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Hackasaurus is an open source toolkit that helps students see and begin to play with the building blocks of the web.

The XRay goggles make it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser.

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Introduce Your Dinosaur

Say Hello to your fellow learners

Tell your peers a little about your favorite Dinosaur. Don't have a favorite? Invent one! Do an image search and find a picture that represents your dinosaur. You can also upload an image.

Post the image and a description of your dinosaur in the Task Discussion. Talk with your peers, review their introductions and wave to someone by awarding them the Wave Badge.

Task Discussion

takeacoffee said:

Here you are my open source fav dino!

on Dec. 21, 2013, 7:50 p.m.
Ryan Guy said:

I am not sure I have a "favorite" dino, butraptors scared the heck out of me as a kid.

on Nov. 17, 2013, 4:33 a.m.
Wilman said:

My all time favorite dinosaur! So cool!

on Nov. 11, 2013, 11 p.m.
lister said:

Hello everyone, this my my first learning, and there is my favorite dinosaurs:

on Sept. 28, 2013, 3:50 a.m.
Ani said:

Hey guys,

I'm really into this Pterodactyl, myself. Notice how it has a dunce cap?

on Sept. 17, 2013, 3:03 p.m.
Alex said:

This is my fav:

Tyrannocannobus Rex

on Sept. 9, 2013, 11:41 p.m.
Veronica said:

I've always loved the ankylosaurus. According to Wikipedia, palentologists recently hypothesized ankylosauri may have only been about 5.6 feet tall, meaning a could totally saddle one up and ride it.

on Sept. 2, 2013, 10:51 p.m.
AmyAmy said:

Hi again

Yes You can put links between different blogs and in Wordpress you can make as many blogs as you like (within reason, I presume).

I cannot seem to get my dinosaur any smaller in these comment boxes.

on July 31, 2013, 8:28 p.m.
AmyAmy said:

Well I have downloaded Inkscape (Open Source Vector Drawing Programme) and learnt enough to draw a dinosaur!

I have opened a new blog for the Hackasaurus. I hope to put a link between the two blogs, but not quite there yet.

http://amyscoolpc2.wordpress.com/

on July 31, 2013, 12:35 p.m.
Beth said:

This is the T-Rex that Wash plays with in one of my favorite shows, Firefly.

"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

on July 8, 2013, 7:51 p.m.

Veronica said:

"Ha ha ha, mine is an evil laugh, now die!"

on Sept. 2, 2013, 10:52 p.m. in reply to Beth
Tracy said:

Pixel Dinosaur. I teach my middle school students about bits and bytes and pixels, and we make pixel art. One of their very favourite activities. Thought a pixel dinosaur would make sense here....

on July 1, 2013, 3:42 p.m.

Chaderoo2 said:

Buck teeth. haha

on May 2, 2014, 11:42 a.m. in reply to Tracy
v4lent1na said:

I'd go with a cute babysaur since she'd still got so much to learn!

on June 24, 2013, 7:51 p.m.
itskeeton said:

Going to have to go with the Tyrannosaurus just because I love irony!

on June 4, 2013, 9:23 a.m.
Emily A said:

My favorite dinosaur would be one that needs caffeine as much as I do.

on June 2, 2013, 4:36 p.m.
deepfelt said:

My favorite dinosaur is a Thesaurus.

WORD!

on May 26, 2013, 8:43 p.m.

Veronica said:

Word indeed!

on Sept. 2, 2013, 10:57 p.m. in reply to deepfelt
Cinder said:

My favorite dinosaur is the allosaurus. Why? It's awesome. I need no other reason.

on May 25, 2013, 1:41 p.m.
frankles said:

I always liked the old fantasy-art styled drawings of dinosaur fights, so I googled that, and a "devil dinosaur" came up. With a suit. And a handgun. My new favorite dinosaur? I think so.

on May 13, 2013, 11:25 a.m.
Forsure Yunome said:

This little guy is the tripedantenaesaurus. What a cutie

on May 11, 2013, 1:16 p.m.
Sebastián Magrí said:

One of my favorites is Philosoraptor.

on May 7, 2013, 8:50 p.m.