{"id":3680,"date":"2013-03-27T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorecreateshare.org\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:00","slug":"teachtheweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/teachtheweb\/","title":{"rendered":"#teachtheweb"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is re-posted from Michelle Thorne’s blog<\/a><\/em>. Please join us in exploring how we might use Twitter as a Webmaker Mentor marketplace. We’d like to help connect those who need certain skills or expertise with those who have it, so if you’re hosting an event and need volunteers to help teach HTML, or if you’re a programmer and want to help teach youth some new skills this summer, or if you released or came across a great resource to help others teach web literacy skills, please share and follow #teachtheweb on Twitter!<\/em>
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#teachtheweb<\/h1>\n

We\u2019d like to try an experiment in a distributed \u201cmarketplace\u201d for webmaking. The idea is simple: use the hashtag #teachtheweb to ask for and offer help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asking for Help<\/h1>\n

It works like this:
\nSay you\u2019d like to organize a webmaking event in your city, Athens. You\u2019ve got a venue, you\u2019ve got some learners, but you\u2019re missing someone who can help you teach Javascript. You can use the #teachtheweb hashtag to ask for help:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking for someone to help teach Javascript at a webmaking event in Athens. #teachtheweb\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A community is monitoring the tag, who can amplify the request or answer it themselves:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know someone who can help. @NAME knows Javascript. #teachtheweb\u201d
\n\u201cI can help! When\u2019s the event? #teachtheweb.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The hashtag isn\u2019t just for events, either.<\/strong> It can be applied to anything that helps teach the web \u2014 with a focus on asking for and offering help on specific things.<\/p>\n

Offering Help<\/h1>\n

In this way, you can also use the tag to share things that you can help with. You could say, for example:<\/p>\n

\u201cI work with youth at my hackerspace and am happy to share activities they like. #teachtheweb\u201d
\n\u201cI speak Spanish and would love to help translate learning materials about webmaking. #teachtheweb\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019ve run a hive Pop-Up in my city and can help coach new organizers. #teachtheweb\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Betatesting<\/h1>\n

Since this is an experiment, we can\u2019t anticipate how well the tag will work.<\/strong>
\nBut the hope is that with some decent traffic and an active group of people monitoring it, the hashtag will be a simple yet powerful way to connect Webmaker Mentors and others who care about teaching the web.<\/strong>
\nWe encourage you to give it a try and to let us know what you think! If you\u2019re interested in helping monitor and field requests, please dive in and start replying.<\/strong> You can also check out our newly launched webmaker.org\/teach<\/a> for more resources and ways to connect.
\nIf you successfully team up with someone, tell the world about it: #webmakerwin!<\/strong>
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This is re-posted from Michelle Thorne’s blog. Please join us in exploring how we might use Twitter as a Webmaker Mentor marketplace. We’d like to help connect those who need certain skills or expertise with those who have it, so … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[330394,330903,23085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}