l needed to craft an annotated bibliography for a graduate course this past semester. I chose Virtual Makerspace as my topic. During this pandemic school year, I have sadly made the call to shut down the physical offerings of the library makerspace. We've been bouncing between hybrid and remote learning. A lot of our makerspace supplies would either be extraordinarily time consuming to sanitize (i.e. Legos) or have technological components that would be damaged by our sanitization supplies. So I was wanting to explore virtual options and resources and did so while working on this project.
I am in the works of creating a Virtual Makerspace on Google Slides with resources in different topics. I hope to share more on that soon. Some of the ebook editions and scholarly articles I used for my annotated bibliography were accessed through the university databases and are not freely available. In this Wakelet I have compiled the resources I used that are freely available.
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These are memorable titles I read this year with 2020 publishing dates. Must memorable reads from this year with a different publishing date. Here they are gathered in a Goodreads list.
When I first started running activities and promoting Hour of Code from the library a few years ago, I started with the website. Then as more teachers started using the Hour of Code site, I started finding ways to tie in hands on makerspace items and tech for Hour of Code activities and making. But this year, I couldn't do that. Sanitizing maker stuff and keeping it safe during COVID-19 has been pretty much impossible for me, and we just recently went virtual again.
After seeing Shannon McClintock Miller's coding choice boards while researching virtual makerspaces and brainstorming with other awesome librarians in my district, I decided to make my own Hour of Code choice board. The backgrounds/shelves are from Canva. (Remember, teachers get a free pro account.) I used the Chrome Bitmoji extension for the Yay Coding one. Then I took screenshots of what I was linking items to. Once it was finished, I emailed it out to my STEM teachers, and I also let them know about the CodeBytes sessions happening this week. Then I embedded it in my Canvas (our learning management system) and put out an announcement about it in Canvas this morning to let students know it's there. Once we get to winter break, I'll take down the link from the home page, but I'll move it into the virtual makerspace area I'm trying to start building up (moving slowly at the moment due to other urgent tasks), so students can revisit it if they wish. Feel free to download it and edit to upload your own Bitmoji. Please give me credit if you do use it. Thanks! |
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