printers for tactical graphics, and this promise there. But yeah, the feel is just different. Yeah, but like, you know, you can have braille, and then so with open escap you're all just you're just combining shapes. And so you can like combine and subtract shape. So the tech shape is actually 2D, so we have to extrude it just like stretch it out into a 3D. Shape, and then, you know, we can get our queue here, and we'll do like. 1, 10, then there and then, and then yeah, and then we'll just render it here. And so I'm rendering it, which means that the computer, now it was previewing it when I render it, it's going to make it into a model file which I can export. And so, yeah, the rendering, if you have something that is cutting out something else. That's the same height when you preview it, you get these weird, like kind of line things. These like like sheimmers. So you can solve that by like making your your cube a little bit smaller, and that so it'll cut through it all, or you can render it. But yeah, so we just cut out Hello, and then let's go ahead and do this equals true. I, yeah, love centering things. We'll just go ahead. And transit it over to 25. And then, yeah. And let me ask, is that I'm sorry. Translate that cool. I'm just gonna make it bigger here. There there we go now! We got a key chain, some brail on it where I could. You know I could instead of differencing them, I could add them together. So Union, and then I'll take my translate, and then I will add it here, so that we're going up here. We're gonna go up. Bye just preview. It. Well, it's way too high. And we don't even have to do any of that. But yeah, now we got some braille won't feel great, probably won't be the right size, but you could scale it. Yeah, let's translate it down. But yeah, I don't know. I'm just playing around now. I feel like I'm going. Getting things, so I have a student who loved to play games where he needed different sizes of guys. So someone has made braille dice in every number of sites you can think of for teaching materials. They have, of problems that you can print. So you can manipulate the individual cell. So if you've got a student who's learning, and they want, and they like a fidget, so you can have a Brill self-didget. I I really like and like to as well like once you get your thing about small print in your open S. C code to a certain place. Then it's like, okay, we're gonna print it from thing averse. And then you're gonna have to copy it. Now copy their code. And like, yeah, topping stuff is a great exercise. I don't wanna do that, but it is cool yeah, I mean, that's great, too. I mean, we get our students like you print it with them, and then you help them construct it. They construct it independently from the instructions, and it's, you know, a great skill, and like by motor skills and all that good stuff so cool, I think Powerpoint, here, if I can get it to open, it's being very Laggy. I won't stop sharing. April. Alright, the tech is not working with me today. Alright, so thank you. I didn't get any tea. Alright for those of you that our new or missed. It's let me share this out. If you would like the handouts, if my thing will still doing crazy. Alright! It will be located on my websites. Which is, going to be in the chats here in just a second and you'll come all the way down to the bottom to T time, and it will be posted by date. If you notice that anything before January is not posted, those are in my live binder, which is still in progress, but that is where I archive all of our team times reminded that we still have brea no touch lesson plans that are in progress. Good news, we should have our course up and running on bridge by August, so those of you have that are coming in new to Browne, touch. Then you can come and take our course with us, even if you're not name we're gonna be covering everything from basic navigation through Google. Drive, to doing math on the browser touch. That is, the students sending map to their teacher. Or use sending math to your student using the browser touch. So looking forward to that happening, our start testing resources are here as well as our technology testing guides that are broken down by grade. So really excited about all of those things happening. Alright! No, let me get back to our. This screen is a lot smaller than what I'm usually working with. There, you guys, so getting out of my way. Okay, alright. So that online, accessible editor that we mentioned before the and the Pearson curriculum for the lake was still broken last time I checked it. But the tech text to Ecc. Connection guide should be out and ready soon. Alright code for today. 0, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3. We think, Chris, for coming in and visiting with us, and as always, thank you all for coming and joining us, and we will see you next week for teaching voice over the next level. So that'll be our second session. Thank you. And I think your sound is what we're still okay.