Month: June 2013

This week I’ve been:

• Presenting and running workshops on Open Badges at a CRA seminar (Monday, Birmingham).
• Meeting lots of people/organisations at the Mozilla London office to explore ways they can use badges. People like Creative Skillset, OCR, Livity and Inspir.ed.
• Booking travel for the coming weeks.
• Running a webinar on Open Badges for Learning Pool (slides here)
• Ordering more business cards. The other ones didn’t turn up and, as 20th-century as they feel, I’m often in a position where I need to give them out.
• Catching up with the audio from the Web Literacy Standard community call, hosted by Carla.
• Hosting the Open Badges community call for the first time for a while.
• Talking some more and reaching out to various people within Mozilla about Firecloud.
• Writing a post for DMLcentral about the NSA, Mozilla and privacy that I hope will go live on Monday.
• Claiming back expenses for speaking at recent events.
• Meeting with my newest colleague Meg Cole via Skype.
• Getting some training on interviews with the media from Erica Sackin.
• Participating in a great day of networking, sharing and planning for a new city-wide learning co-operative (potentially powered by badges!) hosted by the University of Salford.

This week I’ve done loads of stuff myself, but my colleagues have been even busier. This week Mozilla has, well done pretty much everything:

• Launched a global activism campaign at the head of a large coalition: StopWatching.Us
• Launched the 2M Better Futures badge commitment with President Clinton
• Launched Make Things Do Stuff at the G8 Summit in London with the Prime Minister
• Launched new versions of webmaker.org, popcorn maker, thimble and events apps
• Launched the Maker Party campaign
• Launched the Chicago Summer of Learning badge program
• Launched the 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellowship search
• Partnered on the launch of Code Club World with Google and Code Academy
• Launched the Mozilla Science Lab at the White House
• Opened our new(ly refurbished) offices in Paris and San Francisco

Next week I’m presenting at the Learning and Skills Group (London, Tuesday) and moderating a session on ‘Digital Skills for Work and Learning’ at the EC Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 (Dublin, Wednesday). I’m also looking forward to working with the Mozilla comms team on next month’s beta release of the Web Literacy Standard.