Skip to main content

Makerspace Christina Erb





                                                                     MakerSpace

                                   

According to Christopher Hunt, author of Tinkering with Makerspaces, “The purest form of makerspace is to have a dedicated area with random art and junk supplies and a variety of tools available for students to freely create whatever they are motivated to make without much outside influence or direction”. Having a makerspace in public school libraries is beginning to be more and more common, sometimes the makerspace has to follow along with a school lesson but sometimes kids have free range to create with little direction.

Many components help make a makerspace successful in a school library, the librarian must have admin, teacher, custodians, and sometimes even PTA support. My elementary school is slowly starting to build its makerspace, in the library. We have asked for donations of Legos from parents, we have gotten several different types of building blocks, and we are now starting to focus on art supplies and more “junk” type supplies. We want to have a welcoming space, where kids can come to let their imaginations go wild and let them create whatever they want. A makerspace is more than an art area or play area, it’s a place for imaginations to run wild, where no two kids will have the same finished project.

 

 

Hunt, C. (2024, April 10). EBSCO Information Services. OCLC Support. https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Database_stanzas/EBSCO_Information_Services

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Post

The Demise of School Libraries - C. Lynch

                This is a segment from WCCO News and CBS Minnesota, covering the decline of school libraries since the COVID-19 Pandemic began in 2020. It references the SLIDE Project, which stands for The School Librarian Investigation-Decline or Evolution? Project. According to their website, libslide.org , this project was conducted from September 2020 through August 2023 to “determine patterns in the continuing, national decline in school librarian positions and how school districts decide to staff library, learning resources, and instructional technology programs”. According to SLIDE, in the 2020-21 school year, 30% of public school districts did not have any librarian at any of their schools(Ellis & Lance, 30).                However, this lack of librarians is not new. In fact, the number of school librarians has been on a decline for a while. In a presentation, Keith Curry Lance, the ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Favicon

 Hello, my name is Michelle and though this is my first blog that I've worked on, I consider myself tech savvy and hope to share some tech knowledge here.  My first contribution to this blog is the addition of a favicon to distinguish ours from other Blogger blogs. A favicon is also known as a tab icon, URL icon, bookmark icon, etc, and is visible on the browser tab for the webpage.  In making this change, I also learned a valuable tip. At first when I was attempting to change the icon, the change was not visible. I learned that to force refresh a website and show changes that were made, I had to press Ctrl + F5. 
2 comments
Read more
 Hello! I added the label widget to the blog. I think as we add more information it would be useful to label posts to make it easy to access relevant information all at once. 
1 comment
Read more