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== About Webmaker == | == About Webmaker == | ||
Mozilla’s Webmaker is | Mozilla’s Webmaker is teaching tools in the hands of a growing community dedicated to teaching digital skills and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Learning/WebLiteracyStandard web literacy]. | ||
Our [https://air.mozilla.org/nature-of-mozilla/ mission] is to help people know more, do more and do better through the open web - a web that is knowable, interoperable and everyone’s. | Our [https://air.mozilla.org/nature-of-mozilla/ '''mission'''] is to help people know more, do more and do better through the open web - a web that is knowable, interoperable and everyone’s. | ||
At Webmaker we do this by building [http://webmaker.org great tools], inspiring and supporting communities, [[Webmaker/Teach| | At Webmaker we do this by building [http://webmaker.org great teaching tools], inspiring and supporting [[Webmaker/Teach|communities]] of mentors and makers, always learning from and with our [[Webmaker/Teach|community]] and shaping the environments in which the open web is made possible. | ||
'''By 2016 Webmaker's goal''' is to be a global brand that models [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Learning/WebLiteracyStandard web literacy] empowerment through community created teaching tools that puts [http://connectedlearning.tv connected learning] at the heart of a global movement to teach the web. | |||
Webmaker will be the teaching tools, web and community infrastructure from which 100K mentors teach web literacy. They in turn will inspire and support a million makers worldwide by the end of 2016. | |||
1st Draft of thoughts for 2016 >'''Webmaker will do this by:''' | |||
*Supporting teachers as our primary user group. Teachers are people interested in sharing knowledge with others either about web/digital literacy or by using web/digital tools for teaching. This can include formal school teachers, parents, artists, educators in informal settings, peers, extended school time educators, librarians, community activits (anyone) | |||
*Build detailed and public facing engagement strategy that allows people a path from "joining" to "contributing" that is supported and validated through open badges | |||
*White paper articulating the theory and practice of why Webmaker. | |||
*Expansion and iteration on Webmaker Training program (f2f, MOOC, localized) | |||
**Building rigorous, modular Webmaker Training programmes to empower communities to learn about (users) and participate in (contributors) Webmaking activities such as contributing makes (content), Teaching Kits (curriculum), culturally relevant materials (localization), p2p marketing (advocacy), running events and training and shaping and contributing to the Webmaker tools. | |||
*Identify and develop partnerships and key community relationships that can provide channels and advocacy to prospective mentors. | |||
*Improve discoverability of teaching tools and content on webmaker.org and through Make API. | |||
*Focus on co-developing with key partners and communities, rigourous curriculum based on the web literacy standards. | |||
*Our own and our partners contributions to learning pathways that both illustrate and expand on the web literacy stadard and that have badges associated with them. | |||
*Building locally empowered but globally connected and supported networks of communities that share aligned missions to build laboratory environments in which to both uplevel contributions to and test/improve our offerings. Best exemplified by our Hive Learning Network project and our alies in the ReMo Program. | |||
**Publish How-To and strategy documentation for Hive | |||
**Launch Maker Party 2.0 | |||
*Continue to grow social and community engagement tools at webmaker.org including Make API. | |||
*Achieve operational excellence for existing Webmaker tools. | |||
*Integrate Appmaker into Webmaker tools suite. | |||
*L10N | |||
'''Webmaker offers the following value to our users:''' | |||
*Offering opportunity to join and/or form locally empowered but globally linked communities/networks of likeminded people while both using and producing resources to help them in their teaching endeavors. | |||
*Chance to raise profile of teachers and expand their audience/students | |||
*Broader access to aligned global communities | |||
*Webmaker Tools | |||
**teach real, transferable skills | |||
**easy + free to use | |||
**encourage you to make fun/interesting things with them | |||
**have a community of practice | |||
*We offer a set of curriculum for people who want to use our tools + the rest of the web to teach web skills | |||
*We help people form a community via support for in-person events, as well as (to be developed) social tools | |||
== Contributors == | == Contributors == | ||