WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.083 --> 00:00:01.959 How can you spark students' interest in coding 2 00:00:01.959 --> 00:00:04.792 and show them that it can be fun and useful? 3 00:00:04.792 --> 00:00:06.751 I'm going to show you how with a tool called 4 00:00:06.751 --> 00:00:08.334 Mozilla X-Ray Goggles. 5 00:00:08.334 --> 00:00:10.792 So, here we are on the Mozilla X-Ray Goggles page, 6 00:00:10.792 --> 00:00:13.918 and what you can do here is you can actually see the code 7 00:00:13.918 --> 00:00:17.292 behind your favorite webpages, and you can remix them. 8 00:00:17.292 --> 00:00:18.959 It's very easy to get it set up. 9 00:00:18.959 --> 00:00:20.667 There are really only two steps. 10 00:00:20.667 --> 00:00:24.000 You basically need to drag X-Ray Goggles 11 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.083 into your Favorites tool bar. 12 00:00:27.083 --> 00:00:29.626 Once you have it up there, what you can do is you can 13 00:00:29.626 --> 00:00:33.459 go to a site that students really find interest in, 14 00:00:33.459 --> 00:00:36.000 and up here, at the top right, go ahead and click 15 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.792 "X-Ray Goggles." 16 00:00:37.792 --> 00:00:40.959 From there, you'll notice that it takes the site 17 00:00:40.959 --> 00:00:43.959 and it breaks it down into chunks, much more manageable 18 00:00:43.959 --> 00:00:46.209 for students to see what's going on. 19 00:00:46.209 --> 00:00:48.459 Now, what you can do from here is if you click, 20 00:00:48.459 --> 00:00:52.334 you can actually see the code that goes in at 21 00:00:52.334 --> 00:00:54.584 the bottom of the screen, you can see the code that goes 22 00:00:54.584 --> 00:00:56.417 into making the site. 23 00:00:56.417 --> 00:01:01.459 Students can change and swap in images, they can swap videos, 24 00:01:01.459 --> 00:01:03.834 or they can change the text of these sites. 25 00:01:03.834 --> 00:01:06.375 What I would suggest for students who are just starting 26 00:01:06.375 --> 00:01:08.918 is really click on something very small. 27 00:01:08.918 --> 00:01:12.501 So, I'm just going to click here on this one piece of text, 28 00:01:12.501 --> 00:01:14.876 "Music for everyone." 29 00:01:14.876 --> 00:01:16.751 From here, at the bottom, you'll see there isn't much there, 30 00:01:16.751 --> 00:01:19.250 but this is a great way to get students started. 31 00:01:19.250 --> 00:01:24.125 I'm going to go ahead and personalize it... "for ME." 32 00:01:24.125 --> 00:01:26.459 So, here you can see we've changed the site. 33 00:01:26.459 --> 00:01:28.459 The good news is, here, is this isn't permanent, 34 00:01:28.459 --> 00:01:30.667 it hasn't changed the Spotify site, 35 00:01:30.667 --> 00:01:33.959 it's just created a remixed site 36 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.876 that then, on the right-hand side, you can click publish, 37 00:01:36.876 --> 00:01:40.417 and you can actually publish and share this remix, 38 00:01:40.417 --> 00:01:43.834 this remix page with teachers, classmates, and friends. 39 00:01:43.834 --> 00:01:46.667 Now, this is all a lot of fun, this gets students interested 40 00:01:46.667 --> 00:01:50.375 in the site to begin with, but what about deeper learning? 41 00:01:50.375 --> 00:01:53.459 One of the things that you can do is you can go to a news site 42 00:01:53.459 --> 00:01:56.792 and you can have students, again, look at the different 43 00:01:56.792 --> 00:01:59.751 pieces of the site, go ahead and click on them, 44 00:01:59.751 --> 00:02:02.083 and they can add their commentary. 45 00:02:02.083 --> 00:02:06.167 You can spot biases, you can annotate the webpage up 46 00:02:06.167 --> 00:02:09.209 as you'd like, remix it, so you can really do some 47 00:02:09.209 --> 00:02:12.250 deeper learning here with X-Ray Goggles. 48 00:02:12.250 --> 00:02:15.375 If you go onto Mozilla's site, you'll actually see a lot of 49 00:02:15.375 --> 00:02:17.334 different resources that you can try, 50 00:02:17.334 --> 00:02:19.626 different activities to get students thinking 51 00:02:19.626 --> 00:02:21.417 critically about media. 52 00:02:21.417 --> 00:02:26.000 But it's really just a great way to spark students' interest 53 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.584 and get them learning on the go. 54 00:02:28.584 --> 00:02:30.626 # #