Category Archives: Makerspaces/Hackerspaces
Free through Friday: Martinez & Stager’s INVENT TO LEARN book
Amazon.com: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom eBook: Sylvia Libow Martinez, Gary S. Stager: Kindle Store via kwout I’ve been hearing more and more from teachers and librarians interested in starting a makerspace or embedding maker … Continue reading
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Makerspaces at UMSI Convocation
Michigan Makers’ brainstorm of what “being a maker” means. Copyright 2013 Michigan Makers. Happy New School Year, Everybody! Last month, Rachel Goldberg shared her perspective on the Michigan Makers project, a pop-up middle school makerspace featuring University of Michigan School … Continue reading
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“Critical Making”
“3D printed heart gears” by John Abella on Flickr. Used with a CC-BY license. Earlier this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog shared the story of Matt Ranto, an information faculty member at the University of Toronto. Harnessing a $50,000 … Continue reading
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Free PDF Copy of Ito et al’s Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media via kwout If you’re interested in kid-driven learning, especially in informal, peer environments, then Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New … Continue reading
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Makerspaces at ALA
Another American Library Association Annual Conference has come and gone, and makerspaces were definitely among the hot topics. Ellen Gustafson, Rachel Goldberg, and I represented the Michigan Makers project at a poster session and chatted with lots of maker-oriented folks. … Continue reading
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3D Printing For A Purpose
In all of the (well-deserved) excitement about 3D printers, it’s easy to think of them as tools for printing trinkets and novelty items. But as this video shows, 3D printing can have life-saving possibilities. My brain keeps turning over how … Continue reading
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Ahem, I think 3D printing just went mainstream
I guess it’s official: 3D printing is big when Amazon.com devotes a section of its web site to it: 3D Printer & 3D Printer Filament: Amazon.com via kwout Cross-posted to the MakerBridge blog These men are at a greater … Continue reading
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Sharona’s Report from Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire!
Did you make it to Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire this weekend? This year’s event was in a new location — the Morris Lawrence Building of Washtenaw Community College. It put makers in closer proximity to one another and created … Continue reading
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Tomorrow: Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire
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Modern Leonardos
It is my honor to be presenting today at the Modern Leonardos: Libraries and Museums as Maker Labs conference at the Maxxi Foundation in Rome, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Rome and the American University in Rome. PowerPoint slides: … Continue reading
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