Author: schang
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Open Portfolios: A Networked Vision for Sharing and Documenting
Maker Ed is delighted to share widely the first of many research briefs that will be arising from the Open Portfolio Project: A Networked Vision for Sharing and Documenting. This initial research brief draws upon our literature review work and also elaborates on the intention and vision for this work. We’re in the midst of Phase 2 of…
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Open Portfolios: What — and how — are you documenting?
Amidst all the Fair(e)s and excitement from one coast to another, it’s been incredible to see how way makers are documenting their work, their excitement, and the community. Maker Ed’s Open Portfolio Project is investigating just that. Over the past 8 months, in collaboration with our close partners at Indiana University’s Creativity Labs, we have…
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Young Makers present 103 projects at Maker Faire Bay Area
You might be noticing that makers are getting shorter and more wrinkle-free these days. Their ideas and creations, though, are no less inventive or surprising. All children are makers, innately curious and imaginative, naturally inclined to create and build. And these days, it’s starting to show in the number of youth you might trip over…
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The new Maker Ed Google+ Community
Our recent weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014, along with the busy days and events leading up to it, was glorious, and we return from an eventful week sunburned but inspired. Many thanks to all of the wonderful educators, volunteers, and visitors who shared their time, stories, and energy with us — whether it…
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Ed Café at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014
Looking for us at Maker Faire? At Maker Faire – this Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18, 2014 from 10am-8pm & 10am-6pm respectively, Maker Ed will be hosting the Ed Café, an intimate gathering of venerable educators who will be sharing their stories and wisdom – all about making in education. From the start of Maker Faire on…
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Maker Ed Presents First Annual Making Possibilities Workshop
PRESS RELEASE Maker Ed Presents First Annual Making Possibilities Workshop Engages 100 Educators to Bring Innovative Learning Through Making to 1000s of Youth Santa Clara, CA, May 2014: The Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) is delighted to host the first annual Making Possibilities Workshop for educators on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at Intel’s Headquarters in…