Festival2012/Submit/grassroots webmaker
Grassroots Webmaker - Bringing Digital Literacy Into Your Community
- Title of session: Grassroots Webmaker - Bringing Digital Literacy Into Your Community.
- Name and affiliation:: Emma Irwin, Royal Roads University, Mozilla Reps
- Session format: Fireside Chat
What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
Teachers, web developers, filmmakers, journalists,students, parents: anyone with passion for the cause of Digital Literacy will have opportunity to brainstorm, share experiences, and begin planning Grassroots initiatives in their own communities. Discussion could include (and not limited to) , starting an after-school Webmaker Club, running a Hackjam, working with libraries, participation in technical 'Cons' - endless actually. Discussions should include the evolution a Webmaker Community (easily growing and sharing resources/ growing ideas) We'll sample and hack with Popcorn, Hackasaurus and Thimble.
How do you see that working?
- Brainstorming and speaking from experience: identifying key audiences in our local communities (ie: youth, parents, educators, media)
- Discussion : 'Finding the Words' Communicating the value and fun of 'making' as a call to action to our key audiences.
- Discussion: Contribution and you! Leading from your strengths and developing local partnerships (Make a Contribution Map)
- Discussion & planning : Invent/Remix a WebMaker event (After School Clubs, Hackjams etc)
- Discussion : How can we easily grow and share resources/ideas as a community on the web?
- Teaching the teachers: Sampling of Webmaker tools (Xray Goggles, Thimble, Popcorn).
How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?
5 – Discussion, sharing, sampling Webmaker tools as a single group.
15 – just like 5 but in small teams of 'mixed strengths' (ie: developers/educators/students), and then as a group.
50 – just like 15 (but more diverse small teams).
How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
Ideas already exist so once we're done sampling Webmaker tools anyone can begin a conversation, or plan an event. Everything is possible.
What do you see as outcomes after the festival?
- 'After School Club' Lesson Plan (Among other events we invent/remix)
- Ideas for cataloging shared ideas and resources on the web.
- Ideas for connecting local and global communities of webmakers on the web.
- Identified key audiences in our local communities (ie: schools k-12, government, libraries, media), and associated action plans for communicating the value and fun of webmaking to those groups(ie: create hackable media kit)
- Contribution Map (contribution and partnership possibilities)
