Introductions, logistics, and so on from the first learning lab lecture: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/knight-mozilla-learning-lab/

1. Knight-Mozilla
Learning Lab
July 11, 2011

2. Agenda
1:00 PM - Welcome
1:10 PM - Big Blue Button intro
1:15 PM - Lab logistics & assignment #1
1:30 PM - Our guest: Aza Raskin!
2ish PM - Question & answer

3. Learning Lab Faculty
Alex & Phillip: Chief Scientists
Kate, Lingsha, and Pippin: Lab shepherds
(be nice, they’re marking your assignments!)
Jacob: If you have a question, ask Jacob

4. Learning lab fire hose
Planet Mojo - planet.drumbeat.org/mojo/
#MozNewsLab on your fav social site
Community-Mojo - Mailing list for ‘general
conversation’ (500+ subscribers).

5. Peer-to-peer University
Activity wall - General questions, starting
discussions, posting links, etc.
Tasks - These are your assignments. To submit an
assignment, reply with a comment to the
appropriate task.
Etherpads - Collections of curated links to
helpful resources.
Chat - #p2pu-166-knight-moz on irc.freenode.net

6. Peer-to-peer University
Notifications

7. Homework
Your first assignment is due today, if you
haven’t already submitted it. It’s simple, just
introduce yourself. (Bonus points for a video
introduction.)

8. Homework
Weekly assignment: Will be posted each
Monday, due the following Friday (oh, okay,
Sunday!).
You’ll submit your assignment on your own
blog and provide a link on P2PU.

9. Homework
Final Project: We’ll be sending out
information on your final assignment later
this week.
You’ll be expected to put time into your final
assignment each week.
You’ll be expected to present your final
assignment (via your blog) before the end of
the lab.

10. Next lectures
July 13 - 9:00 to 10:30 a.m Pacific Time; 12:00 to 1:30
p.m. Eastern Time; 5 to 6:30 p.m. British Summer Time
Speaker: Burt Herman is an entrepreneurial journalist.
He is the CEO of Storify and a co-founder of Hacks/
Hackers.
July 15 - 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Eastern Time; 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. British Summer Time
Speaker: Amanda Cox is a graphics editor at the New
York Times, where she creates charts and maps for the
print and web versions of the paper.

11. Let’s take a step back...
Build an online 'maker space’: A place where people can
start hammering on software ideas that could be part of
tomorrow's online news experience.
Put our foot on the accelerator: Taking a cue from
Mozilla's Web FWD initiative (webfwd.org), we want to
dramatically speed up the process of taking ideas 'from
concept-to-code' by bringing smart people together with
other smart people.
Demonstrate how to 'work open': actually showing how the
idea of working quickly, iteratively, and in the open can lead
to better ideas, better software, and better collaboration.

12. Let’s take a step back...
To give learning lab participants the opportunity
to develop a journalistic product idea from pitch
to business plan to design document.
To apply the concepts learned in the lectures to
an idea that benefits the news industry and/or
readers.
The idea development process needs to be
transparent, open, and collaborative.

13. The outcome
20 participants will be invited to the next
phase of the program. (1 in 3 -- that’s pretty
good odds.)
Next phase: A four-day ‘hack-a-thon’ in
Berlin with our news partners and Mozilla
developers.
Fellowship: Five participants at the Berlin
event will be invited to become fellows.

15. Aza Raskin!