{"id":3094,"date":"2012-04-30T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonspace.wordpress.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:24","slug":"10-mins-of-teaching-webmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/10-mins-of-teaching-webmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"10 mins of teaching webmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small webmaking events that you can run in 10 minutes<\/strong> are a central part of the Summer Code Party <\/a>concept. We’re calling these ‘kitchen table hackjams<\/a>‘. But, really, they are just you sitting with two friends (or two kids, or two parents) doing a very tiny starter web project. The idea is to have fun and learning something.
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\nWe started beta testing this kitchen hackjam concept<\/a> a few weeks back. I did one with my two sons (Tristan is 12, Ethan is 10) and a friend (Rowan, 10). We sat down to play with the LoveBomb<\/a> prototype, a tool that introduces basic HTML by inviting people to edit a greeting card.
\nA learned some good things and bad things about the process. Three highlights:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s possible to do a quick webmaking session with almost zero preparation<\/strong> or notice. I proposed the event and we were doing it five minutes later.<\/li>\n
  2. You can do alot in 10 or 15 minutes<\/strong>. We’d basically finished the ‘lesson’ in that amount of time. Then two of the kids got bored (my kids) and one of the kids (Rowan) kept tinkering.<\/li>\n
  3. For older kids especially, relevant content is key<\/strong>. Tristan gave the ‘toy’ content in the LoveBomb at ‘WTF is this?’ reaction. He’s a regular YouTube game commentator. If he was going to learn HTML, he wanted to be making something ‘real’.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    At least half a dozen people ran and blogged about their own kitchen table beta tests. Here is a list of postings that I know about:<\/p>\n