Volunteering: Hour of Code

Hour of Code was fun! Families made levels in Bloxels, played with Dash robots, and made games with Scratch.

The laminated worksheets were cool – I’m stealing the idea to use a loop to make what looks like a 3D object.

Visual Literacy: Alexa Chatbot Tutorial

After scrapping the “Ellie’s Drunk Tutoralz” Rick Roll idea, I made this for Visual Literacy and experimented with creating it all in After Effects…not the best idea for the computer I have. I want to change it to have less repetition and fix the lack of circles at the beginning.

I rewrote the script for this after giving a presentation about it in History and Trends in AI and many of the audience (my target audience) were unfamiliar with basic coding knowledge such as what variables and strings are. I hope the way I covered what was needed for this project well enough for beginners.

Although I’m not completely happy with it, I’m posting it because it might help people.


08/16/18 Update: Here are some updated text/illustrated how-to documents.