Monthly Archive:: March 2014
26 Mar 2014
Teaching Internet Safety
A crucial part of your digital literacy instruction programs ought to be classes for the public on Internet safety. There’s a lot of topics in this area, so planning a curriculum around this concept is rich and varied based on audience, purpose, and tech level. First, work on identifying your community needs. Get input from
23 Mar 2014
Ready or Not, Here They Come!
Smartphones. Tablets. E-Readers. Apps. Every day new technology integrates itself into our daily lives in ways we never could have imagined. If you are a child in America today, you are constantly exposed to more screens, apps, and devices than anyone from previous generations. Some parents embrace the change, and some are hesitant to expose
15 Mar 2014
A Story of a 3D Printer and a Library
Boise Public Library was not part of the “Make It” program through ICfL. However, BPL has an amazing Friends of the Library group that gave the library some funds to buy a 3D printer and supplies. We chose a Makerbot Replicator 2.0 and are using PLA filament. Here’s a little of how our story went:
05 Mar 2014
3D Printing in Libraries
Last year, 2013, was very exciting for 5 public libraries in Idaho who had the privilege to be included in ICFL’s pilot project “Make It”. Make It has given our libraries the resources, training and motivation to bring makerspaces, and more importantly the maker culture, into our communities. Now this is not the forum to