What is a nature print? Our recent workshop instructor and U. Penn professor Miranda Mote explains: Roderick Cave and his work documenting nature printing as an ancient, global practice describes a nature printing as: “the technique of taking prints either … Continue reading Printing with Nature
GPS precision Standard GPS devices, including car GPS and your cell phone give you information about where you are in the world based on signals from a set of satellites circling far overhead. GPS is a type of GNSS (Global … Continue reading Know where things are: Precise GPS location service now available
Grading is an important and time-consuming task. Careful, personalized feedback helps students learn, but timely feedback is a challenge. Swarthmore has few tools that handle simple grading automatically. Moodle quizzes can score multiple-choice questions and the WeBWorK math homework system … Continue reading The Ethics of Efficiency: Wrestling with AI-Generated Feedback
Recently the Makerspace hosted a workshop designed and facilitated by Dr. Linda Huber at Swarthmore’s Aydelotte Foundation. This was a new collaboration for us, and Dr. Huber organized a fun, participatory, and hands-on workshop for students and staff engaged–intentionally or … Continue reading Makerspace asks, is “Art Against AI?”
If you use the Google Suite, you’re no doubt familiar with the daily creep of Gemini and other Google-based AI tools into your documents. In Google Slides, you’re constantly prompted to “beautify” your slide using Nano Banana, Google Gemini’s image-generation … Continue reading Unpacking the accessibility trap of Google Slides’ “Beautify” feature
This semester we’ve been fortunate to continue our ongoing collaboration with the Learning for Life program, a wonderful and uniquely-Swarthmorian educational program in its 27th year on campus. If you haven’t heard about it, L4L facilitates learning partnerships between students … Continue reading Learning for Life, back in the Makerspace!
