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SID2019: Safer Internet Day 2019-Participation

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Safer Internet Day 2019 – Save the date!.

Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially among children and young people across the world.

Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated on Tuesday 05 February 2019, with the strapline of ===> “Together for a better internet” <=== following the success of last year’s campaign.

Check the video below, please, who explains about it.

My participation for the SID2019

WHAT is special this year with my participation on SID2019?

I created a ===> #GlobalCollaboration #blog in 2017 <=== from @knolinfos (my pseudo on twitter) & @ICTPHMS & @kimmindy7 for #LEARNing about #DigitalCitizenShip. The authors are from Luxembourg/Europe (me), one female teacher from the USA and a male teacher from the USA WHO are using my blog post to learn together and sharing THEIR practice with YOU dear readers.

Well, there is a lot of different views about ===> Digital CitiZENship <=== WE will explore WHAT could be THE BEST way to teach and to learn about Digital CitiZENship (hashtag on Twitter is #digcit).

Here below the links of OUR blog post:

Learning To Become a GOOD Digital Citizen | Digital CitizenShip (A Global-Collaboration Blog)
PracTICE: Learning To Learn-Digital CitizenShip (A Global-Collaboration Blog)

How does it come that I post Global-Collaboration blog posts? Well, once the #ProfessionalDevelopment is Upto-Date, one does understand THAT learning in a team brings out a win-win situation and that a generation exchange is benefit for all of the participants as anyone learns from each other. BTW: here below other Global-Collaboration blogs with teaching persons from Australia, USA, France, Luxembourg (me):

My publications in the local press (Luxembourg/Europe) and interviews:

This year I participate ALSO with blogs in three languages, in English, German and French.

I participate on #SID2019 in Luxembourg/Europe.

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Why should ===> anyone <=== participate?

========> Cyber-security – a shared responsibility <=======

Cyber-Security is a shared responsibility, WE are ALL responsible for a more secure Internet and it is ===> OUR responsibility to build up the future for OUR kids, learners and students! <===

WE can do it by learning and teaching the basics of Cyber-Security and ALSO by helping international organizations such as “Safer Internet Day” to become a catalyst for such a difficult task!!!

======> WE are living in a world of connected technology, Cyber-Security is a MUST!!! <======

That is why I am participating on SID2019 with my FREE courses here:

My English contributions:

My German contributions:

My French contributions:

and also with my curation here:

Motivation To Work Together, Give It A Try

MOTIVATION: Knowing NOW how important it is to take part of such a great Event, I encourage YOU ALL to take part of it by any possible action, even as a private person! I encourage especially private persons to display the banner from SID2019 on their blogsand/or websites

Where can I get the banners?

Luxembourg (Europe):
- https://www.bee-secure.lu/fr/events/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2019#downloads (Check on the bottom of the website)
Worldwide
- http://www.saferinternetday.org

People who are on Twitter may use the hashtag #SID2019 to promote that Event, thanks for Helping to make the Internet a more secure place!

L’auteur Gust MEES est Formateur andragogique / pédagogique TIC, membre du “Comité Conseil” de “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), appelé maintenant BEESECURE, partenaire officiel (consultant) du Ministère de l’éducation au Luxembourg du projet ”MySecureIT“, partenaire officiel du Ministère du Commerce au Luxembourg du projet ”CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure).

The author Gust MEES is ICT Course Instructor, ”Member of the Advisory Board” from “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), BEESECURE, Official Partner (Consultant) from the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, project “MySecureIT“, Official Partner from the Ministry of Commerce in Luxembourg, project “CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure).

