Open Thinkering
Doug Belshaw's long-form blog on open educational practices, technology, and digital literacies. 2006–2026.
2,932 posts. Browse by year or search.
2026 (54)
- Intermission
- AI's energy problem is a systems problem
- Archiving my writing
- What my archetypes taught me about how I work
- Weeknote 20/2026
- A brief guide to self-hosting websites and apps using Cloudflare Tunnel
- Cognitive Wallpaper #001: Field Notes on Productive Friction
- What comes after web literacy?
- Weeknote 19/2026
- Beyond Elegant Consumption (Again)
- Literacy-slop
- April 2026: frameworks, friction, and federation
- Weeknote 18/2026
- The end of an era
- My tech disclaimer
- Claude Code used to be the obvious choice
- Weeknote 17/2026
- How a little “productive friction” protects human agency
- Choosing partnership over "certainty theatre"
- Turning polygonal badges into contours of practice
- DOUG.md
- Weeknote 07/2026
- Your data might be in Europe but your risks are not
- New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis
- Why some organisations learn to be less wrong (and others don't)
- Weeknote 06/2026
- Building a 'thinking system' to help you be less wrong
- How to be less wrong in a polycrisis
- Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open (ambiguiti.es)
- Weeknote 05/2026
- January 2026: systems, software, and self
- Claude's Constitution and the trap of corporate AI ethics
- Extending Proton Calendar beyond its limits
- The purpose of your website is what it does
- Weeknote 04/2026
- About
- Why your organisation needs someone “unemployable”
- Why your worst decision probably came from your best analysis
- How and why I've migrated from from Google to Proton
- Weeknote 03/2026
- Cognitive Autonomous Zones: against “framework fundamentalism”
- You are here: mental models for 2026
- You can ask AI to write the code, but the hard part is... everything after that
- Weeknote 02/2026
- Why books are now luxury goods
- Digital colonialism is where jurisdiction matters more than geography
- AGI isn't “coming” – it's already reshaping how young people think
- Cash Value: Katherine Ryan, William James, and... getting on with it
- The uncomfortable truth about getting people off US tech
- Understanding yourself isn't enough
- Helping strangers access the internet
- The strange magic of the third week
- Your mental models are out of date
- 2026: Can't complain
2025 (88)
- Goodbye 2025
- Why I care about running a private, resilient blog
- What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us
- Welcome to blog.dougbelshaw.com
- Answering the 40 questions (2025)
- Books I read (and those I gave up on) in 2025
- My favourite Thought Shrapnel posts of 2025
- My 10 favourite music albums of 2025
- 45 quotations for my birthday
- 5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025
- Moving on from Feedly and rebooting my RSS feed list
- Developing agency among agents via 'hypertextual friction'
- The app paradigm inversion
- Finds
- Programme interrupted: #BelshawBlackOps25
- Weeknote 48/2025
- Weeknote 47/2025
- Organising some thoughts around ambiguity
- Weeknote 46/2025
- Weeknote 45/2025
- Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
- Weeknote 44/2025
- Individual benefits, societal harms?
- Weeknote 43/2025
- Weeknote 42/2025
- I am, essentially, a solar panel
- Weeknote 41/2025
- Weeknote 40/2025
- Weeknote 39/2025
- Weeknote 38/2025
- Weeknote 37/2025
- Weeknote 36/2025
- Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable
- Principles for Open Impact
- Weeknote 35/2025
- Montaigne on the futility of ambition
- Why I re-read Montaigne on a regular basis
- Weeknote 34/2025
- Weeknote 33/2025
- Weeknote 32/2025
- Weeknote 31/2025
- Weeknote 30/2025
- Weeknote 29/2025
- Weeknote 28/2025
- Ethical Licensing for Impact Organisations
- Weeknote 27/2025
- Weeknote 26/2025
- Weeknote 25/2025
- Weeknote 24/2025
- My postgraduate qualification in Systems Thinking in Practice
- Weeknote 23/2025
- AI and the Future of Education
- Marching Backwards into the Future: AI’s Role in the Future of Education
- Weeknote 22/2025
- Weeknote 21/2025
- All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless
- Weeknote 20/2025
- Colophon
- Weeknote 19/2025
- Literacy practices: a matter of community
- Weeknote 18/2025
- Weeknote 17/2025
- Weeknote 16/2025
- Weeknote 15/2025
- Weeknote 14/2025
- Memorialising the TIDE Podcast
- A (proposed) browser-based interoperability layer for digital credentials
- Blogging vs newsletters
- Weeknote 13/2025
- Quickly prototyping a Career Discovery Tool
- Weeknote 12/2025
- What do we mean when we talk about 'openness' in (generative) AI?
- Weeknote 11/2025
- Weeknote 10/2025
- Weeknote 09/2025
- Weeknote 08/2025
- Exploring New Horizons (aka "Hire Me!")
