After a few years of absence, I’ll be at BETT again this year. I’m arriving at lunchtime on Thursday and speaking three times on Friday. However, given my busy schedule over the coming weeks, I can’t stay for the (usually excellent) TeachMeet on the Friday evening.
Where I’ll be and when on Friday (24th January 2014):
If you want to say hello, ping me on Twitter (@dajbelshaw). Want to discuss something specific? Email me and we can have coffee ([email protected]).
(N.B. I’m not interested in promoting products via my blog/social media and I don’t currently have access to pots of funding!)
Image CC BY-NC-SA Ian Usher
This week I’ve been:
- Confirming with the Mozilla Web Literacy community that we’re moving to calling what we’ve created a ‘Map’ instead of a ‘Standard. More here.
- Meeting for an inaugural (virtual) huddle with my new Mozilla #teachtheweb sub-team mates Michelle Thorne, Laura Hilliger, Kat Braybrooke and William Duyck (aka ‘FuzzyFox’)
- Sorting out my travel/accommodation for BETT (I’m speaking three times there next Friday!)
- Hosting the Web Literacy community call. You can listen to the recording here.
- Proposing and writing about merging the Mozilla Web Literacy call with the Webmaker Mentor call.
- Sorting out my expenses from the recent CE21 meeting in Orlando. It was a surprisingly involved process.
- Talking to various people about Mozilla process-related stuff.
- Meeting with Laura Hilliger to discuss Mozilla’s presence at the Oppi Festival in Helsinki (11th/12th April – I’m not going)
- Planning out my slides for my BETT presentations.
- Meeting with colleagues to discuss a refocus of an upcoming Webmaker whitepaper.
- Taking PTO (i.e. a day off) on Friday as I had too much non-Mozilla stuff to do! I took my (nearly) seven year-old son to Kielder Observatory for part of his birthday present.
Next week I’ll be with my wife in Gozo on Monday and Tuesday trying to find somewhere for us to move to for six months. I’ll also be celebrating my son’s birthday and then travelling down for BETT on Thursday and Friday.
Image CC BY-NC-SA Murray Head
This week I’ve been:
- Returning to work after the Christmas break. I took an extra couple of days off so I didn’t have to return last Thursday.
- Travelling to and from Orlando, FL for an NSF CE21 meeting on Computer Science. Mozilla is partnering with Drexel University on a grant around scaffolding computational literacy through tools like openHTML and Thimble.
- Catching up with email.
- Releasing v0.9 of my iterative ebook, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies.
- Writing about why I think this is the year we look beyond the ‘learn to code’ movement and focus on web literacy.
- Scheduling lots of posts on Thought Shrapnel to be auto-tweeted (to make up for the time I wasn’t online while travelling)
- Booking travel for a Webmaker work week at the beginning of February in Toronto.
- Switching from using Evernote to using Simplenote.
- Outlining my BETT presentations. I’m presenting on digital literacies to a higher education audience, and with Tim Riches on Open Badges to the school crowd.
- Packing, packing packing. We haven’t yet got a moving date, but it’s likely to be in the next few weeks!
Next week is my only full week left living at our current house, I reckon. I’ve got so much to do (both Mozilla and non-Mozilla stuff) during that time it’s unreal.
Image CC BY-NC-SA Armando G Alonso
