Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Mozillians have been beta testing the Kitchen Table format. After reading a lot of good write ups about individual tests (from Joe, Jess, Lainie, Peter… Read More »Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
Mozillians have been beta testing the Kitchen Table format. After reading a lot of good write ups about individual tests (from Joe, Jess, Lainie, Peter… Read More »Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
On Thursday, I did my first kitchen table beta test with friends (all of them over 30 with limited web skills). I started with a… Read More »Kitchen Table Beta with Adults
At Mozilla we’re working on something we’re calling the Webmaker. It’s a couple of things, but at the base level it’s an underlying, consistent toolset… Read More »the Webmaker and the Meat of my Job Description
On Friday I posted the macro-model here, the thing that encases all the Webmaker Skills. This will give you a general overview of how Mozilla… Read More »Web Literacy Micro-Models
First, a contextual clarification: Facilitation is herein used in the context of learning. For me, facilitation is teaching, but there’s a difference in connontation for… Read More »Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
Inspiration for this post is: Mozilla as teacher by Mark Surman When I read the first line of Mark’s post “We need to teach the… Read More »Response to Mozilla as teacher
Today I want to focus on the easy ask. What can you ask your users to contribute that is easy? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?… Read More »Give us the Easy Ask!
Let’s start with a stat: A shitload of people are playing games. Ok, it wasn’t a stat, but in 2007 Comscore found that 217 million… Read More »Game Mechanics and Participation
One thing that I constantly hear colleagues in the Open Web community talking about is the lack of participation on the part of the user.… Read More »Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
The first year at the Producer’s Institute for New Media Technologies, I was a production artist, but I knew something completely revolutionary was going on… Read More »My PI Speech: Looking Back