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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.

Webcraft toolshed

Get your hands dirty testing and improving standards-based web developer courses. Hosted by Mozilla, P2PU and W3C WASP.

Confirmed activities

  • Mozilla / P2P School of Webcraft January Course development sprint - Pippa and John
  • Freeing Fonts for the Web / Typography Tent - Dave Crossland (prototype as P2PU course, launch in Jan?)
  • WASP curriculum related sessions led by Henny and others.
  • The open web for teachers -- attend a peer learning session where teachers share what they know (and ask questions about what the want to know) about using open web technology in the classroom. Hosted by P2PU School of Webcraft. Audience: teachers, plus web developers who want to lend a hand.
  • Web 200 -> P2PU SOW course debrief

Proposed activities

  • Graphical teaching -- teaching the open web through images
  • [read the how to propose activities to learn how to add your proposed activity here]

Peer learning Sharktank

Provide feedback on peer 2 peer courses under development. Hosted by Peer 2 Peer University and Creative Commons

Confirmed activities

  • Peer to peer learning how to -- 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) (+ Marco Masoni)
  • Teaching the Web to Teachers (Mattzilla)
  • Reuse/Remix clinic for P2PU/OER (run by CC)
  • Create a reuse guide (short videos, better ways of explaining the licenses) (led by CC)


Proposed activities

  • School of Digital Journalism planning meeting (Rising Voices)
  • DeCAL goes online? Learning from the oldest institutional peer learning project in the US (UC Berkeley).
  • Tools for teaching on the open web (Requested, but no leader - maybe Teaching the Web to Teachers above)
  • [read the how to propose activities to learn how to add your proposed activity here]

Local learning incubator

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)

Confirmed activties

  • 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.

Proposed activities

  • (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/ --Esenabre 08:59, 31 August 2010 (PDT)).
  • 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.
  • [read the how to propose activities to learn how to add your proposed activity here]

Badge lab

Test, critique and improve badges and tools that recognize informal online learning. Hosted by P2PU, Mozilla, Remix Learning [and ??]

Confirmed activities

  • 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.

Proposed activities

Hackerspace playground

Learn how to make + teach w/ processing.js, arduino, a maker bot and other cool toys. Hosted by Monochrom and Tinker.it.

Confirmed activities

Proposed activities

  • 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)
  • Build a arduino-xbee based motion tracker around tends and visualize it (web and/or projected) - Pierros Papadeas
  • Make sure to highlight the processing side, connect in processing.js people (Michelle)
  • [read the how to propose activities to learn how to add your proposed activity here]

Open content studio

Organizers: Brad Felix at Flat World Knowledge (brad at flatworldknowledge dot com)...

Hack on open text books and help build a global courseware catalog. Hosted by Flat World Knowledge, OCW Consortium, Connexions, and OCW Search.

Confirmed activities

  • 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 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 that creators of open content can drag and drop their courses/books into to automatically tag them with metadata.

Proposed activities

  • Open text book hackfest. Write, improve and remix open text books. Host: all Audience: all. Start with a menu of objects, or blank slate?

Other Ideas we've come up with so far. Brainstorming:

  • remixing hackspace – bring together people and existing content for a remixing fest to create new content to be brought back into the open space. If more focus is needed, 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.
  • feedback on how users use tool – 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 if there is time.
  • Open mic for open content – 3 minute blocks for participants to share what they're working on
  • Translations – Luc Chiu? Universal subtitles? - need to think more about what we want to accomplish
  • Pathways to open content – getting started and finding materials
  • Content "crypt"[1] - graveyard for content passe

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. Hosted by HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, http://www.hastac.org)

Proposed Activities:

  • Storming the Syllabus: Deconstructing the "assignment" with peer-to-peer learning techniques and tactics.
  • Storming Tenure: What can we add to the HASTAC/Modern Language Association Wiki on tenure?
  • Storming IT: From proprietary IT (Instructional Technology) in the administration to open source social networking in the classroom

Contact:Cathy Davidson, Nancy Kimberly,Mandy Dailey

Video Lab

Remix how students can learn, collaborate and teach their peers using video. Hosted by: Open Video Alliance, Mozilla, the National Film Board of Canada and the Participatory Culture Foundation.

Confirmed activities

  • 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.

