More of our favorite MozFest Photos
Coding for Teens
There’s lots happening for youth at Mozilla. Make your own web comics, build a hackable game, become a Popcorn reporter, or learn a little code just for the fun of it. At this year’s MozFest, teens had the opportunity to mess around with Scratch, do some playtesting, and geek out with Young Rewired State, Coder Dojo, Black Girls Code, Radio Rookies, the London Zoo and more.
Check out “Superheroes of MozFest” a gripping three-minute video about a new species of humanoid—the Webmaker. This collaboratively-produced video montage provides insight into the webmaker’s habits, characteristics, and habitat by profiling a handful of individuals participating in MozFest, an annual gathering that attracts hominids interested in learning about, and playing with, the future of the World Wide Web.
Teens worked together with WNYC Radio Rookies, Global Action Project and REV- to remix footage from nature docs, interview characters from within the halls at Ravensbourne and help tell a story about MozFest unlike any other previously told.
Source Code for Journalism
Pushing news on the web forward
Join journalists, developers and the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellows to work on next-generation web solutions that solve real problems in news. From data journalism, location-based storytelling and the second screen to data visualizations, citizen video and yes… robots.
- Get involved with Knight-Mozilla OpenNews. With news partners like the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times and more.
- Check out Source. Our new home for sharing journalism code and software projects for news.
- Meet the OpenNews fellows. From 2012 or the brand new 2013 fellows.
Hacktivate Learning
Teaching the world digital literacy and webmaking
We’re in the early stages of building a Mozilla Webmaker program for educators called Hacktivate Learning. In 2013, Mozilla will be engaging people who are dedicated to teaching and learning with the web. If you are motivated to teach something to others or help people 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.
We are asking educators who are motivated by the concept of the “4th R”, web literacies, an open ethos, and the Webmaker mission, to help further conceptualize and design how we will Hacktivate Learning!
- Dive into HiveNYC’s MozFest recap - the best place to get a handle and get started!
- Join our new “Hacktivate Learning” instructor community.
- Check out Webmaker projects or contribute your own.
- Join the conversation on #Hacktivate or the Webmaker newsgroup
Let’s work together
Mozilla Webmaker is a “big tent” for teaching the world the web.Together we’re building software, projects, badges and events that spread digital literacy through making and sharing. We’d love for you to get involved, or to help you with your own work. Here’s how.
Get involved with
VisionOn.tv interviewed Simon Klose about Linklib and his documentary “TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from the Keyboard” during Mozfest.
“I have this problem as a filmmaker. I want to give people more stories, extra material and at the same time insert the crazy large online piracy debate into the film.”
“In my search to do that i found this amazing technology called popcorn.js, developed by this internet loving company, Mozilla. I was really struck by it’s power to deepen stories (…) but at the same time i didn’t want anything distracting in my frame.”
“So we built a system were we can send time synced links to the audiences’ phones, tables and second screens. This way the audience can choose for themselves if they want to watch the information during or after the film.
Head on to Linklib.org, fill your favorite youtube clips with links and send them to a phone. We’re still in beta, but do tweet us at @linklib_ if you want an invite!
Photos from Day One, MozFest 2012.
Photography by Paul Clarke.
See more of our favorite photos from MozFest here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozilladrumbeat/favorites
Here’s a DIY video produced by WNYC Radio Rookies at MozFest, to teach others how-to remix a website using X-Ray Goggles. Thanks to @HeatherPayne for the vocal stylings!
In an amazing feat of webmaker collaborations, educators and youth from Global Action Project partnered with Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper and others to bring their analog media history timeline into the digital age using Thimble AND Popcorn!
This prototype highlights significant events in history as they pertain to personal experiences and media. It’s part of a bigger effort to engage youth in NYC around charting the media’s role in political, economic, and social movements, a project for which they recently received funding from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in the New York Community Trust.
Here’s the team that made it happen:
And here’s more from Emma on how they approached their challenge.
The folks from REV- produced a mini anthropological documentary about webmakers at Mozilla Festival using Popcorn! Here’s the team responsible for chronicling these fascinating creatures!
Scenes from Hacktivate Learning, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Building hacktivities, creating an open schools handbook for teachers, making a media history timeline in Popcorn, chronicling the superheroes of MozFest, developing materials to help grandma - and others- learn about the web, illustrating, post-it making, remixing, connecting…
Human API for Hive @Heatherpayne making “How to install X-ray goggles to hack websites — hackasaurus” video! At #hacktivate with @radiorookies @hivelearningnyc Come on over and make your own popcorn diy
(via hacktivatelearning)
This curriculum (a remix of the Hackasaurus Hacktivity Kit with a focus on STEM) offers a free, engaging, web-based model to teach kids how to remix the web in out-of-school time.
I learned Thimble, Popcorn and X-Ray Goggles in 10 minutes!
| — |
DJ from Internews (via hacktivatelearning) (via hacktivatelearning) |
