Children & Education

We would like to give a big thank you to the people at Mozilla who brought this festival to Ravensbourne. To all the interviewees who gave us rich content, Leon Cych for being a complete professional, the baristas for keeping our energies high with caffeine and all the volunteers who helped out and gave us food! A well deserved shout out to our peers Ravezilla, Mozilla Gaming and Journewlisim for   Read More ...

We were lucky enough to get an amazing interview with the inspiring Mark Surman, who has been the Executive Director at Mozilla since 2008. Read his opinion on education, how Mozilla plan to help children learn better and why he’s so impressed with Ravensbourne! Question: Where do Mozilla stand with the new phase of a Digital Classroom? “Mozilla have really started to look at learning as something that’s important for   Read More ...

As everyone was arriving at the last opening circle, all the learning lab and design challenge teachers were setting up for their last day ahead. We started our day with a fabulous cup of mocha and then sat in on the Data Journalism Challenge on the 6th floor, which was interesting and taught people some useful skills for digital journalism. As the food was so good on the Saturday, Lunchtime saw   Read More ...

We caught up with fellow Mozillian Christian Heilmann, who was at the Browser ID stand. Browser ID is an organisation where a single email address and password will let you sign into any web site on the Internet. Browser ID will verify your email address and vouch for your ownership of it for a “Streamlined one-click experience”. All you need to do is click on your favourite website that supports   Read More ...

Standing live amongst the people at Mozilla I was compelled to the child education area where I stumbled upon a company called ‘AppsforGood.’ I was delighted to meet a young woman called Adizah Tejani. I was engaged in their aims and what they have achieved. Having won numerous awards for their great work. The work they produced with there young pupils is encouraging and they gave the young woman they   Read More ...

It’s the end of day two and what a brilliant day it has been.  The second day of the Mozilla Festival started of with an opening circle talk on the 4th floor at Ravensbourne College. The Mozilla team greeted its guest and informed them of the plans for the weekend ahead. Mozilla really wanted to get everyone involved and stressed this at the circle by reminding everyone that they were not   Read More ...

I talked to Chris Lawrence; of the New York City Hive Learning Network, at the Mozilla Festival to talk about his background in education and if he thinks higher education is worth the time and money… “When I was in college I studied Mass Communications and journalism and radio and I did a lot of stuff with radio and then that sort of took me on a path of doing   Read More ...

The Mozilla Festival is keeping the atmosphere lighthearted and entertaining with their two Mascot’s, ‘The Foxes’.  The foxes are located near the entrance of the festival interacting with the guests and even getting photos with them, from guests that want one. It’s the second day of the Mozilla Festival and The foxes are out again! Check out our photo gallery to see some images of The Mozilla Mascot Foxes.

Peer 2 Peer University is an online learning community, which allows you to learn skills and subjects all for free. It gives the user the freedom to learn what they want when they want and also gives them the opportunity to become mentors and help out others with subjects they might know. Users must create an account, which will store all their educational information. I spoke to John Britton who   Read More ...

This afternoon’s conference started with an introduction to the building and staff at Ravensbourne. The main reason for the conference was to officially introduce everyone to the festival and explaining how the event will work over the next few days. ‘Media, freedom and the web’ is this year’s theme and the first speaker was Mitchel, the chairwoman at the Mozilla foundation, who started by telling us that Mozilla want to   Read More ...