Renovated Learning Blog
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Renovated Learning Blog by Diana Rendina serves as a space to share resources, ideas, & more about makerspace, libraries, and learning space design. Find cool projects, DIY ideas, and more. Diana is a media specialist/teacher librarian at Tampa Preparatory School, an independent 6-12 school in Tampa, Florida.
Renovated Learning Blog
7M ago
Way back in my early days as a media specialist at Stewart, I created a manga section. It was by far the most popular section of the library, and I would have students come in to check out multiple books every day as they worked through a series. When I started at Tampa Prep, I ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
7M ago
Over the last several years, I’ve been working on changing up my non-fiction section. I already genrefied my fiction collection a few years ago, and I knew I needed to tackle my non-fiction section next. I got the push I needed to get started with my school’s adapted schedule in the 2020-2021 year for COVID ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
7M ago
When I decided to de-emphasize Dewey in my library collection, I wanted to come up with an organization system that would make sense to me and make sense to my students. I decided to divide the non-fiction collection into nine different categories (many of which are Dewey aligned) with sub-categories (done as sublocations in Destiny ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
Cardboard challenges have been a core part of my makerspace programming for the past eight years. I continue to be amazed year after year at the amazing ideas students come up with when given a design challenge and simple, everyday materials. In Part 1 of this post series, I looked at some of my favorite ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
How to Run a Tech Take Apart Workshop in Your Makerspace Tech Take Apart is a fun, low-budget activity that gets students excited about seeing how the inner workings of electronics function. That being said, my first time attempting this activity with middle school students was a disaster (so much so that I only ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
When a library design book shows up as available in my local library system, I’m quick to place a hold. So I was excited to see that Collaborative Library Design: From Planning to Impact, had a copy available. This book is what I like to think of as library design eye candy (much like The ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
Over the summer of 2021, I collaborated with our 6th grade science teacher as part of a grant to find ways to incorporate makerspace activities into the curriculum. (Look for posts coming soon about some of the projects we did). Part of our work was reading the book, Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
Back in early 2019, I reorganized the fiction section of my library, categorizing books into genres and labeling them with colored stickers to help students find them. You can read more about the exact process I used back here, and I’ll include more genrefication resources at the end of the post. Since that time ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
I’ve long used Instagram as a way to reach out to my students. It started back when I first got an iPad through DonorsChoose at my previous library (before I had a personal smartphone). Some of my former students (now adults) still follow that account and keep in touch. When I started at Tampa Prep ..read more
Renovated Learning Blog
9M ago
In the 2021-2022 school year, I collaborated with our 6th grade science teacher to incorporate makerspace activities into her curriculum. We decided on a hybrid approach where for some projects, students would come up to the library makerspace and for others, I would come down to the classroom. So we decided to purchase supplies (using ..read more