• About Doug Belshaw

    Dr. Doug Belshaw is Badges & Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation. More about him can be found at his About.me page.

    One Day Digital – Mozilla Webmaker workshop

    by  • March 31, 2013 • Conferences • 0 Comments

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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...

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    #OER13 conference

    by  • March 31, 2013 • Conferences • 0 Comments

    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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    #SXSWedu

    by  • March 5, 2013 • Conferences • 2 Comments

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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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    Whole Education Conference 2012 (#worldclassed)

    by  • November 21, 2012 • Conferences • 1 Comment

    Whole Education Conference 2012

    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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    CAS Scotland conference 2012 (#casscot12)

    by  • October 27, 2012 • Conferences • 0 Comments

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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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    World Design Forum (#WDF2012)

    by  • October 20, 2012 • Conferences • 0 Comments

    World Design Forum 2012

    (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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