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Posted by Gust MEES on January 25, 2019 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Advisory Board, Analyzing, Awareness, Better Learning, Better Learning about ICT, Better Teaching, Blogs, Botnet, Bring Your Own Device, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), browser, Browser Vulnerabilities, Browsers, BYOD, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Learning, Collective Intelligence, Competency, Connected Educators, Critical Thinking, Curation, Cyber-Crime, Cyber-Hygiene, Cyber-Security Blogs, Cyber-Security is NOW Priority in the US, Cyber-Security Twitter Experts, Cyber-War, Cyber-weapon, cybersecurity, DDoS, Device Theft, Digital CitizenShip, Digital Footprint, Digital Intelligence, Digital Lëtzebuerg, Digital Luxembourg, Digital4EDUcation, DQ, Education, eLeadership, eLearning, Encryption, eSkills, Europe, For a Better World, Free courses, Future Work Skills, Get smart with 5 minutes tutorials, HotSpot, HowTo, ICT Awareness, Ideas for a more secure Internet, Identity Theft, IT-Security Scouts, IT-Security Worksheets, IT-Security/Part1-browsers, IT-Security/Part2-check your computer, IT-Security/Part3-Update your third party applications, IT-Security/Part4-Surf more secure-which web sites to trust, IT-Security/Part5-Not Only Internet-Safety/ALSO IT-Security, itsecurity, Key Instructors, Learning about Social Medias, Learning about Twitter, Learning basics of Cyber-Security-Practice, Luxembourg, Luxembourg and CyberSecurity, Mobile Botnet, Mobile Security, Modern EDU, Not ONLY rights but also responsibilities, Often Asked Questions, Open Mind, Passwords, Personal Learning Network (PLN), Phishing, PKM, PLN, PracTICE, Privacy, Proactive Thinking, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Reflexes, Responsibility, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, Safer Internet day 2019, Secure Surfing, Security in Schools, SID2019, Skills, Social Engineering, Social Media, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Synthesizing Mind, Teacherpreneurs, Third Party Applications, understanding, Understanding the internet, Vulnerabilities, WiFi

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First Steps with the Arduino-UNO R3 and NANO | Maker, MakerED, Coding | Scrolling text with I2C-LCD1602

14 Aug

Scrolling text with I2C-LCD1602

I was looking for a simple project for beginners, newbies on Coding and MakerED. A looong time ago since we did a project with ONLY four (4) wires, isn’t it! Well here is one which is very easy to create, a “Scrolling text on a LCD1602 with “I2C-Bus”. In previous blog post we were already using and explaining the “I2C-Bus” with an LCD, so it will be easy to create this one…

As a reminder, the I2C-Bus on an LCD1602:

Let us first have a look on the wiring, which is actually very easy.

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The full tutorial could be found here, which I invite you to read carefully:

In the tutorial are mentioned also the download link for the code in the upper side of the website, download it and check it; there are some bugs in 😉 I will explain where to look for changing the code, it’s actually very easy, here we GO!

Here the download link again:

The code looks like this (partial view for WHAT is interesting us…).

SCROLLING-TEXT-LCD1602-I2C-ORIGINAL-WITH-BUGS

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When we look at line 6, it is just a “comment” and so it will result in an ERROR, it should become uncommented by ” // “. In my case I didn’t get any text displayed, so I had a look at line 18 which is ” lcd.begin (16,2);” and I changed it into ===> “lcd.begin (0x3F,16,2);” which worked!! SO, that’s my recommendations, otherwise the Sketch works fine and you can change the lines 9 and 10 where you bring in your own text; NOT more than 16 characters, please 😉 Well, give it a try and find out yourselves… Here below a screenshot with the working code…

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Click the image, please, to enlarge it and find the necessary instructions to make the code work correctly, IF you have the same problem as I had.

Out of office notification

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Prices of the used material:

Please check video below to see the Sketch in action, e.g.

SO, now that your sketch is working, play a bit around while changing the variables, such as:

delays
text
etc.

Have fun and stay tuned for next blog posts 😉

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”.

Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Arduino UNO R3, Arduino NANO, LCD 1602, I2C Bus, coding, learning to learn, learning by doing, trouble shooting, I2C scan, LCD160/I2C, Scrolling Text,

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Posted by Gust MEES on August 14, 2018 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Arduino, Autodidact, Better Learning, Better Learning about ICT, Better Teaching, Coding, Connected Educators, Creating Mind, Creativity, Digital Lëtzebuerg, Digital Luxembourg, Digital4EDUcation, DQ, Education, Education 4.0, Electronics, Electronics Tutorials, eSkills, Europe, Free courses, Future Work Skills, HowTo, Learn with videos, Learning By Doing, Learning to Learn, Luxembourg, maker, Maker PracTICE, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Modern EDU, Personal Learning Network (PLN), PracTICE, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Project Based Learning, Quality Courses, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, Seniors, STEM, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Teacherpreneurs, Technology Integration, Tutorials

Tags: 21st Century Teaching and Learning, Arduino, Arduino NANO, best practices, Coding, Courses, creative thinking, creativity, Education, europe, FREE, free courses, generations, Gust MEES, innovative technology, LCD and Sensors Project, LCD display, LCD1602, LCD1602/I2C, maker, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Scrolling Text, technology, tutorials

First Steps with the Arduino-NANO | DHT22 Temperature/Humidity with Meter | Maker, MakerED, Coding

25 Mar

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Arduino-NANO | DHT22 Temperature/Humidity with Meter

