Webmaker
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Mozilla Webmaker | |
| Owner: Mozilla Foundation | Updated: 2013-11-5 | |
| Know more, do more and do better through the open web. | ||
About Webmaker
Mozilla’s Webmaker is teaching tools in the hands of a growing community dedicated to teaching digital skills and web literacy.
Our mission is to help people know more, do more and do better through the open web - a web that is knowable, interoperable and everyone’s.
At Webmaker we do this by building great teaching tools, inspiring and supporting communities of mentors and makers, always learning from and with our community and shaping the environments in which the open web is made possible.
By 2016 Webmaker's goal is to be a global brand that models web literacy empowerment through community created teaching tools that puts connected learning at the heart of a global movement to teach the web.
Webmaker will be the teaching tools, web and community infrastructure from which 100K mentors teach web literacy. They in turn will inspire and support a million makers worldwide by the end of 2016.
1st Draft of thoughts for 2016 >Webmaker will do this by:
- Supporting teachers as our primary user group. Teachers are people interested in sharing knowledge with others either about web/digital literacy or by using web/digital tools for teaching. This can include formal school teachers, parents, artists, educators in informal settings, peers, extended school time educators, librarians, community activits (anyone)
- Build detailed and public facing engagement strategy that allows people a path from "joining" to "contributing" that is supported and validated through open badges
- White paper articulating the theory and practice of why Webmaker.
- Expansion and iteration on Webmaker Training program (f2f, MOOC, localized)
- Building rigorous, modular Webmaker Training programmes to empower communities to learn about (users) and participate in (contributors) Webmaking activities such as contributing makes (content), Teaching Kits (curriculum), culturally relevant materials (localization), p2p marketing (advocacy), running events and training and shaping and contributing to the Webmaker tools.
- Identify and develop partnerships and key community relationships that can provide channels and advocacy to prospective mentors.
- Improve discoverability of teaching tools and content on webmaker.org and through Make API.
- Focus on co-developing with key partners and communities, rigourous curriculum based on the web literacy standards.
- Our own and our partners contributions to learning pathways that both illustrate and expand on the web literacy stadard and that have badges associated with them.
- Building locally empowered but globally connected and supported networks of communities that share aligned missions to build laboratory environments in which to both uplevel contributions to and test/improve our offerings. Best exemplified by our Hive Learning Network project and our alies in the ReMo Program.
- Publish How-To and strategy documentation for Hive
- Launch Maker Party 2.0
- Continue to grow social and community engagement tools at webmaker.org including Make API.
- Achieve operational excellence for existing Webmaker tools.
- Integrate Appmaker into Webmaker tools suite.
- L10N
Webmaker offers the following value to our users:
- Offering opportunity to join and/or form locally empowered but globally linked communities/networks of likeminded people while both using and producing resources to help them in their teaching endeavors.
- Chance to raise profile of teachers and expand their audience/students
- Broader access to aligned global communities
- Webmaker Tools
- teach real, transferable skills
- easy + free to use
- encourage you to make fun/interesting things with them
- have a community of practice
- We offer a set of curriculum for people who want to use our tools + the rest of the web to teach web skills
- We help people form a community via support for in-person events, as well as (to be developed) social tools
Contributors
Webmaker is made possible by a global community. Within the community we have two functional groups:
- The Product Group is responsible for product management, engineering, design and editorial on webmaker.org and Webmaker tools.
- roadmap for webmaker.org/teach.
- The Mentor group is a network of people dedicated to the teaching and learning of web and digital literacies and community support.
Join us
The Webmaker community welcomes everyone from around the world that shares our goals.
Get started by joining our:
- Webmaker mailing list - a vibrant email discussion of all things Webmaker.
- Community Call - a weekly call for everyone in the Webmaker community to get together and share what is happening around the world in Webmaker this week.
If you are interested in specifically contributing to webmaker.org or the Webmaker tools then check into:
- Cross Team Product Call - a weekly call for everyone in the Webmaker community but particularly those that have feature ideas for the Webmaker tools and webmaker.org.
- Product weekly standup - a weekly call for everyone in the Webmaker community but particularly those contributing to the code and UX of webmaker.org and Webmaker tools.
And for those of you ready to get teaching the web then everything you need to get started can be found at: