{"id":11495,"date":"2014-06-04T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:41:15","slug":"schoolhouse-rock-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/schoolhouse-rock-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolhouse Rock: highlights from the latest release of Webmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We&#8217;re shipping a new release of Webmaker every two weeks<\/strong>. Here are some highlights from the new &#8220;Schoolhouse Rocks&#8221; release we just completed. It&#8217;s currently on our <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/en-US\/resources\">staging server<\/a> for your testing and feedback, and will be shipped to the live Webmaker.org by <strong>June 16. <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>This release was all about building great content<\/strong>, and restructuring the site so that people can find that content more easily.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Cassie McDaniel, Webmaker UX Lead<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Tell us what you think:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/mozilla.webmaker\">Join this thread on the Webmaker newsgroup<\/a>. Let us know what you think of these new pages and features.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=Webmaker\">File bugs. <\/a>All the work is on staging, so we can get your help with testing and fixing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/foo\">See what&#8217;s coming<\/a> in the next &#8220;<strong>Honeybadger<\/strong>&#8221; release on June13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/3qpxdca9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>What&#8217;s new?<\/h1>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/explore\">New &#8220;explore&#8221; page<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/explore\">&#8220;Explore Webmaker&#8221; page<\/a> provides a quick overview of what you can do at Webmaker.org<\/strong>. Why we did it: the consistent feedback we got from users was: &#8220;before I join or start making or teaching something, I need a little more information.&#8221; This page is designed to provide that. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/ecszk3qg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1064\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\">New &#8220;resources&#8221; section<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>15 new pages with resources, activities and curriculum for teaching digital skills<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s like an open textbook for teaching web literacy and digital skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each of the 15 Web Literacy competencies has their own page, with a mix of the best resources we could find across the web to discover, make and teach. Check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Privacy\">Privacy<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Remix\"><strong>Remix<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Navigation\">Navigation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Search\">Search<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-WebMechanics\">Web Mechanics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Search\">Search<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Credibility\">Credibility<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Security\">Security<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/3cg9rgjk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1299\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Composing\">Composing for the web<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-DesignAccessibility\">Design and Accessibility<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-CodingScripting\">Coding and scripting<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Infrastructure\">Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Sharing\">Sharing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Collaborating\">Collaborating<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-Community\">Community Participation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\/literacy\/weblit-OpenPractices\">Open Practices<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/ymhl_3rq.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"937\" height=\"613\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/test-badges\">Badges are ready for your beta-testing<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The new <strong>Webmaker Super Mentor<\/strong> and <strong>Hive Community Member<\/strong> badges are ready for testing on staging. <a href=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/test-badges\">Here&#8217;s how to help<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/c8zd5flp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1197\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webmaker\/Badges\/Webliteracy\">New web literacy and training badge designs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Using Sean Martell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/File:Mozilla_Badges_project.pdf\">Mozilla-wide style guide<\/a>, we created <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webmaker\/Badges\/Webliteracy\">20 new badge designs<\/a><\/strong> for Webmaker Training and for the web literacy competency pages featured above. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/spa\/6c38yp3crbxni5b\/2g8gf2sl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Simplified IA and navigation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re simplifying Webmaker.org navigation and information architecture<\/strong>. We&#8217;re replacing the old &#8220;teach&#8221; page with the <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.mofostaging.net\/resources\">resources<\/a> page highlighted above. And the old &#8220;Starter Makes&#8221; page will be merged into the &#8220;Gallery&#8221; (coming soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re shipping a new release of Webmaker every two weeks. Here are some highlights from the new &#8220;Schoolhouse Rocks&#8221; release we just completed. It&#8217;s currently on our staging server for your testing and feedback, and will be shipped to the &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/schoolhouse-rock-highlights\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}