Month: July 2014

This week I’ve been:

• Writing about the soft-launch (finally!) of the Webmaker whitepaper: Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy
• Hosting the latest Badge Alliance working group call on Digital and Web Literacies.
• Taking Tuesday off as a day in lieu after working last Saturday.
• Attending my usual weekly calls. The community cross-team call was, unsurprisingly, entirely focused on Maker Party kicking off on July 15th.
• Travelling to and from London on Thursday/Friday.
• Collaborating with Adam Lofting on learning metrics and proposing a session for MozFest.
• Putting together my presentation for eLearning Development on a Shoestring.
• Attending the eLearning Development event. I learned a lot about e-books from Zak Mensah, my former colleague at Jisc.
• Finishing off a ‘concepts’ page around DRM. I just need to talk to my colleagues on Monday about what we want the calls to action to be.

Original image by Richard Hyde

Next week I’m at home and looking forward to meeting up for a beer on Friday with former colleagues Andy Stewart and Steve Boneham.

This week I’ve been:

• Leading a launch session for my new e-book, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. The recording can be found on YouTube.
• Participating in a webinar on MOOC accreditation and employability. My slides are here.
• Making the final tweaks to the first Webmaker whitepaper on Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy. We’re not publicly promoting it yet, but it’s ready.
• Updating the guidance on the Webmaker blog about how to earn the Webmaker Mentor badge.
• Booking my trains/accommodation for next week’s eLearning Development on a Shoestring event.
• Talking with Laura Hilliger and coming up with a plan for counting ‘contribution’ within Webmaker Training.
• Planning my presentation and and designing slides for the Indie Tech Summit. You can find the slides here.
• Issuing more Webmaker Mentor and Super Mentor badges.
• Getting some advice from Lynn Moore about future Webmaker whitepapers.
• Speaking at the Indie Tech Summit in Brighton, as well as attending the unconference.
• Working with my colleagues to create a ‘designed alliance’ around respecting one another’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. This was based on an excellent New York Times article entitled Why You Hate Work (not that I do!)

Next week I’m taking Tuesday off as a day in lieu for working on Saturday. Then I’m in London on Thursday (meeting with Adam Lofting around learning metrics) and Friday (eLearning Network event).

Image by Cole Peters