Dr. Jaime Cantu’s Engineering Project Management course participated in the Maker Literacies program again for the third consecutive semester. Students were assigned to work collaboratively in teams to manufacture a stuffed… read more…
NEWS
[This is the first in a series of blog posts about our data gathering, processing and analysis methodology.]
[Correction: (Added 10/17/2019) The survey durations in the test data referenced throughout this series are not reliable. It appears that at least some of… read more…
So, first the bad news: we were not able to complete our final report to the IMLS by the September 28 deadline. Fortunately, we were approved an extension for another purpose, and because of that extension, we still have time to work on a really great final report. We received a lot of actionable, substantive feedback from our pilot program… read more…
The UTA Libraries' Marketing and Communications Team created a really great video to highlight a few apps that UTA FabLab student employees have developed to help our makerspace run more smoothly. The 3-… read more…
Though I was unable to make it to the conference (insert sad face emoticon), I want to thank Katie Musick Peery, Morgan Chivers and… read more…
We discovered this really awesome student-made video that highlights Charles Gray's ART 4392 Contemporary Portraiture project. Maybe if he sees this post he'll give us a holler! ART 4392 participated in the Maker Literacies program in fall 2017.
We look forward to seeing his follow up video and finished painting.
…Over the last year I've been busy with our Maker Literacies IMLS-funded pilot program Maker Competencies and the Undergraduate Curriculum and unfortunately have had little time to post to our blog. Now that we've come to the end of the pilot, I truly plan to… read more…
Dr. Christopher Kribs is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Curriculum & Instruction at UTA, and he teaches math education courses at the K-8 and middle school grade levels, as well as… read more…
One group of competencies identified in our set of beta maker competencies is “Assembling effective teams.” This group includes the following learning outcomes:
The maker literate student
- recognizes opportunities to… read more…
Dr. Christian Worlow is a Senior Lecturer and Internship Coordinator for the Department of English at UTA, and he teaches courses in British literature and technical writing. During Fall 2017, he taught two technical writing courses:… read more…