Month: September 2014

This week I’ve been:

• Sprinting with the Badge Alliance Working Group for Digital & Web Literacies on our first deliverable – a sample badged pathway for the Web Literacy Map’s Privacy competency.
• Booking a ticket (and my trains) for the OEPS Advisory Forum and Product Launch on 13th October in Edinburgh.
• Writing a blog post for DMLcentral. It won’t be published there for a couple of weeks, apparently, so you can preview it here. It’s about the importance of curating our own information environments.
• Re-submitting a book proposal on Web Literacy for a different series published by the MIT Press.
• Reviewing a proposal for a new Mozilla Learning Center.
• Catching up with Robert Friedman about badged pathways for Hive Learning Networks.
• Playing around a bit more with Sublevel and Known.
• Interviewing people as part of the process of coming up with a v2.0 of the Web Literacy Map. This week I spoke with:
  • Liesl Scheepers (Varsity College, South Africa)
  • Lucy Harris (Mozilla, Canada)
  • Bex Lewis (Durham University, UK)
  • Jane Bozarth (State government, USA)
  • Matthew Willse (Mozilla, USA)
  • Ankit Gadgil (Mozilla Rep, India)
• Starting to synthesize the outputs from the Web Literacy Map interviews, using a SWOT analysis.
• Writing about what work looks like (especially ‘knowledge work’), and the price of expertise.
• Talking with Chris Sessums, Mila Thomas-Fuller and Kecia Ray about modules we’ll be designing for the Ed.D. programme at Johns Hopkins University. It’s early days as we’ll not be teaching them until 2016!
• Getting an overview from Chris Bonfield and Mary-Louise Maynes about a lecture and workshop I’m delivering for students at Bishop Grosseteste University soon on New Literacies.
• Starting planning for the three Mozilla Festival sessions I submitted that were accepted:
  • Toward v2 of Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
  • Learning Analytics (with Adam Lofting & Andrew Sliwinski)
  • Prototypes and Pathways for Web Literacy (with Karen Smith)
• Saying goodbye to my Dad as he heads off to Aspire Academy, Qatar, for a seven-month consultancy gig. It came somewhat out of the blue (he’s been retired for a couple of years) but hopefully we’ll get to visit him when it’s cold here!

Next week I’m at home all week. I’ll be synthesizing and making sense of the 38 interviews I’ve done over the last few weeks for the Web Literacy Map update. From that I want to create a survey that captures a wider set of people’s responses based on a number of proposed changes.

Image CC BY-NC-SA Barbara

This week I’ve been:

• Putting into practice work/life balance. We’ve had the double bay windows replaced as well as almost the entire flooring downstairs ripped up this week. To help facilitate that I time-shifted my working hours from Monday-Thursday to approximate Eastern Standard Time (EST).
• Interviewing more awesome people about the Web Literacy Map. This week:
  • An-Me Chung (Mozilla, USA)
  • David Ascher (Mozilla, Canada)
  • Oliver Quinlan (Nesta, UK)
  • Kat Braybrooke (Mozilla, Canada)
  • Catherine Cronin (NUI Galway, Ireland)
  • Josie Fraser (Leicester City Council, UK)
  • Audrey Watters (Independent writer, USA)
  • Gus Andrews (OpenITP, USA)
  • Ibrahima Saar (EFL teacher & Mozilla contributor, France)
  • Karen Smith (University of Toronto / Mozilla, Canada)
  • Justin Crawford (Mozilla, USA)
• Attending this week’s #TeachTheWeb community call.
• Leading this week’s Badge Alliance Digital & Web Literacies working group call.
• Issuing some Webmaker badges.
• Keeping on top of my email and Bugzilla issues.
• Talking with someone who’s thinking about applying for a job at Mozilla and wants to know what it’s like from the inside. Current listings here for anyone else interested!

Next week is the last week of interviews for the Web Literacy Map v2.0. I’ve very much enjoyed interviewing people, but it’s time-consuming! I’m looking forward to the synthesis stage in preparation for MozFest.

Image CC BY-NC-SA Guy Fawkes