- Weeknote 07/2025
- Weeknote 06/2025
- A little February experimentation
- Weeknote 05/2025
- Ways of categorising ethical concerns relating to generative AI
- Weeknote 04/2025
- Weeknote 03/2025
- A ramble-post about writing
- A chronological timeline of the UK Government's AI Opportunity Action Plan
- Weeknote 02/2025
- Weeknote 01/2025
2024 (239)
- My highlights of 2024
- 2024: Blog stats
- I never said that
- 2024: My year in listening (music)
- 2024: My year in reading (books)
- Backstage blogging
- Weeknote 48/2024
- Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
- AI Literacies are plural and context-dependent
- Weeknote 47/2024
- The case for local economic protectionism
- Calling short courses 'microcredentials' is cringe
- Weeknote 46/2024
- (Digital) bodges and badges
- Weeknote 45/2024
- A working definition of 'AI slop'
- Is authenticity a 'trap'?
- November Nihilism with Keiji Nishitani
- Weeknote 44/2024
- On ghosting in a work context
- On our tendency toward (creative) destruction
- Open Badges for organisational performance
- Weeknote 43/2024
- Aim for a mediocre first impression
- Weeknote 42/2024
- Calling myself into the office: November 2024
- My life is a system to...?
- Weeknote 41/2024
- You're welcome to my exhaust
- How to implement badges for Open Recognition
- Weeknote 40/2024
- Weeknote 39/2024
- Weeknote 38/2024
- Calling myself into the office: October 2024
- Three quarters of the way there
- Weeknote 37/2024
- Weeknote 36/2024
- TB871: Combining five systems approaches
- Weeknote 35/2024
- Calling myself into the office: September 2024
- Weeknote 34/2024
- Digital Credentials: why context matters
- Weeknote 33/2024
- TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
- TB871: The 'eternal triangle' of systemic triangulation in CSH
- TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH
- TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH
- TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries
- Weeknote 32/2024
- TB871: Critical System Heuristics
- TB871: "Anything said is said by an observer": Humberto Maturana’s impact on Systems Thinking
- TB871: "The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea": the ethical and philosophical legacy of C. West Churchman
- TB871: "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer": the life and work of Heinz von Foerster
- Weeknote 31/2024
- TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM)
- An isosceles triangle of wind and racism
- Weeknote 30/2024
- Character is a thing you do every day
- Subscribe
- Weeknote 29/2024
- TB871: Conceptualising myself through metaphor
- TB871: Navigating communication under pressure: Transactional Analysis, DISC, and the FONT framework
- TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking
- TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking
- TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window)
- TB871: Supporting the development of others
- TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles
- TB871: Personality and causal responsibility
- TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN
- Where to look for information around Open Badges and digital credentials (July 2024 edition)
- TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones)
- TB871: Managing personality differences in teams (Belbin & Six Thinking Hats)
- TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN)
- Exponentially more bad ideas in the world
- Weeknote 28/2024
- TB871: Block 4 Tools stream references
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (PDF)
- TB871: Cognitive mapping, causal-loop diagramming, and a refreshing use of SODA
- AI for boring project tasks
- On the bench
- Weeknote 27/2024
- TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
- TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
- TB871: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development
- TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
- TB871: Block 3 People stream references
- TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
- TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases
- TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases
- TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors
- TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
- TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking
- TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references
- Weeknote 27/2024
- TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of interest
- TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest
- TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5)
- TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model (System 4)
- TB871: Managing the 'inside and now' of the Viable System Model (System 3)
- TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2)
- Weeknote 26/2024
- Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM
- TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of interest (System 1)
- TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM
- Weeknote 25/2024
- TB871: Managing variety using amplifiers and attenuators
- TB871: Systems in my situation of interest
- Painting over problems with AI in the third sector
- TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system
- TB871: Only variety can absorb variety
- TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking
- Weeknote 24/2024
- TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model
- TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown
- TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM)
- Weeknote 23/2024
- TB871: Block 2 People stream references
- TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
- TB871: Framing and reframing
- TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
- TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
- TB871: Dead metaphors
- TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
- TB871: Primary metaphors
- TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references
- TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
- TB871: Area of practice diagram
- Life has no instruction manual
- Weeknote 22/2024
- TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons
- TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race
- TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals
- TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth
- TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden
- Migraines suck
- TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail
- TB871: Re-mapping my situation of interest
- Levelling up?
- Weeknote 21/2024
- TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
- TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
- TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
- TB871: Block 1 People stream references
- TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
- TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet
- TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
- TB871: Turtles all the way down
- Weeknote 20/2024
- TB871: Engaging with unknowns
- TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references
- TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making strategy
- TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design
- TB871: Toast and wicked problems
- TB871: Nominating an area of practice
- TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic
- Weeknote 19/2024
- TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking
- TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches
- TB871: Systems practice competencies
- TB871: What is a 'strategy'?
- TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
- Weeknote 18/2024
- TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
- TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
- TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System'
- TB871: Starting my next MSc module
- Recognising oneself through the recognition of others
- Weeknote 17/2024
- Perhaps we should organise?
