Webmaker/Testing

Come betatest!

The ask is simple:

• Find a test below that you're interested in.
• Follow the test instructions.
• Share your experience on the Webmaker community call or on the Webmaker mailing list.

This round of betatesting runs from March 6 - May 10.

We are looking especially for input from Webmaker Mentors, Maker Party partners and other brave souls.

Your feedback will be incorporated into the Webmaker core offering and used to help people all over the world run learning & making events in their homes, schools and everywhere.

March 20

Test the Webmaker Training Exploring Module

• Webmaker Training is a modular, remixable offering designed to teach people our pedagogies, web literacy skills and competencies, real world community building, and global engagement. Here's our Training Roadmap.
• The Exploring Module: Are you up to speed with the foundations behind Webmaker? Can you name the pedagogies behind Webmaker? Do you know why they matter? Come interact with the remixed, revised learning content around the theories underpinning Webmaker and let's see what we learn about the structure of this module.

Here's what you should do:

Do one or more of the following and share your thoughts!

• Read this article and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to "Join the Conversation". You'll be taken into Discourse, a new type of forum. Join the discussion, add your thoughts.
• Click on Make and make something (or if you've already made something that you think fits, share that!). Again, at the bottom of the page, click "Conversation", share what you make, see and comment on what others have made.
• Encourage others to remix, make and share, both in the Discourse and in public.
• Spend some time reflecting on the experience of interacting with your peers and this content. What was hard? What did you like? Did you feel like you were part of a community? Did you learn something? Did you have ideas for design, images, or text that would make this easier to learn with?
• Share your thoughts (and your makes!) in the Community Call, on the Webmaker list, through a blog post - however you like! Just make sure we know about it ;)
• The best makes from testing will serve as examples for the mega-meta-May launch.

March 27

Test the Web Literacy Mapper and Finding Great Resources

Here's what you should do:

April 3

Test the Webmaker Training Building Module (part 1)

• Webmaker Training is a modular, remixable offering designed to teach people our pedagogies, web literacy skills and competencies, real world community building, and global engagement. Here's our Training Roadmap.
• The Building Module: Do you know what you want to teach? Can you use Webmaker tools to build learning resources? Do you know how to design participatory activities? Work with individuals in the Webmaker community to design and prototype a teaching kit using paper prototyping, then share what you made!

Here's what you should do:

Do one or more of the following and share your thoughts!

• Read this article and share your thoughts.
• Click on Make and outline your learning objectives. You might like to do paper brainstorming by remixing this.
• Next, try to write participatory activities that address your learning objectives. Use the Activity Template or do Paper Prototyping!
• Encourage others to remix, make and share
• Think about and answer one (or more!) of these questions
• Share the entire experience in the Community Call, on the Webmaker list, through a blog post - however you like! Just make sure we know about it ;)
• The best makes from testing will serve as examples for the mega-meta-May launch.

April 10

Test the Webmaker Training Building Module (part 2)

• Webmaker Training is a modular, remixable offering designed to teach people our pedagogies, web literacy skills and competencies, real world community building, and global engagement. Here's our Training Roadmap.
• The Building Module: Do you know what you want to teach? Can you use Webmaker tools to build learning resources? Do you know how to design participatory activities? Work with individuals in the Webmaker community to design a teaching kit based on your paper prototype, then share what you made!

Here's what you should do:

Do one or more of the following and share your thoughts!

• Read this article and share your thoughts.
• Click on Make Take your paper prototype from last week and put it into Thimble as a Teaching Kit, or if you didn't make a prototype, outline your learning objectives with the new Kits. Focus on trying out the new UX features/additions.
• Next, try to write participatory activities that address your learning objectives. Plug your prototypes into the Activity Template or, if you didn't make a prototype, you might like to try it: Paper Prototyping!
• Encourage others to remix, make and share
• Think about and answer one (or more!) of these questions
• Share the entire experience in the Community Call, on the Webmaker list, through a blog post - however you like! Just make sure we know about it ;)
• Your activities may be included in the 'official' Webmaker "Remix" kit we're building!

April 17

Test: Playtest your "Remix" Kit & Issue your "Remix" badge

• playtesting draft 1 of your "Remix" Kit (kitchen table)
• badge: (either own or 'official' Mozilla remix competency badge [weblit v1.1])

• Remix Badge
  • Design constraints
  • Max. 5 badges
  • Have to reference 3 skills under 'Remix' competency
• Mentor Badge
  • Criteria
  • Naming of the badges (e.g. 'Mentor')
  • How it fits with contribution pathways
  • Design

Prompt

• Complete the Badge Canvas for the Remix badge: http://www.digitalme.co.uk/assets/pdf/DigitalMe-Badge-Design-Canvas.pdf
• Make a testimonial tweet for a qualified mentor.
• Make to "test" badging process in a simple way, tagged as a campaign. https://scott.makes.org/thimble/helping-to-make-a-million-mozillians

April 24

Test: Engagement Module

Prompt

May 1

Test: Translating the MOTHER REMIX KIT.

Prompt

May 8

Test: Review and Issue the Mentor badge

Prompt

May 15

Test: Reflection on whole profess

Prompt

May 10: MASSIVE TRAINING

• May 10: Run Module 1 Exploring -->
• May 15: Run Module 2 Building -->
• May 22: Run Module 3 Facilitating --> Playtesting
• May 28: Run Module 4 Connecting --> Doing it for real
  • Test: forkability

Archive Tests

March 6

Test: Changes to the Web Literacy Map, Tags and Cross-Cutting Themes

• Design & Accessibility (keep as-is)
• Sharing & Collaborating (separate into separate competencies)
• Check all other competencies

Prompt

• Defining and collecting cross-cutting themes
  • accessibility
  • storytelling
  • identity
  • ?
• How to introduce cross-cutting themes in the map?

Results

TBD!

March 13

Test: What is a Super Mentor?

Super Mentors are the backbone and leadership circle of the Webmaker community. Yet, we currently don't have formal support structures nor pathways describing what Super Mentors do and how to become one.

We'd like to have a community consultation about Webmaker Super Mentors.

In particular, we'll look at:

• the skills and experience that make a good Super Mentor (criteria)
• how one demonstrates they are a Super Mentor (evidence)
• the organizational and peer support needed to active, train and celebrate Super Mentors

Do: Here's how you can help

• 1. Take a look at this document. It describes a proposal for Super Mentors. Respond in the document with your thoughts!
• 2. For a fun, hands-on version, remix this make to explain what you think a Super Mentor is and does.
• 3. Share your responses on the Webmaker community call or on the Webmaker mailing list.