Why we need a Kid Hacker Network in Toronto
Mozilla is sponsoring what looks to be a really great workshop on Toronto Youth & the Web next week (sign up here). The goal is to kickstart a network of educators, volunteers and coders who can...
View ArticleAaron Swartz, JStor, and Theft
Posting from the road right now, with no time to write something thoughtful or do any proper research into this story, but my favourite take on this so far comes from the comments stream to the post...
View ArticleA ‘Hack Ed’ Day in Toronto — First Thoughts
About a month ago Mark Surman and I tossed around the idea of an event that would bring together all of the people in Toronto who, on their own, are teaching kids how to hack; they could meet each...
View ArticleDigital Humanities for Grade 6
I had a chance over the last two weeks to teach some hacking skills to a great group of kids at Clinton Junior Public school in my neighbourhood in Toronto. In four sessions, we learned some basic...
View ArticleCities that Think Like the Web?
I spent an interesting hour and a half Saturday night at a panel discussion organized by Subtle Technologies and featuring Sara Diamond, Cory Doctorow, and Mark Surman. “How to build a city that...
View ArticleHacking Scholarly Communication Mini-Sprint
The Digital Scholarship group at U of T inaugurated our new Digital Humanities Lab series today with a mini-sprint to help plan Leslie’s upcoming workshop at ELPUB 2011 in Istanbul. It was a lot of...
View ArticleInternet Literacy Toolkit Sprint
I had a very interesting three days this week at Mozilla’s Internet Literacy Toolkit sprint in Toronto. It’s the first time I’ve been to this kind of event, though there were parallels to lots of...
View ArticleHacking History Assignments done
I’ve neglected to mention here that the students in Hacking History have finished their final projects. A love of hard work went into those, so congratulations to everyone. Now it’s time for me to...
View ArticleCRIF Proposal In
We’ve submitted a really exciting proposal to U of T’s Curriculum Renewal Initiatives Fund that will help us make big strides forward on our internal development for History and its Publics. See our...
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