Hacktivate Learning

"The idea that we don’t have to force education, that people like to learn if there is..."

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:13:12 -0500

““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.”
Cathy Davidson in The Chronicle of Higher Education”

- http://chronicle.com/article/Size-Isnt-Everything/136153/

Hacktivity Kits for Webmaking

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:16:50 -0500

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...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:32:28 -0500

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?

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:25:58 -0500

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

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:22:31 -0500

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...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:11:03 -0500

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...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:05:55 -0500

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…

wnycradiorookies: Human API for Hive @Heatherpayne making “How...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:21:08 -0500

wnycradiorookies:

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

Hack a T-shirt with Thimble!

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:07:41 -0500

Hack a T-shirt with Thimble!

Remixing the Web with Middle School Students

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:53:23 -0500

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.

"I learned Thimble, Popcorn and X-Ray Goggles in 10 minutes!"

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:39:11 -0500

“I learned Thimble, Popcorn and X-Ray Goggles in 10 minutes!”

- DJ from Internews

Julia, David and Brigette, the team behind Dear Grandma: This is...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:21:15 -0500

Julia, David and Brigette, the team behind Dear Grandma: This is how the web works!

Check out their awesome Thimble project!

Open Schools for Open Societies Handbook for Teachers 0.1

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:16:56 -0500

Open Schools for Open Societies Handbook for Teachers 0.1:

Developed during MozFest with the help of minds from around the world, led by @ChadSansing, this working draft of the Open Schools for Open Societies Handbook for Teachers is for everyone interested in helping school become part of an open and writable society.

Teaching SEO to youth

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:31:46 -0500

Meredith Summs from MOUSE (Hive NYC member) collaborated with other educators, designers and programmers in an effort to start creating artifacts that help teach youth web basics. “They just posted something online. But what actually just happened?” They’re looking to collect and build resources that provide more context around teaching how to use webmaker tools.

Here’s one activity they created on the spot around the concept of search engine optimization!

Educators + developers + youth = great things to come! Hive NYC...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:30:43 -0500

Educators + developers + youth = great things to come! Hive NYC members Global Action Project and their youth working with ReMos to develop a digital version their analog Media History Timeline.

Using Popcorn to make DIY videos with WNYC Radio Rookies. Have...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:15:54 -0500

Using Popcorn to make DIY videos with WNYC Radio Rookies. Have something you want to teach someone else to do?

Meemoo GIF Animations FTW!

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:24:33 -0500

Meemoo GIF Animations FTW!

Have coffee or go to the ReMo booth? Here’s what a game...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:14:34 -0500

Have coffee or go to the ReMo booth? Here’s what a game path looks like for a MozFest Choose Your Own Adventure 2.1. Created during the Webmaker Project session!

So, you want to make the perfect donut bun?

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:08:17 -0500

So, you want to make the perfect donut bun?:

This Thimble/Popcorn project was made during “Building Projects for Webmaker” session at #MozFest!

Earlier today, teens worked with Forrest Oliphant from Meemoo to...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:56:00 -0500

Earlier today, teens worked with Forrest Oliphant from Meemoo to create some seriously cool GIF animations, using a web-based animation tool. Loving these!

#mozfest #hacktivate

meemoo/cam2gif image share - Imgur

Hacktivate Learning

"The idea that we don’t have to *force* education, that people like to learn if there is..."

Hacktivity Kits for Webmaking

Here’s a DIY video produced by WNYC Radio Rookies at...

Thimble project: What does writing look like today?

Global Action Project Digitizes the Media History Timeline

The folks from REV- produced a mini anthropological documentary...

Scenes from Hacktivate Learning, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Building...

wnycradiorookies: Human API for Hive @Heatherpayne making “How...

Hack a T-shirt with Thimble!

Remixing the Web with Middle School Students

"I learned Thimble, Popcorn and X-Ray Goggles in 10 minutes!"

Julia, David and Brigette, the team behind Dear Grandma: This is...

Open Schools for Open Societies Handbook for Teachers 0.1

Teaching SEO to youth

Educators + developers + youth = great things to come! Hive NYC...

Using Popcorn to make DIY videos with WNYC Radio Rookies. Have...

Meemoo GIF Animations FTW!

Have coffee or go to the ReMo booth? Here’s what a game...

So, you want to make the perfect donut bun?

Earlier today, teens worked with Forrest Oliphant from Meemoo to...

"The idea that we don’t have to force education, that people like to learn if there is..."