Mozilla Festival 2012: Making, Freedom and the Web
Thrilled to again lead the Mozilla Festival, and a yearly celebration of learning and innovation for and with the web. The event will take place in London, November 9 -11. “We want everyone to tap the...
View ArticleImprov Facilitation: Playful Devices
Improv theater seems like it has a lot to offer, not only for entertainment, but for learning and facilitation. I’ve been noticing how improv theater influences US comedy. There’s the quirky and...
View ArticleEmpowering women through equitable access and web literacy
Recently I had the honor of speaking at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, co-hosted by UNESCO and UN Women. The two agencies interwove their agendas to focus on empowering women through mobile learning....
View ArticleDesign Frictions: Cookbooks and Scribblers
This week, after Jon’s mad tour of SXSW, we started talking about event documentation. Via Beatrice, I’ve been reading the incredible Allied Media Conference guide on how they run their event. What I...
View ArticleLearning about Peer Learning: Things Kamp
This weekend I had the pleasure to join Things Kamp 2015, organized by TechSoup Europe, in Istanbul. The event was the culmination of a series of projects on social technology. It was fascinating to...
View ArticleJunior Lab Berlin
During the Easter holidays, Sven Ehmann (@se_etc) organized an incredible camp for kids to tinker with technology called Junior Lab.. Over the course of several days, young people were first...
View ArticleWalled Empires, Zero-Rating and Web Literacy
re:publica is like a gravity well for the Internet scene in Europe. The event grows every year and has inspired the entire city of Berlin to host fringe events as well. If you care about tech and...
View ArticleThingsCon Takeaways
This May Berlin hosted the second ThingsCon, a event about the internet of things and this year, refreshingly, about the ethics thereof. Jon Rogers and I ran a workshop called “Design Frictions”, where...
View ArticleScratch Conference Amsterdam: Facilitating Change
I had the honor of joining the annual Scratch Conference, held this year in Amsterdam. I’ll post some reflections about the conference shortly. In the meantime, here are the notes from my talk about...
View ArticleMozfest Pathways: It’s like the London Tube
To illustrate how Mozfest is evolving its program to be more participant-centric, we thought to do quick, visual walk-through using the analogy of the London Underground. Overview When you first look...
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