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Greg McVerry

@amirad @thornet @epilepticrabbit The About Me page is also a good scaffold. The movie poster make is a good step-up scaffold, https://teach.mozilla.o

@amirad @thornet @epilepticrabbit The About Me page is also a good scaffold. The movie poster make is a good step-up scaffold, https://teach.mozilla.org/clubs/curriculum/ Maybe we add all of these to privacy. I could see "make a meme" some kind of advocacy or awareness meme, about me page: deciding to shape your own identity, movie poster- tell the story of

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@amirad @thornet @epilepticrabbit reading over Basics I again https://teach.mozilla.org/clubs/curriculum/ we should have included make-a-meme. Needs m

@amirad @thornet @epilepticrabbit reading over Basics I again https://teach.mozilla.org/clubs/curriculum/ we should have included make-a-meme. Needs more scaffolding between writing the web and participating on the web. I found using the make-a-meme remix to be a good way to teach basic CSS and HTML. It fits nicely after Hacking the News. There are also easy

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As Common Core testing enters second week, controversy still abounds - WRGB CBS6 - Top Stories http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stori

As Common Core testing enters second week, controversy still abounds - WRGB CBS6 - Top Stories http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/as-common-core-testing-enters-second-week-controversy-still-abounds-24810.shtml If you can generate valid and reliable scores by sampling methods Why are we wasting billions testing every child.

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@mtechman Melissa and I were discussing #AERA15 and how awesome it is when conferences have wifi. The cost of providing wifi is astronomical but essen

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@mtechman Melissa and I were discussing #AERA15 and how awesome it is when conferences have wifi. The cost of providing wifi is astronomical but essential. She brought up the idea of the edcamp unconference model. That got me thinking how could we do a #literacies unconference. If there were enough folks interested I would be more than happy to help organize

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I forgot so many awesome people when thinking of #teachtheweb web heroes in http://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2015/inaugural-open-fluency-calls

I forgot so many awesome people when thinking of #teachtheweb web heroes in http://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2015/inaugural-open-fluency-calls-for-teachtheweb Audrewy Watter, Dean Shareski, Anil Dash, Brianna Wu, Steven Anderson, Doug Belshaw, Kathy Schrock, Lary Lessig, Cory Doctrow, Gina Tripani,The list is endless. Who are your web heros?

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This is the first slider I ever made. Doesn't work with mobile. Thinking I need to just install a plug-in rather than figure it out. I really want to

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This is the first slider I ever made. Doesn't work with mobile. Thinking I need to just install a plug-in rather than figure it out. I really want to figure it out. It probably involves jquery. Gonna install. Update: Spent a good chunk of time learning about Responsive design yesterday. Was able to fix the image resizing. Centering the text span for both des

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