Weeknote 30/2016
This week I’ve been:
- Sending out Issue #225 of Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel, my weekly newsletter loosely focused on education, technology, and productivity. This one featured what learning looks like, augmenting humans, and the psychological benefits of writing.
- Recording and releasing Episode 59 (‘LA Love’) of Today In Digital Education, my weekly podcast with co-host Dai Barnes. We discussed alcohol, web ethics, encrypted chat apps, what learning looks like, typing, privacy, the dark web, team formation, and doing small things with great love. This is the last episode until after the summer break, but you can always discuss TIDE in our Slack channel!
- Spending the first half of the week in Los Angeles. I keynoted and participated in the Corona-Norco Unified School District’s Summer Institute on Digital Badging. My slides can be found here and I used Periscope to livestream/record my presentation (skip to around 03:45).
- Taking Audrey Watters and Kin Lane out for lunch at a Mexican restaurant near their home in Hermosa Beach. It was so good to catch up with them, and we ate all the things while putting the world to rights…
- Driving around LA in a Dodge Charger. Its 3.6 litre V8 engine is a bit more powerful than our Toyota hybrid back home, let’s put it that way!
- Meeting Steve Ruger and others from Educators Co-op. Not only were they great people, but it’s so encouraging to see another education-related co-operative flourishing.
- Working on case studies (to be used externally) and short videos (to be used internally across the City & Guilds Group) for Digitalme.
- Submitting one of three proposals We Are Open Co-op have planned for the Mozilla Festival (closing date: Monday 1st August)
- Booking the Eurotunnel and our first campsite in France for Team Belshaw’s month-long adventure in Europe!
- Meeting Tony Venus from The Tech Partnership about overlapping areas of interest (digital skills, badges)
- Writing:
- Why brand will always trump process (25th July 2016)
Next week I’ll be on holiday. And the week after that. And the week after that. And, er, the week after that…
