Category Archives: Makerspaces/Hackerspaces
Come See @drchuck and Me at the Chicago Public Library on Saturday!
My colleague and mentor Chuck Severance and I pop in and out of each others’ offices all the time. He’s a programming and learning prof; I focus on learning and libraries. We wrote a book for kids together. We did … Continue reading
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Kinematic: 4D Modeling with Free App
Via Design Milk: Kinematics from Nervous System on Vimeo. The video above shows experiments using hinged units in various sizes and configurations that permit large items (like a dress — I can just hear my mother saying, “You need … Continue reading
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Holiday Gifts for Maker Kids
Cross-posted from the MakerBridge blog … cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Kenny Louie Ah, ’tis the season for Black Friday, when shoppers invade big box stores looking for gifts. But what should you buy for the … Continue reading
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Maker Movement Manifesto, The Power of Crochet, and Makerspace as Project Runway
I’m reading The Maker Movement Manifesto by Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop, to get more insight and ideas about how we can best leverage our two pop-up school-based makerspaces. (You can read the entire first chapter here.) Early in those first … Continue reading
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NYTimes on 3-D printing your dinner (when I can’t seem to print an octopus)
A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an opinion essay about 3-D printing your dinner. “Dinner is Served,” by A.J. Jacobs, follows the author’s quest: I settled on the idea of creating a 3-D-printed meal. I’d make 3-D-printed plates, forks, … Continue reading
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Squishy Circuits
I’m a huge fan of Squishy Circuits (above) as an early-in-the-year middle-grade makerspace activity. The dough feels good in your hands, it’s cool when the LED bulb lights up, and it’s a way of keeping makers social and facing one … Continue reading
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Makerspaces in Academic Libraries (and some developing metaphors of mine)
When a team of us gave a webinar presentation for Booklist in October on Creating a Makerspace Culture, we didn’t focus much on academic libraries (as Booklist is a publication focused on school and public libraries). And we got a bit of pushback … Continue reading
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Edutopia: Funding a Makerspace
Figuring out what you need to start a makerspace — and how to pay for it — is a common question we’re fielding these days. In the Booklist webinar we gave last week (link to come when available), “What should we … Continue reading
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HBR: “Tactile Intelligence”
From “Why Kids — and Workers — Need to Get Their Hands Dirty” by Dorothy Leonard and Tim Bridges on the Harvard Business Review blog: Children in the U.S. today interact much less with their physical environment than they used to. Few … Continue reading
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Connected Librarians Day: The Library as Makerspace
Steve Hargadon has christened today Connected Librarians Day, and I’ll be speaking at noon Eastern on “The Library as Makerspace”: Defined as groups of creators who come together to design, plan, and create products using both digital and non-digital tools, … Continue reading
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