Learning/WebLiteracyStandard

Kick-off online gathering: Thursday 7th February 2013 at 11am EST

	Web Literacy standard
	Owner: Erin Knight, Doug Belshaw, Carla Casilli	Updated: 2013-02-7
	Vision: A new, open learning standard for Web Literacy enabling organizations to align so learners can level-up around the Web.

Overview

The Mozilla Foundation has a vision of a web literate planet. We've built some tools to help with this and now we're asking the question: What are the skills, competencies and literacies necessary to read, write and participate in the Web - now and in the future? We've already started the thinking but we want to go further and develop a web literacy standard that we can all align with and teach to. And we need your help.

We want to reach people at web scale, and that means lots of different individuals and organizations teaching various skills and competencies - many of you are doing this already - but we need a way for it to roll up to something bigger.

We need a way to ensure we're teaching the right things, to connect various options and help learners discover pathways, and of course, to find ways for us all to track our impact. That's where the standard comes in - we can build consensus around the overall learning map and then each chart our course against it. So, let's develop the standard and do this together.

We're convening an online gathering to kick-start work towards a learning standard for web literacy and build upon the work we've done so far in this area (and with badges). Be sure to join us to discuss where we want to go and find out ways for you or your organization to get involved. Make a point to get involved; we're counting on you!

How to get involved

• Join the kick-off online gathering (see below)
• Introduce yourself to the community on the Mozilla Webmaker list
• Tell us how you plan to align to the standard using this form
• Discuss the standard on social networks using the #weblitstd hashtag

Kick-off online gathering

Date: 7th February 2013
Time: 11am EST (What time is that for me? http://bit.ly/11eANEB)
WebEx link: https://cc.callinfo.com/r/1i89iexucnobl Above link not working? Try this: Dial-in details:

• Conference Number: +1 800-503-2899 (you can use Skype/VoIP for this!)
• 7-Digit Access Code: 5435555#
• International toll-free numbers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmakers/Community_Calls/International

Useful stuff:

• Join us for screensharing: https://www.callinfo.com/prt?host=globalcrossing&an=8005032899&ac=5435555
• Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/weblitstd
• Slides: (TBC)

Agenda

• Introduction & overview - Erin Knight (Senior Director of Learning, Mozilla Foundation)
• Overview of work done so far - Doug Belshaw (Badges & Skills Lead, Mozilla Foundation)
• Web Literacy and Webmaker badges - Carla Casilli (Webmaker Badges Lead, Mozilla Foundation)