- Weeknote 16/2024
- Weeknote 15/2024
- Exporting blog posts to JSON for easier use with LLMs such as ChatGPT
- Weeknote 14/2024
- TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA
- Weeknote 13/2024
- Weeknote 12/2024
- TB872: Advantages and disadvantages of CSLS
- TB872: Core reading for my EMA
- Weeknote 11/2024
- TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor
- 'Manifesting' work
- Weeknote 10/2024
- TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA
- TB872: Bawden and transforming worldviews
- TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- Hope vs optimism
- Weeknote 09/2024
- Elysium, elites, and elision
- TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs
- TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems
- TB872: Ubuntu and Pratītyasamutpāda
- TB872: Wenger-Trayner and communities of practice
- TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning
- Weeknote 08/2024
- TB872: MCB and 'being what we are willing to learn'
- TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems
- TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency'
- Weeknote 07/2024
- TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
- 'Beast mode' as permission-seeking behaviour
- Weeknote 06/2024
- Weeknote 05/2024
- TB872: Authenticity and accountability
- TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice
- TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
- TB872: Different types of change
- Weeknote 04/2024
- TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn'
- TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
- Unlearning behaviours
- TB872: Snappy Systems
- TB872: The main systemic influences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
- TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing)
- Weeknote 03/2024
- TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising)
- TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging)
- TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being)
- TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing
- Weeknote 02/2024
- TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling
- TB872: Four advantages of systems practice
- TB872: Places to intervene in a system
- One does not simply move off Substack
- TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic
- TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice
- Weeknote 01/2024
- TB872: Revisiting my learning contract
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1)
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2)
- TB872: STiP terminology
- TB872: Different understandings of the word 'system'
- TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies?
- TB872: Systems practice and social relations
2023 (142)
- Weeknote 52/2023
- TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
- TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
- TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
- TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
- TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the territory from my map
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- TB872: Regression and recursion
- I am so tired of moving platforms
- Weeknote 51/2023
- TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
- TB872: System-determined problems
- (Most of) my 2023 in sport
- TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms
- Whisky and Wisdom
- Weeknote 50/2023
- TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry
- TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology
- TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
- TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry
- Weeknote 49/2023
- TB872: The role of narrative in STiP
- Weeknote 48/2023
- TB872: DAD vs EDD
- TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice)
- TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment
- Weeknote 47/2023
- TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
- TB872: Communities and networks
- TB872: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Mapping prior experience of 'learning systems'
- TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning
- TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic
- Tinkering with WordPress category archive pages
- TB872: Systems lineages
- TB872: Reflection, reflexivity, and 'practice performances'
- TB872: 'Method' vs 'Methodology'
- TB872: Relational thinking
- TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
- TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
- TB872: The PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Culturally feasible change
- TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
- TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
- TB872: Experiencing situations of change
- TB872: Types of change
- Weeknote 45/2023
- TB872: The nature of change
- TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
- TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
- TB872: creating a systems map of the module
- TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy
- Weeknotes 43/2023 & 44/2023
- Weeknote 42/2023
- A bit of family history
- Earning a badge in preparation for my MSc
- Weeknote 41/2023
- All aboard the U-shaped curve
- Weeknote 40/2023
- Systems Thinking, reference management, and Open Badges
- Weeknote 39/2023
- Seven Samurai and Open Badges
- Weeknote 38/2023
- The Value of Credentials Endorsement
- Weeknote 37/2023
- Weeknote 36/2023
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Weeknote 35/2023
- Don't skip the best tracks
- Weeknote 34/2023
- Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- Weeknote 33/2023
- House purchases, climate change, and AI
- Weeknote 32/2023
- Weeknote 31/2023
- Weeknote 30/2023
- Weeknote 29/2023
- The Unseen Threads of Open Recognition
- The Threads dilemma: a lesson in cooperative decision-making
- Weeknote 28/2023
- Weeknote 27/2023
- More on AI literacy
- Weeknote 26/2023
- Weeknote 25/2023
- On the paucity of 'raising awareness'
- Weeknote 24/2023
- Weeknote 23/2023
- Weeknote 22/2023
- Weeknote 21/2023
- The everyday essence of creativity
- Using AI to help solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem
- Weeknote 20/2023
- Time's Solitary Dance
- Doug Uses This
- Weeknote 19/2023
- Weeknote 18/2023
- #NotMyKing
- Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- Weeknote 17/2023
- Paying for participation
- Using Snapchat's 'My AI' feature for revision
- The future of collaboration is federated
- Weeknotes 15/2023 & 16/2023
- The Pennine Way, Pt.1 (Kirk Yetholm to Middleton-in-Teesdale)
- Introducing 'Empowered Networked Learning' (ENL)
- Weeknote 14/2023
- Weeknote 13/2023
- Reimagining hiring with Open Recognition
- Open Recognition + Critical Pedagogy = empowerment, dialogue, and inclusion
- Embracing the Full Spectrum: towards a new era of inclusive, open recognition
- Reinventing the Fortress: using Open Recognition to enhance 'standards' and 'rigour'
- The old 'chicken and egg' problem about microcredentials kind of misses the point
- Weeknote 12/2023
- Realigning Microcredentials with Open Badges
- 5 reasons why microcredentials are not Open Badges in name, spirit, or ethos
- Sharepidation
- Weeknote 11/2023
- Applying my digital literacies model to 'AI literacy'
- Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges 3.0: What’s changed?
