Since I have introduced Connected Messages board at IDAAY about 2 weeks ago we have made some great progress. Most the people that have participated are part of a group of consistent teen I work with of the ages 14-18.  One of my goals for this board was to make sure every piece that is hung has a story.  I feel that having a statement with each box allows views to get a more immersive experience to this project.  Also this project was great to get to know my students better and hear about issues that concern them.

The following is a post by IDAAY gues blogger Jazmine:

Hi my name is Jazmine and today I came up with a movie.   The movie is called the Worst Nightmare, which is a horror film.  This movie is about me and my friends go to see this movie called Smiley after the movie we head home and it becomes real.  The killer is in my house and I go look for my friends but the killer is killing all my friends, one by one.  I wake up and everything just disappeared and I find out nun of it was true.

The actors in my Movie are Me, Myself, Fahiem, Dequan, Leroy and Sharmar.  The people that helped me where Brittany, Mr. Oseby, Mr. Khaleef and that’s it.

My inspiration for writing the was my love of watching horror movies and that made me want to come up with my own horror movie and then if people like it the I would probably make a part 2.

My favorite part about making this movie was that it was fun.  I never made a movie before so its like really fun and hard at some times and I just got to have fun with all my cast and stuff like that.

During this week at IDAAY we explored a Squishy Circuits and the Makey makey.  Everyone really enjoyed playing different computer games with their own hand made controller.  From there we broke out the green screen which is were things really picked up.  We started to play with editing from photos but with the help of everyone at the Hot Spot will soon be moving to videos!

This week at IDAAY I gained a new group of Makers that will be with me for the rest of Maker Corps.  We started to make a variety of projects.  To get them started we sign a board with their names and some doodles.    We explored LEDs and paper were one teen was super interested in the all seeing eye.  We also started to make tissue paper wire lamps were one maker made a stereo.  These lamps we are planing to hang throughout our space.  In some down time we made a silly band sling shot.

A rainy week lead to some flooding at IDAAY; which caused us to be closed temporarily.   Why this may have been unfortunate I took this opportunity to visit all the other Free Library Maker Corps’ sites. This allowed me to see all the amazing projects that each site is working on.Read more