Making Spaces NDA’s Resource Center & Makerspace Newsletter

March 2018

Come try our vinyl cutter! You may have seen this machine in

our Makerspace. But what is it, and

what does it do? You can use the

vinyl cutter to make stickers, signs, t

-shirts (coming soon), and lots of

other fun stuff! The vinyl cutter can

be a little tricky, so if you’d like to give it a try, contact

jsmithers@nda.org to schedule an appointment to learn

how to use it!

These can all be made with a vinyl cutter!

NEW e-books

Makers of the

Month

Database

Spotlight

Women’s His-

tory Month

Adobe Crea-

tive Suite

Inside:

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Brand new e-books!!! Do you love reading? If so, you need to check out our new e-books on

Overdrive! Last month we added several new titles to our collection, in-

cluding some of the most popular fiction and non-fiction books for young

adults in 2017, along with some other popular titles from the past few

years. To access our Overdrive collection, visit nda.lib.overdrive.com and

log in using your student ID number and password. Alternatively, you can

download the Overdrive app for iPad in the App Store. Here are just a few

of the new titles we have added:

March is Women’s History Month!

To celebrate, we have curated a

Women’s History collection on

Overdrive as well as in our Resource

Center. Beginning March 5th, we

will also be displaying websites that

our Web Design & Coding students

have created about some of the

most influential women in history.

Be sure to stop by the Resource

Center and check it out!

Database Spotlight Questia School is a collection of over 83,000

books and 10 million articles from leading

publishers across the world. Questia also fea-

tures tools to automatically create citations

and bibliographies, helping students to

properly cite the materials. Students can log

in using their NDA e-mail and password. Next

time you are assigned a paper or project, this

would be a great resource to make use of. If

you have any questions, feel free to e-

mail jsmithers@nda.org or stop by the Re-

source Center.

Maker of the Month

Math Lab

M-Th 3:05-4:00 p.m.

3D Printer Training

Tuesday, March 13th 3:05-4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27th 3:05-4:00 p.m.

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Upcoming Events

Questions? Suggestions?

Your input is welcome! Con-

tact jsmithers@nda.org for

any Resource Center related

questions!

This month, Mrs. O’Loughin, our

Fashion Club moderator, used

the 3D printer to create these

fun, colorful earrings! If you’d

like to join the fun and learn

how to use the printer, be sure

to attend one of our training

events! Training will take place

immediately after school on

Tuesday, March 13th and Tues-

day, March 27th in the Resource

Adobe Creative Suite Did you know that all of our Resource Center

laptops have access to the Adobe Creative

Suite? This collection of programs includes

Adobe After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator,

Lightroom, and many others. Maybe you’re

an aspiring filmmaker and would like to try

your hand at editing videos in After Effects.

Maybe you’d like to learn photo editing in

Photoshop. Use the Adobe Creative Suite

Center. Not sure what types of items you can print? Visit

www.thingiverse.com for ideas. You will be amazed at what

you can create!

along with our GoPros to try your hand at video editing, photo editing, graphic design, web devel-

opment, and a variety of other creative technologies.