Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/activities

This is a list of mostly confirmed activities for Mozilla's Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival. We'll keep evolving this right up to the date -- but this list should give you an idea of what we're going to be doing.

We additional session ideas from *you*. If you have ideas please see the how to propose activities page first. And look at the main main program wiki page for context and info on how the spaces below work. Finally: write up your idea and email the appropriate contact person below.

Spaces and Activities

Program Schedule

Local learning incubator

As learning becomes more virtual, it also becomes more local. Explore, play and build with projects that mash up cyberspace w/ your neighborhood or community.

• Citizen Identities and Neighborhood Literacies for Open Learning -- Brainstorming session around how notions of civic engagement and participation can be supported by open data and open tools. Focus on learning through engagement. Host: MacArthur Digital Media and Learning folks
• Rethink Reading and Remake Libraries -- Learn how libraries are rethinking traditional print literacy in the digital age. Develop ways that library patrons of all ages can enhance traditional collections by adding “new” content to “old” materials. Collaborate and learn from librarians to are developing digital maker spaces for youth, help them improve their programs. Host: YOUmedia @ the Chicago Public Library, iRemix, New York Public Library.
• Make an open web learning widget -- Develop or help improve simple programs that teenagers can use to learn, play and hack with the web. Host: Mozilla and Chicago You Media Centre. Audience: web developers, librarians, teenagers, anyone who wants to teach or learn basic web development in a fun way.
• City Walkshop --Collective, on-the-field discovery around city spots intensive in data or information, for preparing a mobile digital learning context and story engine using mobile devices, geo-tagging and video publishing. Host: UrbanLabs
• OpenRaval classroom -- Help turn Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood into a open learning classroom. The sessions here will focus on preparing for a youth-centered event to follow the festival on November 6th. Host: Mozilla and New Youth City Learning Network.
• PrintingLab -- Dynamic space for sprint-writing and translating, from open web related manual books to chapbooks with collections related to microblogging-like ideas, advices and comments generated during the festival. Host: FLOSS Manuals

Hosted by You Media Chicago, New Youth City Learning Network and UrbanLabs Organizers: Ingrid Erickson/NYCLN (ierick@gmail.com), Taylor Bayless (tbayless@chipublib.org), Enric Senabre Hidalgo (esenabre@cibersociedad.net

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Webcraft Toolshed

In the Webcraft Toolshed, you will learn how to teach web standards and skills via a series of informative sessions run by web education experts. You will find out what the current state of web education is worldwide, and how the web industry is reacting to it. You will find out what open source web education tools and resources are available and how you can make use of them and contribute to them. You will find out how you can take part in the web education movement, internationally as well as on your doorstep!

Space Goals:

Together we want to work towards developing a concrete, practical and collaborative plan to massively grow the accessibility and reach of standards based web developer education.

1. List and prioritise the necessary skills for practising web craft. Identify the overarching principles that guide web professionals.
2. Identify the range of audiences, the information channels and methods that people turn to for education about working with the web and develop strategies to connect with them.
3. Establish collaboration amongst projects that share a common goal of web developer education.

Space partner Goals, sub goals and desired outcomes.