Proposed activities

  • HOWTO: set up an open video streaming page
  • Hacking public domain/government video
  • OER video translate sprint w/ Universal Subtitles
  • Youtube is the world's classroom. How to make a great educational video.

Open source classroom

Learn how to use open source projects as teaching resource in your classroom. Hosted by: Free Knowledge Institute and Seneca College.

Confirmed activities

  • Teaching open source -- learn how college professors are using massive open source communities as virtual classrooms. Hosted by Seneca College and Free Knowledge Institute. Audience: college professors and software developers.
  • 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.

Proposed activities

Wikimedia lounge

Pitch in on projects that fuse Wikipedia and its sister projects into the world of learning and education.

Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, and Catalan and Spanish Wikimedians.

Confirmed activities

  • 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

Proposed activities

  • 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.
  • ...

(Read the how to propose activities to learn how to add your proposed activity here)

Other activities

Propose activities here if they don't fit any of the above categories.

Real Time Learning – an investigation

Contact: Marco Masoni (gm@einztein.com)

Hosts: Einztein Proposed “space

Status: confirmed

Summary 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.


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Stuff from the sandbox page

  • Carnival Shootout - we would have few targets with Open Web enemies' logos and would have to hit them all in order to win some symbolic prize - Kerim, kerim [at] mozilla [dot] ba
  • Army of Awesome badges/stickers - playing off the Army of Awesome Meme from the Summit, I'd like to get a Mozilla Army of Awesomes sticker for attending.
  • music festival/concert/party (friday or saturday night?) with arduino bands (http://telenoika.net, http://luthiersdrapaires.wordpress.com/, etc.), creative commons bands and dj's with reactables (http://www.reactable.com/) in a drumbeat party.
  • night hacking challenges (kind of facebook garage) for implementing the ideas explained during the day at night with beers and pizza in a nice environment with sofas, etc
  • some technical sessions about what are the new video formats, how they will work on HTML5, etc. or other....
  • Project Drumbot
    • Run a "build a robot drummer" competition via Instructables or the like. Participants would need to document the building process so that other people could copy the robot.
    • Here are some Instructables Robot Drummers:
    • The robocross Robot Drummer - I mentioned this in the community call Robot Drummer
      • I can make contact with Robocross and find out what their booking needs and costs are. If nothing else we can make a video talking about how they learnt to build robots and tips for people starting out.
    • The Trons - a robot band from New Zealand The Trons
  • Open space session about Drumbeat or even the whole thing (Learning, freedom and the web) --Esenabre 09:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Speed dating but not people but project centred, where instead of talking about yourself you have to talk about your projects or the ones you're involved in.
  • stolen from drumbeat nyc ideas
    • -four clearly delineated segments -culminates in solutions -accept donations? -lots of interactivity/ARG -party poppers and black lights -jargon horn (and jargon cloud) -opposite hour -portal to boston (where else?) -recursive leaderboards, nametags, stamps -prizes, online and off
    • not another boring tech meet up -we're bringing fresh blood in -prizes to bring a friend -fun, surprising, unexpected -entertaining; moderation is spontaneous like UCB theater -atmosphere of entertainment; neon dinosaur at entrance -catching ideas and energy and saving them in the dbeat stream
  • music festival/concert/party (friday or saturday night?) with arduino bands (http://telenoika.net, http://luthiersdrapaires.wordpress.com/, etc.), creative commons bands and dj's with reactables (http://www.reactable.com/) in a drumbeat party.
  • on the street, for involving kids and non-tech people, there could be a kind of prototyping party with cardboard. there's this community from Moscow named Cardboardia, they're quite amazing: http://vimeo.com/groups/27676/videos/6812711 --Esenabre 13:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
  • night hacking challenges (kind of facebook garage) for implementing the ideas explained during the day at night with beers and pizza in a nice environment with sofas, etc
  • some technical sessions about what are the new video formats, how they will work on HTML5, etc. or other....

People worth inviting

  • Telecentre.org Academy
  • Sugata Mitra, Hole in the Wall +1
  • Paul Kim, CTO, Stanford University School of Education, Pocket School program
  • Gever Tulley, head of Tinkering School http://www.tinkeringschool.com/
  • Michel Bauwens The Foundation for P2P Alternatives
  • Brian Lamb Edupunk :)

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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.

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