Between Wednesday and Friday this week I’ve been at PELeCON in Plymouth. It’s the third time I’ve been to the conference, but was the first time I’ve been invited to keynote it.* Day 1 It used to be possible to fly down to Plymouth from Newcastle, but since they closed Plymouth airport getting there...
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The etherpad I used for this workshop can be found here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/onedaydigital13 On Saturday I was in Edinburgh running a Mozilla Webmaker workshop as part of Nesta’s One Day Digital event. I took my family up with me who spent time at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle and the wonderful park alongside...
Read more →Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges from Doug Belshaw I was too busy presenting and talking to people at the OER13 conference in Nottingham this week to talk to take notes and photos. Slides, however, can be found above.
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This week I’m at the DML Conference 2013 in Chicago, IL. Here’s what I’ve been up to – more photos are available in this Flickr set. Day 0 My flight from Newcastle to Chicago (via London Heathrow) got off to a good start when I was upgraded to a Premium Economy seat. Space for...
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I’m at SXSWedu this week, presenting on Monday with Kathleen Stokes from Nesta on Supporting a Generation of Digital Makers. Here’s what I’ve been up to… Day 0 I flew on Sunday from Newcastle airport to Austin, Texas via London Heathrow and Dallas. It was reasonably uneventful, but checking in late meant I sat...
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For the third time in 10 days I was down in London today. This time it was for the third annual Whole Education conference. For those who don’t know, Whole Education is “a partnership of like-minded individuals, schools and organisations that believe that all young people should have a fully rounded education, developing the...
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(images from MozFest) This is the story of two festivals. I’m doing it this way instead of separate posts for two reasons: first, for the very pragmatic reason that I’ll never get round to writing more than one post; and second, it’s interesting to compare and contrast two education-related festivals. I’m writing this in...
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I’ve spent today in Edinburgh at the Microsoft offices at Waverley Gate participating in the inaugural Computing At School (CAS) Scotland conference. It was a great mix of teachers (predominantly), academics and people from industry. I suppose I’d self-identify as being a member of all three groups, really. I ran a session on Open...
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(click to see full set) I’ve just spent an extremely enjoyable 36 hours or so in The Netherlands at the World Design Forum. It was held in Eindhoven just before the launch party for Dutch Design Week, to which I was also very kindly invited by John Thackara and Jill Lauret. Accompanying me on...
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