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This year for my beginning of the year orientations, I  created a video tour of the Media Center to show each class. I posted in Kaltura.  I also created a Makerspace in a room off of the Media Center. We are fortunate to have the addition of a 3D printer!

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I rearranged the media center this summer, so I created an Orientation Video to show to all my classes.  It was a real time saver!  I published it in Kaltura. 

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I rearranged the media center this summer, so I created an Orientation Video to show to all my classes.  It was a real time saver!  I published it in Kaltura. 

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Laurie Arnez - SGE

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2016-17 Media Orientation for Sea Gate Elementary.

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Students will choose a picture book from a couple of choices at the center, and use puppets to retell the story. They can also choose to write their own story and use the puppets to tell it to someone.

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BCE
Mary Hess
I have used Mag-formers as a Makerspace. Students love the shapes, colors, and fact that they are magnetized. They have built many interesting structures. Upon completion, students take a picture of the structure and it is displayed for all to see.

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A student returned a book and commented on their “due date” receipt on how much
they enjoyed the book. She left it in the book and I found it when I was
looking for another book to read. We have a lot of old “due date” cards that we
don’t use anymore because we now print receipts. Students can take those old “due
date” cards and comment, write or draw on them and stick them in the book they
just read before I re-shelve them so that other students will find their comments
when they are looking for a book to read.

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Newspaper + marker = blackout poetry. This site is a companion to the book Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon. It's a place where anyone can share their attempts at blackout poetry. Grab a marker and...

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I have so many ideas, but I think the first thing that I will start with is making bookmarks.  I bought silver plated book marks, silky thread and cool charms.  This is all new to me.  Going to be interesting. I'm looking at areas and moving things around to accommodate a space.  Update - next month.

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I'm intrigued by Blackout Poetry. This is something that I can do with our 10th grade students. I can set up a station were students can come in to create their own which we can later display.

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I'm intrigued by Blackout Poetry. This is something that I can do with our 10th grade students. I can set up a station were students can come in to create their own which we can later display.

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http://newspaperblackout.com/

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Mary Joe Parrish
I think this is a great idea. I would like to place this in the front foyer of the media center on a couple of tables. For the first month, I would like to do legos and lite brights as a way to get interest and attention on the station.

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Although I have no difficulty getting students into the media center I do find some of the ideas interesting. I am looking at the maker maker and raspberry pie items to add to the media center.

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At Lorenzo, we have the shared space with the college. There is already a plan in place to implement a MakerSpace (called something else) that will have both open ended projects like I did at MMS but also more focused technology that will play off of the college programs. We will use Ozobots, Makey Makeys, Raspberry Pis, etc but will also try to get input from the college side on what technologies they use in their programs that we can play off of. This will extend those students' learning and give them more opportunities to "play" with their program technology. Some of the most successful ones at MMS were the low-tech ones like crafts and taking apart technology so I recommend some low-tech things from time to time (but they are messy!).

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Jill Kaminski  North Naples Middle School        I have this piece of furniture in the media center that I want to re-purpose. It needs to become a maker space. I am going to create a station where students can walk up and write/create/draw a book recommendation.  Last year I found a hand-drawn picture and hand-written recommendation inside a book that a student had returned. It was the cutest thing I ever saw . I taped it to the shelf where that book was on the shelf and it spurted a lot of checkout of that series. I saw kids stopping to read that funky, little paper. I think I will have some interesting and cool recommendations to use for advertising. Students will love seeing their work all around the media center. I might use 4 x 6 blank index cards. I'm still kicking this idea around. I may do something else, but it will involve the old atlas stand.

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Jill Kaminski  North Naples Middle School        I have this piece of furniture in the media center that I want to re-purpose. It needs to become a maker space. I am going to create a station where students can walk up and write/create/draw a book recommendation.  Last year I found a hand-drawn picture and hand-written recommendation inside a book that a student had returned. It was the cutest thing I ever saw . I taped it to the shelf where that book was on the shelf and it spurted a lot of checkout of that series. I saw kids stopping to read that funky, little paper. I think I will have some interesting and cool recommendations to use for advertising. Students will love seeing their work all around the media center. I might use 4 x 6 blank index cards. I'm still kicking this idea around. I may do something else, but it will involve the old atlas stand.

