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Tag: Tech Talk
Tech Tip: A Quick and Easy Way to Make 1.25 Buttons
Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares a quick and easy way to make personal photo buttons on the 1.25 button maker
MakerSpace: Making T-shirts with Infusible Ink
Want to know a new, cool way to make t-shirts with teens in a makerspace? Try Infusible Ink!
Things I Never Learned in Library School: Public Libraries, 3D Printers, and Guns – oh my
We considered a lot of things when we were discussing adding a 3D printer to our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County. These things included space, time, money and staff education. At the end of the day and after a lot of research, we decided that a 3D printer […]
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MakerSpace: Rhonna Designs Photo and Collage App Review
Behold, I have found a new photo app! As I mentioned last week, a friend fell into a button maker group and they talk a lot about two things: 1) The Canon Selphy printer, which I reviewed last week and 2) The Rhonna Designs app, which a lot of people in the button making community […]
#MakerSpace: 1 Year Later
We have spent the last year at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) turning our Teen Space into a Teen MakerSpace. Today on School Library Journal I’m sharing with you 11 things we have learned 1 year later. The Beginning of Our Journey Here is the original article in School Library […]
TPIB: Photo Shrink Jewelry Charms
Although we have some permanent stations set up in our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, we also occasionally rotate in some different stations to make sure our teens have a variety of activities to engage in. One of our permanent stations includes a bank of iPads which we […]
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MakerSpace: Challenge Cards, getting teens to try new activities in the Teen MakerSpace
We are having tremendous success with our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) and are very excited to see the teens in our community using the space and learning new things. We have learned that certain items are more popular than others, with the button makers and 3D […]
MakerSpace: Stop Motion Animation 101
Later today I am presenting a webinar on Stop Motion Animation for Florida Library Webinars. Here are my slides. I have been doing stop motion animation with my teens for about 3 or 4 years now (and at two different library jobs). It has proven so popular that we included a stop motion animation station […]
Mistakes Were Made: What I Learned About Installing an iPad Lab in a MakerSpace
This is the tale of a clever teen, a librarian, and the great iPad lock out of 2016. You see, I went to check on the status of our new iPads in the Teen MakerSpace when I realized that one of my teens had been more clever than I could have imagined. I couldn’t even […]
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