We started running online learning modules in response to the growing need for people to learn how both the technical and social structures of the web work. Open, online learning can activate and inspire people, and we’ve been trying to … Continue reading
Over at Webmaker Training we’re working together to learn how to #TeachTheWeb. On Monday, May 12th, we launched the first course on exploring the methodologies behind Webmaker – including Making as Learning, Connected Learning and the Open Web. There are … Continue reading
Meet Chad Sansing: he’s a humanities teacher, a webmaking mentor and a champion of the open web. If the rumors are true, he’s also an all-around nice guy. Chad helps run the National Writing Project’s MOOC (that stands for Massive … Continue reading
Week 7 of Teach the Web was all about playtesting in preparation for Maker Party! Participants and the Mozilla mentor community at large also responded to the NSA surveillance leak by leveraging it as a teachable moment, and creating and … Continue reading
Week 6 of Teach the Web was all about offering feedback and inspiring deeper collaboration among participants. We further explored what it means to work openly, and started to look at open values that benefit our individual practice. We engaged … Continue reading
In week 5 of Teach the Web, the focus was on learning resources – creating them, remixing them, sharing them. We also dug deeper into issues that can affect how we can bring webmaking into learning spaces, from teaching people … Continue reading
In week 4 of Teach the Web, we explored how to include web skills while teaching other topics. We learned a bit more about the teaching and learning interests of other participants, as evidenced by some of this week’s makes. … Continue reading
How does openness lead to innovation? What competencies and skills are necessary for working in the open? What are some of the barriers to working in the open and how can we best address them? Week 3 of Teach the … Continue reading
How can remixing help us learn? And how do we apply Connected Learning principles to make teaching and mentoring more active, relevant and social? That was the focus of week two of our open online course, Teach the Web. Special thanks … Continue reading
TLDR version of this post: we have new Thimble prototypes for creating your own hackable teaching kits. Please help test and make them better by sharing feedback through #teachtheweb or by filing a handy feedback ticket here.
