Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, a conceptual architect, an open web advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. She’s a co-founder of the We Are Open Co-op, an Ambassador for Opensource.com, is working to help open up Greenpeace, and a Mozilla alum. Find her on Twitter and Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit ([email protected])
2.4.1 Introduction As mentioned in Chapter 2.2.4, content creators (Mozilla) and pilot audiences (formal and informal educators) work together to create interest-based curriculum while the… Read More »2.4 Evaluation Methodology
2.3.1 Overview A summary of how this course broadly fits within Kerschensteiner’s seven relevant functions (Scheibe, 1999) of project-based learning follows. The target audience of… Read More »2.3 Concept
2.2.1 Learning through Making Learning through making is quintessentially a project-based approach to education. The approach values practical learning with work aimed at forming a… Read More »2.2 Methodologies
This educational concept proposes interactive, social, gamified, E-Learning modules for self guided study in combination with real world, collaborative workshops. Embedded assessments are used to… Read More »2 Educational Concept 2.1 Introduction
1.6.1 Defining Web Literacies: The Semantic Argument There have been numerous studies which examine the nuances between differing definitions of so-called new literacies (Pinto, Cordon,… Read More »1.6 Definitions
This thesis reviews and draws from a variety of research and articles from media and education specialists and cooperatives. Dr. Doug Belshaws Eight Essential Elements… Read More »1.5 Literature Review
This thesis uses a pragmatic approach. The goal of this paper is to contribute new ideas to media education through the scholarly review of education… Read More »1.4 Research Methodology
Figure 3: Webmaker programs for specific interest groups The educational concept outlined aims to engage the target audience in four distinct interest groups. Each interest… Read More »1.3 Interest Groups
More and more educational institutions and organizations are beginning to pay attention to the issue of web literacies, but there remain a number of Generation… Read More »1.2 Target Audience
As we move further into the Information Age, the populous is being segmented into varying degrees of digital competencies. As technology shifts and changes at… Read More »1.1 Background and Significance of the Problem