Designing Making Experiences – Winter 2018

Lighthouse Creativity Lab 444 Hegenberger Road, Oakland, CA, United States

Maker Ed is offering a two-day intensive workshop for educators eager to integrate maker-centered learning into their own practice. Spend two days learning by doing and creating a maker-centered learning project to use in your own class, library, or workshop. Our coaching team will support you as you learn to integrate new tools into your […]

$500

Bootcamp: Digital Portfolios with Maker Ed & KQED Teach

In this free, online, twelve-day bootcamp, participants will take the KQED Teach course “Digital Portfolios with Maker Ed” along with a supportive community of fellow educators, and participate in additional activities not available in the self-paced version of the course.

Free

Maker Educator Meetup: Eat, Drink, and Prototype

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join us for an opportunity to learn together, get a sneak peak of our new home in Berkeley before the official opening of the Maker Ed Community Studio, and participate in the design of one of our upcoming workshops!

Free

Maker Educator Meetup: Eat, Drink, and Prototype

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join us for an opportunity to learn together, get a sneak peak of our new home in Berkeley before the official opening of the Maker Ed Community Studio, and participate in the design of one of our upcoming workshops!

Free

Making to Learn Workshop

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join us for three days of intensive, hands-on, minds-on learning that culminates in the creation of your own maker-centered activity or lesson tailored to your learning environment. During this time, we will progressively deepen our understanding of key foundations of maker-centered learning by stepping into our learners’ shoes and experiencing activities from their perspective.
 
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$600

WICO Workshop: My Electric Valentine

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Celebrate Valentine’s Day at this evening of tinkering with art, science and technology at the Maker Ed Community Studio as we explore LEDs, copper tape, soldering irons and a wide variety of craft materials. You’ll get an introduction to the basics of creating a light-up card that expresses your most (or least) romantic feelings thorugh […]

$15

WICO Workshop: Coding with Chibitronics

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Are you interested in getting started with physical programming, creative coding and tinkering with art science and technology? Join Wonderful Idea Co for a introduction to paper circuits, block-based programming and basic electronics. We’ll use the Chibitronics Chibi Chip as a micro-controller and Microsoft MakeCode web-based coding format to create personally meaningful projects. The workshop […]

$100

Designing Learning Progressions Workshop

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

How can one maker-centered activity build onto another to support a progressive unit or arc of learning over time? In this two-day workshop, we will wield the needle and thread necessary to weave maker-centered learning into a unit.
 
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$400

WICO Workshop: Pi Day Photograms

Maker Ed’s Community Studio 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Celebrate Pi Day with the Wonderful Idea Co. team with special guest facilitator Modesto Tamez. In this fun hands-on workshop you will create photograms or images created without a camera by placing objects on photographic paper, exposing it to light and then developing the print.   We’ll provide a wide variety of pi-day themed materials […]

$20