Please join us for a Thimble tweetchat Sept 23, 8pm ET

[Lainie DeCoursy]

Hello -

We’re excited about the recent re-launch of Thimble, our educational code editor for teaching and learning the Web!

To celebrate the launch and have an open discussion about tools for teaching web literacy skills, we're hosting a tweetchat this Wednesday, Sept 23rd at 8pm ET called "Remix the School Year with Thimble," and we hope you'll join us. Follow @mozteach and #thimblechat to participate!

We'll dig into topics including:
**how educators developed their own web literacy
**offline activities that teach digital skills
**types of supports needed for educators to bring the Web into their classroom

You can check out the new Thimble at http://thimble.mozilla.org, where you'll also find a few featured activities and step-by-step teaching kits.

Here are two more back-to-school themed activities that we hope some of you will remix in advance of Wednesday:

**My Six-Word Summer - http://mzl.la/1ijW9Lh
**Homework Excuse Generator - http://mzl.la/1KmbN04

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, and/or please help us spread the word. Here's a sample tweet: Join @mozteach for their Remix the School Year #tweetchat about web literacy in the classroom on 9/23/15 at 8pm ET #thimblechat

Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!

Best,
Lainie

[Pamela Divambal Subbaraya Pillai]

Hi Lainie
Can you please let me know the Mauritian time. Thanks & Regards
Pamela Subbaraya Pillai


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  1. Re:  [dev-mdc] [Learning Area] CSS Tutorial (Jeremie Patonnier)
  2.  Please join us for a Thimble tweetchat Sept 23, 8pm ET
      (Lainie DeCoursy)


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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:05:49 +0200
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Hi Ben,

2015-09-14 16:08 GMT+02:00 Ben Boyle <benjami...@gmail.com>:

> I don't think people need a text editor to get started, there are plenty
> of online courses (codeshool and the like) where you can code in their
> tool, and then there are all the codepen/jsfiddle style services where you
> can practice your own code.
>

I agree that's true when you just want to learn. But at some point you want
to code and at that moment you need a text editor. On MDN we assume that
people want to become web developers (even amateur ones). Because of that
we encourage them to quickly get into the basic tools needed to produce
actual web content: A text editor and a web browser. With that simple
requirement they can learn everything about the web and in a learning
curves it provide them with good habits from the start.


> Definitely possible to learn about text editors later on, and not have
> that as a distraction while exploring css.
>

Yes, that's true, but IMO it's pushing back a knowledge that is fundamental
to understand the whole web echo system for those who want to learn the
code. To make things clear, the audience targeted by MDN is people who want
to learn how to produce web sites and we assume some basics skills about
computers and the web (they should know how a computer is working, even
roughly, and they should already be web users). Because of that, setting up
a text editor shouldn't be a big deal. If it's the case, maybe MDN is not
the right place for them.

Best,
--
Jeremie
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Web : http://jeremie.patonnier.net
Twitter : @JeremiePat <http://twitter.com/JeremiePat>


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We?re excited about the recent re-launch of Thimble, our educational code editor for teaching and learning the Web!

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[lai...@mozillafoundation.org]

Hi Pamela -

Yes! The Thimble tweetchat is at 12am UTC / 8pm ET

I know that's late for many - we'll be blogging/archiving the conversation and will also post the questions so others can weigh in on our Discourse forum here: https://discourse.webmaker.org/t/please-join-us-for-a-thimble-tweetchat-sept-23-8pm-et/80/1

Best,
Lainie

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> Hi Lainie
> Can you please let me know the Mauritian time. Thanks & Regards
> Pamela Subbaraya Pillai
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