When The University of North Carolina’s School of Education decided to design an educational makerspace to instruct pre-service teachers on creating project-based lessons for K-12 students using new technologies, there were few such spaces from which to learn. There were lots of questions... How should we set up? What equipment will be necessary, beneficial, or just fluff? What makes an educational makerspace distinct from a community or academic makerspace? How can we best share our and our students’ successes? The SELF (Student Education Learning Factory) Design Studio, opened in October 2014. This session discusses what we learned in the past year regarding furnishing, organizing, and equipping the makerspace. Learn how to set up a successful educational makerspace! (In this session we will not discuss construction or budgets.)

1. Diary of a makerspace
Sarah Prescott, Ja’Nise Jefferson, Carol Sevin

2. Self Design Studio at UNCG
Staff: Lori Sands (lywarner@uncg.edu)
Matt Fisher (msfishe2@uncg.edu)
Mike Renne (mcrenne@uncg.edu)
Graduate Assistants: Sarah Prescott (skpresco@uncg.edu)
Ja’Nise Jefferson
Carol Sevin

3. How We Came To Be
. . .

4. T4 : Transform Teaching through Technology

5. Grants for faculty

6. And now?
● Five year development
10/20/15 Panorama

7. For Whom the Makerspace Tolls
User Groups: YOURS MIGHT BE DIFFERENT
● Methods Courses / Faculty
● School of Education Students
● Grant Projects
● Professional development for teachers already in the
field

8. The Teaching Resources Center
● Model School
Library
● Manipulatives and
Assessments
● Equipment
● Teacher Work
Station

9. Origin (physical space & materials)

10. The first STUFF
● All the stuff
from the
previous
slide
● Arts & crafts
● Low / no tech
(junk!)
● And the first
tech:
3D Printer

11. It’s Not About Stuff, a Haiku
We bought so much stuff
And found good homes for it all
But which ones get used?

12. Lessons from the Frontline

13. Mobile furniture

15. We are Librarians.
We Label.

16. Adaptability

17. Security
● Desirability
● Low VS High
● When to have common logins

18. The Crux of the Matter
Organization:
Type or Purpose?
...I say tomahto, you say tomayto

19. Inventory

20. Google forms

21. Instruction
and Shiny
Objects
The Dark Road of the
Cool Toys

24. So what did we learn?
It’s really, really, really, really not about the stuff.

25. Mission: a work in continuous progress
Our mission is to create a space where minds come together
to imagine, explore, create and engage in the process of
learning without boundaries (and that makes us happy!)

27. 3D Game Lab/SELF Maker Quests

29. But there IS Stuff
Stuff Costs Money: How Do We Know
When to Charge?
Stuff is Neat: How Do We Get
People to Listen to the Lesson?
Time is Valuable: Clubbing Together
for Professional Development

31. Story-telling

32. Website & social media

33. Diversity of
experience

34. Collaborate
museums, recreation
centers, religious
organizations, hospitals
and medical centers, Girl
Scouts (STEM Program), and
Boy Scouts (STEM in
Scouting), Girls & Boys
Clubs of America, local
after school programs,
community events

35. Talk to the Experts
List servs
http://www.cvl-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/create
LIBRARYMAKERSPACE-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU
Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/librarymaker/

36. Make some Friends
http://library.unc.edu/makerspace/join-the-community/
themakermap.com
theconnectory.org
meetup.com
makerspace.com

37. Additional resources
http://create.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/
http://www.users.miamioh.edu/burkejj/makerspaces.html
http://makerbridge.si.umich.edu/category/resources/
http://library-maker-culture.weebly.com/

38. Thank you!
Ja’Nise Jefferson
Sarah Prescott
Carol Sevin
http://make.uncg.edu/
makeuncg@uncg.edu