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Let the Make Shop Make Your Grading More Enjoyable

….Or, How Can This Space Be Used With Classes and Staff?

Presentation By: Kristin Allen and Mallory Manning

PowerPoint By: Angela Vanden Elzen, Reference & Learning Technologies Librarian and Assistant Professor at Lawrence University

The Make Shop Is...

A space that supports innovation, creation, and expression by providing access to artistic tools and exposure to new ideas. In the Make Shop, users have the freedom to experiment and to learn by thinking critically and by becoming problem-solvers. Do-it-yourself activities such as engraving, sewing, and 3D printing are encouraged.

Why use the Make Shop

• Access to Technology and Skills
• Hands-On, Kinesthetic, Active Learning
• Problem Solving Process
• Differentiation of Learning
• Prepare for Work
• Wellness
• Engaged Learning at Harper College

What We Have

What We’ve Created

Challenges of the Make Shop

1.Unfamiliar with concept

• 2. Learning new technology
• 3. Time

Anyone can...

• Take a test that shows knowledge gained
• Give a presentation
• Work with a group on a project
• Write a paper

Let’s get into IDEAS!

Art, Design and Performing Arts

• Figure models
• Name seals and custom stamps
• Artist sculptures, figures, lamps, decorative

art, etc.

• Etch artwork on glasses
• Laser cut theatre props
• Stage Design
• Create historical replicas of costume pieces

with sewing and embroidery machines

• Laser cut a paint brush holder

Business, Entrepreneurship, & Information Technology

• Your own inventions, (i.e. candy dispenser)
• Office tools: pencil holders, cable organizers,
• Laser cut business cards

Education

• Make your own teaching tools and supplies for your students or classroom

Engineering, Math & Computer Science

• Visualizations: Fubini's Theorem

and Cavalieri's Principle

• Custom measuring devices
• Lesson: “An imaginative surface

using concepts from multivariate calculus”

Health Science

• Archaeology search in Sketchfab
• Objects to replicate experiments
• Models of body parts
• Occupational Therapy: build a Zen

Table

Liberal Arts, Language and Communications

• Tools- recreations and scans of

artifacts

• Scan the World objects
• Models or designs of artifacts,

clothing, etc. from different cultures

Manufacturing & Construction

• Laser Cut architectural models
• Laser Cut boxes for holding tools and

parts

• 3D print battery dispenser

Music

• Custom music parts- cello bow

wrench, sax mouthpiece

• Create instruments
• Visualizations of sound waves
• Busts of musicians

Physical & Life Science

Smartphone microscope Virus models Bee hotel prototype Creating models of molecules, viruses, and proteins British Geological Survey fossils

Social Science

• 3D scans contributed by many

institutions

• British Library items
• British Museum items
• Kislak Collection of Pre-Columbian

Archaeology

• Architectural scans of structures
• Interior and exterior views
• Art, technology, etc.

Clubs and Departments

• Team Building! Work with us to design your own project to help connect and engage with others
• Public Service project: come together to make something to donate to a nonprofit, school, etc.
• Make your own t-shirts
• Engrave awards, plaques, medals
• Promotional items: keychains, engrave cups, magnets, etc.

Clubs and Departments

Where to find ideas

Large repositories of general objects (including educational)

• 3D prints: Thingiverse, Myminifactory, Youmagine, Yeggi
• Math projects
• Examples of textile projects for college students
• iBroidery.com
• GOOGLE!

CONTACT US!

Contact your friendly Make Shop

• librarians. We have tons of ideas and are

happy to chat about them! Email: makeshop@harpercollege.edu Call: 847-925-6584

Discussion

• 1. What kinds of cool stuff have you heard about?
• 2. What would you like to find/make/create?
• 3. Would you be interested in a eNewsletter about upcoming programs and new

machines in the Make Shop?

Let’s Go Check Out…