As generated by you in yesterday’s Mozilla Learning call — in about 10
minutes.
http://mzl.la/impact_stories
—Matt
Impact Stories: who are we reaching with our work?
*Sue Smith
<
https://blog.webmaker.org/hacking-mozillas-stories-for-local-impact>,
community member* — used her knowledge as a community member and contractor
to start a new project, remix our stuff and apply for a grant.
*Diwanshi* — ran a train the trainer event for women
<
https://diwanshi.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/day-2-at-community-education-for-mozilla-women-in-technology/>
in her community to talk about teaching and education. Made this kit of
digital footprints
<
https://diwanshi.makes.org/thimble/MjAzODM2NjcyMA==/information-footprint>
to share with her attendees.
*Best Britta Badour <
https://missbrittab.wordpress.com/about/>* — teaches
young people using spoken word, and is starting to bring our work into her
after school programming
Best Britta Badour
*Mozilla Japan* — our work with them recently won a big award at a teaching
event
<
http://en.mozillafactory.org/post/128019803089/co-mozilla-lab-won-the-highest-award-at-6th>
*Margaret Low —* a UK educator and MozFest volunteer, joined a team to
co-host the Scratch Conference. Now exploring EU-funding and volunteer
organizing to grow web literacy work regionally.
*Bastian Gruber, community member * — tweeted
<
https://twitter.com/bastiangruber/status/640498319740010497> about using
the new Thimble postcard activity to teach HTML and CSS at a web
development workshop for artists in Berlin
*Yonggang Zhang, Mozilla Rep* — asked for suggestions about upcoming Web
Literacy lessons, got help from his mentor Irvin Chen and access to
these teaching
activities <
https://teach.mozilla.org/activities>.
*Madeleine Bonsma — *Mozilla Science Study Group lead at the University of
Toronto, planned out a semester of open science lessons with 10 others.
“What a time to be alive!” –Madeleine Bonsma, open science enthusiast
*Marina Malone* — a high-school student inspired to contribute to the “Ride
With Me” open-source app project in Chicago
“The web is a hub for collaboration, and it can be used to find people who
genuinely want other people to succeed.” —*Marina Malone*
*Melissa Mark Viverito, NYC Council Speaker —* framed digital access as
digital literacy across the five boroughs for constituents and residents.
*CoderDojo attendees* — “a parent told me about how she was using our tools
with her kids at home after our first meeting in May.”
*James* — emailed
he...@webmaker.org seeking educational tools for his
students, and discovered the new Thimble <
https://thimble.webmaker.org/>.
“We learn by teaching. There is no better professional development.” —
jgregmcverry <
http://jgregorymcverry.wordpress.com>
*The Coding Space* — were able to immediately connect to at least four
other people in NYC and collaborate/work with them in the immediate future.
*Erika’s sister* — in thinking about a proposal for MozFest, was able to
apply the practice of working open to her science work.
*Matt’s brother *— as a volunteer blogger / contributor, he’s gaining
skills and experience that can help him get a job.