(2010-11-30) Mozilla Drumbeat Barcelona

The Mozilla Drumbeat group put on a festival/conference in Barcelona Nov3-5. Sounds like a big EduPunk/Open Education thing.

• ah, this is part of a bigger vision of turning Mozilla into an OpenWeb advocacy group.

Lots of Twitter activity.

Some folks were not happy with the vibe.

Ooh, Simon Buckingham Shum was there. Hmm, his group has some new CoHere tool to create, connect and share Ideas.

Wow, beautiful/gnarly report by Scott Leslie.

Update: Anya Kamenetz is part of a group working on a Learning Freedom And The Web book about it. Here's the current intro: The design brief is to develop new tools and practices that can supplement, optimize, and/or replace the traditional trappings of the education system, from diplomas and textbooks to lectures and lesson plans–the better to serve learners’ needs for learning, socialization, and accreditation in open-source fashion. And amidst the code sprints, why not write a wish list too: What tools remain to be developed to allow learners of all ages to form the questions that are most salient to them, find the answers they need, build skills, and present themselves for a community’s stamp of approval? What allies and teams need to be formed to make these things happen?

• Jan'2012 update: the book is now available. There's a Jan25 launch webconference.