If you are interested in having me visit your school or district, please contact me at arosheim@liberty.k12.mo.us or 816-668-6028.

Before I started making specific plans for a MakerSpace in my library, I started reading everything that I could get my hands on that would inform me about such a space. I read online, searched out other libraries, schools, classrooms, and communities that had MakerSpaces, hit the library and Amazon looking for books about MakerSpaces, visited several MakerSpaces in the area, read blogs about MakerSpaces, and followed makers on Twitter. Even though I have a MakerSpace up and successfully running, I am still seeking out any information I can that will improve my space for my students.

Once you are informed, chat with your building leaders to share why your students need MakerSpace opportunities and the plan you have established to make it happen.

FOLLOWING THESE FOLKS ON TWITTER

@BrightLibrarian (librarian)

@read4life (librarian)

@koehnkfisher (librarian)

@terteach (instructional media technologist)

@KitchellS (instructional media technologist)

@DianaLRendina (librarian)

@plemmonsa (librarian)

@smartinez (Author of Invent to Learn)

@gravescolleen (librarian)

FOLLOWING THESE HASHTAGS

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The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (Love This!)

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis

Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall

Monkey With A Toolbelt by Chris Monroe

Going Places by Peter Reynolds (Love This!)

Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet

What Do You Do With An Idea by Kodi Yamada

Violet The Pilot by Steve Breen

Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming

Anything is Possible by Giulia Belloni

Mr. Cornell's Dream Boxes by Jeanette Winter

Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams

Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzbert

Marvelous Mattie by Emily Arnold McCully

• Grants
• Donor's Choose Projects
• Local Business Donations
• Family/Staff Donations
• PTA funds
• Building Budgets

December 2016 School Library Journal

Fox4 News

MASL Library Spotlight

Education Week Article

SLJ Build Something Bold Award-First Runner-Up

October 2015 Scholastic Cool Teacher

Scholastic Teacher Magazine The Joy of The Maker Movement

• 3D printers
• littleBits
• MaKey MaKey
• Sphero Robotic Balls
• Ollie
• OSMO
• ipads-loaded with production apps
• Robotics Materials-WeDo/Lego Mindstorm EV3
• Motors
• LED lights
• Snap Circuits
• Dash and Dot Robots
• Cubelet Robots

NO-TECH MATERIALS

• Craft supplies
• Cardboard
• Plastic materials
• Paper
• Styrofoam
• Paint
• Collage materials
• Rainbow Loom
• Knitting and crochet supplies
• Legos
• TinkerToys
• K'Nex
• Attribute blocks
• Box rivets (Makedo and/or Mr. McGroovy)
• Plastimake

OTHER MATERIALS

• Sewing machines
• Old electronics for tinkering
• Electric Keyboard
• Tinkering tools
• How-To books
• Video production materials-green screen and lighting

• Curricular Ties
• Morning Clubs-Monday Morning MakerKid Clubs
• Saturday Family Events-Global Day of Play
• Elective Classes
• Book Club Tie Ins
• Genius Hour/Passion Projects
• Lunch Bunch Makers

• Allow for students to embrace failure as a means for heading toward success
• Allow students to collaborate and learn from one another
• Create experts who students will look to for guidance
• Foster creative thinking
• Create ways for students to ask real questions to drive their exploration
• Encourage students to pursue existing passions or seek out new passions
• Ignite excitement and a joy for learning
• Promote multiple ways to solve problems
  
• Allow students to practice perseverance in day to day learning
• Expose students to materials they may have never used before: 3D printers, robotic balls, textile materials, circuits, littleBits, programming, and so much more!
• Encourage student reflection on the process of making
• Create thinkers