Hi Everyone, The Mozilla Drumbeat initiative is an inspirational and important project for our collective work. I would strongly recommend that anyone going to the Barcelona OpenEd conference should do their best to join this event.
Sadly -- I won't be attending :-( -- so perfectly jealous of those who will get to be part of this important get together. Cheers Wayne On 24 June 2010 21:41, Philipp Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear WE community: > > I hope this announcement is useful to some of you. If you are planning > to attend Open Ed in Barcelona, it's the perfect excuse to stay a few > days longer. Hope to see you there. > > Best - P > > > > ** Mozilla Drumbeat 2010 ** > ** Learning, freedom and the web ** > > Save the date: November 4+5, 2010, Barcelona > > Learning, freedom and the web are connected. This connection has huge > potential. The technology and culture of the internet offer the raw > material to put people in control of their own learning in a massive > and transformative way. At the same > time, teachers and learners can play a critical role in ensuring that > these raw materials -- and the internet as a whole -- remain open and > free. > > This is the focus of Mozilla's first annual Drumbeat Festival: > gathering passionate and practical people who are experimenting, > inventing, creating, exploring and building things at the intersection > of learning, freedom and the web. > Sign up for updates: http://drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 > > > * What? Shaping the future of learning right now. > > Drumbeat Festival 2010 will showcase people, ideas and projects with > huge potential. Things like: > > 1. A secure 'data backpack' where students control their own learning > materials and credentials > 2. Libraries transformed into digital garages where kids learn to > make, do and create with an agile, hacker attitude3. Massively scaled > apprenticeship, we people learn by diving into the world of open > source master craftspeople > 4. Hackerspaces where people teach each other about everything from > robots to lasers to knitting > 5. Alternative accreditation models based on web and open source peer > review techniques > > The idea is to gather people working on ideas like this -- and people > with all the puzzle pieces needed to make them real at a massive > scale. Data portability. Open educational resources. Secure, > decentralized storage in the cloud. Open content licenses. Agile > thinking. Open, user controlled online identity. Massive, credible > informal learning opportunities. Passion.- Hide quoted text - > > > * Who? Inventors. Learners. Hackers. Teachers. Artists. You! > > The good news: we have all these puzzle pieces in our hands already. > We just need the right people to get into a room and use them. That's > the spirit of the Drumbeat Festival. > > People and orgs we'll invite to Barcelona include: Web tech companies. > P2P University course leaders. Digital learning startups. > Hackerspaces. Creative Commoners. Online identity experts. > Wikipedians. Software developers. Filmmakers. Web stan > dards nerds. Open web activists. Artists. Web developers. Teachers. > Foundations. And, of course, learners of all stripes. > > > * Why is Mozilla doing this? > > We believe that everyone has a role in keeping the web open and > vibrant. That's why we started Mozilla Drumbeat: a collection of > practical projects and local events that gather smart, creative people > around big ideas that improve the open web > . The annual Drumbeat Festival is a part of this, bringing together > people doing things at the intersection of the open web and other > important aspects of our society. The first Festival will focus on the > connection between learning, freedom > and the web. > > -- > Drumbeat Festival 2010 is being organized in partnership with Creative > Commons, MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the > Advancement of Teaching. If you are interested in joining as a > partner, please email drumbeat-eve...@mozi > lla.org. > > The Festival will take place on November 4 + 5 in Barcelona, with an > opening keynote and reception on the evening of November 3. > > Sign up for updates: http://drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. 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