Student Name: Isabella Henkel

Date: June 9th 2019

Artifact Description: Truss Bridge - Using a drawing tool to create a 2D side image of a
truss bridge.

What you learned: I underestimated how much time it’d take to put together a bridge in a
drawing program. As an artist that regularly uses programs that allow things such as
erasing and gives line tools that you can continuously draw with, it was a little frustrating
at first to try and use a more limited program to put something together. I had some
struggles at first making a bridge design I felt was detailed enough and symmetrical, but it
definitely gave me a foundation to know how to work my way around Powerpoint and
what it’s capable of outside of boring presentations.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)-S Addressed:

Standard#4 Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve
problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Application of Skills Learned for the Future: It’s an interesting project that can help
students work more with angles, shapes and what smaller shapes can be used to make up
bigger ones, measurement, ways to get them comfortable with using different forms of
technology, and playing with lines and bringing out critical thinking skills. Those with a
visual learning style would further benefit with making something like this on a 2D format,
but making it in a 3-dimensional model would appeal to many more learning styles such as
kinesthetic and logical. If I could sit down and do this project with my own students, I
would have them try to make a simplified roller coaster design instead, for a more creative
project that would in itself turn into a 3D design project of a roller coaster rather than a
bridge.