Tag: PELeCON

Roundup of some stuff I’ve been involved with recently

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Doug Belshaw

The following things didn’t really warrant a blog post in their own right, but I thought they were worth sharing somewhere on this blog.

1. Nesta ‘One Day Digital’ video

I ran a Mozilla Webmaker workshop in Edinburgh on Easter Saturday as part of Nesta’s One Day Digital series of events. The video they produced afterwards is below and I make a brief appearance at around 1:00. Check out that beard!

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One Day Digital events from Nesta UK on Vimeo.

2. Connected Learning TV

I’ve appeared on a number of these webinars and the archive is a CPD resource in its own right. This time I was standing in for Howard Rheingold as host. Interesting stuff about Liz Lawley’s attempts to add a ‘gaming layer’ on top of the university curriculum:

3. Open Badges presentations

I presented at SETT, the Swedish equivalent of BETT, last week. My presentation, along with one from PELeCON the week before can be found below. Unfortunately, the animated GIFs are not so animated on Slideshare, so click here if you want to see them in action!

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Mozilla Open Badges: past, present and future from Doug Belshaw

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A History of Open Badges through the medium of animated GIFs from Doug Belshaw

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Weeknote 16/2013

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Doug Belshaw

This week I’ve been:

Catching up with emails after being at PELeCON the week before.
Talking to people about aligning with the Web Literacy standard
Creating a new version of the Web Literacy standard grid and descriptors after conversations with Carla Casilli and others
Hosting this week’s Web Literacy standard community call
Working on my presentation for #SETT2013
Commenting on Carla’s badge design principles paper
Travelling to and from Sweden
Speaking and networking in Stockholm at #SETT2013
Booking travel for upcoming weeks
Meeting with people at Newcastle University about Open Badges and talking to the BBC Bitesize team about Computer Science resources

Next week I’m at the Mozilla London for the day on Tuesday and Glasgow on Thursday for badge design workshop. Then it’s Maker Faire in Newcastle next weekend! Can’t wait.

Weeknote 15/2013

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Doug Belshaw

This week I’ve been:

Creating two new grids for Mozilla’s Web Literacy standard work with the community. The first one’s here and the second (updated) one is still just on Flickr at the moment.
Planning my PELeCON keynote presentation. You have no idea how long it takes to collate, choose and organise animated GIFs.
Hosting the weekly Web Literacy standard community call. You can catch up here.
Catching up with people like Laura Hilliger, Tim Riches, Lucy Neale and StJohn Smith.
Editing the Wikipedia article for Open Badges. Only a bit, though. Must revisit.
Moderating a Connected Learning TV webinar featuring Liz Lawley and her work around a ‘gaming layer’ for students and academics.
Travelling to Plymouth by train, plane and automobile (literally) for PELeCON.
Attending, keynoting and running a workshop at PELeCON. The animated GIFs from my keynote aren’t so animated on Slideshare, so you may want to try this Evernote notebook. Photos are here (when they’ve finished uploading)

Next week I’m in Sweden keynoting and running a workshop at the Swedish equivalent of BETT. Better get planning…