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In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Joy Suliman.
Joy is the Learning Space Coordinator at Library Services for the City of Canada Bay, one of Sydney’s most multicultural suburbs.
Joy brings together her diverse experience in learning, technology, workshop facilitation, research, professional development training, regional outreach, and community engagement in her role with City of Canada Bay Libraries.
She leads a multi-disciplinary team that works alongside the community at The Learning Space, The Connection, Rhodes, providing access to online resources and a wide range of programs focusing on digital and emerging technology such as 3D printing, augmented reality, robots, and electronic making.
In her previous roles as the digital media facilitator for Save the Children NSW, as Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, and before that Thinkspace Manager at the Powerhouse Museum, Joy has researched, developed and implemented innovative STEAM workshop programs and resources for community, school groups, teachers , and cultural organisation professionals.
She has also worked at the University of Western Sydney, Arab Council Australia, ABC local radio, and the University of Wollongong.
This is Stemiverse Podcast episode 31.
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Show Notes
- [spp-timestamp time=”00:00″] Introduction – Introducing Joy Suliman
- [spp-timestamp time=”02:40″] Greetings and talking about birds that make fire!
- [spp-timestamp time=”05:16″] Joy current occupation as Learning Space Coordinator at Library Services for the City of Canada Bay
- [spp-timestamp time=”06:38″] Joy talks about her background as a media artist
- [spp-timestamp time=”08:18″] How Joy’s background connects to her current role in the Canada Bay Library
- [spp-timestamp time=”10:11″] How Joy set up the learning space in the Library
- [spp-timestamp time=”12:47″] What differentiates the Canada Bay Library Learning Space from a makerspace
- [spp-timestamp time=”14:01″] The hurdles to get to the point of being a makerspace
- [spp-timestamp time=”15:58″] Starting the club and reaching the community: Community engagement strategy
- [spp-timestamp time=”18:38″] How people go through the facility
- [spp-timestamp time=”20:02″] Proximity to the Sydney 2000 Olympics’ sites
- [spp-timestamp time=”20:52″] The people in the library and their roles
- [spp-timestamp time=”24:59″] A typical scenario of a visitor to the library
- [spp-timestamp time=”29:03″] The worldwide trend for libraries to become more freestyled, away from the traditional book towards more activities
- [spp-timestamp time=”30:45″] Chattanooga Public Library, US
- [spp-timestamp time=”31:31″] Identifying need in communities…
- [spp-timestamp time=”32:28″] …and developing programs
- [spp-timestamp time=”33:57″] Surprising data or insights: Census 2016: Sydney’s best-educated suburbs
- [spp-timestamp time=”35:59″] AR and VR in the Canada Bay Library
- [spp-timestamp time=”37:44″] Aurasma
- [spp-timestamp time=”38:10″] How can we see education being affected by AR and VR technologies?
- [spp-timestamp time=”42:20″] Rapid Fire Questions
- [spp-timestamp time=”42:41″] Who has been the most influential in shaping the way you teach? The education manager at the Powerhouse Museum, Peter Mahony
- [spp-timestamp time=”43:12″] Advice to Educators just starting out
- [spp-timestamp time=”44:35″] Professional Development suggestions: the book Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play, by Mitchel Resnick
- [spp-timestamp time=”45:32″] Mitchel Resnick’s TED talk
- [spp-timestamp time=”45:45″] Programming Language of choice: Python for BBC micro:bit and NAO humanoid robots
- [spp-timestamp time=”46:49″] Joy’s contact information: email: [email protected]