Author Archives: Kristin Fontichiaro
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Welcome to UMSI Visiting Days!
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Congratulations, Emily!
Congratulations to my colleague and co-author Emily Puckett Rodgers for being named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker! Emily Puckett Rodgers | Movers & Shakers 2013 — Innovators via kwout Our book introducing kids to Creative Commons, Shared Creations: Making Use of Creative … Continue reading
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Hello, MACUL!
Four of us from Michigan Makers are presenting at the MACUL conference today about our makerspace work. Stop by Room O2-38 from 2:30 – 3:30pm today! Can’t make it? Download the slides here! We also encourage you to read Rachel … Continue reading
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New post on Michigan Makers blog!
Check out the Michigan Makers blog for what we’ve been up to lately! Here’s a sneak Therefore, you can buy buy viagra kamagra effortlessly through a medical store. The tadalafil price and levitra are working directly with all the manufactures, … Continue reading
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Michigan Makers Featured in Web Edition of Young Adult Library Services!
Our Michigan Makers team is delighted that our UMSI alumna and fabulous partner Rachel Goldberg has an article on the Michigan Makers project in the web edition of Young Adult Library Services. From the article: First of all, in order to … Continue reading
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SXSW Booth Talks and a Sneak Peek at Fall 2013 Makers as Innovators Series
Last week was a whirlwind. I started the week in Austin, Texas, helping at the University of Michigan booth at South by Southwest (SXSW), came back to Ann Arbor for some badging conversations with out-of-town public library guests on Wednesday, … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, Badges/Badging for Learning, Books, Makerspaces/Hackerspaces, Presentations, Raspberry Pi
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MakerBridge: An Online Community
Congratulations to UMSI’s Sharona Ginsberg, who wrote up her MakerBridge online portal for makers, teachers, librarians, scout leaders, and informal learning coordinators (among others) for the YALSA blog recently. Help spread the word and encourage others interested in making to … Continue reading
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Happy Pi Day!
In honor of Pi Day*, here’s a sneak peek of a book for kids we’re working on, to be published by Cherry Lake Publishing on its Fall 2013 list: For severe cases, doctors http://greyandgrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Noboa.pdf order generic levitra suggest going in … Continue reading
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Who Knew? Research Tasks are REALLY important in PARCC
This month, the PARCC testing group (one of the two state consortia responsible for creating assessments for the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS) has released some testing guidance. If your state has adopted CCSS, they belong either to the … Continue reading
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