Robotics Week Meets Poetry Month: Webinar with BirdBrain Technologies

April 08, 2019

Edited April 17th to include webinar recording and pertinent links.

We cooked up a mash-up of epic proportions for robotics week and poetry month!

Our curriculum lead Colleen Graves joined Katie Henry of BirdBrain Technologies and Bud Hunt of Clearview Library District to explore how robotics and Makey Makey can be used a compositional tool to inspire literacy connections for students.

Watch the webinar

Pertinent Links

Katie, Bud, and Colleen talked about a lot of great things! Here are some of the most pertinent links mentioned during the webinar.

National Writing Project ( NWP)
Making and Writing Workshop Colleen mentioned being a part of at NWP
ReMake Education Conference in Sonoma County
Constructing Modern Knowledge Conference
Ada Lovelace
Taylor Mali Metaphor Dice
Makey Makey and Hummingbird Project from BirdBrain Technologies
Blackout Poetry and Austin Kleon
Makey Makey Blackout Poetry

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#makeymakey poem generator that will also control a @birdbraintech #hummingbirdbit. More info in our #poetrymonth webinar tomorrow!

A post shared by Colleen Graves (@makercolleengraves) on Apr 15, 2019 at 12:14pm PDT

Hummingbird / Makey Makey Mashups

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Our #hummingbirdbit robot and @makeymakeylabz controller to help the sick Easter bunny that can’t deliver eggs! #inventtolearn @co.lab_communitymakers !

A post shared by Colleen Graves (@makercolleengraves) on Apr 11, 2019 at 11:05am PDT

Books Mentioned

We love literacy as much as we love making! Here are some great books mentioned during the webinar.

Invent To Learn by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary S. Stager Ph.D.

Make Writing and Hacking the Writing Workshop by Angela Stockman

Big Book of Makerspace Projects by Aaron and Colleen Graves
This is a Poem that Heals Fish by Jean-Pierre Siméon and Olivier Tallec

Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh (Author), Leonard Jenkins (Illustrator)
Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds (Author, Illustrator)

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