TLDR = your summary of what’s happening with Mozilla Webmaker this week, focused on mentors and builders — the community making Webmaker
- Notes from the last Webmaker community call
- Join the next one
- stay in touch | check out past updates like this one
Make your own webby Valentine
These awesome new Webmaker projects make it fun and easy:
- Show some love — internet style. Make a personalized Valentine’s music video!
- I <3 you like… Remix images in this super cute Popcorn Maker project.
- I *LIKE* you, like you. Got a secret crush? Send ’em this endearingly geeky classroom note.
Finalized Webmaker 2013 plans
We gathered your feedback. We iterated. We shipped. Here are the crystalized plans and roadmaps:
- 2013 status update presentation. Our presentation from the last Mozilla All Hands meeting.
- High level vision, context and goals. Our 2013 plans and goals wiki.
- Roadmaps for…
Pushing Thimble’s envelope
We’re seeing some great new projects that set new bars for what’s possible with Thimble. The new Mozilla Bhopal page above, created by Komal, a Mozilla Rep from India, provides a great template for others to remix and re-purpose.
Malcolm did something similar, building off a template Jess presented in last week’s Webmaker call. Click on his “Webmaker Friends” to link through to his daughters’ pages.
Creating a new “Web Literacy Standard” for the world
How can we create a global standard for web literacy together? That was the question mentors, instructors and educators gathered last week to answer in the first-ever Mozilla Web Literacy standard online gathering.
- Context and goals
- Slides | Audio | Notes
- Introduce yourself. Great thread on the Webmaker mailing list. Connect with others working on web literacy around the world.
Design new Mozilla WebDev badges
- Today is the last day to submit designs for Webdev badges. Post your designs on Flickr using the “webdevbadges” tag.
- Check out designs submitted so far
Planet Webmaker round-up:
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Six seconds is the new 140 characters. Trend analysis on how mobile and short bursts of rich media are coming together in products like Twitter’s new “Vine.”
- Sequencing Web Media. Popcorn Maker as video editor. Weaving multiple video or audio clips into a single experience.
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Localizing Thimble. How to do it. What’s next.
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Webmaker Mentors in 2013. How the maker movement and learning movement are coming together, and what it means for Webmaker this year.
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Webmaker Badges Roadmap. Web literacy badges + the Open Badge Infrastructure and wider badge ecosystem.
- Report-back from a “Future of Badges” meeting with advisors, thinkers and luminaries.
- Webmaking 101: picking the right format for your image. gifs versus pngs versus jpegs, oh my!