{"id":51927,"date":"2015-10-07T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51927"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:40:44","slug":"thingiverse-helps-make-3d-printing-easy-for-student-beginners-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/10\/07\/thingiverse-helps-make-3d-printing-easy-for-student-beginners-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Thingiverse helps make 3D printing easy for student beginners [Smith]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechmagazine.com\/k12\/article\/2015\/09\/thingiverse-helps-make-3d-printing-easy-student-beginners\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thingiverse helps make 3D printing easy for student beginners<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edtechmagazine.com by D. Frank Smith<br \/>\n<em>A new startup guide to 3D printing takes students by the hand in their first foray into the magic of makerspaces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3D printing is becoming more common at schools across the world, but there&#8217;s still a skills gap in using this new technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To help overcome that gap, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thingiverse<\/a>, an online repository of 3D printing designs hosted by the 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot, recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/jumpstart\" target=\"_blank\">JumpStart <\/a>\u2014 an online resource for newcomers to the 3D design discipline. JumpStart is geared specifically with early learners in mind, says Laura Taalman, MakerBot\u2019s senior product manager for education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/jumpstart\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51928\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JumpStart-Oct2015.jpg\" alt=\"JumpStart-Oct2015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JumpStart-Oct2015.jpg 696w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JumpStart-Oct2015-77x150.jpg 77w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JumpStart-Oct2015-524x1024.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thingiverse helps make 3D printing easy for student beginners &#8212; from edtechmagazine.com by D. Frank Smith A new startup guide to 3D printing takes students by the hand in their first foray into the magic of makerspaces. Excerpt: 3D printing is becoming more common at schools across the world, but there&#8217;s still a skills gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,472,32,82,305,66,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-active-learning","category-education-technology","category-engineering","category-project-based-learning","category-student-related","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51931,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51927\/revisions\/51931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}