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I had the opportunity to take the Making for Educators course offered through Sonoma State University in conjunction with the reMAKE Education Summit. Through this course, I spent 1 day at the Sonoma County Office of Education Design Lab and the remaining three days at the reMake Education Summit.
Name tag:
The first maker task from this course was to use miscellaneous materials to design and create our own, wearable name tags. With many materials, such as LEDs, cardboard, fabric, and hot glue, the task was to represent your name in a creative way, as well as represent what interests you may have with making.
I made my name tag out of cardboard, pipe cleaners, and brass fasteners. There is a green LED that is wired through the cardboard and uses copper tape to complete the circuit on the back.
I could use the name tag in class during the first days of school! It would be a great way for my students to dip their toes into the pool of making! I think that students would love this activity as a way to represent themselves in a creative manner.
Vinyl Printing:
The second maker task from the course was to use the heat press to apply vinyl to a t-shirt. We learned how to use the free, online program Inkscape. Inkscape lets your create designs that are able to be put into vector format in order for the vinyl cutter to read them. Once the design was cut and weeded, I applied the vinyl to the t-shirt using a heat press.
For this, I kept it simple, using the pre-made designs that were supplied to us.
Vinyl printing is a good first step into the beginning of a Makerspace. It's the most inexpensive start, and I could see it working well for many projects and fundraising. I'm not entirely sure how I could fit it into my physics class, but I am sure there are ways!
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