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Make a Maker Kit

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Created May 28, 2015 by Karen Fasimpaur • 2316 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

I love the whole maker movement and have been thinking through ways to make it easier for more folks to get involved with it, especially in schools. One idea that’s gotten a lot of traction is maker spaces. There are some great resources for setting up a school maker space like Makerspace Play book from Maker Ed and this article from Edutopia. Maker ed activities vary wildly from digital activities like app creation or video making that require computers to specialized activities like 3D printing or robotics to more everyday making such as crafts, cooking, or design. While some environments… Read more »

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Make a Comic

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Created July 29, 2014 by Kevin Hodgson • 2283 views • 2 examples • 2 tutorials

If you were to look closely around your classroom, we suspect you’d find more than a few budding graphic novelist hard at work on a comic strip. Why not think of comics as a literary experience? There are plenty of online webcomic makers (see one list below under Tutorials), emerging apps for mobile devices, and the old-fashioned but tried-and-true technology of paper and pencil. The beauty of comic making is that it combines the power of the narrative with the impact of the visual. Inference is a key component to composing a comic, as well. Scott McCloud’s work on comics… Read more »

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Making an Entry to the Make Bank

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Created July 26, 2014 by Kevin Hodgson • 2381 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Sharing knowledge and expertise is part of the legacy of work done in the CLMOOC and beyond. The Make Bank is a place for both finding ideas and for giving back to the larger community. Use the Make Bank to explain something you did, or how to use a new technique or tool for making learning happen.

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Coding a Thank You Card

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Created July 22, 2014 by Alicia • 1979 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Coding a card for student with social disabilities: http://mssansing.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/challenge-accepted/

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3D printing and fabrication

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Created by Rachelle Galang with Karen Fasimpaur • 3009 views • 4 examples • 0 tutorials

3D printing is a way to fabricate three dimensional parts by laying down successive layers of material under computer control. 3D printing has become a popular maker activity. What can you do with it in your learning environment?

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Backlit Storytelling

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Created July 18, 2014 by Michelle Stein • 2118 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Create a story using light. Develop a storyboard for line illustrations of a story. Transfer the images to black paper using a pin or other sharp pointed object. Place a sheet of styrofoam beneath the paper to protect your working surface. Using a backlight set up, photograph each image, noting the order of the story. Import the images into movie editing software. Create a movie using your images, share and enjoy!

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Storytelling with Light

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Created July 14, 2014 by The Maker Jawn Team (as represented by K-Fai Steele, Goda Trakumaite, Sari Widman, and Shanise Redmon) @makerjawn • 2944 views • 1 examples • 4 tutorials

Welcome to the fifth Make Cycle in the 2014 Making Learning Connected Collaboration! This week (or anytime, really), using some sort of light source, and any materials of your choosing, we want you to tell a story. Some tools we have used in the past for this project include LEDs (we source them through Amazon), coin cell batteries, and various arts and crafts supplies. We like to use recycled, found materials as much as possible, and occasionally our prototyping lab looks like a thrift store exploded. We like to use recycled materials not only because they’re cheap, but because there’s… Read more »

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Build your local food system

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Created July 10, 2014 by Karen Fasimpaur • 1997 views • 0 examples • 1 tutorials

Local food systems are important to different people for different reasons. For some, it’s a personal matter of taste or health. Fresher food tastes better and is more nutritious, and knowing where your food comes from means you can decide what you’re eating. For others, it’s an economic matter. Doing business with our neighbors helps build the local economy. For some, it’s a political act. We should control our food supply and have the final say in what we eat — these things shouldn’t be in the hands of global conglomerates or governments. Regardless of the reasons, many think that… Read more »

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Games – Make ‘Em, Play ‘Em, Hack ‘Em, (and most of all) Tell ‘Em!

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Created June 30, 2014 by Joe Dillon and Terry Elliot • 2600 views • 5 examples • 0 tutorials

CLMOOC 2014 Make Cycle #3 is all about games. And the games we are considering are ones taken from the widest continuum imaginable: childhood games, board games, made up games, online games, World Cup games and the greatest meta-game of all—telling stories about games. Games and gaming have burst into the learner zeitgeist over the last several years marked by the coining of the term “gamification” in education circles. Game sales are bigger than movie box office revenue worldwide. Game apps can create overnight millionaires. But games are also intimate and unconcerned with big bucks. Often they are about narrative…. Read more »

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Make a 3-Tier Tower Cake with Kid(s)

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Created June 26, 2014 by Kira Baker-Doyle • 1803 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

This make describes the creation of a 3-tier cake from gathering ingredients at a farm to decorating with fondant. It highlights how to do the project with kids.

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