I was looking to find the most easy way to show people and to GET them interested into “Coding” with a minimum of components and expenses, as well as having directly a “success feeling” to be motivated to continue slowly but surely! Here it is; ONLY three (3) wires to connect and ONLY two (2) components to buy for a low budget as well. Temperature and humidity are words well known by everybody and so WE will use a Temperature/Humidity Sensor to run this project. By using terms which the learners know already (Temperature/Humidity) they will NOT GO into “Unknown Land”, makes them feel comfortable 😉

WE will use the tutorial shown below in the video, please check it:

The link for the tutorial blog is here, please check it:

YOU will find all the necessary information in it such as the how to connecting the components as well as the codes for the “Arduino IDE” and the “Processing code“.

As YOU will remark: there are ONLY three (3) wires to connect, you can count until 3, isn’t it 😉 SO, very easy…

Here below how I did wire it, and you will see how easy it is actually…

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You need to install now the Processing software, please check the link below; install it and open it:

https://processing.org/download/
…

Concerning the code for the “Arduino IDE” AND the “Processing IDE“, we will follow the steps on the proposed tutorial…

First copy the code for the Arduino, check below:

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Next step: Connect the USB cable to your computer, copy the code, paste it into the Arduino IDE and upload it.

Now copy the “Processing Code” paste it into the Processing IDE and upload it.

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IMPORTANT: In the above code in “Line 14” is marked “COM4”! Check if it is the same PORT as in your Arduino IDE, else change the PORT number; for me it was “PORT 8”, but it depends on your computer… JUST change the number, e.g. “COM8”. Click now the button “RUN” on Processing and you will GET the shown result below…

PROCESSING-METER-TEMPERATURE-HUMIDITY-DHT22

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Easy isn’t it? Have FUN!

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”.

Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉..
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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Arduino NANO, coding, learning to learn, learning by doing, sensors, temperature/humidity sensor, DHT22, Processing Software, Meter, Analog Meter simulation with software, easy projects, Arduino NANO clones,

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Posted by Gust MEES on March 25, 2018 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Arduino, Autodidact, BEE CREATIVE, Coding, Competency, Connected Educators, Creating Mind, Creativity, Digital4EDUcation, DQ, Education, Education 4.0, eLearning, Electronics, Electronics Circuits, Electronics Tutorials, eSkills, Free courses, FREE-courses, Future Work Skills, HowTo, Key Instructors, Learn with videos, Learning By Doing, Learning to Learn, Luxembourg, maker, Maker PracTICE, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Modern EDU, Personal Learning Network (PLN), Personalized Learning, PracTICE, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, Self-directed Learning, Skills, STEM, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Synthesizing Mind, Teacherpreneurs, Technology Integration

Tags: Arduino, Arduino NANO, Coding, DHT22, maker, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Measuring Temperature and Humidity, Processing, ProcessingSoftware

What’s the secret of success while innovating? | Motivation, Courage, Engagement, NEVER Give UP…

26 Jan

What’s the secret of success while innovating?

I hear you screaming already: I would like to be innovative, I even have some ideas BUT I am fearing about WHAT OTHERS would say and think about!! To be honest, NEVER look about WHAT OTHERS would say, innovation is something NEW and the new will GET up from the beginning NO acceptance, apart from a few which Professional-Development is Up-To-Date, and you probably (mostly) will GET even very hard criticism because people tend for “Listening to reply and NOT for understanding”!!

With ICT in EDUcation and while being (nearly) Up-To-Date with your Professional-Development while you have read the most important books about Modern-EDUcation from renowned researchers and by being online and using Social Media, especially Twitter, you certainly “feel” what MUST change to give OUR students, learners, BEST EDUcation. DO SO, I am pushing you if necessary, the world needs people with courage, motivation, engagement to bring Modern-EDUcation farther!!

And I am NOT talking about tools, Apps, THEY are ONLY facilitators; THE main so-called tool is YOU!!! YOU are modeling the statues (your learners, students) from a raw piece to a Master-Piece because of YOUR talents, knowledge, experience, Up-To-Date Professional-Development. It’s YOUR talent, like in arts, YOUR creativity who sparkles over to the learners, students with YOUR motivation, engagement, passion…

IF NO effort is brought in, NO results will come out!!

NOW, you know the secret ingredients (it’s like cooking…) and then comes the way of the How-To, there WE need to use ALSO Social Media, especially Twitter to connect with the students, learners!! Did I say connecting with students, learners on Twitter and learning together with the whole world; an OPEN place, NOT a closed classroom!!??? Sounds strange, isn’t it!??? Well, it isn’t strange at all, as it is PracTICE for the students, learners, to GET straight in to WHAT they will get used once in the workforce. It’s actually the BEST PracTICE they can get.

