Learn more about the Makey Makey Instructables Hub- Webinar Posted!

September 04, 2019

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.

Director of Curriculum, Content, Community and FUN! @Makey Makey / Joy Labz

As a creative, Colleen creates teacher-driven content for our team and beyond! With 15 years of education experience and a lifetime experience as a maker, she still believes the world is her classroom and that maker education is transformative for students and teachers alike!

VP of Education Initiatives, Workshops, Community, & Big Learning Ideas @Makey Makey / Joy Labz

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.

Go to our Instructables Community Hub

Thanks for watching our webinar! Let us know in the comments on the blog what content you'd like to see on our next webinar or in our next blog posting!

Links mentioned in the webinar:

Instructables Teacher Overview
Resources to make good Instructable

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