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= How does the Hive Cookbook Work? = 

* What is Hive? 
* How to Bring Hive to your Community 
* How do Hives Operate? 
* Hive Case Studies and Recipes 
* Annotated Resources

= What is Hive? =
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Hive is a city-based strategy to teach, learn, promote and explore connected learning, digital skills and web literacy. A growing and vibrant community, Hive actively supports an open source, laboratory-approach to learning by generating opportunities for exploration, experimentation, iteration, and shared discovery. Taken together, Hive models and mechanisms provide a recipe for the spread of new ideas, tools, and digital media practices. Through participation in Hive, a community's civic and cultural organizations, businesses, entrepreneurs and educators can build, shape, teach and learn together. 

'''Vision and Principles'''<br>

Hive recognizes that in the digital age, the fundamental operating and delivery systems are networks. When coordinated to work together, organizations can provide opportunities beyond what they can do on their own. But the value in collaboration is only realized when the members are willing to be open and participatory furthering shared goals through collective impact. When networked in this manner, learning experiences are connected, extensive, easily accessed and align with local interests. Mentors and educators are learning guides who direct youth on pathways to proficiency and expertise in specific content areas and fields, enabling them to build and curate a diversity of experiences that develop the necessary skills to navigate their world.

Hive is made up of participating organizations with a wide range of missions, youth populations, institutional sizes, media art forms, and engagement strategies, but who share a clear set of values and aspirations. Reflective of the intentions of connected learning, Hive members act on and advance core principles and practices in their programs, in their partnerships, and throughout the network itself that are: 
* Collaborative & Cooperative: multidisciplinary teams have shared goals, objectives
* Experimental & Catalytic: efforts nurture new ideas, new ways of working, new partnerships 
* Relevant & Consequential: experiences address needs and potential of children, youth, and teens
* Equitable & Open: productive exchange of ideas and opportunities for all
* Engaging & Participatory: connects the personal with shared interests of the community to actively produce, create, design and test new knowledge

'''Attributes of Hive Learning Networks'''

The extent to which the following attributes are in place or committed to will help determine the readiness of a new location to plan and launch a Hive:
* Professional Learning Community: A community of youth-serving organizations committed to testing new ideas to initiate a Connected Learning framework
* City or Metropolitan Area Presence: A strong and credible voice representing the Hive vision for learning at important events
* Sustainability: A sustainability and financing plan to support Hive administration and innovative programs
* YOUmedia or Maker-Like Space: An existing, or the commitment to developing a, permanent space for youth, similar to YOUmedia, that connects young people’s interests, peer culture, and academics 
* Programming and Shared or Open Assets: The regular development of innovative learning programs and activities that contribute to a pool of shared and open assets for others to use and remix.
* Youth: Young people willing and able to participate in Hive programs and activities, and a commitment to launching a community of youth to help advise on Hive operations and programs
* Research: The willingness to collect standardized data and to be observed by a team of researchers gathering information about the Hive model and its contributions to improved learning for youth.
* Technology: A commitment to implementing a technology infrastructure that connects young people to one another and to mentors for shared learning and critique, and to collecting real-time data about activities for continued improvement
* Badges: Adoption of digital badges as a tool for valuing and making visible the learning that takes place in informal spaces
* Digital Media and Learning Commitment: Active participation in Digital Media Learning networks, discourses and communities. 

====What do Hives do?====
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Be it creative skill-share, collective risk-taking or timely dissemination, Hive catalyzes and leverages the ingenuity of local members to engage in learning that crosses geographic boundaries and disciplinary silos and builds capacity to pilot, innovate, fail and succeed, all with the goal of ensuring authentic, transformative youth-driven, interested-based learning and participation. 
====Three Tiers of Hive==== 
'''Tier 1: Hive Learning Events'''

These are learning gatherings that bring network practice and connected learning principles to life for an inter-generational audience. Examples include Pop-Ups, Hack Jams, media production sessions, Maker Faires and other events. We brand these events in two ways:

Hive Pop-Ups have an intentional program design towards fostering a “Hanging Out, Messaging Around, Geeking Out” (HOMAGO) experience. For more on HOMAGO check out this handbook written by the Yollocalli Arts Center and Hive Chicago. At these events, multiple organizations come together with some of their best programs and deliver activities via learning stations tailored towards three levels of users:

* Those who sample (Hang Out) by searching the room for what interests them most
* Those who lightly experience all the activities offered (Messing Around)
* A smaller but focused group who lock into one activity for the duration of the event (Geeking Out)

Participating educators get to both contribute to and observe what it’s like to see youth self-direct their learning and design their own experience in a networked space. Often the question, “Why Hive?” is better answered after seeing a Pop-Up in action: adults see youth interacting and learning with peers, remix and re-interpret their programs, become part of the energy in the room, and perhaps most importantly, see youth travel from different activities/interactions guiding their own path through the controlled chaos. We have distilled the Hive Pop-Up into a Webmaker Teaching Kit and this video details the Brooklyn Public Library Storymakers Maker Party/Hive Pop-Up.

'''Tier 2: Hive Learning Communities'''

Hive Learning Communities (HLC) begin to use the connected learning principles and the practices of Hive to operationalize a learning network. They draw heavily from the experience of existing Hive Learning Networks whose leaders function as consultants and mentors sharing information about structure, program design and strategy. Local facilitators then adapt tools, practices, frameworks to their local contexts. They are free to self-identify themselves as Hive and use the branding assets and developmental resources that are openly networked.

Specific characteristics might include:

* Educator meet-ups
* Recruitment and curation of affiliated organizations
* Wider participation and implementation of communication networks

The Hive concept has really developed into a grassroots movement with Hive Learning Communities forming around the globe. Current examples include Hive India, Hive Bay Area, Hive Berlin and others.

'''Tier 3: Hive Learning Networks''' 

Hive Learning Networks (HLN) are city-wide vehicles for implementing and spreading connected learning ideas, tools, practices and values. These networks are fully operationalized with a staff, sources of funding, ways to seed innovation projects and a system for convening its membership. They accept the responsibility to be engaged in the stewardship of Hive Global. New Hive Learning Networks will be admitted through a review process of the Hive Global stewarding body, MacArthur, Mozilla and a panel of independent stakeholders.

The minimum requirements for Hive Learning Networks are:

* Demonstrated alignment and programmatic commitment to connected learning values and principles
* At least one dedicated, full-time staff member
* An operational budget of at least $150K/year
* A grantmaking apparatus that seeds no less than $15K into ecosystem
* Participation in Hive Global stewardship beyond home city

Specific characteristics of the networks include:
* Demonstrated commitment to providing equitable, accessible  connected learning and web literacy opportunities to youth
* A laboratory-approach
* Portfolio of funded partnerships
* Cross-disciplinary collaboration
* Incubation of inter-connected learning experiences for youth

The experience of consulting and participating in nascent communities, indicates that the components of successful Hives share common categories and characteristics. A common set of self-emergent values, include:

* Encompass innovative and transformative learning experiences
* Understand community needs and bridge gaps in local education
* Outcome-oriented
* Youth interest-driven
* Embody experimental, iterative, and open source practices
(maybe followed by the list of existing Hives?/or link back to that section of main Hive Wiki page)

=== Where are Hive Learning Networks and Learning Communities Located? ===
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Currently, Hive Networks are located in [[Webmaker/HiveChicago|Chicago]], [[Webmaker/HiveNYC|New York]], [[Webmaker/HivePittsburgh|Pittsburgh]] and [[Webmaker/HiveToronto|Toronto]]. Hive Learning Communities are emerging in [[Webmaker/HiveBerlin|Berlin]], [[Webmaker/HiveChattanooga|Chattanooga]], India, Indonesia, [[Webmaker/HiveKansasCity|Kansas City]] and San Francisco Bay Area.

====Becoming an Official Hive====

= How to Bring Hive to your Community =

'''What do I need to get started?'''<br>
If you are interested in bringing Hive to your community, you can begin by familiarizing yourself with the three tiers of Hives. Building interest for connected learning and making activities in your community can be an initial first step to work towards launching successful Hive Events. Some individuals have used social media to share out information on connected learning and the types of events that are possible to build interest and enthusiasm.  

