Orienting Newbies to a New Way of Thinking

Seattle University's library hired me to run its makerspace. A makerspace is traditionally an amount of square footage allotted to tools and equipment one can use for creative endeavors. As part of the library, the Billodue Makerspace is open to everyone in the Seattle U community which means many walk through the doors with little to no prior knowledge of how to use the equipment or even approach the creative process. To ease them in, I created introductory workshops, trainings and supplementary materials that would engage and explain. Supplements included items like posted checklists, QR codes to our equipment training videos, example pieces and infographics.