As on January 2018 I just have seen ONE Twitter-Chat (if you know another one, let me know please…) WHERE students, learners (average age 20 years old) were involved and it comes from Canada, the University of Ottawa, run by Pierre LEVY. Please check below some screenshots from the transcript of the Twitter-Chat:

Click image please to access the tweets

By following that Twitter-Chat one can see and analyze THE way HOW students are thinking by bringing in THEIR Critical-Thinking, that shows their learning instantly… AND, the students use as well the <===> Twitter Moments <===> to make THEIR reflection about their learning while collecting different tweets from different persons on the Twitter-Chat <===> #UOTM18 <===> and even creating blog posts about it to reflect their learning. The moments and the blogs are made outside the <===> #SchoolCocoon (school, university…) <===> and Pierre LEVY is using this practice since 3-4 years already.

[Gust MEES] I had also already created a blog post about “Reflection” in Twitter-Chats in June 2016: Update Twitter Chats: WHAT To DO BETTER!?

Start text from PJ CAPOSEY Making Education Meaningful

So, as I see it in we have two binary options – stay unfinished or be completely miserable. Let me explain, if we attempt to do the same things for kids in 2028 as we do today we will be woefully ineffective. Very rarely is someone who is ineffective at their job fulfilled by their job and happy in their professional life.

Okay, 2028 seems pretty far away. I challenge you to consider if it is really possible to make slight changes for eight years and then have a monumental shift in years nine and ten. Probably not. So, what’s the point?

The change in our world is constant. Our kids are different than they were ten years ago and will be vastly different ten years from now. Our communities are changing. Our world is fundamentally different and will continue to evolve. In education we must adjust to them and to our world (more importantly their world) or we are going to face becoming dangerously irrelevant.

So, as educators we have one choice. One option to stay relevant. One option to compete. One option to serve our kids with integrity. And perhaps most importantly, one option to be personally happy. That option is to stay unfinished. Embrace change. Love the grind. Have a deep, hard, introspective conversation with yourself that it is never going to be easier to be great at your job. And be okay with that realization.

And I hope – deep in my soul – that accepting the fact that it is never going to be easier energizes you. You were not put on this Earth to be average. None of us were. You have chosen to be a part of the best profession in the world. We have the opportunity to change lives every single day. It is an awesome responsibility, but an even more incredible opportunity.

End text from …PJ CAPOSEY Making Education Meaningful

Read the full article here, please:

Concerning the students, learners from P. LÉVY’s different courses, please check below about WHAT they say:

As the semester comes to an end, I'd like to share with all of you my experiences in @plevy's Knowledge Management class. It's been a pleasure learning with all of you at #UOKM. https://t.co/AHiv5Jifpp

— Sara Bergeron (@SaraBergeron94) April 13, 2018

https://ummepatel.tumblr.com/post/172878525857/uotm18-not-a-goodbye-but-rather-until-next

By reading carefully the students, learners blog posts, tweets (Twitter posts), Twitter lists, Twitter Moments and Curation you will see HOW they can GET interested for their own learning by following ONLY a few rules to become digital citizens who know how to use the tools in a responsibility manner WITH understanding about WHAT they are talking and posting!!

Please read ALSO my blog post:

THAT is what I call <===> Modern-EDUcation, Modern-LEARNing PracTICE!! Wishing to see OTHER EDUcators, #TEACHers to copy this 😉

You might NOT to forget to remind, please, the below, thank you!

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”.

Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉..
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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: #UOTM18, #UOKM, PKM, PLN, Social Media, #Twitter, Curation, #Blogs, Critical-Thinking, Pierre LÉVY, Intelligence collective, Collective Intelligence, Big Data, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Modern EDU, Modern LEARNing, Communication,

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Posted by Gust MEES on January 26, 2018 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Adaptive Learning, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Better Learning, Better Learning about ICT, Better Teaching, Big Data, Blockchain, Blog creation, Blogs, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Learning, Collective Intelligence, Competency, Concept, Connected Educators, Critical Thinking, Curation, Design Learning, Digital CitizenShip, Digital Footprint, Digital Intelligence, DQ, Education, Education 4.0, eLearning, Engagement, EQ, eSkills, Ethical Mind, ethics, Flipped Learning, Future Work Skills, Global, Global Collaboration, growth mindset, HowTo, ICT Awareness, Key Instructors, Leadership, Learning about Social Medias, Learning about Twitter, Learning By Doing, Learning to Learn, Modern EDU, Motivation, Multicultural Articles, Open Mind, Personal Learning Network (PLN), Personal profit, PKM, PLN, PracTICE, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Quality Courses, Reality, Reflecting, Respectful Mind, Responsibility, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, Social Media, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Synthesizing Mind, Teacherpreneurs, Team-Teaching, Twitter, Twitter Chat, understanding, Understanding the internet

