Weeknote 09/2014

This week I’ve been:

• Doing some (early) thinking about the link between smartphone apps and web literacy.
• Working out expenses and reimbursements. <yawn>
• Booking travel for the #TeachTheWeb team huddle in London next week.
• Thinking and writing about metrics and learning taxonomies. I’ve written more on this but I’m not ready to share it just yet.
• Responding to a request for where to start with digital literacies (see blog post).
• Moderating and contributing to a NWP Educator Innovator webinar on web literacy.
• Trying out Slack with my Mozilla colleagues.
• Discussing a couple of changes I’ve proposed to the Web Literacy Map with various people.
• Hosting this week’s #TeachTheWeb community call.
• Finishing the first draft of the upcoming Webmaker whitepaper. Karen Smith helped a lot with this, so I’m very grateful. It’ll be available for public consumption soon, probably via the Webmaker list.
• Hanging out ‘Trellbeering’ with the #TeachTheWeb team. It’s a term we’ve invented for an end of the week virtual hangout where we triage Trello tickets while drinking alcohol.
• Responding to invitations to speak at various events. I’m trying to say ‘no’ more and prioritise my time.
• Talking with Cassie McDaniel, Brett Gaylor and Atul Varma about more fully integrating the Web Literacy Map and webmaker.org.
• Reviewing a book (hopefully) soon to be published by MIT Press.
• Discussing potential UK-related Open Badges stuff with Tim Riches.

Next week I’ll be in London for the first part of the week before returning home to do some writing.

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