Makes that are “hacks” or remixes that repurpose text, media or physical objects for a new purpose
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Chad Sansing took Sara Green’s idea for revamping the famed London Tube Map for a map of learning, and created a remixable Webmaker Thimble webpage. Thanks to Chad, anyone can now make their own Tube Map, which is a handy way to think about learning communities and networks and nodes, and the way ideas can connect with each other, through a very visual lens.
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Remixing comics forces you to play around with narrative. The best way to get started is to read all of the comics strips in the paper. Sunday is best because of the color and of the added space that comic artists get. After reading each comic strip, search for connections among stories or panels that might go together. Tell a new story. Make a political statement. Cut out panels and remix them onto paper with tape or glue. There will be some narrative gaps. That’s OK. Your audience is smart and nimble, and can easily jump over those gaps.
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When we talk about making meaning, one way to think about it is to have over media and information. For many, particularly young people, online experiences often mean passive consumption. Mozilla’s Webmaker tool — Hackasuarus XRay Goggles — allows user to “hack and remix” websites and recreate the message being distributed. Don’t like what you see? Change it. Make it better. The Webmaker tool creates an “overlay” of the hacked site (the original site does not get affected) and XRay Goggles offers the option to publish the hack to the Web, which can then be remixed by others. If you’ve… Read more »
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Inspired by the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder (who has been credited as the originator of the “mobile” as a type of kinetic sculpture) my two boys and I embraced the second #toyhack make-cycle as a team. We worked on our Calder-inspired sculpture project together from beginning to end. First, I turned to the internet to introduce them to Alexander Calder and show them all kinds of examples of Calder’s work, focusing particularly on his mobiles. From there we were all charged up and jumped right into our own creative collaboration. We scoured their bedroom for old discarded toy… Read more »