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
[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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.