Open Data Day – Hackathon (#yyj)

International Open Data Day is Saturday February 23rd! Victoria’s event will be held at Victoria City Hall Antechamber Room. Registration for volunteers, serious hackers, and younger Webmakers can all be … Continue Reading →

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Mozilla Popcorn Hackjam (#mozparty in review and looking ahead)

A room full of smart, cool kids paired with brilliant volunteers and web-changing technology = Victoria’s Popcorn Hackjam  (Make sure you checkout the link above to see the cool Popcorn … Continue Reading →

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Summer

(in which I ramble on about all the things I don’t really have time to blog about, but should!) After returning from vacation, so much has happened.   We started planning … Continue Reading →

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Misery Loves Popcorn

Last 3 days of my vacation and I’ve caught a nasty summer cold – ugh!  But also oh well, at least I’m home and can spend some time taking care … Continue Reading →

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Finding the words – fewer of them

I still find the general response to be something like: ‘huh” , to my most thoughtful, energetic, passionate description of the work we’re doing with Mozilla and creating hackjams for … Continue Reading →

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Victoria Kids Hack Jam! It happened, it was awesome…we learned some things too

So after two months of preparation we finally reached June 23rd: the first day of Mozilla Summer of Code , and our participating event: Victoria Kids Hackjam – Hackasaurus! 30 … Continue Reading →

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Serious Cat meet Sirius Black

Most of my ‘stolen-time’ (I don’t think I actually have any identifiable ‘free time’) recently has been following & participating in the swell of Education Technology, Web Literacy and everything … Continue Reading →

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Technology as a career choice

Someone asked me this week if I wanted my daughter to become a software developer/programmer. It was a great question given all I’ve been doing with Hackasaurus and the Canada.com … Continue Reading →

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A busy week!

Well, it’s been a fairly interesting week – both professionally and in my direction with teaching kids programming through Hackasuarus. I am really astounded at the speed of response and … Continue Reading →

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