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First Steps with the Arduino-UNO R3 | Maker, MakerED, Coding | Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project | LCD and Sensors Project

22 Jan

Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project | LCD and Sensors Project | Temperature/Humidity Sensor DHT11

SO, as I got my new Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project I am playing around a bit with it. In my previous post WE were wiring and testing a LCD-Display and coding to display a bit text on the LCD. That was actually very easy, so lets try out now some “Sensors“, e.g. a Temperature/Humidity Sensor and a Ultrasonic Sensor to measure distances. The measured values of those sensors will get displayed on the LCD-Display.

Let us start first with the Temperature/Humidity Sensor DHT11 which is included in the Kit:

WE will use the following tutorial from Dejan Nedelkovski (How To Mechatronics) as it is very well documented and explained (no need for me to create a new one…). First we will check the video below, please, where we will get explained the How-To and some theoretical explications:

SO, now after knowing what will be necessary to do, we will first make the wiring of the LCD-Display, please check below:

Click the image above please to access the tutorial

As you can see in the above wiring diagram, there isn’t that much wiring to do. When following the tutorial <===> Arduino LCD Tutorial <===> you will get proposed some examples of code to play around with. Try them out to repeat the learned from previous blog post or just leave the wiring as it is to proceed to the next step, the wiring of the Temperature/Humidity Sensor DHT11.

We will continue to follow the tutorial <===> DHT11 & DHT22 Sensors Temperature and Humidity Tutorial using Arduino <===> where the Temperature/Humidity Sensor DHT22 is used. As we use DHT11, you need only to forget about the resistor as it is not needed, replace it by a connection cable (strip).

Click the above image please to access the tutorial

The wiring ready now, we go for the coding. The sketch is available here <===> DHT11 & DHT22 Sensors Temperature and Humidity Tutorial using Arduino <===> Upload it into the Arduino IDE and give it a try. You will see the result as shown in the image below:

There is something strange on the displayed values, isn’t!? WHAT happend!? Let us make some trouble-shooting: the wiring is OK, otherwise the wouldn’t be anything displayed, is the sensor defective!? If you have a second one, replace it to make sure. Same results again, hmmmm!? OK, it’s mysterious on some way, but there must be a solution for it… Let us check the sketch, the code, again to try to understand WHAT the Arduino is getting told to do and WHY the display shows something completely different, the problem is certainly then in the code. Let us review the video tutorial, perhaps we missed something (I did…). In the video, if really listened to, it get explained the two possibilities, using a sensor DHT11 or a DHT22. The code is written for a DHT22 sensor and we use a DHT11 sensor; so WHAT to change now in the code!? Please check the screenshot of the sketch below:

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Once change that code line upload it to the Arduino IDE and see WHAT happens on the LCD-Screen. See PIC below please.

Well, that’s success!! It works correctly now 😉 Play around with it to see the difference on the LCD-Display while blowing on the sensor. Give it a bit time that the measured values go back again to the previous shown one. SO, as we had now a positive experience and where we can see WHAT is happening on the LCD-Display, let us try another project, we will measure distances with the Ultrasonic-Sensor. But befor we ared going for a NEW project we need to save our project, check the video tutorial below please.

Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project | LCD and Sensors Project | Ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04

We will keep exactly the same wiring diagram for the LCD-Display and taking away the Temperature/Humidity sensor with its wires from the Breadboard. Then we will have a look on the following tutorial, we will use the tutorial from Dejan Nedelkovski (How To Mechatronics) again, check please <===> http://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/ultrasonic-sensor-hc-sr04/ <===> as the previous one was working well! SO, remember that you have to remove the DHT11 Sensor and the wires from it to the Arduino board and follow the next wiring diagram, please. First we will watch the video tutorial.

Here below the wiring diagram.

ULTRASONIC-HC-SR04-Wiring diagram-LCD-Display

Click the image please to access the tutorial

Next step is to load the code, follow <===> If you want to display the results from the HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor on an LCD you can use the following source code from <===> http://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/ultrasonic-sensor-hc-sr04/ <===> and to upload it to the Arduino IDE. That’s it folks, check below please to see the result!

