{"id":9680,"date":"2016-05-11T08:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:57:31","slug":"the-story-of-makerspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/the-story-of-makerspace\/","title":{"rendered":"MakerSpace Wonderland at Crossett Brook MS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Story of MakerSpace: A Rabbit Interrupts a Drowsy Day<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9687\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/makerspaces.jpg\" alt=\"the story of a makerspace\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The story of MakerSpace at Crossett Brook Middle School begins with two bunnies. The bunnies lived outside the library in a hutch built by our Sustainability students who loved the bunnies. Winter was coming&#8230; the bunnies needed to move inside. The sad turn in this story is that the bunnies were not able to stay. Being in cages in the library with many daily visitors caused them stress. So, once I found a happy home for them and they moved out&#8230; poof! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A space was now available&#8230;an empty table&#8230;no books on it&#8230;no piles&#8230;what was possible?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Down the Rabbit Hole<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How about a MakerSpace? <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This jump down the tunnel has looked like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B8diR_cFuOskVDdhbzlXajNzYVU\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounded like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B8diR_cFuOskQms1Si1yVXpjNTQ\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>In Wonderland<b> <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the MakerSpace has been growing taller, it has been most important to have student input. I have harnessed the energy of various student work groups for setting up the space, building wish lists for materials, and envisioning <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Through_the_Looking-Glass\">as many as six impossible things before breakfast.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A blog was created for students to edit with shares, posts and comments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B8diR_cFuOskazlaWFdmQ0RDSms\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Tea Party<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This experience has felt a bit like a tea party with the March Hare, Dormouse and the Hatter. The students\u2019 initial inclination to break things, \u201cdeconstruct\u201d has led to discoveries and messes. In recognizing that this was a new cup of tea, I sought out guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Art Studio<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first place I went was down the hall to <a href=\"http:\/\/studio-learning.blogspot.com\">Nan Hathaway\u2019s Art Studio<\/a>. Nan is a leader and mentor to many who seek learner-guided curriculum and choice-based art education. In striving for this studio experience in the library, I learned new ways to play a curious croquet game. Here is one example of how Nan has constructed a station that is user friendly with easy to follow signage, cleverly organized materials for use and reuse, and an approach that puts the students in control of their direction and pace. I have also learned from Nan the most essential Cheshire-Cat-with-wide-smile importance of insightful questioning and deep listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>MIT Field Trip<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generatorvt.com\/\">The Generator<\/a> in Burlington organized a field trip for Vermont educators to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/lemelson.mit.edu\/inventeams\">Lemelson-MIT Inventeams<\/a> maker space. What I learned there directly impacted the evolution of our maker space, as shown in the video below.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6KcekcFuulA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBegin at the beginning,&#8221; the King said, very gravely, &#8220;and go on till you come to the end: then stop.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (Lewis Carroll).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many possibilities swirling around for next steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.createmakelearn.org\/\">CreateMakeLearn<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: thinking of going&#8230; thinking of bringing a teacher team&#8230; what about bringing student leaders?!?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robot Programming: a way to tap into the power of our 7th and 8th graders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the next round of design will explicitly use a framework to consider how the MakerSpace can <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ajjuliani.com\/the-beginners-guide-to-design-thinking-in-the-classroom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teach design<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and with what porpoise!? <em>(Ed Note: Jen Hill is basically the best person ever.)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWill you, won&#8217;t you, will you, won&#8217;t you, will you join the dance\u201d with Questions, Learning and Doing that forms the MakerSpace?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What ways have you and your students grown between being trouble-makers and mess-makers and solution-makers? How have you traveled through the rabbit hole and come out on the other side?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of MakerSpace: A Rabbit Interrupts a Drowsy Day The story of MakerSpace at Crossett Brook Middle School begins with two bunnies. The bunnies lived outside the library in a hutch built by our Sustainability students who loved the bunnies. Winter was coming&#8230; the bunnies needed to move inside. The sad turn in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/the-story-of-makerspace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MakerSpace Wonderland at Crossett Brook MS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,521],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crossett-brook-middle-school","tag-makerspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}