Anytime I try to organize and re-organize items in the Makerspace, I always create a bigger mess before the order starts to appear. But that's just part of it! Sometimes you have to embrace the chaos to and get things out of order to recreate a better system. Here's a super short video I took mid-process and posted to Instagram. So in a previous post I had wrote about starting to repurpose some old, powered laptop/technology carts, so one of the things I needed to tackle this past Monday was trying to pick up where I left off with those two carts and finish that, and the other was to completely revamp the organization of our Strawbees. Sometimes you have to embrace the chaos to and get things out of order to recreate a better system. Repurposing carts part 2VR Cart
Last year we got in 10 phones to use for VR. These had already been barcoded and numbered. I had put the VR headsets in the cart and numbered them at the end of last school year. So the first step I needed to do for this was to get out the phones and chargers that I had locked away elsewhere for summer and set up the chargers in the cart and the phones. Then I added labels to the front of the shelves that said which phone numbers were in which slot (1-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-10). Then I added labels for which headsets are in which row on the other side. Then I put the IAP (it's a mobile internet access point to help with Google Expeditions) and an internet cable in the bottom shelf with labels. The only thing left to do for that cart is to type up and probably laminate some getting started instructions when I have time. Last year teachers could check out these headsets and phones, but they weren't all in one convenient location bundled together, and I didn't have an easy way to charge all of them. This cart takes care of all of that! I'm hoping that bundling it all together will encourage more folks to check it out and use it in their classrooms!
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