Today we officially kicked off **[#teachtheweb](http://hivenyc.org/teachtheweb/), a massive open online course (“MOOC”) dedicated to helping people teach the web.** It’s convening nearly **3,000 participants** to share their practice, teaching materials and to learn and hack on the way. A huge shout-out goes to [Laura Hilliger](http://www.zythepsary.com/),…
This week the Webmaker Mentor team is meeting in Brooklyn, NYC to plot together. Too often at team meetings there’s a lot of yakking and not much hacking. So we decided to run the week like scrum and focus all our tasks as clear “makes”,…
Lots of great things brewing at the moment. I’d like to take a moment to tie them together and share the latest thinking from the [Webmaker Mentor team and community.](https://webmaker.org/en-US/teach/) An overview: * Growing a **[leadership circle of Webmaker Super Mentors](https://sendto.mozilla.org/page/s/be-a-mozilla-super-mentor)** * Running an **[online…
# #teachtheweb We’d like to try an experiment in a distributed “marketplace” for webmaking. The idea is simple: **use the hashtag #teachtheweb to ask for and offer help.** # Asking for Help It works like this: Say you’d like to organize a webmaking in your…
# 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**,…