- Identifying and overcoming barriers to user research within organisations
- Climbing the Mountain of Assessment: Comparing Ungrading, Open Recognition, and RPL
- Setting Sail with Digital Literacies: Preparing Students for the Evolving Digital Landscape
- Weeknote 10/2023
- "I can't see the forest for the trees!" Microcredentials and Open Recognition
- Why Open Recognition Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
- RetroEmoji Challenge: a simple game created using ChatGPT
- FONT and Nonviolent Communication
- Weeknote 09/2023
- Coworking spaces should be run by cooperatives
- Wake me up when you've stopped talking about microcredentials for workforce development
- Weeknote 08/2023
- Weeknote 07/2023
- Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- Weeknote 06/2023
- I'm pretty sure 'status update' meetings aren't work
- Weeknote 05/2023
- Weeknote 04/2023
- Weeknote 03/2023
- Weeknote 02/2023
- Weeknote 01/2023
- Building an iPod for 2023
- Hear me now!
2022 (97)
- 2022 in review
- #BelshawBlackOps22
- Weeknote 49/2022
- Weeknote 48/2022
- Weeknote 47/2022
- Defederation and governance processes
- No management but self-management
- How to CW on the Fediverse
- Weeknote 46/2022
- What does this button do? The perils of being the other side of a screen to an algorithm
- Weeknote 45/2022
- On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- Weeknote 44/2022
- The Fediverse is made up of cities, towns, and villages
- Sticks and stones (and disinformation)
- Weeknote 43/2022
- Weeknote 42/2022
- Moving hosts for exercise.cafe
- Weeknote 41/2022
- Weeknotes 39/2022 & 40/2022
- Weeknote 38/2022
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- Weeknote 37/2022
- Registrations are now open at exercise.cafe!
- Weeknote 36/2022
- Code of Conduct for exercise.cafe
- Migraines and TIAs
- Weeknote 35/2022
- Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness / exercise
- Weeknote 34/2022
- Returning to social.coop
- Context collection, not context collapse
- Chronological social interaction
- Full Internet People
- Weeknote 33/2022
- Weeknote 32/2022
- Weeknote 31/2022
- Bonfire's latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- Weeknote 30/2022
- Weeknote 29/2022
- Some thoughts on programmatic Open Badge image creation using AI models
- Enjoy things while they last (or hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
- Weeknote 28/2022
- Wanted: a simple 3-step Open Badges platform to generate claim codes and issue badges
- Some thoughts on 'home' pages for individuals within communities (and social networks)
- Weeknote 27/2022
- Weeknote 26/2022
- 5 domains I'm letting expire over the next year
- Weeknote 25/2022
- Bonfire beta
- Weeknote 24/2022
- Weeknote 23/2022
- Weeknote 22/2022
- Successfully combining home VDSL and 4G+ connections
- 5 reasons I won't be celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Weeknote 21/2022
- The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist
- Videoconferencing may be a technology, but so is Sociocracy
- Weeknote 20/2022
- 10 steps to running an event I'd want to attend
- Weeknote 19/2022
- Documenting my attempts to replace VDSL home broadband with a 5GEE router
- Weeknote 18/2022
- A welcome corrective to narratives around the 'future of work'
- Weeknote 17/2022
- Words and meaning are two different things
- Weeknote 16/2022
- Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- Weeknote 15/2022
- Weeknote 14/2022
- Hadrian's Wall Path in 72 hours
- Weeknote 13/2022
- Weeknote 12/2022
- Weeknote 11/2022
- Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
- Weeknote 10/2022
- Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- Weeknote 09/2022
- First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research
- Weeknote 08/2022
- Weeknote 07/2022
- Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- Weeknote 06/2022
- Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to the Zappa project
- Weeknote 05/2022
- Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT
- Weeknote 04/2022
- Boring crypto definitions
- If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) financialisation of education
- Weeknote 03/2022
- Directions of travel
- So this is Covid
- Reflecting on #100DaysToOffload
- Weeknote 02/2022
- Weeknote 01/2022
- Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery
2021 (102)
- Looking back, looking forward
- Gamify or be gamified
- 2021 in weeknote review
- Weeknote 50/2021
- Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is out of stock
- Weeknote 49/2021
- Sage career advice from Baltasar Gracián
- Weeknote 48/2021
- Weeknote 47/2021
- That silent disappointment face, the one that I can't bear
- Weeknote 46/2021
- An ending, a beginning
- Weeknote 45/2021
- Weeknote 44/2021
- Weeknote 43/2021
- My Gamer Motivation Profile: Skirmisher/Bard
- EBSN podcast series on EPALE: Re-thinking Adult Basic Skills in the 21st century
- Weeknote 42/2021
- Weeknote 41/2021
- Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- Weeknote 40/2021
- Weeknote 39/2021
- The September Series: weekend microadventuring
- Weeknote 38/2021
- I'm not flying any more
- Weeknote 37/2021
- The difference between individual and organisational decision-making
- Weeknote 36/2021
- Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- Weeknote 35/2021
- The End of Vigilance
- Weeknote 34/2021
- Weeknote 33/2021
- Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
- Hang on to what you've got?
