User:Jamesboston
Profile
James Boston is a computer programming student at Seneca College, a Google Summer of Code torero and an intern at the Mozilla Foundation working on Mozilla Education.
Blog:
jamesboston.ca
Posts about Mozilla Education are tagged 'edmo'
RSS feed for Mozilla Education posts only: RSS
Email:
jamesboston [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org
IRC:
jboston on irc://irc.mozilla.org/education
External wiki at Seneca College: [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Jamesboston James Boston's wiki at Seneca College
Google Summer of Code
nsIProcess2 - A replacement for nsIProcess
Project page:
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Jamesboston/nsIProcess
Mozilla Education Internship
The primary activity for this internship will be assisting in creating and maintaining the Mozilla Education site. This includes:
- Creating a plan for the Mozilla Education site, including criteria for what material should be included and how it should be presented.
- Creating an inventory of existing Mozilla-related educational material (e.g., at the Mozilla Developer Center or elsewhere) that could be referenced by or repurposed for the Mozilla Education site.
- Identifying third-party materials (e.g., from OER sites or other sites focusing on participatory learning in an open source context) that would be of interest in a Mozilla context.
- Creating content for the Mozilla Education site, including new material, repurposed material, and links to material on other sites.
- Working with Mozilla localization teams to create localized versions of the Mozilla Education site.
- Researching and implementing options for transforming existing Mozilla materials into formats suitable for custom textbooks and other printable instructional materials.
- Defining a plan for ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the Mozilla Education site's collections.
May Goals
The following tasks are proposed for month one:
- Revise the front page of Mozilla Education site to better tell the story of Mozilla Education and provide a better introduction to new visitors.
- Create a plan for an overall information architecture of Mozilla Education site.
- Create an inventory of education-related resources from other Mozilla sites, and link to them from the Mozilla Education site.
- Ensure that all Mozilla Education-related projects and people (including faculty and institutions expressing interest in Mozilla Education activities) are easily findable from the Mozilla Education site.
Weekly deliverables
Week of May 11
- draft of new front page
- drill down more on list of potential users described in blog post, flesh out in term of pages for different people (a straw man info architecture)
- (tentative) start inventory of mdc site
Week of May 18
- continue revising front page
- publish results of MDC survey and add guide to MDC to wiki
Week of May 25
- comprehensive list of high level tasks for new students and instructors
- describe structure of that list in terms of EdMo pages
- (useful to draw a distinction between HowTo and overview pages)
Week of Jun 1
- revise straw man info architecture to better include non-CompSci projects
- consult with Pascal about design challenge
- create 5-10 survey for mozedu list and others
Addenda
Info Architecture - Notes on the current state of the site architecture
list.csv: A list of MDC documents that has been autocategorized.
File:Edmo diagram.pdf or PNG: Diagram of strawman architecture. Work in progress.
