littleBits has rolled out it's latest collaborative venture, global chapters . Global chapters have an 8 event commitment per year which is easy for any library or school with a variety of littleBits collections and regular after school science programming. Why not use this as a stepping stone into a year wide goal of science programming? 8 events is not even once a month and we are already planning for 3 events this summer with the superhero theme. In our Mad Science Mondays littleBits will be out for use in setting superhero traps/gadgets and building lairs or hideouts. In our Cardboard Car Drive In, littleBits will be out to add horns and lights as design options for the cars. Kids will watch a short film after they decorate their cars. In exchange for becoming a chapter, you can get lots of swag, a global resource of educators to share ideas with in monthly support calls, and free event marketing from the littleBits website. The only chapter so far in Massachusetts i...
we share our process of going from primarily content collection to adding in content creation.