Activities

Proposed Activities

• The State of Web Education - In this session, Chris Mills will help you to understand the current challenges for people teaching and learning web development skills and talk about what solutions are being made available. This should provide a space focus and start conversations to carry through the next 2 days.
• The Web Craft Guild - OWEA, Opera Developer Network, Mozilla Developer Network, School of Webcraft, Scrunchup all have a shared goal to help people learn about how to work with the web. How can we cooperate?
• Shape the Webcraft Skills Map -  Using the Webcraft skills map as a base we'll explore the skills all web professionals need and the specialist skills that distinguish designer from developer, user experience expert from interface designer.
• The Ideas and Values of Web Craft - Using the Web Craft definition as a starting point can we identify and refine the ideas and values we should be encouraging in young web developers?
• Teaching Accessibility - Creating websites that are accessible to the broadest number of users possible is one of the core values of web developers. Speak with Sandi Wassmer and Henny Swan about accessible design and workshop ways to teach this attitude and related skills to developers of all skills levels.
• Webcraft badges w Badge lab.
• Learning with Mozilla Developer Network - Janet Swisher of MDN will present some recently create or updated content on open web standards. We'll begin to explore it and give feedback on its usability as tools for classrooms and self guided learning.
• Remixing WaSP Interact - Using the WaSP Interact curriculum as a base we'll explore ways to incorporate content into an existing course at a tertiary level. We'll also look at how non-academic audiences such as P2PU School of Webcraft and independent learners can remix the content to make it more relevant for their needs.
• Create a P2PU School of Webcraft Course - Explore course ideas for the next round of Webcraft. Develop course proposals that consider participant requirements and learning objectives. Learn how to collaborate with the community and course participants to refine your course idea.
• Workshop 1 (Working with Web Fonts) - Dave Crossland
• Workshop 2 (Learn Javascript with Processing.JS and Sketchpad) - JD and Ari
• How to teach marketers about web standards and inclusive design - In most companies non-technical staff like marketers inevitably end up being responsible for procurement of web sites, but because these groups of people largely don't understand the concepts of open standards and inclusive design, they therefore end up with web sites that are unusuable and inaccessible to a lesser or greater degree. In this session, Sandi Wassmer will tackle this problem, talking about what non-technical professionals need to know, and how to get it over to them in a way they will understand. Your opinions and discussion are of course very welcome.
• How young people are getting into the web - In this session, Anna Debenham will give you some of her unique insights into how young people are gettinn into web design and development, how current education efforts are failing them, what they are doing to work around it, and what could be done to improve things. This session will include a sample exam for attendees to take, to show them what official curricula are currently like.

Ongoing activities:

• Web Craft skills map -- Continuing on from the focus session looking at the skills map help us identify what different types of web developers need to know.
  
• Propose a Course -- fill in a form with your course idea for the P2PU School of Webcraft and help build a community of developers who support Mozilla's aim for an open and innovative web.

Hosted by Mozilla, P2PU School of Webcraft and OWEA / WASP Interact.
Contact: Pippa Buchanan

Badge lab

Test, critique and improve badges and tools that recognize informal online learning.

• Badges, learning and online identity -- Help design, test and hack on an secure online 'backpack' that puts students in control of their badges/credits, degrees and learning materials. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning. Plus, software developers. Hosted by Mozilla, P2PU, Remix Learning.
• Badges, badges, everywhere! -- Once you start looking for badges, you'll find them (almost) everywhere. In this session we'll review how they are used in various context throughout the world including the scout movement, pilot uniforms, online and social games like foursquare, question and answer systems like stackoverflow, etc.. What can we learn from the use of badges in different environments and settings? Audience: anyone interested in credentials, motivation, assessment.
• Make your own badge -- In this session you create a badge. What's the badge for? What should it look like? How will you award it? We will also discuss the pros/cons of giving badges for achievements. We'll also work on cut-out badges that we can award to Festival participants. Audience: anyone interested in motivating their kids to take the trash out.
• Who needs a degree, when you can have a drawer full of badges?!?-- Work on the alpha version of a 'badge' (or credit) system for informal learning that happens on the open web. More and more learning happens outside of formal education - and on the open web. Helps us build a system that let's learners get recognition for their learning - wherever it takes place. Host: P2PU plus bunch of MacArthur DML people. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning.
• School of Webcraft badges -- This activity is in collaboration with the School of Webcraft tent. We hope to get all past, present, and possible future course organizers to help us brainstorm what badges should be awarded in SoW courses. Host: School of Webcraft. Audience: Anyone interested in web developer training, developers, trainers, lecturers, employers.
• Badges that don't backfire -- This session is built around ideas of behavioral economics and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation from playing a game. We'll look at what motivates people to do things, and the effect on offering rewards on their behavior. When and how do you use badges to encourage good behavior, and when do they create undesired incentives? Audience: anyone who wants to help others do "the right thing".
• Translating skills into badges -- Here we take a look into the world of assessment and do some collaborative brainstorming on how to identify and track skills. We are especially interested in recruiting those interested in the open web and web development, but, skills across all domains and disciplines are welcome. Audience: assessment geeks, educators, learners.
• Badge design - ribbons, medals, stars, belts, and stripes -- This badge activity invites creative designers to help us envision badges as a communication tools. Help us design badges and explore how size, color, complexity, grouping, and layering can all be used to present badges in different ways and therefore to give them different meaning. Our end product is to come-up with a set of specifications and requirements to help guide badge creators. Audience: designers who want to shape the future of learning credentials.
• So you think your badge makes you the expert? -- Participate in an exercise to identify 'expertise' within the group gathered at festival. Brainstorm about self-identified skills and challenge your peers in on the spot 'assessment'. Main point of session--to think more about how 'expertise' in informal spaces might look/act different from classroom testing scenario. Audience: all experts.
• Discussions with other spacemasters is underway for possible collaborations and joint activities in the badge lab.

