RE: MozillaYVR rocks at #teachtheweb at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire

[Valerie Irvine]

Hey all - I haven't met most of you face-to-face yet. We're hosting an edcamp for K12 and highered on June 23 (Sunday). Sites at UVic, SFU, and online. Would be nice to meet if you can come out. You can join the online community at http://teachdifferent.ca - registration for an edcamp site is also there. I know the BCCampus folks are going to be out pitching open textbooks. Maybe this group wants to do something? Free coffee, lunch, and morning snacks...

Valerie

-----Original Message-----
From: webmaker-canada-bc-bounces+virvine=uvi...@lists.mozilla.org [mailto:webmaker-canada-bc-bounces+virvine=uvi...@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Helen Lee
Sent: June-04-13 4:33 PM
To: Mozilla Webmaker list; webmaker-...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: MozillaYVR rocks at #teachtheweb at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire

Hello,

This is a re-post from the BC Webmakers
<http://bc.mozillacanada.org/>website. The latest blog post about Mozilla volunteers who #teachtheweb at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire.

Please feel free to share.

Thanks,

Helen

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Over the weekend (June 1 & 2), MozillaYVR <https://twitter.com/MozillaYVR>volunteers organized and rocked at #teachtheweb at this year's Vancouver Mini Maker Faire <http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/>.

Saturday morning started off with Dethe
<https://twitter.com/dethe>settling everyone down at our booth and then presenting his personal project Waterbear <http://waterbearlang.com/> to kick off the VMMF speaker series<http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/vancouver-mini-maker-faire-speaker-series/>.
Early in the morning, the Mozilla booth already had great traffic.
Jeff<https://twitter.com/canuckistani>,
Sandie, Nick, Andy & Roland were instrumental in interacting with faire participants. Asking them to come up to the iMac to take headshots, and incorporating those images as part of their Popcorn Maker<https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>projects!
Emma <https://twitter.com/sunnydeveloper> came all the way from Sooke to volunteer at VMMF along with her 2 girls Molly & Daisy. What a trooper!

There were countless presentations and awesome stuff at VMMF. It is hardly "mini" at all!

As you can see, the competition at VMMF was fierce! Thanks to our awesome Mozilla volunteers (plus cool swag), kids, families and adults were interacting & web-making away using all 3 webmaker tools<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/>.
Kids loved to "hack" their favourite websites using X-ray Goggles<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/x-ray-goggles/>and adults loved creating their own mash-up videos using Popcorn Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>.

*Sabrina shows kids some of our awesome webmaker tools!*

*Mavis shows VMMF participants webmaker tools*

Sunday was a busy day as well, we were joined by Erik<https://twitter.com/erikvold>,
Yvan, Dethe & his son Azlen (the youngest programmer I've ever met!).
Emma<https://twitter.com/sunnydeveloper>& I were busy preparing for our 1pm talk, again as part of the VMMF speaker series<http://vancouver.makerfaire.ca/vancouver-mini-maker-faire-speaker-series/>,
we did a short presentation on Mozilla Webmaker Tools<https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/>
.

After the presentation, quite a few people were interested in learning more about the tools, including a young lady named Rose, also a web developer, who was interested in getting more involved and becoming a webmaker mentor for young girls in her community! We also had a dad with his kids who approached us, who signed up to our WebmakerBC mailing list<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-canada-bc>because he wants to register his kids for local hack jams if we host any in the near future!
All in all, MozillaYVR <https://twitter.com/MozillaYVR> volunteers couldn't have done a better job at #teachtheweb. Folks ranging from kids, parents, educators and community leaders all were blown away by the power of the tools, and more importantly, by the *awesome-ness* of our volunteers!
Thanks to everyone who got involved! We couldn't have done anything without you!
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[Arthurs, Liam EDUC:EX]

Thanks for the info _I registered mid-last week.

Are there are a range of topics for the day or do we 'bring your own topic ?'

We have an interest in finding out about kids working with code !!! who and where - doe this fit the topic list
Cheers '
Liam

[Valerie Irvine]

Info on what an edcamp is is on the about page. Topics are voted-up the morning of the event, so it's very bottom-up/bring your own topic.

Your session idea sounds great! I look forward to seeing you there! You should try to encourage others to come too :-)

[Emma Irwin]

Wish I could make this! But setting aside some family time this weekend.

Will there be more of these Val? Liam - I'm in on a kids coding session in
future, maybe we can present together at some point?