EU MozCamp 2009/DrumBeat/Group5/

This content was created as part of a brainstorming session at MozCamp Eu 2009

1 Sentence Summary

Tell a story about the open web that’s simple enough for a 6-year-old to understand, so they can explain it to their parents, family, and friends.

Goals

• Establish and communicate our key messages around the open web to kids and youth.
• Learn from children what they know about the web, how they use it, and how they talk to others about it.
• Use the language they use to describe the open web and why it's important.
• Get children to take the message to others.

Audience

Children

Activities

• Once we get definition of the open web mapped out, do a sanity check on the message, and refine with people that are non-tech savy.

• Visit schools and talk to students and teachers.

• do interviews on the street about the open web ala What is a Browser?

• Listen to the stories that students and teachers have about the web.
  • what is good
  • what is bad
  • what is hard about using the web
  • find out why they use the web
    • learning, research (wikipedia), fun (games), interact with friends,...?
  • find out how they use the web
    • just consumers of content?
    • producers of content?

• • find out what they think the open web means

• Show them some things about the web they might not know about
  • new web sites for education, research, learning
  • show them things that might help them to be more productive and safer when using the web

See if there are ways that our open web message connects to the things they already know, are worried about, want to see improvement in.

Provide training to teachers around open web issues