Connecting Poetry to Making and Design-Thinking
April is National Poetry Month. Our students are creating a collection of poetry, writing daily, and choosing their top 5 poems to create a multimedia journal. This will culminate with a Poetry Slam in May….
Challenges to Progressing to Making in the Classroom
It’s March, and the project is blooming…in pieces and places. The struggle I am still having is how can I bring the actual “making” out of the “makerspace” in the learning commons is the space…
Progression of the Coding Club
In December, the Coding Club at QV shared the projects they had been working on from the start of the year. Representatives from IEC Hamilton, intermediate teachers, and administration attended. 5 students were able to…
Coding In Our Learning Commons
As we launched our Maker Space this year, opening up the coding club was an easy beginning. We had run a club in the learning commons last year, with the support of Industry Education Council…
Sourcing Books
A portion of our budget was drawn up to support our initial learning about maker spaces. Obviously there are several books out there that meet our need to learn and challenge our preconceived notions. As…