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Erin Boyd-GGM                                                   Our students show a high interest in graphic novels and I think they would appreciate the chance to make their own. I will have ideas listed to help them get started if they are having difficulty. I will (try to) have one of my own to show them or maybe even do one with them so they can see that writing does not happen automatically...it takes thought AND revision AND editing.  

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Erin Boyd-GGM                                                   Our students show a high interest in graphic novels and I think they would appreciate the chance to make their own. I will have ideas listed to help them get started if they are having difficulty. I will (try to) have one of my own to show them or maybe even do one with them so they can see that writing does not happen automatically...it takes thought AND revision AND editing.  

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Students can create bookmarks that they will share with a friend (or a fellow student) that they think would be interested in the book/genre/author. The bookmark will include Title and Author and then some popping illustrations or graffiti words to represent/'sell' the book. Students LOVE to share their excitement over books/authors/series they thoroughly enjoyed.

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Theresa Ferreira OMS - Ozobots & Crosswords -  I will arrange an area for students to use Ozobats. Students can challenge themselves and each other to create paths for the Ozobats to travel relating to a particular story or book. I am also thinking of have a spot for students to complete a crossword puzzle by using vocabulary words form certain units of study in different subject areas.

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Theresa Ferreira OMS - Ozobots & Crosswords -  I will arrange an area for students to use Ozobats. Students can challenge themselves and each other to create paths for the Ozobats to travel relating to a particular story or book. I am also thinking of have a spot for students to complete a crossword puzzle by using vocabulary words form certain units of study in different subject areas.

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My first Makerspace will be an ELA Makerspace.  I will use the Tricaster  to record book talks to show on the morning news . Students will be welcome to work on their book talk before school and during lunch.  In the past I have worked with ELA teachers but have not yet used the Tricaster to show the book talks.

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Reading /Writing across the curriculum
using book art creations.
Science: container gardening using recycled material
Social Studies: creating book marks

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As a rookie, my aim is to be on the cutting edge--the place where literature meets technology and ideas become creations. With the current push for Future Ready Librarians and our new responsibility of developing responsible digital citizens, I feel I have landed at the information convergence; Hence--the Learning Hub or Learning Commons. A place where not just STEM or STEAM is emphasized, but a place where all are brought together. A place for both convergent and divergent thinking and tinkering. I am charged with coming up with a concept for our Media Center and turning it into reality. I am not limited in my thinking. That is how our students should feel when they are in our library spaces. We are the Google of the school. An open source area where many become one and the goal is innovation.  In order to create this new place, I have begun to brainstorm much like we, in the middle, are doing today.  Some ideas I look to continue from Mrs. Alvarez  are the implementation of the Makey Makey, Lego & K'Nex, Ozobots, and general tinkering spaces.  I also plan to provide students with spaces to learn through LittleBits, Code.org,  Raspberry Pi, MakerBot (3D Printer) and Adobe Creative Cloud / Photoshop learning areas. Our media center will now be a work in progress like me.

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Love Kristi's, via Gail, idea of using Thinglink to create a map highlighting specific areas of the media center during orientation.  I also like Christin's idea of using old envelopes as a different type of bookmark to prevent dogearing.  The other two that I will definitely use all year are black out poetry and book trailers as I work closely with the ELA department.

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Immokalee Middle School
We have a new School motto this year, "Pride in the Tribe". We are starting the year with a bookmark competition focusing on this. I plan on creating a makerspace where students can research the meaning of TRIBE, and then create their bookmark. The top ten bookmarks will be selected with the help of the Admin team. These will then be displayed during lunch and students will vote for one . The winning bookmark will be reproduced for all students.

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am going to begin my first Makerspace by having the students make chapter book folders for the chapter books they are reading.  This space can be a continued space for September so students have enough time to read chapter book and create a match book for each chapter.

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With a fairy tale theme for the first semester, I will create a maker space with building a castle. Enchanted Engineering! I'll price Legos, blocks, or other building materials to see what is affordable. I know there are great castle books out there for the kids to read. Anyone with a good idea about shoes for my Cinderella unit. Next I will
. have to find the standards to go with it......

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I will be creating a makerspace. The first makerspace will based on Technology.  It will involve an introduction and exploration based on the online district resources such as Grolier.

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Kari Doucette PLE
Pirate's Perfect Pet to go along with Fall book fair theme.

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I would like to rearrange my library to create the space. After I do that, I'll try to make a Language Arts center where students will work in a group of 2 to read a short picture book and take turns using puppets to retell the story to each other.

