maker brainstorm session
DESCRIPTION
What is the opportunity space that exists around making at Penn? Is there a role for the Libraries to help facilitate events or activities that explore new ways of learning, thinking, creating, and being in the world?TRANSCRIPT
Maker BrainstormJuly 2, 2014
http://makezine.com/
http://makerfaire.com/
http://www.instructables.com/
Why libraries? We work across the university. We care about teaching & learning. We have amazing spaces we could contribute. We want to explore new opportunities with you!
Goals
• Making at Penn
• Design Scenarios
• See & experience library spaces
• Have fun free-thinking with colleagues
Making
• Introduce yourself
• What do you like to make? Why?
• What’s the last thing you made?
• How would you explain the relationship between making and learning?
Summary Activity• Find a photo of something one of you likes to make &
project it on the wall
• Summarize your group discussion by annotating the image to show:
1. What the group likes to make
2. Terms that explain why the group likes to make
3. Things the group last made
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37180806@N03/4523925928/lightbox/
University of Pennsylvania, University Communications
Penn Landscape for Making
Making @ Penn
• What disciplines, departments, schools, and/or programs are already actively in involved in making?
• Create a table to track your group’s ideas
Entity | Makes | URL
Making @ Penn• Are there regular campus events related to
making?
• Any new events planned this year related to making?
• Add to your table
Entity | Makes | URL
Summary Activity
• Project your ideas on the wall
• Copy & paste to shared doc for your table: http://tinyurl.com/upennmaker
Let’s mix it up…
Design
Activity• Answer the 5Ws and H
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How
• Make up assumptions you need and list them.
• What would need to be set up ahead of time?
• What would success look like?
• What would failure look like?http://tinyurl.com/upennmaker
Thank you!