{"id":6621,"date":"2020-05-08T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:44:18","slug":"the-makerspace-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/05\/08\/the-makerspace-goes-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Makerspace Goes Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This semester, along with the rest of the Swarthmore community, the Makerspace pivoted to an online platform. Here&#8217;s what we did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/makerspace\/makers-covid-19\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-1536x1186.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers-78x60.png 78w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/COVIDMakers.png 2010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>Added a Makers of COVID-19 Page to the Makerspace Website<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We added a page to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/makerspace\">Makerspace website<\/a> to provide resources on how to make face masks at home, tips for best practices, and how Makerspaces are using laser cutter and 3D printing technology to create PPE, like face shields and intubation boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_8xJYHlPZ4o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IllustratorWebinarThumbnail.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>We Started a YouTube Channel<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We know you want to take the opportunity at home to learn as much as you can, so we conducted a series of webinars over the past several weeks to teach Adobe software skills, DIY and Craft projects. Webinars were recorded and are continuing to be posted to our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4aaNKuqd5_rPQN1d8qiJiA\">YouTube Channel.<\/a> Don&#8217;t see the webinar you&#8217;re looking for yet? Don&#8217;t worry! It will be uploaded soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6625\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?attachment_id=6625\" class=\"wp-image-6625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE-scaled.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6626\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?attachment_id=6626\" class=\"wp-image-6626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerspacePPE1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><strong>We Made and Donated PPE<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to sewing masks at home, we used our laser cutter to make face shields for healthcare workers, and made a donation of masks, face shields, and nitrile gloves to Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia. See the whole kit that was donated on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/swarthmore_makerspace\/\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rrtaez4pnRI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chern_Thumbnail.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>Conducted Interviews with Our Student Technicians<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever met our wonderful student technicians? Well now is your chance. Majoring in a range of subjects from art, religion, philosophy, sociology, and engineering, hear about their unique skills and interests, their fondest memories of helping others in the Makerspace, their goals for learning and making, and their favorite thing they&#8217;ve ever made. Some of their stories might surprise you. Interviews will continue to be posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-1536x885.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer-104x60.jpg 104w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MakerTeatimeFlyer.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Conducted Open Q&amp;A Sessions<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the expertise of the Makerspace Manager, Engineering Shop Manager, Costume Shop Manager, and Media Center Technologist, we held open Zoom meetings on Thursdays for maker related questions and information sharing, with some exciting and unexpected results. We got to see a tour of Swarthmore student, Janet&#8217;s house filled with her mother&#8217;s looms, learned about darning socks, woodworking projects, adhesives, and steam engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mallorymcinnis\/we-oughta-give-it-a-try\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"881\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft-1024x881.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft-1024x881.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft-768x661.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft-70x60.png 70w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KidsCraft.png 1467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>Kids Crafts and Experiments from Buzzfeed<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for fun activities to do at home with the kids? Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mallorymcinnis\/we-oughta-give-it-a-try\">list of tutorials from Buzzfeed<\/a>. Inspire their imaginations with castle nightlights, galaxies in jars, pasta &#8220;stained glass,&#8221; and magic with magnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester, along with the rest of the Swarthmore community, the Makerspace pivoted to an online platform. Here&#8217;s what we did: We added a page to the Makerspace website to provide resources on how to make face masks at home, tips for best practices, and how Makerspaces are using laser cutter and 3D printing technology to create PPE, like face shields and intubation boxes. We know you want to take the opportunity at home to learn as much as you can, so we conducted a series of webinars over the past several weeks to teach Adobe software skills, DIY and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/05\/08\/the-makerspace-goes-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Makerspace Goes Online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","tag-featured","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1IN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}