What’s next for Laura?

June 18, 2015September 7, 2016 Laura Hilliger#etmooc, #teachtheweb, connectedcourses, Creativity, education, leadership, Learning, Mozilla, Open source, open web, Perception, webmaker, Writing15 Comments

TL;DR My last day at Mozilla already happened, but I’m still me. I bring together disparate things to foster learning, spread openness and design for participation. I’m a creative generalist who likes to make stuff, and I’m open to exploring opportunities. About 5.5 years ago I took a broken dream to the first Mozilla Festival […]

Collapsing Open Leadership Strands

June 1, 2015June 30, 2015 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, connectedcourses, Curriculum, education, leadership, Learning, Methods and Theories, Mozilla, webmaker1 Comment

Missing context? Catch up with recent posts tagged with “Methods & Theories”. A couple weeks ago, in the Open Web Leadership call we talked about the last iteration of the Open Leadership Map (OLM) (notice: this call has been changed! New pad + details here). One of the things that we discussed was the idea […]

Iterating organizing structures

May 12, 2015January 18, 2016 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, community call, connectedcourses, Knowledge, leadership, Methods and Theories, Mozilla, user engagement, webmaker, Writing4 Comments

Here’s another stab at trying to nail down the competencies and topics leaders in the open community need to have and an organizing structure for Teach Like Mozilla. I’ve worked in the initial suggestions from the community, and made quite a few new changes as I was sorting and organizing content from across Mozilla Learning […]

Open Web Leadership

May 4, 2015January 18, 2016 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, community call, connectedcourses, Knowledge, leadership, Methods and Theories, Mozilla, user engagement, webmaker, Writing1 Comment

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about an organizing structure for future (and current) Teach Like Mozilla content and curriculum. This stream of curriculum is aimed at helping leaders gain the competencies and skills needed for teaching, organizing and sustaining learning for the web. We’ve been short-handing this work “Open Fluency” after […]

Producing Teach Like Mozilla in the Open (with YOU!)

April 21, 2015January 18, 2016 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, Community, community call, Curriculum, education, leadership, Web Design and Development, webmaker, Writing3 Comments

After fruitful conversations around open fluency and making a commitment (next call April 30th) to think about what that means, while in parallel producing leadership and development content for Teach Like Mozilla, we’ve made some decisions about what is most useful to the overall Mozilla Learning strategy right now. I’m happy to know that once […]

Open Fluency

April 7, 2015January 18, 2016 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, community call, connectedcourses, digital literacy, leadership, Methods and Theories, Mozilla, Professional development, web literacy, webmaker8 Comments

I’ve been thinking about lenses on the Web Literacy Map again. Specifically the “Leadership” component of what we do at Mozilla. In his post, Mark called this piece fuzzy, but I think it will become clearer as we define what “leadership” in the context of Mozilla means, and how we can offer professional development that […]

“Teach Like Mozilla” Development

March 26, 2015July 2, 2015 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, Curriculum, leadership, Learning, Methods and Theories, user engagement, web literacy, webmakerLeave a comment

Creating a catalog of curriculum & educational programming for a project as diverse as Mozilla isn’t exactly easy. We use a variety of pedagogies, we have different target audiences, we are starting from different places. There are semantics, politics, and relationships we have to consider when organizing learning materials and programming. And, a little secret, […]

“Prove that people want to remix curriculum.”

January 13, 2015July 2, 2015 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, Curriculum, education, Methods and Theories, webmaker3 Comments

Easier said than done. Back in the day, my amazing colleague Jess Klein made an epic PDF laying out a lesson plan for what was then known as Hackasaurus. People who teach started using it left and right, and when I saw it for the first time I thought “Holy moly that looks like a […]

Web Literacy Lensing: Identity

December 19, 2014June 30, 2015 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, education, Learning, Learning Theories, Methods and Theories, Mozilla, web literacy, webmaker4 Comments

Ever since version 1 of the Web Literacy Map came out, I’ve been waiting to see people take it and adjust it or interpret it for specific educational endeavors that are outside the wheelhouse of “teach the web”. As I’ve said before, I think the web can be embedded into anything, and I want to […]

Thinking Big and Learning Big

November 10, 2014July 2, 2015 Laura Hilliger#teachtheweb, Blended learning, e-learning, education, Learning, user engagement, webmaker2 Comments

Last week, we gathered ThinkBig program heads, educators, partners and technologists in London to run a workshop on Webmaker and open collaboration. We had a lot of goals for this workshop, but my main objective was this one: Accept one another as a valuable ally and feel confident in reaching out to ask for or […]