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.

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.

City walkshop -- Collective, on-the-field discovery around city spots intensive in data or information, analyzing its openness and sharing the process online
Neighborhood as Learning Context--collaborate and learn from educators who are building learning opportunities on the streets of their communities, many focused on new types of mobile learning.
Citizen Identities 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.
Collect, Construct, Change Showcase of NYCLN project that uses DIY pollution sensor probes to teach kids how to become advocates for the environmental improvement in their communities.
(re)Making libraries -- collaborate and learn from librarians to are developing digital maker spaces for youth, help them improve their programs. Host: Chicago You Media Centre and New York Public Library.
Find junk. Make computers. Make art. Build new systems and make hardware art out of discarded old computers. Host: need to see if we can find local group in Barcelona that does stuff like Metareciclagem in Brasil, or bring Brasilians (Maybe http://www.basurama.org/)
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.
Raval classroom! Help turn Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood into a digital classroom and story engine using mobile devices and geo-tagging. Host: UOC, Mozilla New York Learning Network and participants of the Drumbeat Festival. Audience: local kids and teenagers, mobile web developers, teachers, anyone really.

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. Help shape the next steps for the Mozilla School of Webcraft running within the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU.org).

Tracking Skills Development -- 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? 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.
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.

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 test and hack on an secure online 'backpack' that puts students in control of their credits, degrees and learning materials. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning. Plus, software developers. Hosted by Mozilla, P2PU and Remix Learning.
Design a badge system for informal learning -- work on the alpha version of a 'badge' -- or credit -- systems for informal learning programs like P2PU. Host: P2PU plus bunch of MacArthur DML people. Audience: anyone interested in badges, credits and informal learning.

Hosted by P2PU, Mozilla, Remix Learning [and ??] 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)
Learning/Doing Informatics - Tinker.it (Processing/Arduino)
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 Tinker.it. Contact Sean Bonner

Open content studio

Hack on open text books and help build a global courseware catalog.

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 remixing hackspace – Bring together people and existing content for a remixing fest. Create new content based on exiting materials, give it your organizational spin or a new lens, and bring it back into the open space. We could hone in on the web as a subject matter (a course of HTML, copyright, remix culture, anything). This could be available as a "default" full time activity available in the space, staffed by one of us consistently.

Open Content Tool Lab – Connexions, Flatworld Knowledge, OCW courses. Specific times set aside for demonstrating tools and features, letting people play with them, and getting questions and feedback. Lets identify common challenges that lay ahead for these tools, and speculate on how to attack them. The goal is openness and impact - are we on the right path?

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

Hosted by Flat World Knowledge, [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ 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)

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.

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)
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/ i2cat)
Run a peer learning course -- get coaching on how to run your own peer learning course on any topic. Hosted by P2PU. Audience: anyone who wants to teach and learn at the same time. (Alison/ P2PU) (+ Marco Masoni)
P2PU/CC Remix Lab -- How to use, reuse, and remix P2PU material (CC BY-SA licensed). What can you do with course content? What other licenses are compatible with BY-SA materials? Live content remix and guidance. (Jane and Michelle from Creative Commons)
- DIY License Tutorials -- Create short tutorials to the CC licenses, OER in general, or P2PU-specific content in the form of videos, text, slideshows, and designs. How would you explain open licensing to your mom? (Jane and Michelle from Creative Commons)
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)

In the works:

School of Digital Journalism planning meeting (Rising Voices)
DeCAL goes online? Learning from the oldest institutional peer learning project in the US (UC Berkeley).

Hosted by Peer 2 Peer University and Creative Commons (and i2cat?) Contact: Alison

Video Lab

Remix how students can learn, collaborate and teach their peers using video.

Re-imagining video in the classroom - 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.
Also: we're looking for activities and ideas that highlight the importance of video tutorials in changing how we all learn. If you have ideas, contact us.

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 questionswe'll play with in Storming the academy.

Proposed Activities:

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

Storming Scholarly Publishing: Building a toolkit for online publishing and reading communities

Storming Tenure: What can we add to the HASTAC/Modern Language Association Wiki on tenure?

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

Storming IT: From proprietary IT (Instructional Technology) in the administration to open source social networking in the classroom

Storming Town and Gown: Resourcing communities, preparing and retrofitting individuals (a re-professional degree program) Knowledge and Networks: A Model for Preprofessional Education

Calm After the Storming: 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.
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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.)

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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.