It works up from the beginning, a success experience! Well folks, as you see it isn’t that much difficult to play around with the Arduino and Coding; don’t forget to save your project so that you can use it again if once needed and try out other projects as well, check the <===> Elegoo UNO R3 Project Super Starter Kit <===> PDF download to GO for NEW LEARNing-By-Doing adventures 😉

Was this post helpful for you!? Please let me know by your comments, thank you!

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”.

Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉..
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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Arduino UNO R3, Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project, LCD 1602, Sensors, DHT11, Temperature/Humidity Sensor, Ultrasonic Sensor, HC-SR04, coding, learning to learn, learning by doing, trouble shooting,

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Posted by Gust MEES on January 22, 2018 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Adult Learning, Arduino, Autodidact, BEE CREATIVE, Better Learning, Better Learning about ICT, Better Teaching, Coaching, Coding, Collective Intelligence, Competency, Connected Educators, Creating Mind, Creativity, Digital Lëtzebuerg, Digital Luxembourg, Digital4EDUcation, DQ, Education, Education 4.0, Electronics, Electronics Circuits, Electronics Tutorials, eSkills, Europe, Free courses, FREE-courses, Future Work Skills, HowTo, Key Instructors, Learn with videos, Learning By Doing, Learning to Learn, Luxembourg, maker, Maker PracTICE, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Modern EDU, Personal Learning Network (PLN), PKM, PLN, PracTICE, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Project Based Learning, Quality Courses, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, STEM, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Teacherpreneurs, Technology Integration, Tutorials, understanding

Tags: 21st Century Teaching and Learning, Arduino, Arduino UNO, Arduino UNO R3, best practices, Coding, Courses, creative thinking, creativity, Education, eLearning, FREE, free courses, Gust MEES, LCD and Sensors Project, maker, MakerED, MakerSpace, MakerSpaces, Measuring distances, Measuring Temperature and Humidity, teachers knowledge, technology, Temperature/Humidity Sensor DHT11, Ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04

First Steps with the Arduino-UNO R3 | Maker, MakerED, Coding | Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project

17 Jan

Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project From Elegoo

In one of my previous blog posts I used Arduino-UNO Starter Kit, which I ordered at Conrad (English version) and I wasn’t really impressed by the manual, it didn’t satisfy to my expectations and needs. SO, I was looking around to find some distributors for a BETTER version… At “Amazon US” I found Elegoo UNO Project Super Starter Kit with Tutorial for Arduino. First of all, the kit is delivered in a plastic box and its price is also attractive, $34.99.

The manual with the code, libraries and tutorials is on a DVD. So, I was looking first on the DVD and reading the Manual in PDF format to see the quality of the tutorials and the tutorials in PDF are very well documented. Once knowing WHAT is possible to do I made my choice for the “LCD-Tutorial“…

Below is the “Wiring diagram“, the How-To to connect the wires to make it work.

As yo can see, it isn’t that much to do. Once the wiring ready, it is time to upload the code to the IDE and make it run to the success 😉 With the delivered code you will see the message “Hello World” on the LCD-Display.

Here below the code where the message “Hello World” is in.

SO, why not playing around a bit to understand the code and changing the text message in <===> lcd.print(“Hello, World!”); <===> into something different, something more personal!? That’s WHAT I did, here my code change:

lcd.begin(16, 2);
// Print a message to the LCD.
lcd.print(“Gust MEES – LCD”);

which shows up as, see image below please.

The LCD-Display shows now my name as well (photo was taken when the counter was at 62) as my age, yes I am 62 years old (actually young, LOL); meaning that WHEN I can do this you for sure are able to do it! SO, WHAT are you waiting for to START learning about coding!!?

Reflecting for ideas:

SO, WHY not assembling everything into a box and use it as your personal “Door Name Display“, play around with some text and find out…

Ready, START, GO… Have fun by LEARNing-By-Doing 😉

You may have a look on my other blog posts about Arduino below:

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”.

Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉..
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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Arduino Starterkit, Arduino UNO R3, Elegoo, quality kits, LCD, LCD Display, coding, Maker, MakerED, MakerSpaces, Electronics, Amazon US,

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WHAT Is a Thread On Social Media Twitter and How To Use It For Story Telling

24 Dec

WHAT Is a Thread On Social Media Twitter and How To Use It For Story Telling

WHAT Is a Thread On Social Media Twitter and How To Use It For Story Telling? That’s a question one sees very often NOW on Twitter as it is NEW. Let me explain by a practical authentic example WHAT it is good for.