- It is a folly to expect men to do all they may reasonably be expected to do
- Weeknote 32/2021
- Weeknote 31/2021
- Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- Two years of spending more time in 'dark forests'
- Act NOW to prevent the hijacking of the Open Badges standard by an IMS faction!
- Weeknote 30/2021
- Weeknote 29/2021
- Weeknote 28/2021
- Weeknote 27/2021
- Weeknote 26/2021
- Weeknote 25/2021
- Walkways lined by abandoned gestures
- Specialization is for insects
- Weeknote 24/2021
- Weeknote 23/2021
- Weeknote 22/2021
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives
- The lie of 'sovereign individuality'
- Weeknote 21/2021
- On the temptation to nuke everything and start over
- Approaching the many-headed hydra
- Weeknote 19/2021
- Stick or twist? (dougbelshaw.com)
- 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed
- Weeknote 18/2021
- Weeknote 17/2021
- Smartwatch ramblings
- Weeknote 16/2021
- Checking out of therapy
- Weeknote 15/2021
- 100 days of #100DaysToOffload
- Unsettling
- Weeknote 14/2021
- Iterating privacy.garden
- Another new side project: privacy.garden
- How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
- Inputs and outputs
- Weeknote 13/2021
- Weeknote 12/2021
- Refactoring extinction.fyi
- New side project: extinction.fyi
- Weeknote 11/2021
- Proof-of-What?
- Weeknote 10/2021
- The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
- Everyone has an eschatology
- Weeknote 09/2021
- HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
- Refactoring eink.link
- Introducing eink.link, my new side project
- Weeknote 08/2021
- Weeknote 07/2021
- Trust no-one: why 'proof of work' is killing the planet as well as us
- Weeknote 06/2021
- Investing in decentralised crypto file storage
- Weeknote 05/2021
- Weeknote 04/2021
- Solving for complexity
- Weeknote 03/2021
- Weeknote 02/2021
- The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
- Weeknote 01/2021
- Power and paths
- The end of competition
- Everything flows
- My two biggest insights from last year
2020 (135)
- Christmas slobbing about
- What day is it? What date?
- 40 things I’ve learned in 40 years.
- Free Software and two forms of liberty
- My favourite posts of 2020
- 5 things I've learned this (work) year
- Current optimization is long-term anachronism
- No more performative professionalism
- The cash value of truth
- Weeknote 49/2020
- Who are you without the doing?
- Skin in the game?
- Are you OK?
- Weeknote 48/2020
- The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
- Give and you shall receive
- Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
- What's your favourite month?
- Weeknote 47/2020
- Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
- Weeknote 46/2020
- What I do when I don't know what to do
- The Ice Cream Fork of Productisation
- How to build ideological products that delight users
- Weeknote 45/2020
- Our better natures
- Introspection, truth, and error
- Weeknote 44/2020
- 10 ways to Build Back Better
- Baltasar Gracián on patience
- Marcus Aurelius on character
- Weeknote 43/2020
- How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
- Lying in bed with Marcus Aurelius and Mahatma Gandhi, thinking about work
- The state of professional social networking: a personal history
- Weeknote 42/2020
- Weeknote 41/2020
- The problems with Twitter's attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to the US Presidential election
- Learning through frustration
- Weeknote 40/2020
- Weeknote 39/2020
- Running with the wolves
- Weeknote 38/2020
- NVC and FONT
- Working out loud is noisy
- New habits die easily
- Weeknote 37/2020
- Rejecting the ideas hamster
- We're not even citizens, just independent contractors
- An incredible example of societal collapse
- Weeknote 36/2020
- What do we mean by 'the economy'?
- What's the purpose of Philosophy?
- Weeknote 35/2020
- Deleting my Patreon account
- Changing desktop environment in Pop!_OS
- 3 advantages of consent-based decision making
- Letting go of my pre-pandemic self
- Weeknote 34/2020
- Temporarily embarrassed influencers
- Kettled by Big Tech?
- Remaining unmanaged
- The auto-suggested life is not worth living
- Strengths and schooling
- Weeknote 33/2020
- Climate ch-ch-ch-changes
- Moving Mastodon instance
- Giving consent
- Experimenting with the MAF method
- Keeping it simple
- Weeknote 32/2020
- Herd immunity for privacy
- We're the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
- Three internets?
