The idea that we don’t have to *force* education, that people like to learn if there is something worth learning, is the gold mine for the digital age.”
Hacktivity Kits for Webmaking
Now available: Hacktivity Kits for Webmaking! Use the Hacktivity Kits as a guide to running your own learning events. Take a look, try out some of the hacktivities at your next learning event, and give us some feedback! There are kits for each of the Mozilla Webmaker tools, and they cover a mess of skills - both cognitive and affective. All content is open and free, and you’re invited to submit your own hacktivities and learning materials.
Here’s a DIY video produced by WNYC Radio Rookies at MozFest, to teach others how-to remix a website using X-Ray Goggles. Thanks to @HeatherPayne for the vocal stylings!
Thimble project: What does writing look like today?
Project draft created by folks from The National Writing Project!
Global Action Project Digitizes the Media History Timeline
In an amazing feat of webmaker collaborations, educators and youth from Global Action Project partnered with Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper and others to bring their analog media history timeline into the digital age using Thimble AND Popcorn!
This prototype highlights significant events in history as they pertain to personal experiences and media. It’s part of a bigger effort to engage youth in NYC around charting the media’s role in political, economic, and social movements, a project for which they recently received funding from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in the New York Community Trust.
Here’s the team that made it happen:
And here’s more from Emma on how they approached their challenge.
The folks from REV- produced a mini anthropological documentary about webmakers at Mozilla Festival using Popcorn! Here’s the team responsible for chronicling these fascinating creatures!
Scenes from Hacktivate Learning, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Building hacktivities, creating an open schools handbook for teachers, making a media history timeline in Popcorn, chronicling the superheroes of MozFest, developing materials to help grandma - and others- learn about the web, illustrating, post-it making, remixing, connecting…
Human API for Hive @Heatherpayne making “How to install X-ray goggles to hack websites — hackasaurus” video! At #hacktivate with @radiorookies @hivelearningnyc Come on over and make your own popcorn diy
Reblogged from WNYC RADIO ROOKIES
Remixing the Web with Middle School Students
This curriculum (a remix of the Hackasaurus Hacktivity Kit with a focus on STEM) offers a free, engaging, web-based model to teach kids how to remix the web in out-of-school time.
