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*'''The project in 5 sentences''':  
*'''The project in 5 sentences''':  
**Hackasaurus helps teens hack. Through tools that makes it easy for youth to explore, remix and redesign the web.  
** Events are a major participation and community engine of Mozilla's webmaker efforts.  
**Plus local events or "hack jams" that make hacking and digital literacy easy, social and fun. <br>
** We need a place to track events worldwide.
**We're designing around the way kids learn technology, based on Mizuko Ito's concepts of hanging out, messing around and geeking out.  
** As well as allow users to create, import, sign up for, and leave feedback about events.
**Tools in development so far include [http://htmlpad.org/ HTML&nbsp;Pad] and [https://secure.toolness.com/webxray/ X-Ray Goggles], with more on the way.<br>
** This site should be dead-simple to use.
**You can get involved by test-driving Hackasarus tools right now. Or attend an upcoming hack jam, organize your own event, help develop the Hackasaurus tool kit, or share your own ideas and tools.<br>
** And be compatible with existing platforms and exportable to other Mozilla aggregators.


== How to host your own Hackasaurus event for Youth  ==
== How to host your own Hackasaurus event for Youth  ==

Revision as of 11:05, 9 March 2012

Event Mockup.png Event Platform Roadmap
Owner: Michelle Thorne, Ben Simon Updated: 2012-03-9
We're building an online event platform to track, create, import, and sign up for Mozilla webmaker events.

Mockups

Event Mockup.png

Event mockup2.png

Get involved now

  1. Attend an upcoming hack jam. Or organize a hack jam in your community. We're looking to spread to new cities beyond New York and Chicago. Get in touch through our mailing list.
  2. Start hacking with Hackasaurus tools like X-Ray Goggles.
  3. Share your own ideas, tools and resources. Through our mailing list or on twitter.
  4. Become a Hackasaurs partner. We're looking for learning centers, libraries, media centers and other partners to help design, develop and host Hackasaurus. Get in touch through our mailing list.
  5. Help develop the Hackasaurus tool set. Through our issue tracker and Github.

About this project

  • The project in 5 sentences:
    • Events are a major participation and community engine of Mozilla's webmaker efforts.
    • We need a place to track events worldwide.
    • As well as allow users to create, import, sign up for, and leave feedback about events.
    • This site should be dead-simple to use.
    • And be compatible with existing platforms and exportable to other Mozilla aggregators.

How to host your own Hackasaurus event for Youth

Resources & Tools for Teaching Webmaking

Hackasaurus Events

  • Hackasaurus "Hack Jams" are one-day and weekend events that allow kids to test and help design Hackasaurus.
  • They're run through the New Youth City Learning Network in collaboration with Mozilla.
  • Hackasaurus jams are designed to be modular and self-organizing. So that any teen, parent or organization can organize their own.
  • Event curriculum and an organizing kit are under development.

Hackasaurus Tools

These tools are still evolving and have rough edges, but their basic functionality is available now. They're also actively being used at jams.

X-Ray Goggles

"X-Ray Goggles" allow anyone to easily “see through the surface” of any Web page, and obtain an intuitive understanding of how pages are composed. They can be used anywhere on the Web one hangs out, and casual use of the tool enables one to gain a rudimentary grasp of HTML, CSS, and the Document Object Model.

Similar Tools

Other comparable tools to HTML Pad

HTML composition

Tools that many kids are already using to make web sites:

Tutorials and reference materials:

Inspiration

These don't necessarily have anything directly to do with Hackasaurus or the Web, but we've found them helpful or inspiring in other ways.

Team

Videos & Multimedia


<video class="video-js" width="480" height="270" poster="hackasaurus-still-from-dml.jpg" controls preload>
<source src="http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/webmademovies/hackasaurus_spotlight.ogv" type="video/ogg">
<img src="hackasaurus-still-from-dml.jpg" width="480" height="270" alt="Poster Image">
[There's an HTML video here—load this post with your open-video enabled browser.]
</video>

Project Tools

  • web site: hackasaurus.org
  • X-ray Goggles: See what the web is made of. Mess around & remix. 
  • HTML Pad (aka "Magic Ink"): A simple website that allows anyone to easily create a Web page, collaborate on it in real-time with friends, and share it with the rest of the world.  More background for HTMLPad can be found in Atul's blog post entitled Prelude To Barcelona.

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