- Identity, obedience, and social media
- Lies and misinformation
- Things could be worse
- One year.
- Opinions and preferences
- Musonius Rufus on meat
- Living a good life is not a theoretical exercise
- HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
- Weeknote 30/2020
- Moving on
- Perfectionism
- Liquid society?
- Rules to live by
- Just write.
- The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?
- Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
- Weeknote 29/2020
- Time for a more sustainable blog theme
- Sounds from a #realworldhomeoffice
- A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice
- How I use analogue notebooks
- Slow down or I'll do it for you
- Not everything has to be digital: my analogue daily and weekly planners
- Weeknote 25/2020
- Managing projects is about understanding context
- Practice what you preach
- #100DaysToOffload: Day 1 - Introduction
- Weeknote 24/2020
- Weeknote 23/2020
- Weeknote 22/2020
- Weeknote 21/2020
- Weeknote 20/2020
- Weeknote 19/2020
- Weeknote 18/2020
- Weeknote 17/2020
- Weeknote 16/2020
- Weeknote 15/2020
- Weeknote 14/2020
- Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
- Wiki backup: information environment
- Wiki backup: collaboration style
- Wiki backup: daily reading
- Weeknote 13/2020
- Weeknote 12/2020
- Weeknote 11/2020
- Email is the original robust, decentralised technology
- How to easily share educational resources via bittorrent
- Weeknote 10/2020
- Walking in memory of Dai
- Weeknote 09/2020
- Weeknote 08/2020
- Weeknote 07/2020
- Weeknote 06/2020
- Weeknote 05/2020
- Weeknote 04/2020
- Featured on the Digital2Learn podcast
- Weeknote 03/2020
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Weeknote 01/2020
2019 (61)
- 2019: arriving at myself
- Weeknote 50/2019
- Weeknote 49/2019
- Weeknote 48/2019
- Rebalancing my focus for 2020
- Weeknote 47/2019
- Weeknote 46/2019
- Weeknote 45/2019
- Weeknote 44/2019
- Weeknote 43/2019
- Weeknote 42/2019
- Weeknote 41/2019
- Weeknote 40/2019
- Eulogy for Dai Barnes
- Weeknote 39/2019
- Weeknote 38/2019
- Weeknote 37/2019
- Weeknote 36/2019
- Weeknote 35/2019
- Weeknote 34/2019
- Weeknotes 32 & 33/2019
- #RIPDai: in memory of a good friend
- Weeknote 31/2019
- Weeknote 30/2019
- A quick dive into ALT's journal with my MoodleNet hat on
- Weeknote 29/2019
- Weeknote 28/2019
- Weeknote 27/2019
- Quality Mountain Days 19 & 20: Sharp Edge and Hayeswater Gill
- Weeknote 26/2019
- Weeknote 25/2019
- Quality Mountain Days 17 & 18: Skiddaw, Great Calva, High Pike, and Carrock Fell
- Weeknote 24/2019
- Weeknote 23/2019
- Weeknote 22/2019
- Weeknote 21/2019
- Weeknote 20/2019
- Change your launcher, change your life
- Weeknote 19/2019
- Quality Mountain Day 16: Fairfield, Dollywaggon Pike & Helvellyn
- Weeknote 18/2019
- Where are the weeknotes, Doug?
- Fediverse field trip
- My ChromeOS apps and extensions
- What we need is an Open Badges community renaissance, free of IMS involvement
- Weeknote 09/2019
- A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you're feeling utterly overwhelmed
- Weeknote 08/2019
- Weeknote 07/2019
- So long Digitalme, and thanks for all the fish
- Weeknote 06/2019
- Experimenting with a Slack-based book club
- Weeknote 05/2019
- Dr. Doug's Wednesday surgeries
- Weeknote 04/2019
- Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
- A modest proposal for nudging young people into finding a direction in life
- Weeknote 03/2019
- Some (more) thoughts on private education
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Weeknote 01/2019
2018 (74)
- Weeknote 48/2018
- A conversation with Adam Procter about Project 'NodeNoggin'
- Weeknote 47/2018
- Weeknote 46/2018
- Weeknote 45/2018
- Weeknote 44/2018
- Weeknote 43/2018
- Quality Mountain Day 15: Dale Head, Hindscarth, and High Spy
- Weeknote 42/2018
- Weeknote 41/2018
- World Mental Health Day: my story
- Weeknote 40/2018
- Weeknote 39/2018
- Some values-based career advice
- Quality Mountain Day 14: Whiteside Pike, Ancrow Brow, and White Howe (Lake District)
- Quality Mountain Day 13: Park Fell, High Street, and Ill Bell (Lake District)
- Weeknote 38/2018
- The fate of private social networks
- Weeknote 37/2018
- Weeknote 36/2018
- Weeknote 35/2018
- Weeknotes 32, 33, and 34/2018
- Weeknote 31/2018
- Weeknote 30/2018
- Weeknote 29/2018
- How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social networks
- Weeknote 28/2018
- Weeknote 27/2018
- Weeknote 26/2018
- Weeknote 25/2018
- Weeknote 24/2018
- Open source community calls in the wake of GDPR
- Weeknote 23/2018
- Sociocratic design sprints
- Where migraines end and I begin
- Weeknote 22/2018
- Weeknote 21/2018
- Weeknote 20/2018
- Weeknote 19/2018
- Quality Mountain Day 12: Black Craig, Knockower, and Coran of Portmark (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Quality Mountain Day 11: Merrick (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Weeknote 18/2018
