Mozilla has been developing a new browser-extension technology, called Jetpack, which makes it dramatically easier to modify your web browser. (Well, so long as your browser’s Firefox.) Last fall, they announced a Jetpack for Learning Design challenge, which solicited proposals for education-related Jetpacks. ProfHacker covered the announcement, and subsequently formed a team to build Rubrick, a browser-based way to quickly build, share, and use rubrics for grading online projects. (See an earlier update here.)
The Design Challenge is currently closed for judging, and so I wanted to draw people’s attention to two sites:
- The Rubrick project site, and
- The Rubrick page on the Jetpack wiki
Both give you a good sense of where the code is now, and where we’d like to go with it. I also want publicly to thank all the members of the design team, and particularly Patrick Murray-John (@patrickgmj on Twitter), whose coding skill made so many of our more speculative thoughts reality.
Over the next couple of weeks, Mozilla’s judges will select a few teams to bring to SXSW Interactive, both for an intensive coding camp and for a “Hello, World” moment.
We’re pretty excited about the possibilities of Rubrick: Being able to grade right in your browser, and to quickly see and borrow from other rubrics, would be a big step forward in pedagogy and productivity.
Image by Flickr user martinjetpack / Creative Commons licensed
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