Harlem Shake: The Mozilla Edition
Because it’s never to late to jump on a meme wagon: from the [Reps Training Days in Athens](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Teach/TrainingDays).
10 Photos
Photos: 1. Opera in a former swimming pool. [Kiez Oper](http://www.kiezoper.com/) im Stattbad Wedding, berlin. 2. Floraris Genérica sculpture in Buenos Aires. 3. Community screening of [The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard](http://watch.tpbafk.tv/) at c-base. 4. [Eyewriter](http://www.eyewriter.org/) at MoMa. 5. Toronto. 6. Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 7.…
Gears of the Tentacle
I’m participating in MIT’s [“Learning Creative Learning”](http://learn.media.mit.edu), a social, online exploration led by [Mitch Resnick](http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/) of [Scratch](http://scratch.mit.edu/) fame, [Philipp Schmidt](http://media.mit.edu/~ps1) from [P2PU](http://info.p2pu.org/), and others. After the obligatory admin of the first session, the class was [asked to think about the “gears of their childhood”](http://learn.media.mit.edu/syllabus.html), based…
Do you creak?
From Slate’s *Lexicon Valley*, [an episode](http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/01/lexicon_valley_on_creaky_voice_or_vocal_fry_in_young_american_women.html) about a vocal affection in young, “upwardly mobile” American women. It’s called **creaky voice**, and it describes a speaker using staccato bursts in the back of the throat. It’s raspy, deep and quite familiar. The “creaking” sound grates on…
Webmaker Mentors in 2013
# An inflection point We’re at **an inflection point with learning and making.** What was once simmering quietly in makerspaces and classrooms is now boiling. **Makers and mentors,** and all sorts of hackers and radical educators in between, are the key players. **The maker movement**,…