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<h2> Hacktivate Learning </h2>

<p>Who is this for? Educators of all shapes and sizes! With the recently identified focus on building a networked community of educators "hacktivated" by both Mozilla's operational approach and Webmaking learning mission, a team is being brought together to engage both individual educators as well as education systems and cohorts.

</p><p>We seek to hacktivate educators in both formal and informal learning spaces.

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<p>We would like to:

<ul><li> help guide your content towards important web literacies via tools/curriculum/teaching culture

</li><li> help you hack our content to fit with your own learning objectives

</li><li> help you expand your efforts through promotion/showcasing and by guiding local webmakers to your organizations

</li><li> hear about your successes and facilitate a culture of sharing

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<p>We would like to:   

<ul><li> inspire you that this would be fun to teach

</li><li> make it easy for you to teach

</li><li> help you learn more skills

</li><li> provide relevant tools, curriculum, etc.

</li><li> help you hack our content to fit with your own learning objectives

</li><li> show you that webmaking can be inserted into ANY topic

</li><li> hear about your successes and facilitate a culture of sharing

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<p>We would like to:     

<ul><li> encourage existing educators to identify these stars and provide a single pathway once they've been identified

</li><li> encourage webmakers to be these stars

</li><li> lower barriers to teaching by teaching newbie educators how to host learning events, hackjams and create networks.

</li><li> hook you up with existing teachers to learn from

<h2>How can I contribute to these projects?</h2>

<p>Everyone can pitch in! Please visit the project wiki pages to learn what kind of help is needed.

</p><p>Many projects have mailing lists or issue trackers you can follow. If you want to see where projects are at any given moment, check out the <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23drumbeat+%23spark">#drumbeat + #spark hashtag</a>. Project collaborators are tweeting their progress!

<h2>How can I get involved?</h2>

<p>There are a ton of ways to contribute. If you're into making things:

<ul><li>write a blog post

</li><li>shoot some video

</li><li>pitch in on one of the festival projects

</li><li>help us write the book

<h2>Road Map for Hacktivation</h2>

<p>With LFW, we're releasing early and often. If you have web design skills, help improve the site! Current improvements needed:

</p><p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lfw-org-webteam/browse_thread/thread/e5190edafa808cde">Dec 6th priority features/fixes</a>

<ul><li>jquery powered "how you can help right now!" #drumbeat #spark

</li><li>better typography

</li><li>better wrapper and spacing

</li><li>sexier static pages

</li><li>classier footer

</li><li>accessibility/validated CSS

</li><li>"Videolab" section for regular HTML5 video content

</li><li>more dynamic Festival section

</li><li>user submissions for "Read about festival"

</li><li>better tagging/taxonomies for objects

</li><li>localization/filters by language

<p>To join the web team, add yourself to the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lfw-org-webteam/">Google group</a> and introduce yourself.