21st Annual TCC Worldwide Online Conference featured a preConference workshop on Make the Future! Create a Virtual Makerspace. Attendees from around the world contributed their ideas and brainstormed what we'd like to see in physical, blended and virtual makerspaces. Hosts: Bert Kimura, Curtis Ho, John Walber of Learning Times, and Cynthia Calongne as the speaker. Mahalo to all of our Makers!

1. 21st TCC Preconference
February 25, 2016
Make the Future!
Create a
Virtual Makerspace
Cynthia Calongne
CTU & CCCOnline
Fractal & Planet by C. Calongne

2. Makerspace
Makerspace - The Maker Movement
Spaces where people socialize, tinker, explore, network, create,
invent, and discover using tools and shared resources
Traditional View
Physical makerspaces may feature 3D printers, power tools,
programming, robotics, yarn crafts, and textiles.
Makerspaces are also called Hackerspaces & Fablabs

3. Hackerspaces
International Hackerspaces
– 2024 total listed, 1239 active, 353 planned
– https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Images Left to Right: c-base Berlin, Hackerspace Charlotte, & the Denver Concoctory (above)

4. FamiLab Hackerspace open house in Orlando
1239 Active Hackerspaces Worldwide
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

5. FamiLAB in Orlando, Florida features
3D printers, metal fabricators, supplies & tools for
fabricating, creating, programming, & sewing
Visitors are welcome during open houses

6. Hackerspace
Activities
At the
Concoctory

7. NY Makerspace as a Social Space
Story Creation at the Hackathon by the NY Resistor http://www.nycresistor.com/

8. Between the 2nd and 3rd Space
Home
SocialWork
Shifting Paradigms from School as Work to Creativity in the Social Space
Heart
BodyMind
1st
3rd2nd

10. Do Makerspaces Have to Be Physical?

12. Makers in Situated Learning

13. Makerspace Use of Raspberry Pi

14. Blending Physical &
Virtual Makerspaces
Gaston Bachelard’s Topoanalysis
- An intimate & shared experience
- Discovery Space
- Actuality-of-Being Space
- Private Space
- Daydreaming Space
- Friendship Space
What would you include in a
Virtual Makerspace?

15. TCC Community
Virtual Makerspace
Ideas
Videos
Images
Resources
Definitions
Best Practices
Collaborative
Workspace

16. TCC Makerspace
Collaborative Workspace
Thought Experiment – brainstorming our resources
During this workshop, we reflected on what we need for
Virtual Makerspaces, resources, tools, best practices and
blended reality as well as physical and virtual events
TCC Virtual Makerspace 2016 Resources
TCC Virtual Makerspace 2016 Ideas – Google Doc

17. Makerspace Links
FamiLAB Orlando, Florida
https://familab.org/
International Hackerspaces (2024 total listed), 1239 active, 353 planned
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Pikes Peak Library District Makerspaces, Colorado Springs, CO
http://ppld.org/sites/default/files/c3/makerspace/makerspacegeneralinformation.pdf
EDUCAUSE
https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7095.pdf
NY Resistor
http://www.nycresistor.com/
C-base in Berlin
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/C-base

18. 21st TCC Preconference
February 25, 2016
Make the Future!
Create a
Virtual Makerspace
Cynthia Calongne
Thank you for Participating!
Questions?