User:Jamesboston

Profile

James Boston is a computer programming student at Seneca College, a Google Summer of Code torero and an intern at the Mozilla Foundation working on Mozilla Education.

Blog:
jamesboston.ca

Posts about Mozilla Education are tagged 'edmo'

RSS feed for Mozilla Education posts only: RSS

Email:
jamesboston [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org

IRC:
jboston on irc://irc.mozilla.org/education

External wiki at Seneca College: James Boston's wiki at Seneca College

Mozilla Education Internship

The primary activity for this internship will be assisting in creating and maintaining the Mozilla Education site. This includes:

• Creating a plan for the Mozilla Education site, including criteria for what material should be included and how it should be presented.
• Creating an inventory of existing Mozilla-related educational material (e.g., at the Mozilla Developer Center or elsewhere) that could be referenced by or repurposed for the Mozilla Education site.
• Identifying third-party materials (e.g., from OER sites or other sites focusing on participatory learning in an open source context) that would be of interest in a Mozilla context.
• Creating content for the Mozilla Education site, including new material, repurposed material, and links to material on other sites.
• Working with Mozilla localization teams to create localized versions of the Mozilla Education site.
• Researching and implementing options for transforming existing Mozilla materials into formats suitable for custom textbooks and other printable instructional materials.
• Defining a plan for ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the Mozilla Education site's collections.

May Goals

The following tasks are proposed for month one:

• Revise the front page of Mozilla Education site to better tell the story of Mozilla Education and provide a better introduction to new visitors.
• Create a plan for an overall information architecture of Mozilla Education site.
• Create an inventory of education-related resources from other Mozilla sites, and link to them from the Mozilla Education site.
• Ensure that all Mozilla Education-related projects and people (including faculty and institutions expressing interest in Mozilla Education activities) are easily findable from the Mozilla Education site.

Weekly deliverables

Week of May 11

• draft of new front page
• drill down more on list of potential users described in blog post, flesh out in term of pages for different people (a straw man info architecture)
• (tentative) start inventory of mdc site

Completed tasks

• Limited progress on straw man architechure: Info Architecture
• Made greater progress on inventory of MDC site; expect to be able to publish guide to MDC week of May 18

Week of May 18

• didn't have a chance to touch base on weekly deliverables
• continue revising front page
• publish results of MDC survey and add guide to MDC to wiki

Completed tasks

• tba

Addenda

Info architecture

Info Architecture - An analysis of the current site with recommendations for the future