We've uploaded our webinar from Sept 17th! Thanks to all who joined us live and found out more about our new community hub at Instructables.

Don't worry! If you missed it, you can still view our most recent webinar to learn more about the Makey Makey + Instructables partnership. We hope it sparks more ideas for using Makey Makey in the classroom! View the recording to see Becky's expert tips on posting great guides on Instructables and find out about the new Teacher community and how to add your own teacher notes to existing guides!

Webinar Speakers

Product Manager at Instructables @Autodesk/ Instructables

Becky Stern has authored hundreds of DIY tutorials about everything from microcontrollers to knitting. Her work has been featured by BBC, CNN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Business Insider, and Forbes. She is the product manager at Instructables (Autodesk). She lives in Brooklyn, New York and enjoys riding motorcycles and playing with her dog.

In his role at Makey Makey, Tom travels throughout the US leading workshops for K12 educators. His efforts have resulted in a nationwide network of Makey Makey training "hubs" that provide PD for K12 educators. Prior to his work at Makey Makey, Tom worked at Purdue University in the engineering department where he led a team that was charged with growing an award winning K12 program that taught students about Human Centered Design through Service Learning. Tom is a former high school teacher, juvenile corrections officer, and YMCA Senior Director. He's authored multiple books and has published hundreds of podcast
episodes.

Links mentioned in the webinar:

• Instructables Teacher Overview 
• Resources to make good Instructable
• How to Make Instructables Class
• Featuring checklist
• Tom shared this guide as a “how to make a guide better.”
• Visit The Clinic
• Teacher Notes Overview- Doll E 1.0 Note by Colleen
• How to add to our hub- Make sure you mention Makey Makey in your title (also helps to find it in search) If you want to feel really cool, add #beyondthebanana as a keyword.
• Contests - Promotion for Teacher Notes /Teacher Contest ($1000) Giveaway

Makey Makey Guides we shared:

• Biography Bottles by Kimberley Boyce and Bradley Quentin
• Makey Talking Book by Nathan Sekinger
• Tiny Museums- by Kathleen Fugle
• Fraction Generator - by Colleen Graves via Makey Makey 
• STEM in the gym - by Colleen Graves and Inspired by a Featured Educator (see this post)
• Makey Makey Cardboard Slider
  by Always Computing aka Matt Moore