Chloe Varelidi's blog

I just made an owl (!) with @hexraystudios =) Took me less than...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:18:57 -0500

I just made an owl (!) with @hexraystudios =) Took me less than an hour, you should try it out => http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/ #illustrationtools

Short awesome clip on why kids enjoy playing Minecraft so much;...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:18:15 -0500

Short awesome clip on why kids enjoy playing Minecraft so much; “It’s basically a newer, less expensive LEGO set.” via @kotaku

5 Games With A Hackable Alter Ego

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:34:00 -0500

“Hackable Games” is kind of a new (made-up) term that we have been using here at Mozilla...

Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics of Hackable Games

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:19:00 -0500

This post is the first out of a series I am hoping to do in the first quarter of 2013 about hackable...

I have been making some crafty stop motion animation videos with...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:56:00 -0500

I have been making some crafty stop motion animation videos with my phone, here is one for hackable games.

2012: my favorite games

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:56:00 -0500

Yup I know - it is 2013 already. But; a) 2012’s end was just insanely busy with launching Game...

lovely #playmakers video featuring @mediamolecule -ers talking...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:54:01 -0500

lovely #playmakers video featuring @mediamolecule -ers talking about empowering gamers to be makers of games #mozgames

Mozilla Festival; Hackable Games Superblast

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:32:00 -0500

So Boom! Mozilla Festival (Mozfest) just happened. And Hackable Games from being a seed of a...

So happy to share our official video from Athens Plaython; a...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:39:00 -0500

So happy to share our official video from Athens Plaython; a street games festival that transforms the city into a giant playground and is run by a vibrant community of volunteers. The Athens Plaython festival launched in September 2012 with a weekend full of games and workshops for all ages. With more than 1500 people attending we can’t wait for next year =)

Game On Competition; Build the next generation of web-based games

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:44:00 -0400

We are thrilled to announce today at Mozilla that we are launching Game On; a competition calling...

Don't just play videogames: why you should hack them to make your own

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:04:00 -0400

A few months back Mark Surman wrote a blog post about the potential of HTML5 & the browser as...

Robots! Localization! Future Libraries Mozparty in Greece!

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:43:00 -0400

One of the (endless, really) reasons I love my job at Mozilla is that it is driven by a global...

We are all made of stars; designing constellations for mozbadges

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:49:00 -0400

A few weeks ago we talked about Alchemy as a metaphor for designing the mozbadges assessment system....

Are you looking to run your own Webmaker event with your...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:39:00 -0400

Are you looking to run your own Webmaker event with your students? Great! We have been thinking of fun & interactive ways here at Mozilla to help you well… choose your own curriculum adventure. Me and Laura Hilliger have been busy designing a modular curriculum kit that moves away from the painfully long pdf format, in order to guide anyone through the basics of creating an interest-driven Webmaker curriculum.

The video above is the first take of the section in our kit that helps you “draw the big picture”. We imagine the video also existing as a hackable one-pager. Up next is a section that is all about plug n’ play, mix n’ match activities to choose from when running your event.

Let us know what you think and what are YOU looking to get out of a curriculum kit.

Animation and script by yours truly, Music by The Paloseco Brazz Orchestra under a CC BY-NC 3.0 license.

Update: here is a sketch of how we envision our modular curriculum kit

Ich bin ein (Pfannkuchen) Berliner and other (Open Web) Thimble tales

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:29:00 -0400

Last week I flew to Berlin to work with the Peer to Peer University (P2PU) folks out of their pop-up...

The Alchemy of a Badge

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:11:00 -0400

We have been rolling out a gazillion things in the past month here at Mozilla, with the Summer Code...

One.More.Time. Playtesting the Mozilla Webmaker Projects

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:19:00 -0400

Playtesting is a word we often use in game design to explain the process of playing your game with...

I am a ____________ Webmaker, and other badges for the Summer Code Party

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:37:00 -0400

After last week’s sneak peek into the Web Arcade Projects ,that we have been busy...

Enter "The Web Arcade"; teaching basic webmaking skills to teens

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:35:00 -0400

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about why learning on the web should look like the web. In the...

Assessment and the Web; an illustration

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:53:00 -0400

For the past months I have been researching innovative approaches to “assessment” on the...