- Some utopian thoughts
- Weeknote 17/2018
- Weeknote 16/2018
- Weeknote 15/2018
- Winnowing the MoodleNet project down to MVP size
- Weeknote 14/2018
- No easy answers
- My takeaways from Stephen Downes' talk on personal learning
- Weeknote 13/2018
- Weeknote 12/2018
- Weeknote 11/2018
- Weeknote 10/2018
- Moodling around with a Jetpack metaphor
- Weeknote 09/2018
- Final steps in my GDPR journey
- Weeknote 08/2018
- Weeknote 07/2018
- Weeknote 06/2018
- Experimenting with a channel-based approach for online resource sharing
- Continuing my GDPR journey
- Weeknote 05/2018
- Creating the world's smallest social network (for testing purposes)
- More on the mechanics of GDPR
- Weeknote 04/2018
- Social networking and GDPR
- Weeknote 03/2018
- On the difference between people-centric and resource-centric social networks
- Weeknote 02/2018
- Weeknote 01/2018
- Redesigning Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel
- Thinking about social logins and identity on the web
- Why I didn't go on 'Belshaw Black Ops' at the end of 2017
2017 (104)
- Weeknote 51/2017
- Weeknote 50/2017
- Come and get involved with the MoodleNet community!
- Weeknote 49/2017
- Weeknote 48/2017
- Destroying capitalism, one stately home at a time
- Reframing the ‘Progressive’ vs. ‘Traditionalist’ Debate in Education [DML Central]
- Weeknote 47/2017
- Pearson, WTF? Badges, patents, and the world's 'least popular' education company
- Weeknote 46/2017
- Weeknote 45/2017
- Weeknotes 43 & 44/2017
- Tools and spaces to create a positive architecture of participation
- Weeknote 42/2017
- New blog: Doug, uncensored
- Weeknote 41/2017
- Weeknote 40/2017
- Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites
- Weeknote 39/2017
- Weeknote 38/2017
- Digital myths, digital pedagogy, and complexity
- Weeknote 37/2017
- Weeknote 36/2017
- Tools to help you with your blog post
- Why I just deleted all 77.5k tweets I've sent out over the last 10 years
- Weeknote 35/2017
- Deciding what to write about in your blog post
- Putting your blog post into the world
- Sitting down to write a blog post
- How to write a blog post
- Weeknote 34/2017
- Weeknote 33/2017
- Weeknote 32/2017
- Weeknote 31/2017
- Weeknote 30/2017
- My blog was without an ‘LMS isn't dead’ post, so I thought I’d write one.
- Join us tomorrow for the first Badge Wiki barn raising session!
- Weeknote 29/2017
- Weeknote 28/2017
- Weeknote 27/2017
- Why I've just ditched my cloud-based password manager
- My information environment (July 2017)
- Weeknote 26/2017
- Elevator pitch on Open Badges for SQA Expert Assessment Group
- 10 top email productivity tips
- Weeknote 25/2017
- Badge Wiki: start of 30-day feedback period on Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
- Redesigning dougbelshaw.com
- Weeknote 24/2017
- Chapter 5 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Providing some clarity on Open Badges 2.0
- Weeknote 23/2017
- Digital Employability for the New Economy [Stir to Action]
- Some thoughts on the future of the Open Badges backpack
- Weeknote 22/2017
- Friends don't let friends use Facebook
- 3 reasons I'll not be returning to Twitter
- Weeknote 21/2017
- Weeknote 20/2017
- Quality Mountain Days 9 & 10: Red Screes, Great Rigg, and Kentmere Pike
- Weeknote 19/2017
- Some thoughts on Keybase, online security, and verification of identity
- Weeknote 18/2017
- So it turns out that you can pretty much do whatever you like on your own website
- Listen to me witter on about co-ops via @VConnecting at #ccsummit
- Weeknote 17/2017
- Goodbye, Grandma
- Why I'm not using Twitter next month
- Weeknote 16/2017
- Weeknote 15/2017
- Quality Mountain Days 7 & 8: Ben Nevis, Stob Bàn, and Mullach nan Coirean
- Weeknote 14/2017
- You can chain a knowledge worker to a desk, but you can't make them think
- Weeknote 13/2017
- Badging 'co-operative character'
- Quality Mountain Days 5 & 6: Ben Ledi and Ben Vorlich
- Weeknote 12/2017
- Chapter 4 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Weeknote 11/2017
- Books
- My Daily Routine
- Badges, Proof and Pathways [DML Central]
- Weeknote 10/2017
- My sites are now hosted in the European Union
- How to build an architecture of participation
- Blogging for a third of my life
- Preparing for 'Story Hack'
- Weeknote 09/2017
- Is it the end of the traditional resume? [opensource.com]
- Coming up with a manifesto to underpin my work
- Weeknote 08/2017
- Weeknote 07/2017
- Weeknote 06/2017
- Safer Internet Day 2017 resources
- Weeknote 05/2017
- Against mass consumption of 'already certified' credentials
- Chapter 3 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- Weeknote 04/2017
- Experimenting with push notifications
- The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future
- Weeknote 03/2017
- Join us in London on February 15th for BADGE BOOTCAMP!
