Mozilla Festival 2012

Participants will join in a facilitated and participatory discussion designed to make explicit the activation of a teaching, learning and engagement zone within Mozfest. The discussion will involve project shout-outs, brainstorming and the presentation of interest-based projects and ideas that participants would like to prototype, design and build during the festival. Participants will quickly present [...]

Come join us on the 2nd floor in Room 209! Are you passionate about openness (open kitten photos, open textbooks, open data, open anything!) — but don’t quite know how to explain it to your mom? Or maybe you just want to learn more about how “open” can help you. Come join a community of [...]

We are going to discuss some of the big questions in the governance of open projects pertaining to: authority, decision making, sustainability, transparency, ownership etc…. We are interested in as many voices as possible, so if you have a story or a challenge, please come along. This is NOT a panel discussion, but a cafe [...]

This session is designed to activate anyone invested in teaching others to make things! The goal will be to catalyze the educator community at MozFest and collectively develop new approaches to teaching and learning on the web. Together we’ll envision prototypes, frameworks, and projects to fuel interest-based learning activities on the web. We’ll explore intersections [...]

Thanks to the Web, the range of citizen science projects has exploded in recent years, ranging from computing climate models to folding proteins to sensing earthquakes. These projects have traditionally been developed by individual research groups in narrow software silos. But the rise of browser-based apps and the growing power of mobile devices enables new [...]

Webmakers – what do you wish you had experienced and learned when you were in elementary, middle and high school? What advice would you give teachers to prepare youth to be proficient in the digital literacies of today and into the future? Come join a fireside chat with educators from the National Writing Project to [...]

Tate Collective is a group of young creatives who work with a broad range of contemporary artists (multi-disciplinary) to create programme, targeted towards 15-25 year olds, for Tate Modern and Tate Britain. This session will look at their practice of working with artists as a means of responding to the art/artists of Tate and attracting [...]

This session will aim to inspire the Mozilla community to think beyond the internet space and use events like the Mozilla Festival or Summer Code Party to inspire creative methodology to bring people, sponsors, private sector, public sector, kids and adults from different, interconnected locations together on a route to explore what they have in [...]

You ran an awesome how-to coding event and the participants walked away with some new webmaker skills. Now what? How do we support the blossoming programmers after the event is over? Without the on-going support of a mentor or peers, new skills can be forgotten. Mentors encourage and support learners in their interests, help them [...]

Pulling inspiration from ideas and designs that come out of the design session, the Prototyping Jam will bring designers, educators and developers together to hack on prototypes and develop learning pathways. People with ideas and designs will bring together their design, copy, metadata and code into fully functional prototypes that help learners gain valuable web [...]

We will learn how to make a free, remixable, online textbook for WebCraft. Using existing free and open educational resources, we will use a new semantic web editor to convert and combine materials into a single coherent book. We will use materials from Mozilla, P2PU, Saylor.org, Connexions, Open University’s Lab Spaces, and other web sources [...]

We’re exploring how to foster this community of knowledge makers using online tools. We see these communities functioning to grow an emerging field of practice in education (ie. digital literacy and connected learning), and in this session, we’ll gather experiences from fellow educators and knowledge makers, as well as community managers, developers, and designers, to [...]

In this session, we invite participants to discuss and design ways to expand the participation of hackerspaces to children and their families. Hackerspaces and makerspaces have enabled people with common interests to create, connect, and collaborate on projects in shared, community-operated spaces. However, these hackerspaces are often the domains of adults and already enthusiastic inventors [...]

Participants in this session will have the opportunity to create new learning activities or hack pre-existing ones. We’ll use pre-existing modular activities or “hacktivities” as a jumping off point to brainstorm, design and develop activities that are based on participants’ interests. We’ll use Mozilla’s tools to help introduce, instruct or apply web skills. Participants can [...]

This summer, we had more than 685 events in 80+ countries through the Summer Code Party. So, how can we have more next time? And how can we make the hosts that sign up feel more supported and better prepared, and help the events that happen be even higher quality? Come and help us produce [...]

Kuda provides an easy to use interface to build powerful interactive 3D (WebGL) content. This open source framework was designed to empower a new generation to develop the 3D web. By learning how to use Kuda participants will be able to create more engaging websites in the future and be on the forefront of the [...]

Join The MacArthur Foundation’s Connie Yowell and NESTA’s Tom Kenyon to discuss how these innovative grant makers have funded and developed 21st century learning agendas that are leading the way on how we think about teaching and learning in a digital age. Connie and Tom will discuss MacArthur’s Connected Learning principles and NESTA’s Digital Making [...]

For individuals and organizations interested in growing a Hive Learning Network in their city. Discuss led by Hive NYC and Hive Chicago.