Finding out if there are organizations that want to collaborate to create a connected learning experiences for youth is a great early step to bring Hive programming to your community. With individuals such as librarians, teachers, youth workers, technologists and makers, you may be able to plan a Hive event.  Organize a meeting to check for interest and establish a team motivated to plan and execute a Hive event.  At an initial meeting, you may find it helpful to use video clips showing a [http://vimeo.com/74462547 Maker Party event in Pittsburgh] or a [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB494592AA0A4AE1F Connected Learning TV topic] of your choice.    

'''What kinds of event and programs can I run?'''<br>
To provide varied learning experiences for youth, a Hive pop-up is great first event to run in your community.  A Hive pop-up is an event with stations programmed by 3, 5 or more community organizations to provide connected learning opportunities. Previous pop-ups have had stations to create a paper prototype of a mobile game, hack toys, use Mozilla's [https://webmaker.org/ Webmaker tools], 3D printing, robot building and more.       

'''Organizing your first event'''<br>
Key aspects to consider to organize a Hive Pop-up include:
* Programming (3 or more stations run by different organizations)
* Venue 
* Number of participants 
* Volunteers to run stations, registration table, and assist youth
* Devices (i.e., laptops or required hardware)
* Internet access and bandwidth
* Food  
* Consent forms and media releases for youth participants
* Zone for parents/guardians at the event 
  
Some organizational aspects of a [http://heatherpayne.ca/what-is-a-hive-pop-up/%20 Hive pop-up]are described by Heather Payne in relation to her Toronto experiences.  

'''How is my work with Hive supported by the larger Hive community?'''<br>
The [http://hivelearningnetwork.org/ Hive Learning Network site] is a great starting place for further information on Hives. You can also get involved with Hive interested people through:
* Twitter [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hivebuzz&src=typd (#hivebuzz)]  
* Mozilla [https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker Webmaker mailing list]
* Mozilla [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/TeachTheWeb/Calls Teach The Web community call]

= How do Hives Operate?  =
No matter the size or location, Hive is an intentional, responsive hub that fosters connected learning and web literacy through the spread of new ideas, tools, and digital media practices. Drawing heavily from network theory and open source practices, Hives reflect many characteristics of a web or network: connective, self-aware, integrative, shared and participatory. Hive Learning Communities and Hive Learning Networks engage at least one facilitator to operationalize and adapt relevant tools, practices and frameworks to their local contexts while maintaining fidelity to Hives' core values and principles. Hive uses its network-inspired structure to support the diffusion of ideas and innovations through the social and professional ties that it engenders between its community of participants.

As a model, Hive is committed to creating active communities of practice that enable local stakeholders to not only learn together but also provide learning opportunities to others. When it is able to not only facilitate connections but also seed projects and ideas through funded projects and support, Hive provides the infrastructure and means to enact a diffusion of innovations, spreading new ideas and practices within the individual organizations, participants and structures with which it interacts.

== Hive Community Participation ==
While Hive participants and organizational representatives come together around their commitment to creating change and impact in the lives of youth, Hive has quickly evolved as a mechanism that also brings together and networks adults who work with youth during out of school times in informal learning spaces. Each Hive develops its own approach to interacting and facilitating the work of its community of participants and stakeholders. Hive's adult participants interact in real time and online through meet-ups, community calls, professional development workshops, funded collaborative partnerships and co-design charrettes.  

=== Recipes for Success ===
** Membership policy/approach for each HLN
** Hive Member Memorandum of Understanding from Hive NYC info kit
** Member Requirements and Benefits from Hive Chicago
** How to Recruit and Nominate New Members from Hive Chicago
** Current member orgs, by city 

* Hive Global Governance
* Examples of local Hive systems

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=Hive Case Studies and Recipes=
=== Why A Learning Network? ===
In 2005, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation established a new grantmaking area in Digital Media and Learning. Representing an investment of more than $80 million, the effort is focused on understanding how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life, as well as how institutions are adapting to these changes.  

As part of this initiative, the Foundation invested in the creation of two Hive Learning Networks, one in New York City and the other in Chicago. The rationale behind Hive is two-fold: First, every day, young people move among learning experiences in a variety of environments. These environments—which can be formal or informal, physical or virtual—are increasingly defined by learners’ personal interests and social networks and less by geographic proximity. Second is the capacity of new technologies and media to provide the necessary integration and coordination between formal and informal education organizations within a community. When they are designed to link together, these multiple environments can create connected learning experiences in which youth can more easily participate in accessible, "anytime, anywhere" learning activities by pursuing their interests and following their peers.

