This week I’ve been:
- Sending out Issue #324 of my Thought Shrapnel newsletter. It was entitled ‘Two steps forward, one hour back’ and was, as ever, made possible via those who support me on Patreon.
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon-Thurs):
- Participating in a Moodle branding workshop.
- Getting ready for our workweek in Barcelona next week (logistics, booking, etc.)
- Creating ‘job landscapes’ for a couple of potential additions to our team.
- Finalising our approach to user testing of the sign-up process with Outlandish.
- Reviewing the stats for the existing moodle.net with Gavin Henrick and Mary Cooch.
- Adding a bit more detail to the plan about integrating with Moodle Core.
- Working with Mayel on our approach to bounties for privacy and security testing.
- Creating videos for CET Israel as part of the Digital Literacy MOOC they’re creating for teachers in Beer Sheva. It involved me buying a green screen and lights, a bit of a learning curve, and lots of editing. While it was intense work to get finished in time, it was enjoyable!
- Accepting an invitation from Ilona Buchem to an Open Badges workshop in Brussels next month.
- Recording two microcasts, which are available only to Patreon supporters:
- Coming second in a pub quiz in aid of Tearfund. I think that I was the youngest there, so had to lean on the other members of my team…
Next week I’m in Barcelona from Sunday evening to Friday night with the rest of the MoodleNet team and, towards the end of the week, Outlandish.
This week I’ve been:
- Sending out Issue #323 of my Thought Shrapnel newsletter. It was entitled ‘46 hours in transit’ and was, as ever, made possible via those who support me on Patreon.
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon-Thurs)
- Documenting the sessions we ran at MozFest & MoodleMoot on the wiki, and then writing a blog post summary.
- Creating an overview document of how the ’emoji ID’ functionality in MoodleNet might work
- Figuring out the workflow for next week’s MoodleNet sign-up testing (being run by Outlandish)
- Meeting with Gry Stene, Moodle’s new Chief Product Officer.
- Starting planning ‘job landscapes’ for potential contractors around UX / front end development, and community strategy.
- Starting a conversation with team leads about MoodleNet functionality in Moodle Core 3.7 (coming May 2019)
- Welcoming an influx of new people introducing themselves in the MoodleNet forum.
- Agreeing a new meeting structure for our team, which now includes ‘MoodleNet beers’ on a Thursday afternoon! (I work four days per week for Moodle)
- Updating my Moodle HQ and moodle.org profiles (which we should all do, apparently):
- Rewriting one of the seven draft Digital Literacy MOOC scripts for CET Israel. I also created a draft video.
- Booking, and then cancelling our planned We Are Open co-op meetup in December due to availability. We’re all busy people!
- Recording one microcast, which is available only to Patreon supporters:
Next week I’m at home all week, working on MoodleNet stuff and those videos for CET. I’m in Barcelona the week after.
Photo of St. James the Great church in Morpeth taken by me on Friday.
This week I’ve been:
- Sending out Issue #322 of my Thought Shrapnel newsletter (last Sunday). It was entitled ‘Back-to-back’ and was, as ever, made possible via those who support me on Patreon.
- Flying to Denver from London, straight after MozFest, for the US MoodleMoot. It took 22 hours to get there due to flight delays and missed connections.
- Deciding not to move the family to Barcelona, as the salary from the job offer my wife received was too low, and they wouldn’t negotiate.
- Working on the MoodleNet project (Mon-Weds)
- Receiving confirmation that we’ve been successful in pitching for a grant. The money and expertise will help us with a decentralised privacy and security review.
- Running a workshop at the US MoodleMoot. I haven’t transcribed all of the post-its from the session yet, but the wiki page for the session can be found here.
- Confronting some differences in communication styles within our team. This wasn’t easy to deal with as I was away, but hopefully we’ve got it sorted and can move forward.
- Hanging out with Noah Geisel. He interviewed me for #Badgechat and then I interviewed him for a (public) microcast! I’m indebted to him for showing me some fantastic Denver street art.
- Meeting Bryan Alexander in person for the first time. We’ve been in touch a lot via email, etc. so it was good to see him in the flesh.
- Getting back home via plane, train, and automobile. It took 24 hours, even though everything was on time. Why? Because flight times and combinations meant that it was quicker for me to get the train home from London!
- Completing seven draft scripts, at around 6,500 words, for CET Israel in preparation for an upcoming series of videos I’m recording for their digital literacy MOOC.
- Curating interesting things I came across on the Thought Shrapnel blog:
- Recording three microcasts, two of which are available only to Patreon supporters:
Next week, I’m at home all week, working for Moodle from Monday to Thursday, and then doing consultancy work on Friday.
Photo of Denver street art taken by me during a walk with Noah on Wednesday morning.
