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)

Webcraft Toolshed

Learn how to teach web standards and skills from web development education experts and share your knowledge about web development.

planned activities

• Webcraft Skill Levels -- Brainstorming session: How can we set meaningful learning challenges for web developers at any stage of their learning and assess their skills?
  • How can experienced developers prove their level of expertise and identify what skills they need to improve further?
  • How can peer assessment techniques in development by the School of Webcraft be used as a technique to measure developer skill?
  • This session will be used as a basis for improving the assessment resources in the WaSP Interact curriculum and as the foundation for technical assessment within the School of Webcraft.
    
• Becoming Resourceful -- help us identify web development learning resources that need to be developed and improved.  How can we provide open resources to help people learn semantic development, HTML5 and web video? Hosted by the Mozilla Developers Network (MDN) and P2PU School of Webcraft
  
• School of Webcraft Pilot Round Debrief--Participants and course leaders from the pilot round of the School of Webcraft report back on their experiences and share their ideas for future rounds of courses. Find out what's involved in running a course on the School of Webcraft. Hosted by P2PU School of Webcraft.
  
• School of Webcraft Course Development Sprint -- Learn how to take your course idea from a proposal to a 6 week course that helps people learn about web development issues. Hosted by P2PU School of Webcraft.

• Reaching The Teachers
• The Kids Are Alright -- How can teachers help young people learn to make their own web sites and content? A peer learning session where teachers share what they know (and ask questions about what they want to know) about using open web technology in the classroom. Audience: K-12 teachers, plus web developers who want to lend a hand.
  
• Skillswap -- got an idea for a learning tool, but don't know how to work with web technologies? Non-techies can speed geek their ideas to a group and then pair up with developers who'll answer their questions about how to make their ideas reality.
  
• [| Working with WaSP] -- Take your existing web development curriculum and learn how to update it with open and standards based content. Audience: Web development educators teaching any age level. Hosted by MDN, OWEA and School of Webcraft.
• Learning with CMSs Open Source Situated Learning –- This workshop will start with an overview/comparison of open source CMSs (Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress) and their communities. Then, see and share examples of how educators are integrating them into their curricula & help define in-roads for others.
• Free Software Master Degree - Certified studies are rapidly changing. Help us define the curriculum for a joint Master Degree on Free and Open Source Software. (DavidJ)

Ongoing activities:

School of Webcraft skills map -- help us identify the gaps on our skills map and let us know 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.

Under discussion:

• Freeing Fonts for the Web / Typography Tent - Dave Crossland (prototype as P2PU course, launch in Jan?)
• WASP Interact curriculum

Hosted by Mozilla, P2PU School of Webcraft and W3C 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 Monochrome. 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.

Hosted by Monochrom and Arduino. Contact Sean Bonner

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

• Get credits for learning on the web -- Ways to connect the academy to open peer learning so that learners can get credits if they want. Audience: Anyone interested in connecting open peer learning with certification and accreditation. (Philipp, Larry - University of California Irvine, Joel - Connexions)
• 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. Hosted by P2PU. Audience: anyone who wants to teach and learn at the same time. 
• Everything everyone ever wanted to know about open licenses -- 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.
  

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? Over two days we'll brainstorm, wireframe and ultimately build a first draft of these tools. Audience: filmmakers, advanced web developers, teenagers.

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.

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.

• 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 (DavidJ).

• 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 and demystifying "the open web." Mozilla and Drumbeat are all about protecting and growing "the open web." But what the heck is that?! And how do you explain it to newcomers? This session will share stories, tips and tricks, presentation slides and learning resources for helping everyday people understand the open web and why it's important. And prototype a course on this subject for P2PU. (Contact: Matt Thompson matt [at] mozillafoundation.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.