Webmaker/Teaching Kits

Kits that Teach the Web, Together

Webmaker content, illustrated through a series of community-driven Teaching Kits, is a shared responsibility between Webmaker Product Team, Community Team, and mentors.

Teaching Kits are a collection of resources and activities that guide a user to teach a web literacy competency (or competencies). The use, adaptation and creation of teaching kits is an essential contribution pathway for the Webmaker community and its partners.

Teaching kits are not only about Webmaker tools. Instead they are intended for teaching any tool or method that aligns with the culture, citzenship and mechanics of the web.

Teaching kits are open source and modular. They use web technology so users can easily modify ("remix") and understand them, and building on the MakeAPI, users can discover teaching kits on webmaker.org and embed them on nearly any site on the web. Usage and contributions to kits will show up in Webmaker user profiles as well as be acknowledged by badges.

Content Roadmap

We have several shared goals this year for Teaching Kits. We want to fill the Web Literacy Map with outstanding teaching kits, open educational resources and activities that are creative and fun to use -- and most importantly, we want kits to teach the web through making.

• We'll do that through:
  • 1) A community contribution campaign. Focused on one skill / competency at a time, working in the open with our lead users. Similar to a localization sprint or thermometer campaign.
  • 2) Contracted professionals. Domain experts who can build content relevant to specific Web Lit skills. Work in tickets and deliver public facing work.
  • 3) Curation systems. Peer review and QA. Systems for reviewing and up-leveling the best work.
  • 4) Internal resourcing. Bespoke tools, content, and apps that team members from both Product and Community teams build. (e.g., building a specific app, video, or widget to help support a given teaching kit or activity.)

Q1

• Run community curriculum campaign. Invite lead users to help fill out the Web Literacy Map. Creating new stuff and gathering existing best-of-breed resources from across the web.

• Hire some leading lights from our community to help fill some aspects of the map (e.g., Remix, HTML/CSS, Privacy). Model best practices.

• Prototype some new tools that teach aspects of the map. Show how new tools and prototypes can help teach the Web Lit Map and publish to the MakeAPI.

Q2

Test, localize and train around that first batch of curriculum. Use that momentum to gather more new great curriculum from community.

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Q3

Feed our curriculum into Maker Party. Tell stories about community using, adapting, and contributing that curriculum in the field. Leverage Maker Party as a giant field-testing, localizing and new curriculum contribution sprint.

• Deliverable

Q4

Key milestone / change of state / narrative

• Deliverable

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