About us...
We are a group of four students from Queensland University of Technology. We all have diverse interests and life experiences but have been brought together in our Master of Education studies. In our unit on Connected Learning we have been tasked with designing and constructing a connected resource for others to use. For information on the research we have used to prepare this site please visit our References Page
Claire
Claire is currently a Librarian in a girls Secondary School. She has over twenty years experience of working with children and young adults in public and school libraries both in Australia and England. Claire is always keen to try new ideas that are going to stimulate and invigorate learning opportunities and believes that the Makerpace movement provides the functionality that enables student engagement in practical projects. As a committed life long learner Claire is undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Education and looks forward to applying her learning about Makerspaces in the school where she works.
Claire is currently a Librarian in a girls Secondary School. She has over twenty years experience of working with children and young adults in public and school libraries both in Australia and England. Claire is always keen to try new ideas that are going to stimulate and invigorate learning opportunities and believes that the Makerpace movement provides the functionality that enables student engagement in practical projects. As a committed life long learner Claire is undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Education and looks forward to applying her learning about Makerspaces in the school where she works.
Hana
Hana graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement Studies) to become a Secondary HPE and Science teacher. Throughout her short career Hana has taught in full time, part time and casual capacities in many schools throughout QLD, NSW & VIC as she travelled the east coast of Australia. She has a passion for promoting the educational validity of Physical Education and became interested in the Makerspace movement as it contributes to this cause through the promotion of multiliteracies; specifically, the benefit on hands on kinaesthetic learning.
Jared
Jared is relatively new to the art of teaching, graduating with a Bachelor in Education in 2011. His first loves are History and English but has had flings with Home Economics, Science and Physical Education. Jared's interest in the Maker movement and Makerspaces started when he stumbled across a copy of Make: magazine in a public library. He looks forward to completing his degree and implementing some of the ideas from this site into his own practice.
Krystal
Krystal is currently a Year 6 teacher in a private, P-12, co-educational school in Brisbane. She has taught a variety of subjects, including Music, History, Art, and Health and Physical Education, to students from the age of 3 to 19 at a diverse range of schools across Queensland. Krystal has a Bachelor of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Education. Her passion lies in discovering new ways of learning and inspiring her students to continuously learn within and beyond the classroom. Krystal is currently studying a Master of Education, majoring in Teacher Librarianship and is looking forward to installing a Makerspace within a library sometime in the future.
Fiona
Fiona is a Secondary Humanities Teacher with a background in Arts and Craft gained from many years running her own business. Makerspaces have particularly interested her as she has seen how playing with craft opens up students to collaborating, experimenting, creating, and evaluating the processes used in their creations. As part of her Masters she is keen to see how school libraries can embrace makerspaces to create communities of collaboration and help develop the creative thinking skills of her students..
Images:
LCA2011 at QUT, Mark Atwood, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fallenpegasus/5411114674, CC BY NC 2.0
LCA2011 at QUT, Mark Atwood, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fallenpegasus/5411114674, CC BY NC 2.0