Webmaker/Get Involved

Webmaker Engagement Ladder

• This is the canonical home for the Mozilla Webmaker engagement ladder. Plus metrics for measuring against it.

Contributors

• WEBMAKER CONTRIBUTORS do three things: TEACH, BUILD and ORGANIZE

Teaching

P1: Teaching. Teach web literacy with our stuff. In classrooms, informal spaces and at events.

P2

• Assessment. Review and critique learners' and mentors' work (e.g., to issue Webmaker badges).
• Curation. Gather resources that help others learn and teach the web. Organize community-contributed content.
• Support. Help with documentation and Webmaker product support.
• Advocacy. Advance web literacy. Tell the story. Recruit more contributors.

Metrics:

• # of Webmaker mentor badges issued
  • Key design challenge: other ways to measure teaching.
    • Relying solely on badges issued here risks under-reporting our actual numbers and impact. For people to self-report or easily indicate: "I did this."
  • We need ways to count use cases like:
    • "I spent an hour teaching Web Literacy in my middle school classroom."
    • "I taught this at home with my kids."

Building

PRIORITY ACTION: Curriculum. Create learning pathways and content. Teaching kits, activities and open educational resources aligned with the Web Literacy Map.

Secondary:

• Code. Pitch in on bugs, source code and patches to Webmaker tools. Experiment in new areas like Appmaker.
• QA and User Testing. Ensure the quality and diversity of Webmaker offerings. Participate in live and asynchronous testing.
• Localization. Remix, translate and localize curriculum and code to make sense locally.
• MakeAPI. Integrate with and build on top of the MakeAPI.

Metrics

• Suggested: # of users who tag items with web literacy skills on webmaker.org

Alternatives:

• # of registered users making teaching kits
• ...

Organizing

PRIORITY ACTION: Events. Host an aligned event (for Maker Party, Hive) or session (Mozfest, DML, etc.)

Secondary:

• Local networks. Grow existing Hive networks and establish new ones.
• Campaigns. Participate in and partner with Maker Party. Organize local campaigns and outreach.
• Training. Train other trainers, teachers, organizers and mentors.
• Partnerships. 'Bulk recruiting' contributors via like minded orgs and networks.

Metrics

• Suggested: # of event hosts on webmaker.org

Alternatives:

• # of event hosts where Webmaker badges are earned

Supporters

• coming soon

Users

• coming soon

to consider

• Amira's analyais of user stories, especially when signing up for Webmaker.

Who is our community?

Our community members seek to:

• level up their web literacy
• build and share tools for teaching
• gain peers and networks of practice
• participate in coordinated actions
• identify with a movement that's globally leveraged and locally contextualized

Below is a graph of our “lead users”. These are the types of community members who are most invested in the project. The graph is merely illustrative, not exhaustive. Its purpose is to sample the motivations of our community members and visualize how those compare to one another.