Booking travel/accommodation for what my team are calling ‘Badge Camp’. It’s a work week up in the mountains in Maine, USA where ‘yoga’ and ‘sleeping in’ sit alongside ‘strategy discussions’ as official agenda items. Win.
Talking to Robin Raymond, the lead developer of Open Peer about Firecloud.
Discussing aligning with the Web Literacy Standard with Paul Allison. I’ve realised there’s an issue for those without developers: most (all?) of the third party platforms lack the ‘alignment’ field in the latest version of the OBI specification.
Encouraging people to sign up for MozFest. It’s the best decision you’ll make this year.
Sorting out my expenses for June. It was a busy month. 😮
Purchasing the firecloud.co domain name and setting up a blog. It’s trivially easy to do these days, it really is.
Inviting the major contributors to the Web Literacy Standard to ‘half-hour hackfests’. They worked really well and I’m thinking of running some more next week!
Meeting with Carla to discuss what’s left to do with the Web Literacy Standard before the beta launch. Also, plans for some kind of ‘contest’ for people to align with the standard in various ways between MozFest 2013 and MozFest 2014.
Talking with people about integrating with the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) as I do every week. 🙂
Taking Friday off to look after my two year-old daughter.
Next week I’ve got meetings but no travel so I’ll be cracking on with getting the Web Literacy Standard ready for the beta launch on July 26th. I’m flying to Maine on Sunday 21st so it needs to be pretty much finalised by close of play next Friday!
Messing about with, and getting used to, my new Geeksphone Keon running Firefox OS. It’s a developer preview but I’ve got it on the expectation that I’ll be ‘dogfooding’ – i.e. using it as my ‘daily driver’.
Trying (and failing) to set up my new 24″ Dell monitor. The different digital display technologies are confusing (e.g. Thunderbolt and Mini-DisplayPort same physical size but are incompatible?)
Answering questions from the community about Open Badges and the Web Literacy Standard.
Talking to Erin Knight about a potential new role for me at Mozilla.
Tidied up and added questions to the Web Literacy Standard FAQ wiki page.
Meeting for coffee with someone who is thinking of joining Mozilla and wanted to know what it’s like working inside the belly of the beast.
Enquiring about the possibility of running another Maker Party (as I did last year) at the Centre for Life.
Meeting up with a teacher at my wife’s school to talk through how they can use Webmaker tools to deliver part of the new Primary Computing curriculum.
Checking out some books that MIT sent me in their Essential Knowledge series. They’ve asked me to put together a proposal for one on digital/web literacy.
Next week I’ve got a bit of a three-day tour of the UK. I’m in Sheffield to run an Open Badges workshop for the White Rose Learning Technologists’ Forum on Monday. On Tuesday I’m in Glasgow to speak at an SQA event entitled Innovations in Assessment for Schools before an epic train journey to Bath to speak at IWMW13 on Open Badges and the Web Literacy Standard. I’ve another three events the week after next as well…
Hosting the Open Badges community call for the first time for a while.
Talking some more and reaching out to various people within Mozilla about Firecloud.
Writing a post for DMLcentral about the NSA, Mozilla and privacy that I hope will go live on Monday.
Claiming back expenses for speaking at recent events.
Meeting with my newest colleague Meg Cole via Skype.
Getting some training on interviews with the media from Erica Sackin.
Participating in a great day of networking, sharing and planning for a new city-wide learning co-operative (potentially powered by badges!) hosted by the University of Salford.
This week I’ve done loads of stuff myself, but my colleagues have been even busier. This week Mozilla has, well done pretty much everything:
Launched a global activism campaign at the head of a large coalition: StopWatching.Us
Launched the 2M Better Futures badge commitment with President Clinton
Opened our new(ly refurbished) offices in Paris and San Francisco
Next week I’m presenting at the Learning and Skills Group (London, Tuesday) and moderating a session on ‘Digital Skills for Work and Learning’ at the EC Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 (Dublin, Wednesday). I’m also looking forward to working with the Mozilla comms team on next month’s beta release of the Web Literacy Standard.
