How Instacart Clone Made Grocery Shopping Easier Than Ever
It hasn’t been long that most of us stopped going to the local store or grocery market for buying food related items. Some went into the habit of doing it every day while some did it on a week after week basis. Setting off to a food or vegetable market in the early morning with the idea of fresh food delivery was an involvement in itself. Current weights and modern day hurdles have rolled out needs for improvement and riotous work now and again in order to leave almost no time for individual duties.
Makerspace Starter Kit
The hot new Makerspace Movement is NOT new to Murray Hill Middle School. Eighteen years ago we designed and opened the school with the idea that we would have creation labs in the Media Center, GT room, and the TV studio. We started with video production, iMovie, Specular LogoMotion, Hyperstudio, and animation with Hollyood High kids. Here's an example of an EARLY (2003) video production called Bookfellas, featuring some Guy Ritchie-esque film direction techniques. These kids are now all grown up and we've kept evolving, too!
Making Space for a No-Frills Maker Space
Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 4 Driving Question: No Frills Maker Spaces: What? How? Why? I have long been aware that students are often bored or frustrated with conventional classes taught from textbooks. Worse, they seldom understand the relationship between their subjects and real-world applications.
Makerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries – The Unquiet Librarian
The concept of libraries as makerspaces first hit my radar last November when I read about the Fayetteville Free Library’s FabLab. As I began hearing more buzz about libraries and makerspaces the first few months of this year, I decided that learning more about this concept and exploring how I might apply the elements of makerspaces to my library program would be a personal learning project for the summer. So what is a makerspace?
10 Best Chatbot Platform Tools to Build Chatbots for Your Business
Chatbots are conversation based applications that can be coordinated into informing stages to perform computerized tasks, such as, gathering data from clients or helping customers locate the correct products. Chatbots don’t expect clients to introduce extra applications. They are moderately straightforward and reasonable to construct as well. The best eCommerce chatbot would be the program that reproduces an authentic monologue that you would often have with a client benefit agent. The use of bots has numerous potential outcomes, from reasonable to fun, and it can be utilized as a part of any continuous informing stage, such as Facebook Messenger Bot, Telegram, texts, and others. The best chatbot platform can decode human discussion and translate certain claims to pick which information is being hunted down, and introduce the best outcomes during a late stage.
Kristin Fontichiaro's Blog About Learning, Teaching, Making Things, and Libraries
Building professional capacityTeacher-librarians are well positioned to impart data literacy to teens, but who’s giving instructors the resources and support that they need to do so?Kristin Fontichiaro, clinical associate professor at University of Michigan’s School of Information, and Jo Angela Oehrli, learning librarian at University of Michigan Library, were up for the task. As principal investigators of the two-year IMLS-funded project “Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction,” they set out to design materials for high school librarians looking to foster data and statistical literacy skills in their students.
The Role Making Can Play in Education and Future Work – Classroom Aid
“American kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests.” — By Dale Dougherty Learning by Making In this post “Learning by Making” published on Slate Magazine site, Dale elaborated: “Learning by doing” was the distillation of the learning philosophy of John Dewey.
Maker & DIY Programs
Maker enthusiasts: anyone can edit this page. Please share your resources here! You may also be interested in our STEM Resources page and our Teen Programming Guidelines from YALSA (.pdf) Activities
Industry's 5 Best Video Streaming Services
Not long ago, the schedule of favorite dramas, movies and serials was dictated by broadcasters. Today, we have all the provisions to watch our favorite shows on a multitude of devices. This can be attributed to a huge range of video streaming services. With the rise of internet and personal digital assistants such as smartphones and tablets, we are no longer confined to a single room. We can watch our favorite shows anytime and anywhere. That being said, television is here to stay.
Setting Up Your Own MakerSpace
Since you already know that you want to set up a MakerSpace you know that it is an area that provides hands-on, creative ways for students to design, experiment, and invent as they engage in science, engineering, and tinkering.” (definition from edutopia) 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.
Launching a Makerspace: Lessons Learned From a Transformed School Library
Excitement about school makerspaces has been in the air, but many educators eager to create hands-on learning spaces in their schools still aren’t sure how to get started or why it’s worth the effort. New Canaan High School librarian Michelle Luhtala recently jumped headfirst into creating a makerspace in her library and documented what she learned, how her space changed and how it affected students along the way. Her experience was very different from elementary school librarian Andy Plemmons, whose makerspace started with a 3-D printer obtained through a grant and blossomed into a core teaching resource at his school. Luhtala is blessed with a big library, but for most of her career it has been dominated by large bookshelves. Over time, Luhtala has pared down her collection as she increased the digital reading material the library offers, but in order to make room for a makerspace she cleared out 7,000 books. A floor plan of shelving in Luhtala’s library in 2011.
Our Learning Commons and Mission
The MoHS Library Learning Commons operates on an open schedule that is accessible and welcoming to the entire school community. While teachers can reserve space using our Media Center Reservation System, walk-in visits are encouraged. Beverages, snacks and lunches are permitted. The Learning Commons areas described below are flexible and easily customized to accommodate teacher, student, and community needs.
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STEAM Project Recipes: Insta-Robots and Sewing Art
All photos courtesy of Todd Burleson Two STEAM project recipes from Todd Burleson, SLJ’s 2016 School Librarian of the Year and participant in Library Journal and SLJ’s four-week Maker Workshop, starting January 31. Insta-Robot Fun mini robot figures. Ingredients A variety of small wooden shapesVarious miscellaneous hardware (screws, nails, etc.)Hot glue gunHammerScrewdriverWashable paintPaint brushesVice or clampsHand drill
