Hacktivate Learning!

Interested in helping others make things on the web?

You're in the right place. We are so excited about what we've learned and experienced over the last 18 months of launching and building Mozilla Webmaker. We developed new webmaking tools (play with them here) and shared our thinking throughout the process. We launched the 2012 Summer Code Party campaign and further engaged our Hive Learning Network to activate 600 educators across the globe to use, test, improve and teach others using our tools. Through this, it has become clear that what we need for Webmaker to continue to prosper is YOU!

Who should get involved?

If you are motivated to teach something to others or help them learn, you are an educator. We're creating a big tent for parents, librarians, engineers, after-school coordinators, artists, young people and teachers of all stripes and disciplines, from all over the world. Just like the people who took pride in loading Firefox onto the computers of their friends and families, we invite you to help others create on the web.

If this sounds like you, get involved!

What are we building?

We're in the early stages of building a Mozilla Webmaker program for educators called Hacktivate Learning. This is our siren call to educators who are motivated by the concept of the "4th R," web literacy, an open ethos and the Webmaker mission. "Hack" with us and help get others "activated" to learn by making. Let's take inspiration from the Summer Code Party and make it happen 365 days a year in classrooms, coffee shops, museums, libraries and parks, in cities and towns around the globe.

Specifically, what we'd like to build together:

A grassroots network of educators who are teaching others how to make things on the web, advancing the success of Hive Learning Networks that serve as labs where people co-create and test learning innovations.

A dynamic platform for educators to learn, explore, iterate and design learning materials via sites like P2PU and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

A user-driven Open Education Resource with tools to support production-based learning and examples of how to integrate web literacy thinking into practice.

Partnerships with like-minded organizations, foundations, governments and other networks who share in the collective Webmaker vision

If this sounds interesting, get involved!

Already teaching webmaking?

Brian runs an organization that teaches web skills to senior citizens so they can stay in touch with their families more easily. His organization holds events in over 10 cities worldwide. Most of his instructors are volunteers so he's looking for help figuring out lesson plans that are easy for volunteers to pick up.

Webmaking Resources | Help Out

Teaching, but not yet teaching webmaking?

Chantal leads an after school program for girls ages 8-10 and wants to get her kids interested in technology. She's looking for cool, accessible tools that kids can use to build fun things and learn about the web in the process.

Webmaking Resources | Learn More

Tinkering in tech, thinking about teaching?

Aliyah teaches filmmaking at a local community college. One of her colleagues sends her a Popcorn demo. She decides to teach her students about the web because she believes that web-native movies are the next frontier in movie-making. She wants to become web savvy alongside her students.

Webmaking Resources | Level Up

If any of these sounds like you, get involved!

Resources

Webmaking Resources: Explicit resources that leverage webmaking/code as a teaching goal.
Web Literacy: Resources that either leverage webmaking skills in a project-based context to teach other learning objectives or resources that teach various aspects of digital literacy (good search, copy paste, etc.)
Youth and Participant Development: Resources that catalogue best practices, techniques, etc. that demonstrate how to work with youth or other specific target groups. Participant management, digital citizenship, best practices, etc.
Creativity/Production: Resources and materials that guide in teaching participants how to build, develop skills, ability and desire to create/produce things. Example: It is hard to build a webpage without basic ideation and design skills. It is hard to make a good Popcorn piece without some skills in video making. This is basically a catch-all for resources that fall under a broader "making" moniker: Media-making, physical computing, games, electronics...

How can I contribute?

Everyone can pitch in! We're always looking for innovate ways to teach web literacies. There are a ton of ways to contribute, and all of them are super valuable for this budding community:

Use your powers for good and teach webmaking at every opportunity
File bugs on Webmaker software
Write a blog post that helps people teach a specific aspect of webmaking or your reflections on Hacktivation as a concept
Shoot some video of learning in action
Pitch in and help a project embed learning into their tool/web presence/strategy
Help us create new learning projects, resources, publish your own learning materials and resources here on the wiki.
Become a tester
Help us localize and translate
Share your ideas, successes, failures.
Share with each other and with Mozilla as a whole.
Contribute to the conversation of Making Webmakers.

Relevant Blog Posts

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We're still working on this wiki! Please give us your feedback, use the discussion pages, edit, add resources, etc.

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