Note: This method requires no command line skills and the RPi simply plugs into your car’s AUX connector. I’m writing the following from memory having done this earlier today! More photos in this Flickr set. What you’ll need This is a fairly cheap setup and a starting point for any further work. I’m considering...
Read more →It’s now almost two years since I started getting involved in the Open Badges community. A lot has happened since then which makes it feel kind of weird that it’s only this week that we’re announcing v1.0 of the OBI (Open Badges Infrastructure). That’s because of the way that Mozilla develops products in the...
Read more →I’m participating in a podcast for Teachers Teaching Teachers tonight. This is to help me to get to stuff I’ve written about Open Badges, quickly! DMLcentral Gaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning Badges for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate My blog What we’re up to with Mozilla Webmaker (Open) badges. An elevator...
Read more →In 'Still a Badge Skeptic' (http://hastac.org/blogs/mres/2012/02/27/still-badge-skeptic) Mitch Resnick, Professor at MIT outlines his concerns about badges: "The problem, for me, lies in the role of badges as motivators. In many cases, educators are proposing badge systems in order to motivate students. It’s easy to understand why educators are doing this: most students get excited...
Read more →At my main blog I’ve been talking quite a lot about the potential for badges to credentialise informal learning. Quite apart from the MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, HASTAC, US Department of Education and NASA-backed DML Competition, there’s an Open Badges infrastructure that people are beginning to use right now. Up until now I don’t think that, collectively,...
Read more →This is the message that greeted me when I woke up this morning. My ‘main’ website when I signed up to Bluehost was historyshareforum.com, hence the reference to it below. I have no idea which of the Terms of Service I am supposed to have ‘violated’. I’m currently looking for a way to transfer...
Read more →Pretty well, thanks. I was planning to submit this Friday, but a couple of things are going to prevent that. First, I'm off to the Scottish Learning Festival tomorrow (which means I won't be able to work on it for a couple of days). Second, I've found more minor corrections than I thought I...
Read more →Over at P2PU I’m organising a semester of learning around Mozilla’s Open Badges project. If there was one for ‘packing up a tent in the dark’ or ‘continuingin the face of adversity’ I’d have a fuller CV this morning. It all started innocently enough. “It’s a lovely day, isn’t it?” stated the four year-old...
Read more →See the full gallery on Posterous I really enjoyed it! Hannah, my wife, bought me the experience for my 30th birthday last December but I’ve only recently been able to find a date which worked for all the family. I have no idea how much it cost, although I’m pretty sure she’ll have found...
Read more →Whilst I would absolutely condemn the violence and criminality that we’ve seen over the last few nights in major English cities, I can’t help but think that we’re narrow-mindedly only accepting one side of a much larger, more complex (and more disturbing) picture. Put yourself in the place of a teenager in modern-day England....
Read more →I’ve been debating on Twitter the reasons for the various riots that are currently plaguing our country. Whilst I’m absolutely in agreement at the shocking and criminal behaviour of (predominantly) young people, I think there’s a wider problem that’s not being acknowledged. That wider problem is structural inequality. “Structural inequality has been identified as the...
Read more →I genuinely want to do interesting stuff when I’m finished my doctoral thesis. What do I mean by ‘interesting stuff’? Apply theory into practice, meet innovative people trying to do cool things, and generally make the world a better place. If the subcontext of the question is ‘Are you going to start expecting people...
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