Some experiment into lowering the barrier to webmaker.org/teach kit creation
Idea: allow users to write the bulk of the content in markdown... this is then parsed into html using showdown.js.
Markdown is typically easier for people to learn than HTML mostly due to its stripped down syntax. The nice thing about this is that markdown is a HTML preprocessor, so it can be used to start introducing some of the concepts of strcutured language that may make life easier moving to HTML and other langauges beyond.
On webmaker: https://moz-wduyck.makes.org/thimble/markdownkit
Idea: minimise the amount HTML needed to create a Teaching Kit, thus reducing the time it takes to create.
There is an inherent overhead (time wise) to creating a document by writing raw HTML over using a wysiwyg style editor. For some mentors creating kits may simply be too much of a time drain using Thimble. By reducing the amount of HTML being used to structure the document / layout and moving this into the CSS we can lower the time overhead.
This method is a quicker win, no having to build in new features/functionality, etc..
On webmaker: https://moz-wduyck.makes.org/thimble/teaching-kit-template-light/