Knight-Mozilla learning lab - Day One
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The document outlines the agenda for the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab on July 11, 2011, featuring introductions, guest speaker Aza Raskin, and logistics for assignments and tasks. Participants are required to submit various assignments, including an introductory submission and a final project, with homework expectations clearly defined. The lab aims to foster collaborative development of journalistic product ideas, culminating in a hack-a-thon event in Berlin and potential fellowship opportunities.
Knight-Mozilla learning lab - Day One
- 1. Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab July 11, 2011
- 2. Agenda 1:00 PM - Welcome 1:10 PM - Big Blue Button intro 1:15 PM - Lab logistics & assignment #1 1:30 PM - Our guest: Aza Raskin! 2ish PM - Question & answer
- 3. Learning Lab Faculty Alex & Phillip: Chief Scientists Kate, Lingsha, and Pippin: Lab shepherds (be nice, they’re marking your assignments!) Jacob: If you have a question, ask Jacob
- 4. Learning lab fire hose Planet Mojo - planet.drumbeat.org/mojo/ #MozNewsLab on your fav social site Community-Mojo - Mailing list for ‘general conversation’ (500+ subscribers).
- 5. Peer-to-peer University Activity wall - General questions, starting discussions, posting links, etc. Tasks - These are your assignments. To submit an assignment, reply with a comment to the appropriate task. Etherpads - Collections of curated links to helpful resources. Chat - #p2pu-166-knight-moz on irc.freenode.net
- 7. Homework Your first assignment is due today, if you haven’t already submitted it. It’s simple, just introduce yourself. (Bonus points for a video introduction.)
- 8. Homework Weekly assignment: Will be posted each Monday, due the following Friday (oh, okay, Sunday!). You’ll submit your assignment on your own blog and provide a link on P2PU.
- 9. Homework Final Project: We’ll be sending out information on your final assignment later this week. You’ll be expected to put time into your final assignment each week. You’ll be expected to present your final assignment (via your blog) before the end of the lab.
- 10. Next lectures July 13 - 9:00 to 10:30 a.m Pacific Time; 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time; 5 to 6:30 p.m. British Summer Time Speaker: Burt Herman is an entrepreneurial journalist. He is the CEO of Storify and a co-founder of Hacks/ Hackers. July 15 - 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time; 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. British Summer Time Speaker: Amanda Cox is a graphics editor at the New York Times, where she creates charts and maps for the print and web versions of the paper.
- 11. Let’s take a step back... Build an online 'maker space’: A place where people can start hammering on software ideas that could be part of tomorrow's online news experience. Put our foot on the accelerator: Taking a cue from Mozilla's Web FWD initiative (webfwd.org), we want to dramatically speed up the process of taking ideas 'from concept-to-code' by bringing smart people together with other smart people. Demonstrate how to 'work open': actually showing how the idea of working quickly, iteratively, and in the open can lead to better ideas, better software, and better collaboration.
- 12. Let’s take a step back... To give learning lab participants the opportunity to develop a journalistic product idea from pitch to business plan to design document. To apply the concepts learned in the lectures to an idea that benefits the news industry and/or readers. The idea development process needs to be transparent, open, and collaborative.
- 13. The outcome 20 participants will be invited to the next phase of the program. (1 in 3 -- that’s pretty good odds.) Next phase: A four-day ‘hack-a-thon’ in Berlin with our news partners and Mozilla developers. Fellowship: Five participants at the Berlin event will be invited to become fellows.
- 15. Aza Raskin!