An interesting thread emerged at yesterday’s Instructor Hangouts – we began by watching an example of excellent instruction from a recent Software Carpentry workshop, for which I only had my perpetual criticism: get the students to do more stuff! Give … Continue reading
Every year we get the opportunity to connect with many great organizations who are spreading web literacy around the world at all times of the year. MakerState, hands-on makerspaces in New York City, is a perfect example. We had a … Continue reading
MozFest is almost upon us, so Abby has created a landing page for the Science and the Web track! There you’ll find summaries of each session, contact info for all the session leads, and links to the etherpads for each … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Fiona Tweedie of the University of Melbourne, and host for one of our upcoming MozFest sessions on Text as Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can follow her on Twitter at … Continue reading
MozFest 2014 Opening Keynotes Speakers at Saturday morning’s opening keynote session: Mary Moloney, CoderDojo Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation Michelle Thorne, Mozilla Foundation
Shoutouts Many thanks as always to our speakers for our monthly lab meeting: Brian Bot (Sage Bionetworks), Aure Moser (a Knight-Mozilla Fellow and contributor to Internews Kenya) and Laura Paglione (CTO ORCID), for their comments on working at the intersection … Continue reading
It’s time for another round of Instructor Hangouts! Join us at our new times this Thursday, October 16 at 9AM and 4PM PDT (UTC-7) to discuss all things software workshop instruction. I received a lot of comments after the last … Continue reading
We recently kicked off the Hive Challenge on Crowdrise , a month-long fundraising campaign to support non-profit organizations that are working to prepare youth for success in a digital age. Thirty non-profit organizations from Hive communities in NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, … Continue reading
This is the eighth post in a series featuring interviews with the 2014 Mozilla Festival “Space Wranglers,” the curators of the many exciting programmatic tracks slated for this year’s Festival. For this edition, we chatted with Paul Oh, Christina Cantrill, Chad … Continue reading
This weekend was one of firsts — first flight, first time leaving the US, first time eating Thai and Indian food, and my first event as a Mozilla Rep. I’m exhausted, and my calves are very sore, but the Vancouver … Continue reading
