What an amazing week!

Last week members of the Mozilla community met in beautiful Whistler, BC to celebrate, reflect, brainstorm, and plan (and eat snacks). While much of the week was spent in functional teams (that is, designers with designers and engineers with engineers), the Mozilla Learning Network website (known informally as “Teach”) team was able to convene for two meetings—one focused on our process, and the other on our roadmap and plans for the future.

Breakthroughs

From my perspective, the week inspired a few significant breakthroughs:

1. The Mozilla Learning Network is one, unified team with several offerings. Those offerings can be summarized in this image: Networks, Groups, and Convenings.The breakthrough was realizing that it’s urgent that the site reflects the full spectrum of offerings as soon as possible. We’ve adjusted our roadmap accordingly. First up: incorporate the Hive content in a way that makes sense to our audience, and provides clear pathways for engagement.
2. Our Clubs pipeline is a bit off-balance. We have more interested Club Captains than our current (amazing) Regional Coordinators can support. This inspired an important conversation about changes to our strategy to better test out our model. We’ll be talking about how these changes are reflected on the site soon.
3. The most important content to localize is our curriculum content. To be fair, we knew this before the work week, but it was definitely crystallized in Whistler. This gives useful shape to our localization plan.
4. We also identified a few areas where we can begin the process of telling the full “Mozilla Learning” story. By that I mean the work that goes beyond what we call the Mozilla Learning Network—for example, we can highlight our Fellowship programs, curriculum from other teams (starting with Mozilla Science Lab!), and additional peer learning opportunities.
5. Finally, we identified a few useful, targeted performance indicators that will help us gauge our success: 1) the # of curriculum hits, and 2) the % of site visitors who take the pledge to teach.

Site Updates

I also want to share a few site updates that have happened since I wrote last:

• The flow for Clubs has been adjusted to reflect the “apply, connect, approve” model described in an earlier post.
• We’ve added a Protect Your Data curriculum module with six great activities.
• We added the “Pledge to Teach” action on the homepage. Visitors to the site can choose to take the pledge, and are then notified about an optional survey they can take. We’ll follow up with tailored offerings based on their survey responses.

Questions? Ideas? Share ’em in the comments!

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