Click the image please to access the Thread

In the Twitter Thread I share a bit about the Culture and traditions of my country Luxembourg in Europe, as well as some touristic tips, music events and WHAT some people eat for Christmas by a step-by-step guide of the How-To to cook it with photos and text explications. Hereby I use the “Synthesizing Mind“, see below, please.

When following my Twitter Thread, YOU will see how it is possible to connect the dots for a full Storytelling, this is just an example, NOW as YOU know WHAT is possible to do, let it go, let it flow and create YOUR OWN! Have some creativity 😉

When well chosen YOUR Topic and hashtags you will find a NEW audience as well on Twitter as also others will get interested about your thread, liking it and sharing it; your audience will grow and commercial companies also will follow you.

Check out the Blog from Twitter to know more about:

Now, hundreds of thousands of threads are Tweeted every day! But this method of Tweeting, while effective and popular, can be tricky for some to create and it’s often tough to read or discover all the Tweets in a thread. That’s why we’re thrilled to share that we’re making it simpler to thread Tweets together, and to find threads, so it’s easier to express yourself on Twitter and stay informed.

Learn more:

Learn more about Twitter by visiting my other blog posts, please:

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”).

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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Storytelling, Synthesizing Mind, connecting the dots, Twitter, Social Media, Twitter Threads, creativity, cooking, Luxembourg, Beaufort, Tourism, Eating Culture, Easy Cooking,

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Posted by Gust MEES on December 24, 2017 in 21st Century Skills, 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Adaptive Learning, Adult Learning, Analyzing, Andragogy, Better Learning, Better Learning about ICT, Better Teaching, Blog creation, Blogs, Collective Intelligence, Competency, Connected Educators, Creating Mind, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Culture, Curation, Digital Footprint, Digital Intelligence, Digital Lëtzebuerg, Digital Luxembourg, Digital4EDUcation, DQ, Education, Education 4.0, eLeadership, eLearning, eSkills, Europe, Free courses, FREE Photos, Future Work Skills, growth mindset, History, HowTo, Key Instructors, Learning about Social Medias, Learning about Twitter, Learning to Learn, Luxembourg, Modern EDU, Personal Learning Network (PLN), PKM, PLN, PracTICE, Professional Development, Professional EDUcators TEACHers, Quality Courses, Right use of Technology, Rise Of The Professional Educator, Skills, Social Media, Students 21st Century Survival Guide, Synthesizing Mind, Teacherpreneurs, Technology Integration, Twitter, understanding

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Tips To Become an Autodidact, Self-Directed Learner

09 Dec

You may read my following blog posts as well for more insights:

For EDUcators, TEACHers, Instructors; my book selection:

AND, once you have learned about creating a blog, use it ALSO for your hobbies, you will have pleasure (fun) to do so and you will learn NEW things also 😉 (secret tip!).

You may find some inspiration and ideas from my Hobby Blogs:

TIP: keep the below in mind 😉

Have fun in your learning adventure and leave me a comment in case of questions 😉

The author was also a winner of an electronics contest (Germanic countries) in 1979 and got his project published in the “Electronics Magazine ELO”).

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Critical Thinking AND Proactive Thinking a MUST in Modern-EDU!

26 Oct

Critical Thinking AND Proactive Thinking a MUST in Modern-EDU! WHY!?

Looks to me as WE will live THE same as in 50’s-60’s with “James DEAN“, Living on the edge Youth & Society“, overload of information!? Change? At that time period it was TV, NOW it’s the internet, similarities? Well, I think so!! A NEW media showed up, the internet, and with the internet ALSO Social-Media. MOST of people are just consumers and DON’T see the dangers NOR do THEY accept THEM!! It’s a Virtual-World which THEY can’t imagine about HOW it will have an impact on Real-World!! BOTH, the Virtual-World and the Real-World are influencing each other!

WE are facing actually (2017) “Fake News“, MOST coming and being sponsored by politics interests!!! Just follow “Donald TRUMP’s election campaign and his actually acting…” and YOU will understand WHAT is going on! I encourage YOU to go for “Deep-THINKing” about WHAT is happening in Virtual-World THAT will influence the Real-World!!!

Knowing THIS, you certainly agree with me that there is a MUST to learn about “Critical THINKing, but HOW!?? Please read my curation articles below:

My Curation about Critical Thinking
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Read also the article below, please:

Radical Pedagogy: Education has the power to change social inequality by nurturing a generation with an educated mistrust of everything that has been indoctrinated before. This educational stance is one that we must all strive for as the moral purpose of education.

