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Hackasaurus is an open source toolkit that lets people see and play with the building blocks of the Web. Hackasaurus Jams help people explore and learn Web Literacy skills by taking apart and making things on the Web. These events help participants see the Web as a hand-made public asset for creativity.
In this challenge, you'll learn how to use the Hackasaurus tools, dabble with the basics of HTML and CSS, and meet new people. Then, you'll design and implement your own unique Hackasaurus Jam to share webmaking skills with others.
Tell your peers a little about yourself.
Post your reflections in the Task Discussion below. Talk with your peers, review their introductions and wave to someone by awarding them the Wave badge.
Alternatively, you can post your work for this challenge on your blog and link to it in the Task Discussion.
Hi i'm Juan Pablo at from Colombia
I want to hold an event because it is a great opportunity to meet and learn from new people passionate about the web and the collective knowledge.
For now I want to learn a lot from you and you learn from me as possible, regardless of age and open to anyone who wants to learn and be part of our team.
I want to run an event because I believe a lot of people could have fun fooling around with something that's a huge part of their daily lives (the internet).
The people who will be joining me will probably be my age, also sort of nerdy, and interested in coding.
Would love for my fellow Graphic Design majors to understand the field in which many of their designs will end up: the internet!
Hello,
I am Csaba from hungary, at the moment i dont want to do a real event, just wish to study hackasaurus jum, but who knows perhaps in the future i will use this, i hope it is ok.
Hi. I'm Rebecca. I'm a PhD student at Indiana University in the Learning Sciences, and am planning a Hackjam for June 7. I am looking forward to discussing this and making it a successful event.
This event will take place in the local library. Participants will be anywhere from grade 5-12. This event will also be an introduction to the library's comic book day the week after the Hackjam. While we cannot interview the participants, we know that a majority of studnets will come from the middle school. We also want to make sure that what we teach aligns to the Common Core, as one of our goals is to have teacher buy in as well.
We are very excited about this event.
Hey all the angles over here this is eshu
ESHU is an idea, a mind state and a feeling.. ESHU comes in manyshapes and forms.. ESHU is not good or bad.. ESHU let's you choose which path you want to endeavor.. ESHU loves to play tricks and messwith people.. ESHU enjoys confusion.. ESHU is unpredictable, sly andslick.. ESHU understands the darkness in the world, and in everybody's heart..
Hi,
This is Manikanta Racharla. I live in the beautiful city of Hyderabad in India. Recently me and my friends started an NGO with a motto to help the poor in our country..hope Hackasaurus will become a better platform to communicate with the people around the world and to contribute my skills:p
Hola!!!
Soy Silvia, en SL Luz. Profesora de Historia y Geografía. También maestra del Kinder y en la Formación Doc docente doy los Talleres de la Práctica.
Estoy en el metaverso aprendiendo, creo que tiene mucho futuro la enseñanza en estos entonos.
Me encanta la producción de vidos y hacer material didáctico. Más me gusta la parte del contenido, que la producción. Pero quiero aprender Machinima.
Tengo 3 hijos y un marido. Mi avatar se llama Luz Silvia (soy silvia brugnoni)
Por no entender el idioma y tener que usar el google translate estoy un poco atrasada.
Un abrazo.
Hablo, escribo y entiendo el italiano aparte del español.
Luz Silvia
Hi Folks!! I'm Jonatas, from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil!
I'm excited to start this challenge, because I want to show the people that there are many ways to improve our "life job".
First of all, i intend to understand the Hackasaurus machine and then i'll put my knowledge in practice.
Hi everyone!
My name is Leah MacVie and I'm so excited to start this challenge!
I'm an instructional designer at a medium-sizes college. Oftentimes I get pulled into helping out with different conferences and events. I am always looking for a new format of learning- and I think a hackjam might be a great fit. Some of these events involve K-12 teachers who may never have been exposed to the hackjam concept. I think it would be great to expose them through example. --- That's my idea anyway. :)
I think including a Hackjam in the conference events wioll be a great way to pull teachers in and teach them how to use a tool to enhance their classroom that they would not know otherwise.
Hi,
My name is Emma and I live on the beautiful West Coast in a small town called Sooke BC, about 45 minutes outside of Victoria BC where I work. as a Senior Software Engineer at a university.
I was first inspired to get involved with Hackasaurus after watching the TedX Kids video on webmaking/hackasaurus. I grew up with slow modems, spell checks that took half an hour (and almost made me late class!) and I completely 'got' what Mark Surman was saying because I am also a mom to 3 technology consumers. As a developer myself I know how important(and fun!) it is to take technology apart and influence it! I did not see anything like this happening in my community.
So far I've worked a bit with kids in my daughter's school (ages 8, 9, 10), which has just been almost too easy! Kids love it, we made the school website into Hogwarts website). Because I live in a small town, I know teachers and parents in most of the schools and so I now have 2 more schools intersted. I figure I am also working with adults 20-65 (parents &teachers) trying to explain all of this..sometimes that's where I get the most stuck.
My main focus is a Victoria (yyj) Hack-Jam that I am organizing , now with the help of a colleague who works in Education Technology (at the same university). Ages will probably range from 8-?
We want to create a regular series fo HackJams, including (once we're ready) a girls hack-jam.
Hi,
my name is Vita and my current location is Northen Italy. To be honest I am not planning to organize an event, however my idea was to write a blog about Hackasaurus, hope it is ok with the organizers of this challenge.
Hello! I'm Joe. I'm based in the South East of England and looking at running a fairly small event to start off with. I'm interested in how Hackjams could be used to start to build a community of young webmakers, or inspire them to create small communities of thier own.
I don't really have a firm idea of participants yet. I have been in contact with two schools, and know from that that they would likely be about 12-15 years old. I would like to run a short focus-group-type-thing with some of the people who might be interested in the event, to see exactly what they would like to get out of it.
My biggest concern is my own lack of experience. I teach people to kayak one-to-one, but this would be my first time teaching a group of people, and I don't really know how that works.
Mark here. My colleagues and I are running a Hackjam focused at 10 - 14 year olds, although we may get more. We're well organized in terms of Goggles / Hackasaurus basics. But I'm worried about 'what happens if we get stuck' -- what if it breaks or we need more tech knowledge than we have. I'm hoping this challenge will help with that.
Hi! My name is Jess. I am based in Brooklyn,NYC and am running an event for about 20-30 teenagers at a youth organization called Mouse. I wanted to help these youth so that they can take hacking into their schools. Mouse is an awesome organization that mobilizing youth to take leadership in I.T. support in their public schools. Most of the youth will be around 15 years old, but I suspect we will get a few who are +/- 2 years These particular teens are kind of self proclaimed geeks, but they have different passions- some are really into garage robotics, others have dabbled in audio/ visual type stuff, so it's really a good mix. Mouse is a great org and does many things really well but currently there is no formalized training to teach webmaking. I want to introduce these youth to the basics of HTML and CSS and do that by allowing them to make something. One teen who I talked to, Omar, he was interested in attending the event because he wants to be a "hacker" and he is interested in pursuing a career in computer science.