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I have enlarged my Makerspace area this summer. One of the first activities I will put out is Build a Bridge. I put out toothpicks, play dough, paperclips, pipe cleaners, toothpicks, string, and straws. I post challenge to build a bridge using the materials. When completed, student are to use the iPad to make a video dis ribbing their bridge. They can name it and explain who would use the bridge and why. They post the video on the Makerspace Padlet wall. I have a QR code posted for the Padlet
wall.

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I plan to make a new makerspace each month. I am going to begin with students making a bookmark.

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I plan to make a new makerspace each month and to create flipped videos for orientation.
Today I made a makerspace for engineering and a flipped video for it.
http://media.collierschools.com/media/Bolen+Makerspace+/0_3jsy6dd6

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Susan
Pratt – MES

 

Opening Makerspaces will be centered around building Nature of
Science concepts & skills through our continued “GrOw Green” theme.

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Susan
Pratt – MES

 

Opening Makerspaces will be centered around building Nature of
Science concepts & skills through our continued “GrOw Green” theme.

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Carole Mathy EES
Last year I started with four Makerspaces.
The most popular station was the Lego wall.  It was so popular I did not change it all year.
This year I want to do something different with the Legos.  I found lots of great ideas on Pinterest.  I plan on doing Lego challenge cards, Lego brain puzzles, and Lego Marble Mazes.

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Marlene Ashley-PSE I am starting small-LEGO small :D I am rearranging the media center space to accommodate a Maker Space area.  The first addition will be a LEGO wall!  This will allow the students to get comfortable with the procedures involved in a fun and familiar way. 

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Marlene Ashley-PSE I am starting small-LEGO small :D I am rearranging the media center space to accommodate a Maker Space area.  The first addition will be a LEGO wall!  This will allow the students to get comfortable with the procedures involved in a fun and familiar way. 

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To help with the amount of students using the “Dog-ear” method of saving their spot in the book they are reading, I will set up a MakerSpace to make bookmarks using old envelopes.  I have a lot of envelopes that are not used and many times after Christmas there are a lot of extra envelopes.  Just cut the corners off the envelope and use some cool Washi Tape to decorate!!

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Jennifer Barber SPE - I'm creating a Presidential Election Makerspace. Students will go to my Media Center homepage and click on "The Democracy Project" and "Be President for a Day". They will apply for the job by choosing from multiple choice items and printing out the news article about themselves as President of the United States.

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Jennifer Barber SPE - I'm creating a Presidential Election Makerspace. Students will go to my Media Center homepage and click on "The Democracy Project" and "Be President for a Day". They will apply for the job by choosing from multiple choice items and printing out the news article about themselves as President of the United States.

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I am going to venture into the world of Makerspaces by creating a math makerspace using Legos. Students will pull a flash card from the bin, and use Legos to create and solve the math problem. There will be a bin with addition and subtraction math problems, as well a bin with multiplication and division problems for older students. Time permitting, students can then create their own math flash card to add to the bin for other students to enjoy.

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Read one of these informational books about the work of a scientist. You are a scientist! Write what you will do as a scientist this year.

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This will be my first exploration of makerspaces and I got lots of great ideas today. I plan on doing 3 spaces. through the end of September.  I'm intrigued by the sets of magnets that Mary told me about and have decided they will be my first purchase. I will also put out 2 jigsaw puzzles, and a bookmark making center.

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I will begin by putting out a makerspace that is related to science.  We have activities that involve circuitry.  They are mostly self explanatory.  I will also provide books related to electricity and circuits.  This is best suited for students in grades 2 - 5.

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Thinglink for flipped video

Gail Ellis showed me how to use this great app. I will be using this with my orientation for grades 2-5. You take a photo and add icons to any area. Then you can link text or a video to that particular area for more detail. I am going to take a panoramic view of my library and use Thinglink to highlight specific areas. The kids will be going on a scavenger hunt to find the info needed to complete the assignment.

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I am going to do an engineering makerspace. The Fall book fair theme is pirates. So I am going to have the students create their own catapult using a cardboard tube, a plastic spoon and a rubber band. I may have them catapult small gold coin or simply a marshmallow.  They can create a "fort" with paper cups and see how many tries it takes to conquer it.

