Seeking Educators Who Get the Web
On the heels of the successful Mozilla Summer Code Party campaign – nearly 700 events in 80+ countries reaching over 5,000 people – and an all-hands meeting of the MoFo (Mozilla Foundation employee)...
View ArticleIntroducing Popcorn Maker
This is re-posted from The Mozilla Blog. We are very proud of our colleagues and excited about the recent launch of Popcorn Maker (which you can try for yourself by clicking on the links at the bottom...
View ArticleWebmaker Mentors in 2013
Cross-posted on Michelle Thorne and Laura Hilliger‘s blogs. AN INFLECTION POINT We’re at an inflection point with learning and making. What was once simmering quietly in makerspaces and classrooms is...
View ArticleMaker Corps Meets Mozilla Hive NYC
This is re-posted from the Maker Education Initiative blog. Hive NYC will be a Maker Corps Host Site this year, so this post tells a little about who we are and what’s in store for Maker Corps members...
View ArticleCan Digital Media Move Teens Off the Couch?
This is a guest post by Maibe Ponet, Senior Director of Digital Fitness Innovation at the YMCA for Greater New York. We wanted to take a moment to share our impressions of how digital media and...
View Article#teachtheweb
This is re-posted from Michelle Thorne’s blog. Please join us in exploring how we might use Twitter as a Webmaker Mentor marketplace. We’d like to help connect those who need certain skills or...
View ArticleJoin us to #teachtheweb
Next Thursday, May 2, Mozilla is kicking-off a free online collaborative course to explore new ways of teaching digital literacies through making and learning together. It’s called Teach the Web: A...
View ArticleHow My STEM Project Led Me to The White House
This is a re-post from the Hive column on Huffington Post Teen. By Zainab Oni I attended the White House Science Fair as a representative of my MOUSE Corps team, Hudson High School of Learning...
View ArticleMeet the movement who will #teachtheweb
“Geeky grandmas.” Middle-school teachers. Novelists. Programmers who have never taught anyone before. Science museum managers. Former girl scout hacker sailing enthusiasts. Secret superheroes in the...
View ArticleWebmaking as Connected Learning
Connected Learning wants to revolutionize the way people learn. How can Webmaker be a part of that movement? Inspired by last week’s Teach the Web focus on remix and connected learning, this post...
View ArticleWe want you to break things
When you think about it, the idea behind “view source” is incredible. Not only can you, with the click of a button, instantly reveal a site’s code; you can copy, paste, tweak and make that code into...
View ArticleWhy we work in the open
People often wonder what working in the open is all about. Mozilla’s Matt Thompson wrote a great post that describes one of the goals of working open as “surfacing what’s needed to enable smart...
View ArticleReMo Camp 2013: Recap for Webmakers
Michelle Thorne, manager of Mozilla’s Global Mentor Network, recently had the privilege of participating in the annual ReMo Camp, a gathering of the ReMo Council members and Mentors, to discuss and...
View ArticleMozBus takes webmaking on the road
The Mozilla Factory in Japan recently unveiled what is possibly the coolest webmaking tool yet: the Mozilla Bus! The MozBus (as it was instantly nicknamed) exists to deliver the web to anyone, anytime,...
View ArticleThe biggest Mozilla Festival yet
Last weekend nearly 1,500 web experts, journalists, artists, educators and hackers came together for our fourth annual MozFest — our biggest yet. Participants spent an amazing three days brainstorming...
View ArticleEvolving and growing Webmaker community calls
Mozilla works open. Community calls are one of the principal ways we do that, regularly meeting with community to share, contribute and co-build. We’re making some changes to how we organize community...
View ArticleWebmaker Experiments with Brackets
One of the research projects underway in Webmaker is an effort to leverage Adobe’s open source web editor, Brackets, within our tools. We’ve written previously about this in the context of Thimble...
View ArticleMaker Party 2014 kick-off events
Last week, Mozilla kicked off Maker Party in style with events around the world that featured hands-on making, learning, collaboration and of course fun! Mozillians in 13 Mozilla spaces around the...
View ArticleWebmaker and the MDN team up
Mozilla WebMaker and the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) are both projects that focus on the importance of web literacy. They do so in different ways, with Webmaker focused on teaching the web through...
View ArticleTeaching And Learning In 2014, As Told By Our Community
As the year comes to a close, we’re feeling extremely grateful for the many individuals who have been able to learn, teach others and contribute to our tools, products and curriculum in 2014. Whether...
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