Hosted by P2PU, Mozilla, Remix Learning, DML. Contact: Joshua Gay

Hackerspace playground

Learn how to make + teach w/ processing.js, arduino, a maker bot and other cool toys.

• A hacker space in a bus in a public square-- learn how to use lasers, print 3d objects and build cool electronics. Hosted by monochrom. Audience: everyone.
• Hackerspace slideshow - ongoing with photos from lots of hackerspaces all over
• How To Start A Hackerspace session
• Hackerspace vs Makerspace vs Open Lab - WTF?
• Cool under 10 Euro hacking projects (LED throwies, etc)
• Hackerspaces demoing projects
• Vimby Hackerspace Challenge
• Experience-first Learning - Gever Tulley (Tinkering School)
• Arduino, Processing and Fantasia Learn simple tools developed for Education in Informatics and Electronics. Create your own Experiments/VideoGames/Robots/Hacks. Hosted by Arduino. Audience: everyone.
• Xbee - cyclists xbee-arduino enhanced bikes vizualize data from cycling and relative movement - proposed by Vasilis Georgitzikis and Pierros Papadeas. Audience: everyone (we need bikes! - bring yours!)
• Hackerspacers meet librarians. How to swap ideas, hackerspacize libraries.
• Sculpture Mob workshops by monochrom

Hosted by Monochrom and Arduino. Contact Johannes Grenzfurthner

Open content studio

Up close and interactive with open content. We'll begin putting together an open textbook on elements of webcraft, using OpenCourseWare, Open Educational Resources and stuff from the Festival. While seeing what it takes to pull together an open textbook, help us solve issues with discoverability, construct a global course catalog for OER, share your views and play with authoring and editing tools.

• Pathways to Open Content: A discussion about anything related to improving the discoverability of OER. The objective is to collect ideas about making OER easier/faster to find and enabling it to be used more widely. Come along to talk about your ideas or suggestions, tell us about your OER projects, or to volunteer your skills to increasing the use of OER. Audience: all.

• Global Course Catalog: Help create a global course catalog to categorize existing and future open resources. Brainstorm its organization, content, format, etc. We also plan to create software that creators of open content can drag and drop their courses/books into that will automatically tag them with metadata, increasing their searchability and discovery. Your ideas wanted! Audience: educators, learners, techies.

• Content and then? The next big thing ...: Open round table discussion with board members of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and you, to discuss where the global OCW/OER movement could go next. Audience: all

• Textbook Sprint and Remixing Hackspace – Help write Open Textbooks! Come try the latest cutting edge tools and join us for an Open Textbook Sprint and Remix Fest. There should be a lot of expertise at the festival around topics like web development - come share it by putting it into a new age textbook.

• Open mic for open content – 3 minute blocks for anyone to share what they're working on.

Hosted by Flat World Knowledge, OCW Consortium, Connexions, and OCW Search.