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I started last year with 5 stations:  Art (drama, music, puppets), Science, Math, Technology,and Engineering.  This, year, with a re-configured library, I have a more substantial Maker Space Place.  I change them out monthly and my goal as of today is to have an Ipad on each table to explain the directions.  I'll also check the curriculum guide, because I think linking to curriculum will help spark ideas for activities.
One of my most popular last year  was paper rockets - and it was simple too!
Collect • Letter-size paper • Pencil • Scissors • Scotch tape • Drinking straw Create the rocket body 1. Fold the paper crosswise or hamburger style. Cut along the crease with scissors to make two smaller pieces of paper. 2. Fold one of these pieces in half again, lengthwise or hotdog style, and cut along the crease. 3. Tightly wrap one of these pieces lengthwise around the pencil and tape it so that it forms a tube shape. 4. Twist, bend, or fold one end of the tube to form the rocket’s nose and tape it into place. 5. Push the tube off the pencil. Design the fins 6. On one of the remaining pieces of paper, design the size and shape of your rocket’s fins. Think about what shape would help the rocket become more aerodynamic. 7. Carefully cut out the fins and attach them to the rocket body with tape. Launch the rocket! 8. Put an unwrapped drinking straw inside the rocket and blow to launch. 9. Experiment with the angle of the straw and the shape and size of the fins to change the way your rocket flies. How it works When you blow through the straw, the force of your breath causes your rocket to fly through the air just like real rockets fly through the Earth’s atmosphere. The shape of your rocket affects the amount of drag it produces. Fins can help your rocket combat against drag and allow your rocket to fly straighter and stay in the air longer.

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Pete Cade - HLE
Going to begin with a Social Studies makerspace on the voting process.  Using photos of various topics (i.e. sports, cars, locations), students will vote for their favorite and place "ballot" in ballot box.  Older students will write a brief statement with a rationale.  Results will be shared at the end of the month.

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I made (click here)a flip video for my staff to explain what Makerspace is all about.  My teachers limit their student time in media and my goal would be to expand that time for students.  I am hopeful the flip video will give teachers a greater understanding of what a makerspace is and how it can motivate their students to STEAM ahead.  The focus of makerspaces will be STEAM - noticing the world around them.

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I am going to start with at least one makerspace  per month this year. With STEAM being my focus I will use the idea of drawing what's seen on the microscope as my first station. I will also incorporate a station using Legos one month, and a station using the game of chess another month. I would like to have one station where students would use a simple CAD program to design their name in 3D. If we are fortunate enough to have access to a 3D printer, we would print some of the students finished products.

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I am going to use STEAM as my makerspace  media center focus. I am going to use one area monthly as my focus. For example, this month I will use "S" - the theme of science.
I found a science activity that used household leftovers as the supples.
The title is "what can you build." All that you need are toilet paper rolls and straws. (See photo)
I will leave a few completed creations on display. Other students will have their photo taken with their creation to be displayed!

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Symmetry
For a new Math Makerspace this year, I am going to use materials easily available at school, pattern blocks and a ruler. The big idea is symmetry. Students will place a ruler on the table.  He/she will then place matching pattern blocks on each side of the ruler to create a mirrored symmetrical picture.
If  time, students can draw, label, identify, or tally pattern blocks they used.

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I am going to focus on technology this year for makerspaces.  Last year I started collected all the old "technology" I could get my hands on. I plan to display an item one month and just have them write what they think it is. At the end of the month, I will reveal what the item is and display some of their explanations.  Then, they can do a T chart comparing the old technology with the new technology.  The first month I am going to use an old Kodak box camera from 1934.

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Makerspace Plan:
SCIENCE: Microscope viewfinder- view in scope and draw what you see.
TECHNOLOGY: Book Trailer- Students will create an Aurisma, Animoto, or "Movie" Trailer to promote a favorite book.
ENGINEERING: Building Blocks- Give students a topic then they must build using Legos
ARTS: Dramatic Play- students will write a script and video the performance with stuffed animals or puppets
MATH: Spatial Reasoning- Students will use Tangrams and Pentominoes to replicate shapes.

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August PowerPoint

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These are the signs for my August Makerspaces.

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Marge Cox - VME                                      Makerspace Name Frames

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Marge Cox - VME                                      Makerspace Name Frames

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Marge Cox
These designate the areas.

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Marge Cox - VME
Our students were studying transportation in Social Studies and this provided them the opportunity to learn and draw about one mode of transportation.