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Designing Interactive Learning Spaces through Technology
January 17th Tech Day Conference at PLAN
Presented By: Brian Pichman of the Evolve Projectfollow the conversation on twitter @bpichman | #plantechday
Welcome
Todays Agenda: Library Strategy
Design Concepts for Spaces
Play Time: Interactive Technology
Promotion Ideas / Concepts
Future Technology
Types of MakerSpaces / FabLabs
Planting a Money Tree (Funding)
But First….Two Things
Take Risks!It’s a “Pilot Program” or “Beta Test”
There is no such thing as failure. The only failure is not trying.
We All Have Creative Potential
Creativity Exercise:
Grab Paper and A Pen
Building a Public Value
Libraries can no longer be just about “books”; instead they must position themselves as community anchors; providing for the
general needs as well as the endless learning possibilities.
What Does Your Community Ask For?
Study Rooms / Homework Area
Open Areas
Tech (Computers)
Business Centers
MakerSpaces
?Others?
What do these things have in common?
Engagement
Your new space must allow for the ability for patrons AND staff to engage with each other and the space.
We need to find ways to engage our patrons
Creation and Inventions
Oak Park Public Library
Discovery
Collaboration
Interaction
Innovation
Create a Public VALUE
• Not be a “process” but an experience
• Move from physical to digital
• Create new ways to learn and explore
• Libraries should be creating stories
• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!
• Shift Focus To
• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery, Collaboration and Invention
Dangers Facing Libraries
Dangers Facing Libraries
Dangers Facing Libraries
Did You Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project
Did You Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project
Did You Know?
Stats from: Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project
Create a Public VALUE
• Not be a “process” but an experience
• Move from physical to digital
• Create new ways to learn and explore
• Libraries should be creating stories
• Libraries HAVE TO BE ENGANGING!
• Shift Focus To
• Innovation, Interaction, Discovery, Collaboration and Invention
If you build it they will come
Libraries are like Candles
“Libraries Are Screwed” By Eli Neiburger
Key Design Concepts
Adding Color
Art
Have Open and Modular Areas
Furniture
Modularity
Adding Color
White = Boring Think about Parks (typically colorful)
Painting walls is an inexpensive redesign
Use Fun Colors Be Bold!
Children Areas should use bright attractive areas.
Get your community and staff involved Having a painting party!
Color alone can make a space look bigger and brighter
Art
Have patrons create the art Donate it to the library
Mix it up as often as you like. There is no cost.
Patrons (often younger ones) will feel like their work has been “published” Sense of ownership with the library
They will become marketers for your library
Open Areas
Open Space ! Seating
Tables
Multi Functional Areas
Remove rooms that are used only for specific events: Activity Rooms, Meeting Rooms, etc
Make these rooms open all the time with something going on all the time
Larger, open areas allow you to rearrange your space much easier
Furniture
Fun Colors
Use lightweight furniture (easier to move)
Encourage your patrons to rearrange the space to fit their needs.
Modularity
Allows you to always change your environment
Put things on wheels Desks
…No Need For Shelves To Be On Wheels
Don’t fasten furniture to floor… no one will be stealing a desk
Raised flooring Makes adding more outlets in the future easier
Collection Concepts
Rotating Collection Provides an “always new” environment
Child Friendly Shelves Bin style shelving, so children can “flip” through books
Props to show collection (not books)
Interactive Book Ends Allow children to find, discover, and hear reviews of books, all via a touch
screen computer mounted at the end of a the shelf
Workflow Concepts
Self Check Out Units Even children are highly receptive to the ability to do things on their own and utilize
technology
Mobile Check Out / Catalog Units Allow people to use an iPad to either search or check out material
Standing “Help Desk” Have one or two people at a single circulation desk
The rest are out on the floor to offer suggestions, help, and guidance
Head of department should be in an accessible area so children can interact comfortably
Interactive Technology
Fill The Space With Fun Interactive Technology
Allow People to CHECK THINGS out
Sphero Ball …. MSRP: $130
Guide Through Library (Follow The Ball)
People Approach The Ball – Curiosity
Kurio Tablet …. MSRP: $150
Affordable Tablet
Locked Down
Secure
Sifteo Cubes …. MSRP: $130-$200
Interactive Touch Cubes
New Learning Game, Spell, Sort, and more!
Lego WeDo’s …. MSRP $130
Simple, Drag and Drop GUI Based Program
There is a nation wide Lego Robotics Contest
Software: $90.00
Lego Mindstorm …. MSRP $300
More Advance Programming
There is a nation wide Lego Robotics Contest
Software: $80.00
Tiggly Shapes…MSRP $30.00
Uses soft and strong rubber shapes to teach younger children about shapes in a fun and interactive way, using an iPAD (coming soon to Android).
LittleBitsMSRP $100-200
littleBits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.
Makey-Makey…MSRP: $49.95
MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween:
I Have All This Tech……Now What
Your environment can have all the best tech toys and cool fablabs but it could still fall short.
It is up to the frontline staff to ENANGE their audiences. A friendly hello goes a long way. Allow the staff to play with the tech, get them involved to reflect that excitement to the patrons.
Staff Communication
Get Them Involved In Your Library Tech
Books
Stories
Get “resident” experts Cooking
Computing
Fishing…
AND LET THE PATRONS KNOW WHICH STAFF ARE EXPERTS ON SPECIFIC HOBBIES
Engagement Ideas
Ask Your Patrons These Things:
Books
Ask them their thoughts
Suggestions for collection
Recommend other reads
Computing
Ask them what games they want to see
Programming
Ask them what programs they like.
Socially
Ask how they are doing.
