{"id":2128,"date":"2013-10-10T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T21:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nwp.org\/educatorinnovator\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:23:08","slug":"get-ready-to-makehackplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/get-ready-to-makehackplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to Make\/Hack\/Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clmooc.educatorinnovator.org\/2014\/\">Making Learning Connected MOOC (clmooc)<\/a>\u00a0that happened this summer was a great experience for me and for many others. I&#8217;m remembering it now during Connected Learning Month (#ce13) because being connected as a learner and maker is not just something that just happens during one month, but is something that happens year round, and #clmooc was a great experience of connection.<\/p>\n<p>This past summer, I came into #clmooc as an avid maker. My love of digital tools has led me to many types of digital making. Living in an extremely rural place, &#8216;making&#8217; is a necessity: we have built our own house, keep a large garden, can jams and vegetables, make our own bread, and make many other things because it is easier and more satisfying than buying them. And of course, I am a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the satisfaction of making though, #clmooc taught me many things as a connected educator. First and foremost, it reinforced for me the value of teachers as makers. Cultivating a maker spirit in education is a part of connected learning \u2013 developing a production-centered learning environment has many benefits for teachers and learners. And there is no better way to embrace this spirit than to be a maker yourself.\u00a0I saw that while everyone doesn\u2019t have the opportunity to attend a maker faire, everyone can participate in the maker culture through online communities like #clmooc.<\/p>\n<p>The success of #clmooc inspired me to adapt the content for a mini-course I am creating as a part of the HP Catalyst Academy. Starting on Nov. 4, I\u2019ll be facilitating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalyst-academy.org\/course\/make-hack-play\/\">Make\/Hack\/Play Together<\/a>. This will be a short 3-week introduction to the maker movement for educators. Participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of real-world and digital projects to make. Whether you are looking for a way to extend your Connected Educator Month experience, an opportunity to dive into the maker movement in education, or an opportunity to re-engage the maker you found during #clmooc, this mini-course welcomes you.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Making Learning Connected MOOC (clmooc)\u00a0that happened this summer was a great experience for me and for many others. I&#8217;m remembering it now during Connected Learning Month (#ce13) because being connected as a learner and maker is not just something that just happens during one month, but is something that happens year round, and #clmooc was [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[46,47,48,108,124,584,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}