Posts Tagged ‘video’
The Opening
This video puts the opening speeches provided by Cathy Davidson and Mitchell Baker in conversation. It was very empowering to start the first day of the festival with these two amazing women. After this speech all the participating groups pitched their ideas.
My Project: The Video
My goal in doing this project was to create a comprehensive experience from my perspective of what it was like to be in future class and how we moved through the Drumbeat experience. The video presentation above is my primary video piece on the class and covers the experience from 2 weeks before through two weeks after Drumbeat (this website covers the same period of time with a few things brought in from the initial class meeting to put things in context).
I am a tinker-er. The video on this site is also a documentation of me going through the process of learning a new software platform (the video software that shall remain unnamed) through playing and tinkering so please judge kindly.
Other Video Posts
Please don’t miss the Page of Thanks! Without the listed organizations and people none of this would have been possible.
Mozilla Drumbeat?
Mozilla + Learning, Freedom and the Web = ???
One of the unspoken questions I had, and probably the most frequent question from outsiders when I discussed the Drumbeat festival and Future Class, was “what is Mozilla’s purpose in putting on this festival?” or “What is Mozilla up to?”. Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, spoke on what Mozilla is up to during the opening day keynotes. Highlights that addressed this question for me are in the video above.
The bullet points below also helped answer the question of the what and why for me. They originally appeared on Mark Surmon’s Blog on October 31st:
Drumbeat in 3 bulletsMozilla Drumbeat Logo
- Mozilla exists to make sure the internet stays open and awesome.
- With Drumbeat, we’re moving beyond Firefox to build more things that make the web better — not just software.
- We’re doing this by reaching out new kinds of people — teachers, filmmakers, lawyers, journalists. These people will play a key role in shaping the future of the web.
All of this is in line of course, with the Mozilla Manifesto, a manifesto that was required reading for future class.