Contacts:

• Brad Felix, Flat World Knowledge (brad at flatworldknowledge dot com)
• Mary Lou Forward, OCW Consortium (mlforward at ocwconsortium dot org)
• Meena Hwang, OCW Consortium (meena at ocwconsortium dot org)
• Joel Thierstein, Connexions (joel at cnx dot org)

Peer Learning Lighthouse

Peer learning everything. Build your own learning environment. Design and run a course, on any topic. Find others to learn with. Establish your own P2PU Department. Contact for this tent: Alison

• Encourage Content Reuse: Educate your users! -- Do you or your initiative create and host open resources? Do your users bother to read the licensing policy or take full advantage of the freedoms enabled by open licenses? P2PU and Creative Commons realize that there is a lack of education around openly licensed content and its associated freedoms--how to use, adapt, and remix content to realize the full collaborative potential that is enabled by CC licenses. Come share your experiences on what does and doesn't work when it comes to educating teachers, students, and life-long learners on using your content--and reuse this knowledge to create effective education for users of open content.
• Build your personal learning environment -- Learn what tools exist and how to combine then to turn the open web into your personal class room. Audience: anyone interested in learning on the web (Ricardo Torres/ Citilab[1])
• Creating courses for peer 2 peer learning  -- Peer to peer learning is radically different from traditional teacher/learner roles, especially online. Get coaching on how to design & run your own collaborative peer learning course on any topic you're interested in! Hosted by P2PU.org.
  
• Building a School of Copyright and Creative Commons -- Building on P2PU's Copyright 4 Educators courses, this is a planning session to discuss where we can go from here. What other audiences besides educators should we focus on, how do we leverage the CC International network to reach more jurisdictions, etc. (Delia, Jane, Michelle and Ignasi from CC Spain)
• P2P Production & Commons Theory Course - Workshop/sprint. Become a peer and help us build a course on peer production and commons theory!
• Peer-to-Peer Learning with Roadtrip Nation - Our primary goal is to introduce participants to the ethos of the Roadtrip Nation Movement through multi-media content within the Roadtrip Naiton Interview Archive. We hope to demonstrate that The Roadtrip Scholar Community - a unique peer-to-peer learning model which includes user-generated, multi-media content - allows students to help other students explore potential pathways for their future and define their own roads in life. The goal of our collaborative session is to guide participants through The Roadtrip Nation Experience and allow for a participatory brainstorm of the next generation of Roadtrip Nation’s open education resource.
  
• Annotate the Web and Map Your Ideas With Peers -- Welcome to all Web 2.0/learning geeks interested in what you can serve up when you vigorously mix social bookmarking, web annotation and knowledge mapping. Tell us what you rate/hate about our Cohere prototype :-)
  

Video Lab

The web gives students and teachers access to the entire history of the moving image. What are the tools learners need to remix and contextualize this material for the 21st century?The National Film Board of Canada, and many other public media institutions, have made their archives available for free online. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for education - however teachers report that showing feature length films in the class room doesn't work. Class times, and attention spans in general, are too short. And students don't learn by passively consuming content - they need a hand in creating it.

What if teachers could create "lesson plans" by choosing regions of films - both those found within institutions and out in the wild wild web?

What if students could create their own "video reports? What if they were able to mash up and "record" their experience of learning online?

How else can we re-imagine the role of video in the class room?

Over two days we'll brainstorm, wireframe and ultimately build a first draft of these tools.

Day One

• Educational Video - The Bleeding Edge

• Sharpening the bleeding edge of educational video
  

• Scoping the tool we want to build for video in the classroom - Part I

• Scoping the tool we want to build for video in the classroom - Part II

• Rapid Prototyping Part I

• Rapid Prototyping Part II

Day Two

• Feedback on Wireframes

• Refining Wireframes

• Lets Build This Thing

• Feedback on Prototype

• Final push

• Nicholas Reville from PCF / Universal Subtitles will be running video captioning and translation stations, inviting volunteers to caption and translate education videos using UniversalSubtitles.org

Hosted by: Open Video Alliance, Mozilla, the National Film Board of Canada and the Participatory Culture Foundation. Contact:Brett Gaylor

Storming the Academy

How can ideas like open learning and peer-to-peer assessment to transform traditional higher education and formal learning principles that are deeply rooted in a 19th and 20th century industrial age mentality? This is the question we'll play with in Storming the academy.

Proposed Activities:

• Storming the Syllabus: Deconstructing the "assignment" with peer-to-peer learning techniques and tactics.

