Weeknote 04/2015

This week I’ve been:

• Writing a post for the Webmaker blog on Building version 1.5 of Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
• Visiting Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett and Sue Beckingham at Sheffield Hallam University about our web literacy and Clubs work.
• Added ‘issues’ to improve the Web Literacy Map from last week’s call etherpad to GitHub.
• Discussing an upcoming Webmaker whitepaper on learning pathways with Carla Casilli and Karen Smith.
• Preparing for and leading this week’s Web Literacy Map community call. I wrote this up along with the audio here – and also wrote another inspired by the discussion entitled Ontology, mentorship and web literacy.
• Meeting with Chris Wilde to arrange date/time for our first Web Literacy Club.
• Composing learning objectives for Clubs activities that we’re testing (Kraken the Code and Ping Kong).
• Drafting a post for DMLcentral about learning pathways (tied to the whitepaper mentioned above). This should go live next week or the week after.
• Re-arranged issues part of Webmaker Curriculum repository on GitHub with labels and milestones.
• Replying to various people wanting feedback, me to review their work, or keynote their conference.
• Commenting on the Learning Networks roadmap.
• Writing some other stuff:
  • Your questions answered about Dynamic Skillset, my upcoming consultancy
  • Announcing TWO new e-books: #uppingyourgame v2.0 and an Essential Elements of Digital Literacies workbook<
  • Seven places I find interesting, relevant and useful stuff in 2015
  • Wednesday Wisdom #22: Have Double of Life’s Necessities
  • Volcanoes and ambiguity
  • How do you explain the web to your kids?

I wasn’t at BETT this week. It’s a great place to meet people I haven’t seen for a while and last year I even gave a couple of presentations and a masterclass. However, this time around, my son’s birthday and party gave me a convenient excuse to miss it.

Next week I’m working from home as usual. In fact, I don’t think I’m away again until our family holiday to Dubai in February half-term!

Image CC BY Dave Fayram