=== Hive Histories ===
'''Hive New York'''

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The history of Hive New York dates back to 2009 when the MacArthur Foundation asked three principal investigators, Diana Rhoten, Phoenix Wang, and Colleen Macklin to write a proposal for starting a learning network.

Initially called, New Youth City Learning Network, the network was designed to recognize that kids were pursuing their own interests and paving their own learning pathways by piecing together multiple sources of information and sites of interaction largely on their own—both in physical and virtual spaces.

Rhoten, Wang and Macklin proposed that a network with a focus on learning could help more kids make these vital, “geeky” connections.

Along with MacArthur, this group of investigators curated six NYC-based, youth-serving organizations to become the founding members of The New Youth City Learning Network. Those organizations were: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Global Kids, MOUSE, New York Hall of Science, New York Public Library and Parsons The New School for Design.

Parsons was identified as the design and technology production node, established to assist the other organizations in creating new, relevant learning products for a connected and networked environment. The Center for Social Sciences Research was identified as the steward and research partner.

After a formal request for proposals, three initial projects were chosen. The projects were asked to adhere to the following guidelines:

* At least three organizations serving as collaborators
* A commitment to the Citizen Scientist, Designer, Journalist paradigm
* A readiness to leverage ideas about neighborhoods and local, situated learning

During Fall 2009 at NYC's first World Maker Faire, New Youth City Learning Network featured its collaborative projects.

In 2010, The New York Community Trust and the MacArthur Foundation joined together to create [http://www.nycommunitytrust.org/AboutTheTrust/CollaborativeFunds/HiveDigitalMediaLearningFund/tabid/620/Default.aspxTrust Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in New York Community Trust] so that, together, kids, teachers, scientists, and artists can design new and exciting ways to learn, create, and participate beyond the classroom.


*** Hive Chicago 
*** Hive Pittsburgh 
*** Hive Toronto
** Hive Learning Communities
*** Chattanooga
*** Kansas City
*** Berlin
*** Denver
*** India
*** Indonesia <br>

=Annotated Resources:=
* [https://drive.google.com/?tab=Xo&authuser=0#folders/0B-LlJU5C9TfdWXdKdmthQ0JIcGM/ Collected Resources Master list, will be sunset once brought over]

* '''Hive History'''
** [http://hivenyc.org/2013/02/15/looking-back-planning-ahead/Blog Post detailing early days of NYCLN/Hive NYC, taken from Hive Meet-Up presentation]
** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90AflGXRKMFMXRBM0dBN0xtYzg/edit?usp=sharingPittsburgh Ecosystem Overview]
** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90AflGXRKMFYmxvVkhpMWdOcE0/edit?usp=sharing Spark Fund Context (Hive Pittsburgh)]
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zD3DT7HtxIXTe2EsNT2EBEHx5-Oqm0G_KyUueJQJN0s/edit#heading=h.gjdgxsHive Pittsburgh History]
** [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B90AflGXRKMFVzcxc0RlazN0c0E&usp=sharing Folder of Documents about the early days of Hive NYC/NYCLN] 
** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LlJU5C9TfdQUlicFhhSy1LVkE/edit?usp=sharingStrawman of Mozilla/MacArthur relationship]
**[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DeMkoEloiAZ2VGS3hEbElEZnc/edit?usp=sharing Hive Toronto History/documentation (Written in Jan 2012)]
** [http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/big-tent/ Mark Surman blog post on promise of Hive Toronto]

* How Do Hives Operate
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-jDdp_kTPilFW-aoTSSmxd5wMXmeQg2yHxptVVC-PZ8/editHive Brand – When and how to use “Hive”]
** [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7ByuhZlu9e-bWNTblJ5aHRsQzQ/editHive Brand Guide]  
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpBHAZQjpad8pTUIycl-dXFObPTdMVDdPMT-XkTsC_k/edit#heading=h.tyjcwt Prospective Hive Learning Network Readiness Self Assessment Document]
** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90AflGXRKMFVm85b3RSY3RIMm8/edit?usp=sharing Hive Chicago Program Practice Guide]