When you are learning from home, there are a lot of great things you can do with your designs in TinkerCAD then share with friends, family and classmates.
Lets try this out...
Blogging your Models as Images
1. Creating a Picture of your designs.
Go to your Tinker Model like above and click on 'SEND TO'
2. Create a blog post - click on "Create a Blog Post", add a title and a description then drag your image into your page.
3. Drag and drop into your new pages.
In chrome (on a desktop/ laptop), the downloaded image is in the task pane at the bottom of the screen. Simply, drag it into your pages.
On an iPad or similar, then you will have to add the image from your camera roll from the "IMAGE' button at the top.
You will end up with this:
Next. Embedding your models.
1. Leave your model page and go to your main menu.
2. On the thumbnail image of your model, click on the cog and click properties. Here, you can give your model a description and make it shareable.
3. Give your model a proper name. only use your first name and class. This will be open now to embed on your blog. It is safe to do this because you are not sharing your personal information other than your first name and class.
3. Find your model and click on the thumbnail image of your model.
4. When you go back into you model thumbnail, you will see a different page:
You can see
- embed
- links
Google Classroom will only work if you are signed in to Google Classroom First
Pasting your embed code:
1. Click the Embed link and you will see this:
2. Copy the text in blue and paste to your blog page.
3. Click "publish" once you have described how and what you have built.
You may want to add the image to your blog page too like this:
Learning Intention:
Can I embed a 3D Model?
Success Criteria:
I can change the properties of my model to public.
I can change the name of my model so that it only has my first name.
I copy the link in my share page and paste to my blog.
I can save an image of my model and drag it into my blog page.