{"id":7986,"date":"2013-05-03T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:59","slug":"hello_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/hello_world\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the movement who will #teachtheweb"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Geeky grandmas.” Middle-school teachers. Novelists. Programmers who have never taught anyone before. Science museum managers. Former girl scout hacker sailing enthusiasts. Secret superheroes in the “Librarian Justice League.”<\/strong>
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\nThat’s a small cross-section of the\u00a02300 participants who signed up to participate in Mozilla’s new “Teach the Web<\/a>” open online course<\/strong>. Here’s a tiny sample of what some of those mentors made to introduce themselves and say hello. Lots more here<\/a>. Meet the community who will teach the world the web.
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Mozilla<\/a> wants us to take the web to the next level by teaching people about [the] web! All I want to say is just follow the people who contribute to what you like. Magic happens. —Vivek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A few of yesterday’s new MOOC participants adding themselves to a global map<\/p><\/div>\n

Students today enjoy the connectedness of social networking; it is part of their very being<\/strong>. My goal is to bring my instruction into that cloud to teach the content required in ways that inspire online responsibility and ethics in this new, very public world. —Sheri<\/strong>, Middle School Educator and “Geeky Gramma”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Flore\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My goal in participating in this MOOC is to shift my paradigm from one of \u201cusing\u201d things to one of \u201ccreating\u201d things<\/strong>. The power and importance of creativity has been identified as something that we are born with, and over the years as we are \u201ceducated\u201d we seem to lose the skill<\/a>, or the motivation to create. — Doug Walters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I do web programming myself but I do not have prior experience of how to teach it to other other people. —Pekka<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

Ideally, I\u2019m hoping that the course will encourage me to think about ways I can have my own students write the web<\/strong> and I hope to be able to gather a better sense of what that means. I think that this type of creation lends itself very nicely with the English classroom and I look forward to having resources in my class to be able to experiment next year. — Joel Malley<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Ganesh\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Get involved<\/h2>\n