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Advice for Successful Kids’ Makerspaces from Toronto’s MakerKids
From the MAKE blog comes advice from MakerKids, Toronto’s kid-centered makerspace. Advice includes a lot of stuff we also do in Michigan Makers. They call it “The MakerKids Recipe: Dedicated Space – that signals that this site is outside the normal … Continue reading
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Inspiration: Sorting Your Programming by Dewey Number
Interview: Delaware Division of Libraries | UpNext: The IMLS Blog via kwout I was fascinated by this map created for the Delaware Division of Libraries that appeared on the IMLS Blog UpNext. It sorts library programming by Dewey number. Would sorting … Continue reading
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Hello, Booklist Webinar Participants!
Today is Booklist’s Webinar “Beyond 3D Printing: Strategies for Makerspace Success.” Join us! With this, whether bipolarity exists in children is associated with the nervous system, which is precisely acquisition de viagra the same as the first medication. Earlier it was … Continue reading
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Reminder: Free Makerspace Webinar tomorrow at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central!
Join us tomorrow at 1pm Central (2pm Eastern) for a free webinar about makerspaces in libraries: The head houses the central control unit of our body which is the brain. viagra prescription In order cialis pills this process, the clitoris is properly … Continue reading
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Food for Thought: Choosing a Topic
With my information literacy students, my pals at U-M Library, and my K-12 colleagues, I keep wondering about how to improve the process of winnowing a topic down to the just-right size. I like this version a lot from
Edutopia: Lovely Post about “Wonder shelves”-cum-Makerspace
From Rafranz Davis’s “Embracing Student Creativity with a Wonder Shelf” on Edutopia’s Maker Education blog: A few years ago, the wonder shelves housed our classroom math manipulatives sorted into individual or group containers. I knew that I wanted our learning … Continue reading
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Makerspace Funding Ideas
{cross-posted from the MakerBridge blog} We received a Twitter request and a query during a recent presentation about funding for makerspaces. Here are some ideas: Grants Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) – This is the federal government’s funding … Continue reading
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Food for Thought: New Harris Poll on Libraries
From a new Harris Poll on libraries, some useful snippets for future use: 66% of American adults are either extremely (24%) or very (42%) satisfied with their public library. This number represents a seven percentage-point increase from the 59% of … Continue reading
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Food for Thought: Why do librarians so often equate purchases with “better” information?
From “Locating Infomation Literacy within Institutional Oppression” by Joshua Beatty on In The Library With The Lead Pipe, inspired by an outline by nina de jesus: Information today is largely a commodity. We have an internet that continually walls off portions: … Continue reading
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Hello, Mid-Michigan Library Cooperative!
Today I’m delighted to be giving a lunchtime talk at the Mid-Michigan Library Cooperative on maker culture in libraries. Resources: Maker activities list Slide deck If the need arises, tadalafil lowest price drugshop here you doctor will refer you to … Continue reading
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