Curriculum Connections in Makerspaces In an article I wrote for Florida Media Quarterly, I describe ways that I’ve built curriculum connections into my makerspace. I get this question often, so I wanted to describe a few of the things I’ve done at Stewart. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Nor am I saying … Read more
Last month, I had the honor of giving a Pecha Kucha talk at the Hillsborough Women in Tech event. A Pecha Kucha is an ignite style talk, with twenty slides that automatically advance every twenty seconds. This was my first time giving this style of talk and it’s a lot more work than the forty-five minute conference … Read more
*This post is part of an on-again off-again series where I visit makerspaces in schools, libraries and public/private spaces. It’s a great chance to see the amazing diversity of spaces there are in the Maker Movement* The HIVE is Tampa’s first public library Makerspace, and it’s awesome. Their motto is “create – collaborate – cowork” and … Read more
Over the past five years, we have redesigned our media center and transformed it into a more flexible, collaborative space. This is the story of how we got there, and how you can apply what we learned as you rethink your library space. Want to learn even more about transforming your library space? Check out my … Read more
2014 had been a pretty amazing year for me, so I felt like this week would be a good time to take a look back. Rather than write up a paragraph on each month, I thought that it would be more fun to write one tweet per month. So here is my year in review, … Read more
The Makerspace Resource Library I’ve been a Maker in one form or another for a long time, way before that word was even common. I learned how to sew from my mom in high school. In college, I learned how to knit and crochet from my best friend. I frequently dabbled in other crafty enterprises … Read more
Hop on over to AASL’s blog today and check out my guest post on ways to use the free graphic design tool, Canva, in your library.
(Post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase using them, I get a small commission that helps support running this blog) The Story of our Awesome Whiteboard Wall This past week, our library and Makerspace got one more step awesome with the addition of our whiteboard wall. This was a project that I had dreamed … Read more
I’ve been working lately on finding more ways to collaborate with my teachers on lessons. While starting up a conversation with our marine science teacher, I learned that she was working on a unit about coral reefs with her students. Working together, we came up with a plan to focus on coral reef restoration. Inspired … Read more
The Great Library Makeover Back in August I blogged Part 1 of how we’ve been making over our library this year. We’ve been really busy since then with lots of good changes, including new computers and narrower library shelves in the fiction section. Part 2 is going to focus more on our new flexible, collaborative … Read more