{"id":8011,"date":"2013-05-10T20:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:58","slug":"hotlist-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/hotlist-7\/","title":{"rendered":"10 amazing things on the web this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Popcorn introduction video\" href=\"http:\/\/popcorn.webmadecontent.org\/10fv\">Fantastic video introduction from #teachtheweb<\/a><\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 by Amy Burvall from our new <a title=\"Twitter Teachtheweb\" href=\"http:\/\/hivenyc.org\/teachtheweb\/\">open online course<\/a> for educators and mentors. In addition to illustrating the storytelling power of Popcorn, makes you want to move to Hawaii.<\/li>\n<li>Also check out Amy\u2019s hilarious and informative <a title=\"History For Music Lovers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile?user=historyteachers#g\/u\">History For Music Lovers<\/a> channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/GPlx4\"><!--more-->&#8220;Fighting GIFs&#8221; <\/a><\/strong>&#8212; Make awesome animated gifs using backgrounds from classic 2D fight games &#8212;\u00a0 then use them to make your own epic battle-style Popcorn videos, <a title=\"Cinnamon Challenge: Test your might\" href=\"http:\/\/popcorn.webmadecontent.org\/10hc\">like the Cinnamon Challenge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How to embed <a title=\"Embedding webrtc video chat\" href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2013\/05\/embedding-webrtc-video-chat-right-into-your-website\/\">WebRTC video chat<\/a> right into your website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Learning &quot;Hyper-Video&quot; from Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/filmicweb.org\/teaching\/hypervideo-at-merz-akademie\/\">Learning \u201chyper-video.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> Summary of a German course experimenting with open standards and technologies like HTML5 Video, Popcorn JS and Popcorn Maker. This demo of their <a title=\"GreenScreen project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sannyme.de\/greenscreen\/\">\u201cgreen screen\u201d project<\/a> does some amazing stuff &#8212; watch her reach out of the video box to change the surrounding web page.<\/li>\n<li>Interactive <a title=\"NYT Boston Marathon Interactive Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/04\/22\/sports\/boston-moment.html?_r=0\">NYT report on the Boston Marathon<\/a> &#8212; great example of HTML5 and Parallax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/six-word-mentor1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8020\" alt=\"six word mentor\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/six-word-mentor1-600x406.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Love this <a title=\"Six word #Webmaker memoir\" href=\"https:\/\/thimble.webmaker.org\/p\/lric\/\">six-word memoir<\/a> made in Thimble with an animated GIF and Soundcloud audio.<a title=\"Six word #Webmaker memoir\" href=\"https:\/\/thimble.webmaker.org\/p\/lric\/\">\u00a0<\/a> <a title=\"Make your own six word memoir\" href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/en-US\/projects\/six-word-memoir\/\">Make your own here<\/a>. Sometimes, less is more.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Link for learning Ruby\" href=\"http:\/\/mislav.uniqpath.com\/poignant-guide\/\">Great guide for learning Ruby<\/a> \u2014 written in a comic book \/ slam poetry style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcmthompson.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/about-the-poignant-guide-3.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image\" id=\"i-631\" title=\"Poignant Guide to Ruby\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/marcmthompson.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/about-the-poignant-guide-3.gif?w=455&amp;h=132\" width=\"455\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Attitude change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/some-strange-things-are-happening-to-astronauts-returning-to-earth?c=ufb1\">The Overview Effect <\/a><\/strong>&#8212; astronauts articulate a profound change in perspective upon returning to Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This cool <a title=\"US \/ Mexico border image gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2013\/05\/on-the-border\/100510\/\">image gallery<\/a> lets you explore the US \/ Mexico border<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcmthompson.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/s_b01_85427302.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image\" id=\"i-634\" title=\"Dave McGnew\/Ghetty Images Mexico Border Fence\" alt=\"Border Fence\" src=\"http:\/\/marcmthompson.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/s_b01_85427302.jpg?w=390&amp;h=250\" width=\"390\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new <a title=\"Daft Punk Video gets popcorn treatment\" href=\"http:\/\/popcorn.webmadecontent.org\/10oq\">Daft Punk video<\/a> gets the Popcorn pop-up video treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic video introduction from #teachtheweb &#8212;\u00a0 by Amy Burvall from our new open online course for educators and mentors. In addition to illustrating the storytelling power of Popcorn, makes you want to move to Hawaii. Also check out Amy\u2019s hilarious &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/hotlist-7\/\">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":[343077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011"}],"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=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}