{"id":104,"date":"2017-02-28T19:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/?p=104"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:39:13","slug":"that-light-bulb-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/2017\/02\/28\/that-light-bulb-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"That \u201clight bulb\u201d moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-107 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Kit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Kit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Kit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Kit.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Simple-Board-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Simple-Board-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Simple-Board-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-Simple-Board.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2017\/03\/LilyPad.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Once I introduced my students\u00a0to the Idea of smart clothing and wearable devices they were very Intrigued. \u00a0I heard comments Like &#8220;I never knew there was clothing and stuff out here that could do that&#8221; \u00a0and &#8220;How did the make that?&#8221; My students\u00a0were very excited when I explained the\u00a0project I helped to develop during my Kenan Fellowship this summer. \u00a0I described how my team members and I developed\u00a0a wearable device in the form of a shirt that measured your posture and gave you a bit of a vibration when you were not demonstrating the proper posture. \u00a0I ask my students\u00a0if creating a wearable device would be something they wold be interested in trying to make, of course they were ready to get started right away. After showing the related videos I heard more &#8220;Oh Ok&#8217;s&#8221;. I thought this is great they are interested and excited. Once I guided my students through the basic programming steps using a prewritten code they were ready to manipulate the prewritten codes to create their own codes. \u00a0Once students were able to get their code uploaded they were excited about seeing the LEDs blink at different rates of succession. \u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0glad I learned how to create basic coding during my Kenan Fellowship and can now continue to develop my skills and teach my students how to code LilyPads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Once I introduced my students\u00a0to the Idea of smart clothing and wearable devices they were very Intrigued. \u00a0I heard comments Like &#8220;I never knew there was clothing and stuff out here that could do that&#8221; \u00a0and &#8220;How did the make that?&#8221; My students\u00a0were very excited when I explained the\u00a0project I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/2017\/02\/28\/that-light-bulb-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That \u201clight bulb\u201d moment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}