{"id":135,"date":"2017-10-09T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/?p=135"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:39:56","slug":"bellevue-college-welcomes-james-riggall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/2017\/10\/09\/bellevue-college-welcomes-james-riggall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue College Welcomes James Riggall"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 22nd, 2017 staff from Bellevue College’s RISE Institute, Learning Media Center, Faculty Commons, and eLearning Center met in the recently completed RISE labs to welcome Fulbright scholar James Riggall.<\/p>\n

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Bellevue College welcomes Fulbright scholar James Riggall. Photo credit: Gordon Hom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

James Riggall Brings Makerspace\u00a0Experience to Bellevue College<\/h4>\n

Over the past six years, James Riggall has developed a number of community-based makerspaces in Launceston and Hobart Tasmania.\u00a0 The goal of these makerspaces is to provide a place where students of all ages can\u00a0develop hands-on projects under the mentorship of experienced tutors.\u00a0 These can be considered as informal learning environments that not only teach through hands-on\u00a0projects\u00a0but provide a service to the wider\u00a0community in Tasmania.<\/p>\n

These\u00a0makerspaces are given logistical support from organizations such as\u00a0BitLink<\/a>, Innovation Circle<\/a>, Enterprize<\/a>, StartUp Tasmania <\/a>and the TasCatalyst Project<\/a>.\u00a0 As one of the goals of his Fulbright scholarship, Riggall intends to contribute his entrepreneurial startup and makerspace experience to help kickstart a hands-on, project based educational community at Bellevue College.<\/p>\n

Bellevue College Makerspace Movers and Shakers<\/h4>\n

In 2015 efforts were\u00a0initiated by Gita Bangera, Interim\u00a0Vice President of Instruction and Vivienne McClendon, Dean of the Library Media Center to create a Collaboratory<\/strong> space in the Bellevue College library.\u00a0 This\u00a0“noisy” section of the library\u00a0is dedicated to live and streaming presentations, courses, team projects, and panel discussions.<\/p>\n

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Collaboratory space located in the Bellevue College library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Collaboratory is supported by several key organizations on campus that share a common cross-disciplinary cooperative culture.\u00a0 These include the Library Media Center Collaboratory<\/a>, RISE Learning Institute<\/a>, Faculty Commons<\/a>, and the eLearning Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Diagram showing relationship between Collaboratory and key cooperative organizations at Bellevue College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michael Reese, director of the RISE Institute recently opened the RISE lab, which provides a variety of project-based makerspaces to support student hands-on learning.<\/p>\n

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RISE makerspace lab, opened in September, 2017. Photo credit: Gordon Hom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On September 22nd, 2017 staff from Bellevue College’s RISE Institute, Learning Media Center, Faculty Commons, and eLearning Center met in the recently completed RISE labs to welcome Fulbright scholar James Riggall. James Riggall Brings Makerspace\u00a0Experience to Bellevue College Over the past six years, James Riggall has developed a number of community-based makerspaces in Launceston and … Continue reading Bellevue College Welcomes James Riggall<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,10,33,30],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicle","tag-collaboratory","tag-james-riggall","tag-makerspace","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/jamesriggall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}