You can just hit the “edit” or “remix” button in Thimble to immediately start translating, moving stuff around, adding your own images and links, etc. Sharing great activities and lesson plans. See how other educators and mentors around the world are teaching and making. By eventually making it easy to display what mentors are creating through a gallery, and surfacing these community-generated resources onto /teach, we can: These prototypes are just a small first step. The templates can also make it easy for people to create multi-page teaching guides. Clicking on a template below will open the Thimble editing window, where you edit the content on the left and see how it will look when published on the right. A complete kit then ties all these elements together into one handy link. Cheat-sheets, handy reference guides, further reading, etc. What activities, projects or hands-on making are you going to do? What are you trying to teach? What will people learn? The templates are built around three key teaching elements: To that end, we’ve created a set of new prototypes in Thimble. We want to make it easy for anyone to create their own teaching guides and lesson plans for teaching digital literacy, webmaking or any content relevant to mentors and learners. This post shares the prototypes and summarizes the new thinking.

Laura Hilliger, Julia Vallera and the mentor team have created new prototypes toward making this possible - and also updated their thinking and content strategy for hackable teaching kits on going forward. This post is about that fifth element: making it easy to create hackable teaching kits with Thimble.

Making it easy to create hackable teaching kits with Thimble.

Deepening learning with challenges + badges.

Creating a Make API so anyone can make a gallery.

Building a gallery to show all the awesome makes.

Rebooting the brand to focus on makers of all ages.

In Mark Surman’s recent post about where is headed, he lays out five key priorities for “Webmaker 2.0” Please help test and make them better by sharing feedback through #teachtheweb or by filing a handy feedback ticket here. TLDR version of this post: we have new Thimble prototypes for creating your own hackable teaching kits.

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