Homework Help
Offer ways to help them on assignments. Bring them snacks and beverages. Positive reinforcement.
Sit down with patrons and interact with what they are doing
Remind them a library can be more than just “books”
Ways To Engage Your Space
This Can Also Be Used To Promote Space
Sphero Ball …. MSRP: $130
Guide Through Library (Follow The Ball)
People Approach The Ball – Curiosity
Ubisoft Laser Tag
Score Keeping, Board Projecting Score Board, Laser Tag Game!
Discover New Places In Libraries Through Objectives
Hunger Games style playing.
Miniature Golf
Purchase Cheap Plastic and Foam to setup Paths and fairways with felt.
Have it throughout the library, engage the participants through your space.
Zombie Movie
Film A Zombie Movie (Cameras and some Face Paint for Your Library)
Mystery Grab Bag
Place books into color themed bags. Barcode number written outside of bag. Allow patrons to check out and take them home.
Other Cool Activities
Library Lockin Play Games, Watch Movies, Etc.
Teddy Bear Lockin Children drop off their stuffed animals, and staff take pictures with their stuffed animals
interacting in the library
SnapChat Game Take pictures of your space on SnapChat and have your patrons find where it was taken
(award prizes)
Find Your Skilled Staff Members Ask the Expert (Fishing, Boating, Cooking, Couponing, Computers, Surfing)
Video Marketing
Chard Mairn, Librarian/Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College started a viral media marketing tools. Purchased cheap inexpensive flip cams.
Social Media
Gamification
Game of Books
The Game of Books is gamifying the reading experience.
In the Game, you are the character that you are leveling up; books are the magical items that give you rewards. This is a project from BookLamp.Org
Each Book in the world has a very specific DNA, a structure that contains specific themes, writing style, density, etc.
The themes in the book relate to points – and those points apply to your character.
More Details: www.gameofbooks.com
Just Press Play
Interactive Library Cards
Put a “Reward System” into the library card Badges
Prizes
Exclusive Programming / Event registration
Low Tech: Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to customize their card with different and
increasingly more desired badges – based off books read, programs attended, etc.
High Tech: Create Library Cards with screens
Send Messages to card when they are in the library (wirelessly connected)
Display “reading level” or “badges they own”
Future of Technology
Goals of Technology
To discover and curate of information
Value adds (efficiency, reliability)
To build or discover new “things”
General Themes Touch-Based
Gesture-Based
Object Orientated
Wearable Technology Data Curation / Predictable Technologies
Open Source Hardware
Touch Based
People want to touch everything Discover Through Touch
Search Through Touch
Learn Through Touch
Gesture Based
Communicate with Technology Hands Free
Uses multiple cameras to detect depth/movement Microsoft Kinect
Sites to Explore: Microsoft Kinect (We Will Demo)
Leap Motion (We Will Also Demo)
PrimeSense
Evoluce
Wearable Gesture Based Computing
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
Object Orientated
Use Objects to interact with surfaces
What’s this talk about “Big Data”
Technology is being used to identify trends in our lives. This data is being curated and collected.
This can help us with: Identifying health trends
Saving Time or Energy
Increase efficiency in our lives
Wearable Technologies – Life Logging
MeCamMemoto Autographer
Wearable Glasses
Crowd-Sourced
Home Security
Goji Drop Cam Canary
Fitness Monitors
FitBit
FitBark
Nike
Learning Your Life Style
Home Automation
Fridges that detect when you are low on basic foods (eggs, milk, etc)
Stoves that can sense the difference between a pan and your finger Lets you search for recipes right on the
table
What does this have to do with libraries?
Our Patrons will be talking about this technology!
How can we incorporate this technology in our library?
Fab Labs and Maker Spaces
Evolve: A Library Playground
Fab Lab / “Hackerspace” A location where people with common interests (usually in computers, technology, science, or
digital or electronic art) meet, socialize and/or collaborate.
Can be viewed as open community labs incorporating elements of workshops and/or studios where people can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make things and ideas.
Combining the positive & fun aspects of schools, museums, and playgrounds into one “entity”.
Types of Learning Spaces
Collaborative Areas (Either Network Based or In A Room)
Provide Tools (Hardware and/or Software)
Learning Labs or Training Centers
Music / Graphic Design / Video Editing / Programming
3D Printing
Allen County Public Library
Multimedia Room
Room Set Up Features:
Clickers
Allows for jeopardy style gaming
Smart Board (interactive white board)
Full DVD/BluRay/Sound System
Easy to use and start (Touch Panel System)
You Can Use This Room For
Jeopardy
Movie Nights
Presentations / Interactive Style Board Game Night
Create a Business Plan, Project Plan, etc
The 4th floor is a public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts.The 14,000 sq foot space hosts equipment, expertise, programs, events, and meetings that work within this scope.While traditional library spaces support the consumption of knowledge by offering access to media, the 4th floor is unique because it supports the production, connection, and sharing of knowledge by offering access to tools and instruction.
Chattanooga ”Fourth Floor”
DOK Lab (www.doklab.nl)
FundingIts always a challenge, but here are a few simple tricks
Sell Your Idea
• Be Excited about what your talking about
• You have a lot of members in your community, let the people you are speaking to know that.
Use Twitter to ask vendors or product manufacturers for help
Crowd Source Funding
Donations and Grants
Ask for donations to the project Name Rooms after Business who sponsor parts of renovation
Grants
Work Up Organizational Charts
Volunteers
Ask People To Help Manual Labor
Paint
Move Furniture
Set Up Computers or Furniture
Don’t Forget Local Schools / UniversitiesComputer Programming / Internships
