Radford University Making and Innovation Initiative [rumaking]

This group's purpose is to catalyze the growing culture of making and innovation on Radford University's campus.

The links across the top of this page provide the following functions:

Overview: Links to information about the site, and tips on using this site.

Members: See and contact members of the RU Making and Innovation group. (Information on membership is below.)

Announcements: View and add announcements related to RU Making and Innovation.

Calendar: Add scheduled events that might be of interest to our group members.  

Collections: Find, download, and contribute materials, such as instructional materials, example projects, popular press articles. Collections function like "Pinterest" in that you can form collections of pictures, files, URLs around coherent themes. Posts to this group collection area can be reposted to your personal collection, a great way to keep things you find interesting for later. 

Forum: Ask and answer questions about what is happening on campus, how you can become involved, effective pedagogy around making and innovation, and more.

Wish List: The wish list will serve as our "match.com" - that is, a place to post projects ideas in order to recruit collaborators with the skills you need to complete the work you envision. 

Membership

Most functions of this site are available only to members. We use membership to avoid spam and keep site content as focused and relevant as possible. Members also receive email notification when material is added to this site. To become a member, you must be a QUBESHub member (click here to register for the first time), and then join by clicking the "join group" button top right.

Where am I?

Our group is being hosted by the larger QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) project, on its QUBESHub. QUBESHub is a digital teaching resource repository, focal point for faculty interactions around teaching, host of faculty mentoring networks that help people reform their teaching, and much more - all aimed at increasing the depth and rigor of quantitative instruction for biology students. QUBES' focus is different than ours, but their web infrastructure, approach to faculty development, and approach to collaborating around improved pedagogy fit nicely with the RU Making and Innovation Initiative.