As a part of a project with our local libraries and schools here, I have been working on a series of “Creativity in a Box” maker-type kits and workshops. The first two kits, Windowsill Garden/Microgreens and Paper Crafts, have been
These students were amazing!
This week, I conducted a Maker Day at a local school as a part of our library creativity project. We worked with 30 grade K-2 students in the morning and another 30 grade 3-5 students in the afternoon. In the
Our first local game jam was yesterday, and it was a great success. This was a part of Heritage Days for Kids, something we’ve been doing for the last five years. Our local kids events have some interesting challenges, not the
For this year’s kids maker day, we’re going to try a game jam. Here is the rough agenda: 9:00 Welcome and introductions, playing game. What’s your favorite game? What makes a game? 10:15 SNACK BREAK 10:45 Game jam challenge (designing a game
This year, I’m convening a strand on Student Voices for the K12 Online Conference, and I’d like to invite you and especially the youth you work with to get involved. There are several ways you can participate: Ask your students
I’m in the midst of writing a grant for a new project that I’m really excited about. It’s for a local, cross-generational maker project based at our library. Here’s a brief description: Let’s Make: Creativity in a Box! The goal
[cross-posted from K12 Open Ed] As many of you know, I’ve spent much of this year working on a project to explore the adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials and to explore business models for the successful and
This year’s Kids Maker Day (part of our local Heritage Days) is now behind us and was a big success as always. Our theme was flight. We had kids from ages 2 to 80 participate. (A couple adults said that
It’s that time of year again, the confluence of CLMOOC with my planning for our annual kids maker day. (Our maker day is all-ages — we’ve had 2 year olds to adults — and has no technology involved.) This year’s