Mozilla Web Literacy (Webmaker) Workshop

On 30th April 2016, we organized 'Mozilla Web Literacy (Webmaker) Workshop' at GLA University ,Mathura. The workshop was organized by GLAU Firefox Club Lead Miss Monika Agrawal under the guidance of faculty facilitator Mr. Jitesh Kumar Bhatia. Other volunteers also helped us to organize this workshop.

The workshop began with the welcome speech by Club lead followed by workshop inauguration ceremony and motivating words of our honorable Head of Department, Dr. Anand Singh Jalal. He motivated everyone to join FSA programme and start contributing. 

After this club lead highlighted key facts about Mozilla, how Firefox provides best privacy browsing and tracking protection along with how one can sync Firefox on all the devices they have. Apart from this she also highlighted the fact about how we can make cool apps by using Mozilla Webmaker, how we can contribute to Mozilla Developer Network and cool features of Mozilla X-ray goggles. This session highlighted some unknown facts about Mozilla and students were keen to experience the change.

The workshop was taken forward by Mr. Rahul Pradhan, the assistant professor who shared his knowledge about Big Data with the students. With demonstrations and brief explanation he was able to share his knowledge with us. After this our faculty facilitator Mr. Jitesh Kumar Bhatia, the assistant professor took a session on Web Crawling process. This session highlighted many facts about search engines and SEO. He took the example of Firefox and explained how web crawling occurs and how we can track our digital footprints. Mozilla privacy was also highlighted in this session along with a demonstration on how typical browsing experience looks like in Firefox.

We headed for a lunch break after this session. On arrival, all the volunteers along with club lead and faculty facilitator organized a fun game for refreshing students. Winners were given goodies received from Mozilla along with a pen from college. Students showed great enthusiasm during this entire activity.

This refreshed everyone now next session was taken by Dr. Dilip Kumar Sharma, program coordinator and assistant professor about Digital India. All the students and volunteers were greatly motivated by his session. Taking workshop forward, Ms. Anupama Yadav, the assistant professor took a session on Internet of Things. This was something different for students and that were eager to know more about IoT.

This marked the end of our workshop, before the closing ceremony, there was a prize distribution ceremony. All the winners, volunteers, chief guest, honorable speakers and club lead were given a gift hamper which contained goodies as received by Mozilla along with a token of thanks from GLA University. Volunteers ended this workshop by giving a vote of thanks to everyone present in this workshop. Students were asked to raise their queries and join FSA by filling up application form before departing. Everyone was eager to be a part of Mozilla FSA family.

Overall workshop was a great learning experience for all of us. We are looking forward to organizing another workshop in coming semester.

Event reported and organized by: Club Lead, Monika Agrawal.

Mozilla Webmaker Workshop

Mozilla Webmaker Workshop

GLAU Firefox Club organized Mozilla Webmaker Workshop on 17th October 2015. 100 students attended this workshop including student coordinators and faculty facilitator. As a club Lead, Monika Agrawal planned this event and club faculty mentor Mr. Jitesh Kumar Bhatia helped us to organize this event successfully for third year students. 

At 10:00 am we all gathered at venue to mark the beginning of this workshop, Chief guest of this event were honourable head of department of computer engineering and applications, Dr. Anand Singh Jalal, program coordinator of computer engineering and applications, Dr Dilip Kumar Sharma and Mr. Manoj Kumar. Faculty and member of Abacus computer society of GLA University also showed active participation in this event.

Workshop started by welcome speech given by club lead, Monika Agrawal. She invited honourable H.O.D. Sir to inaugurate GLAU firefox club and inspire participants by his motivating words to mark beginning of this workshop.Club inauguration was done and Dr Anand Singh Jalal thanked club members for organizing this event, he than enlightened student about Mozilla and how they all can become Firefox Student Ambassador and start contributing. 

After his motivating words club lead showed video of Mozilla Story available on Mozilla blog, this refreshed the minds of students and they became curious to know more about Mozilla  After this club lead took a info session on Mozilla. She told how students can make cool apps using Webmaker and Appmaker, she also told how firefox is optimised for windows 10 and its advantage over chrome and edge. This was done showing a demo of how firefox can change browsing experience of windows 10 and why we should set it as default browser.

Student coordinators distributed a notebook, pen, mozilla sticker and tattoo to all the participants before beginning with technical session of this workshop.

Now club faculty mentor, Mr Jitesh Kumar Bhatia started technical session on J2EE with brief introduction of  HTML and CSS concepts. He taught students how to create forms, use J2EE concepts, database connectivity and image upload option in their native application. Demo was shown on each topic which made concepts of the participants more clear. At the end of this session question and answer session was held to solve the queries of the participant. After this we headed for an hour break.

We all assembled at the venue after this break, now a fun game was organized for all the participants. In this game we showed images to the participants and they have to guess computer terminology which is depicted by that set of images. 20 set of images were shown to the participants and all the participants who guessed the right answer at first were given prizes. In prizes we gifted them Mozilla Wrist Band , remaining Mozilla stickers and tattoo along with a parker pen.  Chief guest of this workshop were invited for prize distribution ceremony.

After this club lead, Monika Agrawal along with other student coordinator took session on Big Data. Participants enjoyed this session. After this honourable H.O.D. sir asked students their feedback about this workshop and which browser they use normally. Few students preferred chrome over Firefox so they were asked reason behind their choice. After this feedback club lead was asked to provide brief summary of cool features of firefox which makes it better than other browsers. She highlighted features of Firefox like better privacy, cool themes and latest version of firefox. Meanwhile student coordinators asked all the participants to update their default browser to Firefox in their Windows 10 laptop. Club lead also highlighted the fact that Mozilla is an open source community and anyone can start contributing. 

At the end of this workshop we successfully downloaded and set Mozilla Firefox as default browser in the laptops and PCs of college lab. This was done especially for all those who were using windows 10 although there were few PCs and laptops which had linux and windows 7, so same thing was done in them also. At the end everyone was happy and willing to contribute to Mozilla Community. 

Chief guests praised our work and participants were happy. We also asked all the participants to fill feedback form at the end to identify our areas of weakness and expectations of participants from us.

At the end photo session was done and certificates were distributed to everyone who participated and in organizing this workshop.

After reading the feedbacks forms we found that around 80 participants out of 100 preferred Firefox browser over other browsers whereas 20 participants were unhappy with Firefox since they had advertisement popup problem and synchronization problem in Firefox.

Participants were happy with Mozilla goodies provided to them. Mozilla T-shirts were given to student coordinators, club lead and club faculty mentor. Overall this event was a huge success and we all are looking forward to organize next event for Mozilla family across India.