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Lighthouse: Roadblocks and reflection

By Aaron Vanderwerff On May 11th, 2013 · Add Comment
A couple months back, Cynthia and Flavio were very frustrated.  As a matter of fact, they were about ready to give up.  A key element of their “Papapa Party Shirt” (a shirt that will blink to the beat of the music) was a light organ kit, but it was incredibly glitchy and the [...]
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Pilot Profile: Piner High School Makers

By Stephanie Chang On May 3rd, 2013 · Add Comment
Dante DePaola is a biology teacher at Piner High School in Santa Rosa, California, and part of our initial group of Makerspace schools. He also happens to run a successful motorcycle business on the side. His interest in making – especially with regards to the rich, relevant experiences it provides for his students – is [...]
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Three Transformative Tools: From Old Tech to New at Analy HS (part 1)

On April 19th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
Editor’s Note: This post comes from Casey Shea, who teaches math and a “Project: Make” class at Analy High School in Sebastopol, California. Casey and Analy High coordinated closely with Dale Dougherty and Maker Media in 2011-12 and joined efforts to create the first Project: Make class, which took place on-site at our offices (then [...]
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WikiSeat: Standing Up for Education

On April 15th, 2013 By mcolombo
The WikiSeat website About a month ago, I took the time to chat with WikiSeat co-founder Nicolas Weidinger, as a follow-up to his own post about his work in Oct 2012. His tiny organization designs and manufactures three-pronged modules called “catalysts” that facilitate the easy and [...]
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What did you do for spring break?

On April 9th, 2013 By Aaron Vanderwerff
Editor’s Note: This is another post in a series by teacher Aaron Vanderwerff of Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, California. I don’t know about you, but my spring breaks were pretty uneventful throughout my teenage years.  Sure, there was probably a bit of schoolwork to do, and I would hang out with some friends, [...]
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Educators’ Workshop Review: Automata

On April 8th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
   In late March, we held our fourth Educators’ Workshop. This time we chose the moving, engaging, swinging, rocking topic of automata. Basically mechanical toys, a typical piece of automata produces a surprising motion with only a small hand-crank or an initial input of energy. Once set in motion, automata sometimes engage gears or springs, [...]
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Mega Leaps Before Our Mini Maker Faire

On March 28th, 2013 By Aaron Vanderwerff
On Friday, my high school juniors and seniors had a chance to show off what they have accomplished on their independent projects in the last four months. All day long, students of grades K-12 circled around them to hear about what they had created. They tried on a tutu, rode on the back of a [...]
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Oakland High Schoolers Need Your Power!

On March 23rd, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
On MAKE, we wrote about the ambitious senior project Tony, Carlos, and Raul, students at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, plan to exhibit at Maker Faire: converting a gas-powered truck to electric power. MAKE: Oakland High Schoolers Need Your Power!
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16 Resources from iLibrarian, including The Maker Map

On March 19th, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Ellyssa Kroski writes iLibrarian, a blog on the Open Education Database billed as “News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution.” In A Librarian’s Guide to Makerspaces: 16 Resources, she shares 16 resources: articles, blog posts, events, and directories, to help fellow librarians get a clearer picture of what goes [...]
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The Real Work Behind Invisible Progress

On March 18th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
Editor’s note: Aaron Vanderwerff, high school science, robotics, and makerspace teacher extraordinaire, writes about his students’ independent projects (and their visible or invisible progress) during these months leading up to Maker Faire. At Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, we’ve been treading water for about two months now. Walking into our class on Monday, you [...]
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