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The Moz-Learning Community (proposal)

MozLearning has a growing need to define their platform. Communities are beginning to form, and Mozilla is making a big push to engage the community of learners / webmakers like never before. Much of this push comes in the form of events, workshops and online activities. Most of these require resources and a repository of artifacts and creations. But where to put these resources so they can be shared, re-used, re-mixed, mashed-up, etc... The answer is the internet. Duhhhh... but still, we need a common approach or location to store resources for the community, this needs to be really clear to the community and provide tools for easy access. This is what I believe is the best approach.

Audience: Keep in mind many of the learners and webmakers are not necessarily tech savvy.

The internet is the platform

  • Blogs - continue to be used for learners, teachers, people, hackers, whatever, etc... personal expression and their personal repository. Anything they want linked back to a theme, they tag their post... simple. People should be encouraged to blog about their experiences with Mozilla learning events.
  • Wikis - collaborative activities where things are co-edited, easily referenced, versioned and somewhat well formatted should end up in a wiki (but some may find themselves into etherpad or some other collaborative space). In they end they should find themselves back to the wiki or linked back to the wiki.
  • Tagging - tagging creates our folksonomy and will link everything together. Whatever you do, tag it with a standard mozilla or otherwise tag.
  • Communications - discussion groups, collaborative efforts, whatever... chat, mobile, google groups, g+, fb, tw (remember to tag)
  • Homebases & Outposts - In the end we store stuff anywhere, just make sure it links back to the common repository via a link or a tag. Mozilla.org (and other companion sites) are the homebases for Mozilla Learning all other social media sites are outposts. Everything needs to drive toward the homebases.

Resource library

There still exists a need for a common repository and a linked list of references for all resources relevant to the community. As resources, this would include; documents, templates, brochures, rich-media, images, scaffolds, outlines, lesson plans, community practices, assessment tools, etc.

wiki.mozilla.org

The wiki available with mozilla.org should become the common repository. This should contain documents, resources, etc. and links to other resources. This should be maintained by the community. (remember, tagging is important)