Link to the article:
Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo
My curation about Radical Pedagogy
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And WHAT about Proactive-Thinking?

Proactive-Thinking SHOULD be burned in into EVERY Educators, Teachers MIND! WHY!??? The MOST IMPORTANT for any education related persons should be THEIR students, learners and the how to to prepare THEM for THEIR future!!

THIS Proactive-Thinking results in getting informed about WHAT is the need from the workforce, industry etc. to make sure that the future workers, employees… will be able to help the country to stay competitive with well educated persons! Especially for NEW jobs who will be created because of ICT, where nearly no one knows WHAT those jobs could be!!

Therefore it is very important that Educators, Teachers focus THEIR Professional Development first on the skills that students, learners need to have!

Read my blog post, below please:

AND as WE are working with ICT, it is MANDATORY that WE will have knowledge about Cyber Security to protect at its BEST OUR students, learners and THAT WE forward OUR knowledge to THEM!

My courses about Cyber-Security: in English (1)
My courses about Cyber-Security: in English (2)
My courses about Cyber-Security: in English (3)
My courses about Cyber-Security: in French
My courses about Cyber-Security: in German
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Please read my blog post below:

WHY is Proactive-Thinking IMPORTANT and a MUST in Modern-Education with and about ICT!?

Proactive-Thinking is ALSO a MUST in Makerspaces and MakerEd

To ensure the safety of OUR students, learners, WE MUST be informed about Safety-Rules when working with different tools and the possible dangers of those tools!!

Please read also my blog post below:

Maker Space | A New Trend In Education And A BIG Responsibility

And as usually, I remind YOU about the “Synthesizing Mind“!

Keywords for me to create this blog post: Actual Politics (Turkey, USA…), Cyber-Security, Bullying, Cyber-Bullying, Social Media, behavior, IS, Society, liberal thinking, NO LIMITS, living on the edge, understanding, overload of information?, FAKE NEWS,

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Social Media Twitter: WHAT Is Its Attraction And WHY Is IT Important For EDUcation!?

26 Oct

Social Media Twitter: WHAT Is Its Attraction And WHY Is IT Important For EDUcation!?

First of all, one can’t ignore existing trends which are already existing in Virtual World since ages and one SHOULD adapt for it in Real World, especially in Modern EDUcation! Social Media plays already a BIG role in business, so students, learners need to get taught about twitter and its importance for THEIR future jobs!

WHY teaching something where one has ONLY 140 characters to express themselves!? When I first heard about twitter that’s THE question I was posing myself as well!! But after one year observing and analyzing tweets I changed my mind and I became very active on twitter!!! Make the question DIFFERENT: Just think different, WHAT is the positive side about how to be able to express something with a very short (140 characters) characters!? WHAT is ALSO the value to use Social Media!?

Make an experiment first: try to express yourselves about a topic in a normal writing way; analyze that and try NOW to express THE same in 140 characters! YOUR grey cells are working a lot, isn’t it!? AND THAT is GOOD, YOU will find another way to express YOURSELVES in shorter words and sentences; YOU will be able to synthesize!!

Less talk, talk, talk and more RELEVANT information will be THE result!!! Sounds like QUALITY, isn’t it 😉

On the beginning, YOU will struggle a bit which is quite normal (I did ALSO…), but later YOU will find (after some training…) it interesting and even like it as a challenge… And BTW, if YOU can’t express it with ONLY one tweet (post on twitter), there is another possibility; check my blog post, please <===> Updated Twitter Knowledge

Learn more:

My curation about twitter (1: Social Media)
My curation about twitter (2: EDUcation)
How-To use Twitter with success for Education and more…

AND twitter is part of Social Media as well, like it says it already it’s social; YOU will meet OTHER people online with same interests (mostly, if well chosen followers…), different point of views (will give YOU some new ideas…) and YOU could build up a “Personal [Professional] Learning Network“, called a “PLN“. Through THIS PLN will find NEW opportunities for LEARNing as anyone learns from anybody, it’s an exchange of knowledge.

Learn more:

Twitter is getting more and more popular (2017), please check below:

.And for YOUR entertainment, some music videos, related to this blog post 😉

Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: 140 characters, Social Media, Synthesizing Mind, different factors to share, Professional Development, Twitter Chats, Deep Thinking, making the brain work to express with ONLY 140 Characters, SEO, Growth Mindset, communication PracTICE, interacting with blogging for SEO, sharing ideas, sharing knowledge, twitter popularity is growing, PLN, PKM,

Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉

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