{"id":856,"date":"2013-05-17T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nwp.org\/educatorinnovator\/?p=856"},"modified":"2013-05-17T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:57:49","slug":"projectconnect-empowers-young-web-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/projectconnect-empowers-young-web-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Project:Connect empowers young web makers to make the web a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"

By idecoursy; Cross-posted from The Webmaker Blog<\/a><\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n

On May 9, programmers, designers, educators and learning innovators came together in New York to hack for a better web. The\u00a0Project:Connect\u00a0<\/a>hackathon \u2014 hosted by the MacArthur Foundation,\u00a0Facebook, the Family Online Safety Institute and Mozilla \u2014 kicked-off this year\u2019s\u00a0Digital Media and Learning Competition<\/a>.\u00a0The competition brought together teams to develop prototypes for social tools, including apps, badges, and curriculum in pursuit of a better web. Participants advocate for the innovative use of new media in support of connected learning, using the web for everything from building community support frameworks to gaining better information access in schools.<\/p>\n

Participating partners included Mozilla Hive NYC<\/h3>\n

Members of the Mozilla Hive NYC Learning Network took up the challenge; they included\u00a0City Lore<\/a>,\u00a0Exposure Camp<\/a>,\u00a0Global Kids<\/a>,\u00a0Institute of Play<\/a>,\u00a0Iridescent<\/a>,\u00a0MOUSE<\/a>,\u00a0New York Public Library<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0WNYC Radio Rookies<\/a>. Teams presented their ideas to a panel of judges that included Cynthia Germanotta, co-founder of the\u00a0Born This Way Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(also known as Lady Gaga\u2019s mom); Chris Bevans, Founder of\u00a0CBAtelier<\/a>, creative director for Billionaire Boys Club and MIT Media Lab Fellow; Diana Rhoten, Chief Strategy Officer at\u00a0Amplify<\/a>; Anne Collier, safety expert, on the Facebook Safety Advisory Board and editor of\u00a0NetFamilyNews.com<\/a>; and Dave Steer, Manager of Policy Communications at Facebook.<\/p>\n

Greater freedom in schools and libraries<\/h3>\n

Team\u00a0Emoti-Con<\/a>\u00a0advocated for a youth-led campaign to advocate for gaining access to currently blocked URLs<\/strong>\u00a0at schools and libraries, to provide greater access to students looking to the web for research and for creating web-based media projects. A special\u00a0bookmarklet<\/a>\u00a0would enable youth, parents, students and educators to submit URLs for review, and start a dialogue about which websites should be used for educational purposes.<\/p>\n

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Team Emoti-Con advocated for unblocking URL at schools and libraries.<\/p><\/div>\n

Better internet access for youth<\/h3>\n

Team Truth pitched a new web app called\u00a0Cyberstoop<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0which calls upon local communities to help keep youth connected. Teens would enter their zip code to find local businesses willing to share their wi-fi during after-school hours, providing greater opportunities for access to do homework or surf the web.<\/p>\n

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Team Truth called on local businesses to share wi-fi access with students after school<\/p><\/div>\n

Fighting sexual cyber-bullying<\/h3>\n

The \u201cThat Could Be Your Sister<\/a>\u201d team proposed a youth-led, virtual neighborhood watch on behalf of victims of sexual cyber-bullying<\/strong>. They prototyped a social media bookmarklet that could be used to report images and videos that engage in \u201cslut-shaming,<\/a>\u201d and micro-communities would rally to reach out and support victims. Listen to the\u00a0story that Temitayo and Radio Rookies produced for WNYC\u00a0<\/a>on sexual cyberbullying or check out their complete\u00a0pitch presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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All together, participating youth came up with a great range of ideas for hacking a better web.<\/div>\n
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By idecoursy; Cross-posted from The Webmaker Blog\u2014 On May 9, programmers, designers, educators and learning innovators came together in New York to hack for a better web. The\u00a0Project:Connect\u00a0hackathon \u2014 hosted by the MacArthur Foundation,\u00a0Facebook, the Family Online Safety Institute and Mozilla \u2014 kicked-off this year\u2019s\u00a0Digital Media and Learning Competition.\u00a0The competition brought together teams to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,8],"tags":[61,66,580,76,77,84,110,593,176],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}