Hacktivating Educators
Recently there have been some gentle shifts in the Learning Team at Mozilla. The ebb and flow of changing the world through the educational hacktivism… Read More »Hacktivating Educators
user engagement
The Power of Contribution
As part of our attempts to understand what drives the auspicious event hosts who are willing to try out event formats, tools and other materials… Read More »The Power of Contribution
1-Pagers and Contributing
In the course of conceptualizing our modular Hacktivity Kits, we decided to create simple, visual 1-pagers for activities. Here are some prototypes (that are crappily… Read More »1-Pagers and Contributing
Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Mozillians have been beta testing the Kitchen Table format. After reading a lot of good write ups about individual tests (from Joe, Jess, Lainie, Peter… Read More »Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Kitchen Table Beta with Adults
On Thursday, I did my first kitchen table beta test with friends (all of them over 30 with limited web skills). I started with a… Read More »Kitchen Table Beta with Adults
the Webmaker and the Meat of my Job Description
At Mozilla we’re working on something we’re calling the Webmaker. It’s a couple of things, but at the base level it’s an underlying, consistent toolset… Read More »the Webmaker and the Meat of my Job Description
Web Literacy Micro-Models
On Friday I posted the macro-model here, the thing that encases all the Webmaker Skills. This will give you a general overview of how Mozilla… Read More »Web Literacy Micro-Models
Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
First, a contextual clarification: Facilitation is herein used in the context of learning. For me, facilitation is teaching, but there’s a difference in connontation for… Read More »Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
Response to Mozilla as teacher
Inspiration for this post is: Mozilla as teacher by Mark Surman When I read the first line of Mark’s post “We need to teach the… Read More »Response to Mozilla as teacher
Give us the Easy Ask!
Today I want to focus on the easy ask. What can you ask your users to contribute that is easy? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?… Read More »Give us the Easy Ask!