Take us back to the future
Mozilla is turning 15 years old, and the web has come a long way since then.
Take us back in time with Popcorn Maker and show us what the web was like for you 15 years ago. Then give us a glimpse into the future and show us the web you want to be a part of 15 years from now.
Tweet out yours with #webstory!
About this project:
- Level: Intermediate
- Topic: Audio, Design, Internet culture, video
- Skills: Design, Remix
Try it out:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/back-to-the-future
Show off your favorite things
Mozilla is celebrating our 15th birthday by sharing 15 things we love about the web.
Go ahead and edit the page to show off the 15 things you love about the web. Or style up the page with your own graphics and change it to something else you love.
Tweet out yours with #webstory!
About this project:
- Level: Beginner
- Topic: Blogging, Web Design
- Skills: Thimble
Try it out:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/favorite-things
15 Years of a Better Web
Mozilla exists to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet. We’ve been doing it for 15 years and the following 15 facts offer a look at who we are, including some of our biggest achievements and milestones. But in some ways we’re just getting started, exploring new technology, entering new areas and reaching new users every day.
Find out 15 facts about Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute
Swapjack the sound to change the meaning
Have you ever noticed how much audio can affect a story?
With the right music, even the most boring footage can seem dramatic. Add the sound of crickets after a joke, and suddenly the whole room feels awkward.
Using Popcorn Maker, it’s easy to remix and add new meaning to just about anything. Here’s how:
Try the project:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/change-sound
about this project:
- Level: Beginner
- Topic: Audio, Internet culture, Memes, Viral, video
- Skills: Remix, Video
Create your own microgame with Playtin.com
Making games is fun, and not as hard as you might think. Playtin is a platform that can bring your game ideas to life without having to know how to code.
Playtin makes it easy to create simple games, which last between 5 and 30 seconds and can be played by mouse.
Follow the next steps, to create your first microgame…
Try the project:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/micrograme
about this project:
- Level: Intermediate
- Topic: Game design
- Skills: Design
Make an open source HTML5 game
Did you know it’s possible to make a game on the web using just HTML5? You can even build it with free and open source software.
Here’s some tips to get started…
Try the project:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/html5-game
about this project:
- Level: Advanced
- Topic: Game design, How-To
- Skills: CSS, Design, HTML, Javascript
Play a joke on your friends
Wouldn’t it be funny trick your friends into thinking their face is on the homepage of Google?
How about the front page of the New York Times?
With X-Ray Goggles, you can remix any page on the web and learn a little code along the way.
Try the project:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/play-a-joke
about this project:
- Level: Beginner
- Topic: Games, Internet Culture, Memes
- Skills: HTML
Help the alien fit in with humans
Keeaokchek has studied the human beings from afar since early alienhood. Now he has come to Earth to meet the human beings and learn first hand about their culture. In order to do so, Keeaokchek needs to blend in so that the FBI doesn’t find out he’s here.
Use your CSS skills to dress Keeakochek in, ahem, more human clothes and help him avoid Area 51.
Try the project:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/help-the-alien
about this project:
- Level: Intermediate
- Topic: Web design
- Skills: CSS, HTML
Thanks to Anne Hilliger of the Webmaker community for contributing this project.
Create a six word memoir
The National Writing Project wants to help you write a beautiful six-word memoir while learning the HTML & CSS that goes into making the page.
Six-Word Memoirs were first started by Smith Magazine as an online challenge in 2006: Can you tell your life story in six words?
We challenge you to do the same thing here through your own Thimble project. The words and narrative can be beautiful in their ability to convey a great deal of meaning with so little text. As novelist Henry Green once said, “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
Try it:
https://webmaker.org/en-US/projects/six-word-memoir/
Open Badges is a new online standard to recognize and verify learning. A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allow you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through a credible organization. And because the system is based on an open standard, you can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of your achievements — both online and off. Display your badges wherever you want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning.
Ten things to know about Open Badges:
- Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary — it’s free software and an open technical standard. That means any organization can create, issue and verify digital badges, and any user can earn, manage and display these badges all across the web.
- Open Badges knits your skills together. Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other, joining together to tell the full story of your skills and achievement.
- With Open Badges, every badge is full of information. Each one has important data built in that links back to the issuer, the criteria it was issued under and evidence verifying the credential — a feature unique to Open Badges.
- Open Badges lets you take your badges everywhere. Users have an easy and comprehensive way to collect their badges in a backpack, and display their skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, their websites and more.
- Individuals can earn badges from multiple sources, both online and offline, and manage and share them using the Open Badges backpack. Today, we’re launching with the Mozilla backpack — other organizations will be able to use Open Badges to make their own backpacks later this year.
- Open Badges make it easy to get recognition for the things you learn, both online and off. Open Badges includes a shared standard for recognizing your skills and achievements — and lets you count them towards an education, a job or lifelong learning.
- Open Badges make it easy to give recognition for the things you teach. Anyone who meets the standards can award badges for skills or learning.
- Open Badges make it easy to display your verified badges across the web. Earn badges from anywhere, then share them wherever you want—on social networking profiles, job sites or on your website.
- Open Badges make it easy to verify skills. Employers, organizations and schools can explore the data behind every badge issued using Mozilla Open Badges to verify individuals’ skills and competencies.
- Open Badges is free, open to anyone to use and part of Mozilla’s non-profit mission. Open Badges is designed, built and backed by a broad community of contributors, such as NASA, Smithsonian, Intel, the Girl Scouts, and more. The open source model means that improvements made by one partner can benefit everyone, from bug fixes to new features.
Learn more:
http://openbadges.org
Introducing Open Badges 1.0
Get recognition for learning that happens anywhere.
Share it on the places that matter.
Today we’re extremely proud to release Mozilla Open Badges 1.0, an exciting new online standard to recognize and verify learning. Open Badges makes it easy to…
- earn badges for skills you learn online and offline
- give recognition for things you teach
- show your badges in the places that matter.
Read more:
http://mzl.la/OpenBadges1
Game On Winner: Best Web-Only Game: Bombermine by Mark Zubovsky, Ivan Popelyshev, Vladislav Kozulya, Stanislav Findeysen from Moscow
“The most Massively Multiplayer Online Bomberman on the web - up to 1000 players on a single map. Right in your browser!”
Play the Game:
http://bombermine.com/#/
See other winning entries & find out more about Game On:
https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US
Game On Winner: Grand Champion & Best Multi Device (same game) : Zumbie: Blind Rage by Jonatan Van Hove, Mads Johansen & Mikkel Faurholm from Copenhagen
”Zumbie is a game about surviving the zombie apocalypse with the help of your friend(s). One player plays as the shooter, who is a blind and limping but luckily has an endless supply of shotgun shells.”
Play the Game:
http://joon.be/zumbieweb
See other winning entries & find out more about Game On:
https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US
