Category: DKC training

• What do you think of Tinkercad?
  • I have very mixed emotions about Tinkercad. While it is good for beginners, I find that its way of moving objects around can be quite annoying. I think I would prefer to work with blender for most projects, but for more simple projects I would work with Tinkercad for its simplicity. It has its pros and cons. However, I love the naming of files. It is very entertaining(until you have to actually find it).
• What challenges did you face with 3D Printing?
  • This print is the worst thing I have ever had to deal with. It had made me want to rip my hair out. From things not coloring correctly in Prusa (I had to turn down the plane value of the fill bucket), to the filament breaking, to the printer deciding I have to select the color and me not knowing what it is planning to print, this nametag has been a pain in my butt.
• Where did you draw inspiration from?
  • I really like bats and vampires so I took inspiration from that. Part of it was just me messing around. Fun Fact: the clouds are actually speech bubbles but I hid the points/
• A picture of your name tag to receive both Shannon’s and Edmund’s approval.
  • yes! yay!

• Search terms you used while googling
  • “how to undo url change dooo”
• Sites that you found (and whether you were helpful or not)
  • wpbeginner
  • Reddit
• Any steps you took to try to fix it (even if those steps didn’t work)
  • The first thing that I did was look up what the issue was. I made sure to specify DoOO since it may be different for other programs. After I did that, I reopened my admin site from the DoOO dashboard, opening my site as the most basic version of it, without any theme. I then went to general settings and changed the site back to its original domain. This did not work at first because I had forgotten to change the .com to a .net address, so that made me nervous. Once I realized that mistake, I repeated my steps to get back to the admin page and fixed it, correcting my site.
• Anything else that was part of your experience troubleshooting
  • I found this one fairly simple if I am being honest. I had more of an issue when my site broke the first time by overriding my backup, though I think that was partially due to me being much newer to WordPress as a whole.

Write about what you learned since starting this project and feel free to include any other details on how the project went:

I learned how to green screen with Clipchamp. I had assumed that it would be a mask similar to other editing software, but it was an effect. I think it was a lot of fun to make, and it felt goofy to record the skits with Addy and my friend Cyrus. I also did not realize how big the free audio library was on Clipchamp.

• What parts of the consultation made you feel confident, and why?
  • I think I did a good job asking for help and trying to find work arounds for scenarios to figure out possible options. I feel like while the solutions were not the best, they did what they needed to as far as wordpress could.
• Was there a moment during the consultation that felt tricky? How did you handle it?
  • I was stuck for a little bit on some of the formatting and struggled with that. I tried my best to find work arounds, but wordpress isn’t the greatest for formatting.
• How did you go about figuring out what the student needed and wanted?
  • I initially asked what they needed help with, then followed along each of the things they needed. When I hit a standstill we skipped that and came back to it after.
• What did you learn about your own consulting style from this experience?
  • I learned that I try to figure out it alongside the student rather than only trying to help them, to give them a visual as well as prevent myself from computer hogging.
• What would you change in your next consultation based on what you learned this time?
  • I think I would explain the limitations of wordpress more so they can be aware of it when formatting.