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== Hackasaurus at Tecnoestiu @CitiLab == | == Hackasaurus at Tecnoestiu @CitiLab == | ||
Today we had a hack jam session at [http://www.citilab.eu/ Citilab]'s [http://tecnoestiu.projectescitilab.eu/ Tecnoestiu project], with 16 kids from a summer camp at [http://marianao.net/ Fundació Marianao], from 10 to 12 years. They worked in pairs changing images and texts of several webpages using the [http://hackasaurus.org/ Hackasaurus] [http://hackasaurus.org/goggles/ X-Ray Googles]. | Today we had a hack jam session at [http://www.citilab.eu/ Citilab]'s [http://tecnoestiu.projectescitilab.eu/ Tecnoestiu project], with 16 kids from a summer camp at [http://marianao.net/ Fundació Marianao], from 10 to 12 years old. They worked in pairs changing images and texts of several webpages using the [http://hackasaurus.org/ Hackasaurus] [http://hackasaurus.org/goggles/ X-Ray Googles]. | ||
We started by seeing first an analogy with "hacking" a paper magazine (pasting some images in a kind of collage) and | We started by seeing first an analogy with "hacking" a paper magazine (pasting some images in a kind of collage) and elicited about what's a hacker, what do they do and how do they look like (and this way also testing the kids [http://www.google.com/search?q=hacker&hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=K95&channel=fs&biw=1760&bih=808&prmd=ivnslb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=AWAgTrztIMyUOu-7jaUD&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CB0Q_AUoAQ ability with Google Images] and identifying img URLs). Then we went straight to a live demo of Grover as a Google logo and some other minor but funny changes on the popular search engine. | ||
After that, they just catch the idea and started to look for webpages to hack and images to use. Some ended up "hacking" Wikipedia articles, in a sort of curious form of (unharmful) vandalism. Some others just showed their passion for Barça. Another group tried the Social Security webpage but it had too many rollover imgs as buttons, so they moved to a popular online bank. Some of them loved to deal with details, while some others just hacked a couple of things and started to play online games... | |||
At the end some of they presented their hacks in front of a chroma key, and surprisingly enough, before leaving, the more active ones at the session were asking if they can do that from home, how to share and make those changes permanent and visible for other people... | |||
We'll have videos and pics soon, but here's a short gallery of some of the best hacks: | We'll have videos and pics soon, but here's a short gallery of some of the best hacks: | ||