Let’s have a makerparty!
Mozilla Hive x Vancouver Public Library
Vancouver, Canada
2014
Role:
Curator
Educator
Mozilla Hive x Vancouver Public Library
Vancouver, Canada
2014
Role:
Curator
Educator
This was a free day of digital making and learning, where experimental web literacy pedagogies were tested out with the collaboration of a diverse team of local makers, teachers, librarians and DIY enthusiasts in collaboration with the Vancouver Maker Education Community and the Maker Party campaign of Mozilla's Hive Learning Network.
In this hopeful time of maker education launches, we hosted over 200 participants from local communities at the Vancouver Public Library for 6 hours of creative hands-on activities which were accessible to a variety of publics. The featured engagements all combined digital and material practices to teach basic web skills to children and adults alike.
Community feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Activities included building singing Raspberry Pi fruit, making pencils out of sawdust, projecting archival dresses, learning about open source software, and coding robot book mazes. Excerpt: “On the day of the event, we set up the learning stations and craft stations with local community partners, using lots of colour, glitter and streamers, and hoping for a party. We had gotten plenty of RSVP’s, but for a free event on a Sunday, we also worried no one would come. So we were amazed to see participants lining up outside as we opened up the doors.”
Selected press:
A Hive Learning Community Launches in Vancouver
Teaching the web: The lasting impact of Mozilla’s Maker Party campaign
In this hopeful time of maker education launches, we hosted over 200 participants from local communities at the Vancouver Public Library for 6 hours of creative hands-on activities which were accessible to a variety of publics. The featured engagements all combined digital and material practices to teach basic web skills to children and adults alike.
Community feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Activities included building singing Raspberry Pi fruit, making pencils out of sawdust, projecting archival dresses, learning about open source software, and coding robot book mazes. Excerpt: “On the day of the event, we set up the learning stations and craft stations with local community partners, using lots of colour, glitter and streamers, and hoping for a party. We had gotten plenty of RSVP’s, but for a free event on a Sunday, we also worried no one would come. So we were amazed to see participants lining up outside as we opened up the doors.”
Selected press:
A Hive Learning Community Launches in Vancouver
Teaching the web: The lasting impact of Mozilla’s Maker Party campaign
