BloggersGuide
This is a guide for all bloggers documenting the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona.
The best contributions from our social media & documentation team will be pulled into the Festival Book.
A substantial, 100-150 page document, to be released in January 2011, the book will address these questions and capture this moment in enticing words, infographics and photos. All participants in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona are invited to contribute.
If you are taking notes to help us document sessions and activities, please sign up for an account on this open wiki, by clicking the log / create account link on the left hand navigation. Start a new wiki page for each session or activity you are documenting by using your browser to navigate to "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/Festival/2010documenation/YOUR-SESSION-NAME-HERE" The wiki will tell you the page doesn't exist, but just click "edit this page" to start creating it.
Please make sure to name which sessions you are documenting at http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/DBF10-scholars-blogeteering.
With an eye toward writing "the first draft of history" please keep the following in mind as you are attending sessions, taking notes on the wiki, and soaking up the conference atmosphere :
- Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How and What's the dog's name? Every sensory and verbal detail you can capture will help make the event come alive--the temperature in the room, the T-shirt slogans people are wearing, a giggle or silly moment.
- Keep it Concise. Most sessions will be recorded. When taking notes, don't transcribe everything that's said; write down what strikes you as being the essential exchanges and best quotes.
- Go After Hours. Conversations outside the sessions are just as important as what goes on inside. Try to to keep your notebook, iPad, etc, around during meals, at the bar, etc--as long as you disclose to the folks around you that you've got your reporter hat on.
- Ask Follow-Ups. Don't be afraid to buttonhole presenters and get a few followup quotes after sessions.
- Have Fun! Follow your interests and instincts.
We're also asking everyone helping with documentation to produce at least one thoughtful reflective essay-like post of 500 words or longer, summing up your personal highlights of the festival and your thoughts about the Future of Learning, Freedom, and the Web. You can use your "first draft" wiki notes to help you write these.
Here's 3 big questions to reflect on when composing your post and when interviewing and profiling people:
- What will education look like in 2020?
- What are the most important common values between open software and open learning?
- What are the most important tools that need to be built and practices that need to evolve in order for learning to become free and open?