by Terri Willingham | Nov 15, 2014 | Libraries, Makers, Makerspaces, Uncategorized
Back in October, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story on the results of a consultant’s summary report of an evaluation of the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa. The John F. Germany Library is the main branch of the Tampa Hillsborough County Library System,...
by Terri Willingham | Oct 21, 2014 | Creativity, education, Events, Makers, Makerspaces, Roboticon, Society, Uncategorized
So back in early 2013, when we were tootling around on behalf of Learning is for Everyone (LI4E), we participated in the first ever Deconstruction event. We were fresh off our first go-round on Red Bull Creation 2012, where we made it into the semifinals. We...
by Terri Willingham | Sep 10, 2014 | Libraries, Makerspaces, paradigm shifts, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
The journey to bringing the John F. Germany Library makerspace to life – a space now known as The Hive – has been a bumpy and sometimes complicated one, as new and untried journeys can be. It can be hard to create something no one’s seen before, in...
by Terri Willingham | Jun 9, 2014 | knowledge, Life, Makerspaces, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
Children are born scientists. They are always turning over rocks and plucking petals off flowers. They are always doing stuff that, by and large, is destructive. That’s what exploration really is when you think about it. An adult scientist is a kid who never grew up....
by Terri Willingham | May 28, 2014 | Libraries, Makers, Makerspaces, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” Ray Bradbury Google “Library of the Future” and you get 350 million results. Many examinations of the 21st century library include comments like “this isn’t your childhood...
