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Recent Submissions
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Chivers, Morgan; Wallace, Martin K. (Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative, 2019-10-17)
We believe we have successfully developed a sound, while certainly not perfect, methodology for measuring the learning taking place in academic library makerspaces using student self-assessment. As we continue to cultivate ...
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Wallace, Martin K.; Trkay, Gretchen; Peery, Katie Musick; Chivers, Morgan; Radniecki, Tara (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2019-06-28)
The list of maker-based competencies compiled in 2016 by UTA Libraries’ Maker Literacies Task Force provides a framework for assessing the learning that results when making and design thinking are integrated into curricula. ...
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McGregor, Lani; Moles, Kathleen; Nachison, Emily; Yood, James (Bullseye Glass, 2014)
Bullseye's eighth international exhibition for emerging artists in kiln-glass, documented in an elegant full-color catalog. Artist statements and bios of winners and finalists. Plus Evolve, a section celebrating three ...
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Chivers, Morgan; Musick Peery, Katie (Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2017)
“Iterative design” is a buzzword bandied about more liberally than its principles are employed; what happens when we embrace intelligent risk-taking and empower students with legitimate agency to solve the myriad struggles ...
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Wallace, Martin K.; Peery, Katie Musick; Trkay, Gretchen; Chivers, Morgan; Radniecki, Tara (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2018-12-21)
Maker competencies are the skills, talents and dispositions that one acquires or improves upon while problem-solving and working on projects in makerspaces or similar learning environments. However, while learners can ...
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Chivers, Morgan (American Library Association, 2018-10)
Graduate students are critical stakeholders for academic libraries. As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate ...
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Musick Peery, Katie; Chivers, Morgan (Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2018-08)
Academic makerspaces which are discipline-agnostic face the daunting task of trying to meet the needs of a humbling array of approaches to inquiry while maintaining a sustainable and safe environment for making. Establishing ...
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Chivers, Morgan (Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2017-09)
This paper endeavors to reflectively analyze the process of building a fleet of large, durable tables with student workers’ labor, primarily using the tools in our FabLab. Exploring causalities between experiences gained ...
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Chivers, Morgan (Artpress, 2014-10)
"I put a lot of effort into the research component of each piece. I've developed strategies to intentionally load my brain with information on topics I'm interested in making work about while experimenting with materials ...
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Chivers, Morgan (Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015-05)
The work presented in this paper is intended to push the development of a bridge between the two methodologies of glass and digital fabrication; the possibilities at this nexus are tantalizing, and there is no shortage of ...
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Wallace, Martin K.; Trkay, Gretchen; Peery, Katie Musick; Chivers, Morgan; Radniecki, Tara (Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative, 2018-08-04)
The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries was awarded a $50,000 planning grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for FY 2017-2018 allowing us to develop a pilot program to explore course integration ...
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Wallace, Martin K.; Trkay, Gretchen; Chivers, Morgan; Peery, Katie Musick (The Higher Education Makerspaces Initiatives (HEMI), 2017-09-26)