Advocating for Makerspaces in Libraries
Advocating for Makerspaces in School Libraries I’m pleased and honored to announce that I will now be a regular monthly contributor to AASL’s...
Makerspaces in Schools: Creating STEAM Connections
Makerspaces in Schools: How to Create STEAM Connections In our makerspace, our students are learning both formally and informally, discovering new things about...
Building Curriculum Connections Into Makerspaces
Curriculum Connections in Makerspaces In an article I wrote for Florida Media Quarterly, I describe ways that I’ve built curriculum connections into my makerspace....
Hillsborough Women in Tech
Last month, I had the honor of giving a Pecha Kucha talk at the Hillsborough Women in Tech event. A Pecha Kucha is an...
STEM Collaborations: Partnering with Your Science Teachers
Being at a STEM magnet school, I’ve always strived to bring STEM into our library. In my recent article for the ISTE Librarians Network...
Makerspace Tour: The HIVE
*This post is part of an on-again off-again series where I visit makerspaces in schools, libraries and public/private spaces. It’s a great chance to...
6 Ways to Rethink Your Library Space and Make it Amazing
Over the past five years, we have redesigned our media center and transformed it into a more flexible, collaborative space. This is the story of...
2014: The Year in Tweets
2014 had been a pretty amazing year for me, so I felt like this week would be a good time to take a look...
Top 5 Posts of 2014
To wrap up the year this week, I’ll be dedicating a few posts to looking back and reflecting. As a part of that, I...
How to Build An Awesome Makerspace Resource Library
The Makerspace Resource Library I’ve been a Maker in one form or another for a long time, way before that word was even common....