• Storming Publishing and Peer Review: Building a toolkit for online publishing and reading communities

• Storming the Grade Book: Adapting the work of the Badge Development Group to academic work

• Storming the Cloud/Crowd: An interactive performance/demonstration on the ethics of minority voices (however defined) in collaborative projects

• Future Class: Student presentation and mashup session of Drumbeat Activities on the FutureClass (“class in a box) Website

• Calm After the Storm: Yoga for Hacktivists

Hosted by HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, http://www.hastac.org) Contact:Cathy Davidson, Nancy Kimberly,Mandy Dailey

Wikimedia lounge

Pitch in on projects that fuse Wikipedia and its sister projects into the world of learning and education.

• Learning and contributing to Wikipedia in universities (the Public Policy Initiative). [needs description / Mozilla wiki page]
• Hacking Wikiversity and Wikieducator: collaborative production of class materials of all shapes and sizes.
• Adding video to Wikipedia - crossover with the video lounge!
• Making your own book or offline snapshot of Wikipedia -- tips and tricks from English and German projects.
• ...

Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, and Catalan and Spanish Wikimedians.

Angels hacking (at the square)

Local projects and participatory experiences related to teaching/learning music, programming, telecommunication, ICT skills, etc. that would take place right at the Plaça dels Àngels.

• Scratch Animation Soup: How to become a short movie animation director. With soup pasta kids can build a story, learn animation and scratch programing, all at once, then share the results online.
• PercussionLab: Open the knowledge and musical practice to everyone, through the use of digital tools and to produce innovative and interactive content with creators.
• ESMUC Laptop Orchestra: Connect it to the open space at the Plaça dels Angels, to bring their music there and show how its been done.
• HowTo create a free mobile guifi.net node: A technical session showing the hardware and software steps for creating an open mobile wifi node.

We're working on some more activities that will be on the wiki asap, but feel free to contact us to propose a session on Thurday or Friday. Contact: drumbeat-barcelona@lists.mozilla.org,

Other Awesome Stuff

• Open Source Training Missions Interactive training missions for learning essential open source collaboration skills. Learn how to make patches and chat on IRC, and help improve this community resource to spread free software culture.

• The Open Source Classroom How can we turn Free and Open Source Software projects into learning environments? What do we need from projects, educators and learners? Contact: David.jaco

• Real Time Learning – an investigation - Help define real time learning, while developing a set of working guidelines and a toolkit for producing real time courseware. Audience: Anyone interested in bridging the real time web with online education. Contact: Marco Masoni (gm@einztein.com)

• Graphical teaching It's well-known that a good pictures can convey more than thousands of words. In the open web area, some good examples exist, but not enough. The idea of this activity is to challenge participants to teach concepts of the open web just with one picture. (David B.)

• Video Lectures - Suggest topics, speakers and techniques to make pre-recorded video lectures for online learning both fun and engaging (David.jaco).

• Wikiotics language lesson assembly studio.Come turn our conference environment into language education resources. We will take pictures, translate sentences, and arrange both online to create interactive language lessons for people online. Anyone with a camera, laptop, or knowledge of at least one language is welcome.
• Teaching the open web. The Mozilla community is dedicated to protecting and growing "the open web." But what does that mean exactly? And how do we explain it to newcomers? This session will share stories, tips and tricks, and resources for helping everyday people understand what the open web is and why it matters. And also prototype a course on this subject for Peer 2 Peer University's January semester. (Contact: Matt Thompson matt [at] mozillafoundation.org)
• Open Internet = Open Web: We all love the open web and the opportunities for collaboration, education and knowledge exchange that it affords. However, too few of us recognize the importance of ensuring that the network itself remains open and accessible, in order to preserve the open web ecosystem. In this workshop, we'll brainstorm ideas for how the open Internet and open web communities can work together more closely for mutual benefit. Contact: Mehan Jayasuriya (mehan [at] publicknowledge.org).
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See old version of this page here. Much of the more tentative material archived there.

This is a list of confirmed and proposed activities for Mozilla's Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival. If you'd like to add to this page, please visit the how to propose activities page first. See the main program wiki page for context and info on how the spaces below work.