{"id":792,"date":"2012-04-12T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorecreateshare.org\/?p=792"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:24","slug":"family-kitchen-table-hack-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/family-kitchen-table-hack-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Family + kitchen table = hack jam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In preparation for Mozilla’s Summer Code Party<\/a> campaign, I beta-tested three small events over the past week.\u00a0 I was visiting with family for Passover and Easter, and I knew between my mom, my older daughter, my sister and my three teen nephews, I’d be addressing a range of ages, web experience levels, and areas of interest.\u00a0 The common thread is that they’d be willing to take part in my “work homework” and they’d likely provide a balanced mix of feedback – a bit forgiving and totally critical.
\nI’m only just learning the basics of coding myself, but in advance of my trip, I did some Hackasaurus pre-training. \u00a0I took the P2PU X-Ray Goggles challenge<\/a>, reviewed the Hactivity Kit<\/a>, played around a bit with the tool on my own and asked a few q’s of Hackasaurus co-creator (and office-mate) Jess Klein<\/a>.\u00a0 I felt as ready as I could be, and also knew that one of the tenets of Mozilla’s campaign is that we’ll all learn together.
\nCut to Hopewell, NJ: my mom’s place.
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\nWe have two laptops and a netbook, and I’ve installed the X-Ray goggles on all machines.\u00a0 I explain what we were going to do, give a brief introduction to the tool, and then find myself moving from person to person trying to help everyone individually.\u00a0 My mom’s computer gets all wonky due to unwanted Verizon Family Protection settings – she’s out (for now).\u00a0 My sister apparently already knows a bit of HTML but was really in a rush to hit the road so humored me by doing this quick remix<\/a> of the Google homepage (note: she spent several years living in Kenya studying hyenas, so this was no surprise)<\/em> – she’s out.
\nMy daughter thought it was pretty cool that you could swap out photos on a webpage, but we were experiencing some buggy issues with the Goggles so she tuned out. \u00a0I knew I had a cooler project in store for her later in the day so she was released.
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\nOnce mom’s computer was back in action, I helped her remix this story\u00a0about the “Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
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\nUnpacking event #1:<\/p>\n