- Weeknote 02/2017
- Weeknote 01/2017
2016 (109)
- #BelshawBlacksOps16 (Pt.2) has begun. See you in 2017!
- Weeknote 47/2016
- Weeknote 46/2016
- We're running a webinar next week on badges, and you're invited
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 (Part 2)
- Weeknote 45/2016
- Utopia, pedagogy, and G-Suite for Education
- 7 approaches to educational technology integration
- Open Badges, BlockCerts, and high-stakes credentialing
- Weeknote 44/2016
- Chapter 2 of my new audiobook on productivity is now available!
- How I'm Getting Shift Done
- The importance of working 'open' in education and business
- Weeknote 43/2016
- A new dawn for Open Badges
- Where I'll be at MozFest 2016
- Blockcerts are friends of Open Badges
- Weeknote 42/2016
- 3 quick updates
- Weeknote 41/2016
- On CC0
- I've just released Chapter 1 of my new audiobook on productivity
- Why It’s Time to Let Go of ‘Meritocracy’ [DML Central]
- 3 things we need for the next big frontier in Open Badges and digital credentials
- Weeknote 40/2016
- My CC Superheroes
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity (v2)
- Weeknote 39/2016
- Quality Mountain Days 3 and 4: Lake District
- Discipline in the field of edtech
- Weeknote 38/2016
- Weeknote 37/2016
- Digital Literacy, Identity and a Domain of One’s Own [DML Central]
- How to be an effective knowledge worker and 'manage yourself'
- Weeknote 36/2016
- Igniting my Mondays
- Weeknote 35/2016
- We're back!
- #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1 has started!
- Weeknote 30/2016
- Weeknote 29/2016
- Weeknote 28/2016
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps16 Pt.1
- New blog theme
- Weeknote 27/2016
- Weeknote 26/2016
- How to use metaphors to generate badge-based pathways
- My ebook, 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now pay-what-you-want (including nothing!)
- Weeknote 25/2016
- A few words on #Remain, #BadgeSummit, and #ISTE2016
- Weeknote 24/2016
- 3 Ways Open Badges Work Like the Web [DML Central]
- Weeknote 23/2016
- Improving the style and content of dynamicskillset.com
- Weeknote 22/2016
- Some thoughts and recommendations on the future of the Open Badges backpack and community
- Weeknote 21/2016
- Do only yogurt-knitting vegans start co-operatives?
- The problem with 'grit'
- Beyond 'low-hanging fruit': why I'm no longer an Open Badges evangelist
- Weeknote 20/2016
- The Future of Work: Trends and Toolsets
- Developing my offer: what I'm planning for the next few months
- ???? Weeknote 19/2016
- A walkthrough of 9Sharp, a new platform for personal branding [SPONSOR]
- Weak signals
- Weeknote 18/2016
- Notes and comments on 'Digital Badges in Education': Part I: Trends and Issues
- 3 reasons you need a critical friend
- Weeknote 17/2016
- 3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets [DML Central]
- Weeknote 16/2016
- Quality Mountain Days 1 and 2: Lake District
- A quick redesign
- Refocusing my energies
- Weeknote 15/2016
- Weeknote 14/2016
- 3 things I learned during my time at Mozilla
- What is a 'credential' anyway?
- Notes on ACE's 'Quality Dimensions for Connected Credentials'
- Weeknote 13/2016
- Weeknote 12/2016
- Are alternative approaches such as gamification and badging effective in increasing engagement, retention, and achievement?
- Weeknote 11/2016
- Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open source apps
- Weeknote 10/2016
- Some thoughts on the evidence behind Open Badges
- Open Badges in Higher Education: Disruptive, Desirable, and Democratic
- Weeknote 09/2016
- Weeknote 08/2016 (warning: may contain gifs and emojis)
- Why do we hire based on 'experience'? HR, Automattic, and Open Badges
- Weeknote 07/2016
- Now
- Weeknote 06/2016
- Calling out Pearson on Open Badges
- The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
- Weeknote 05/2016
- Weeknote 04/2016
- Caring doesn't scale, and scaling doesn't care
- Weeknote 03/2016
- 3 things I've learned from 200 weeks of sending out an email newsletter
- Where I'll be at BETT 2016
- What a post-Persona landscape means for Open Badges
- Weeknote 02/2016
- New avatars for 2016
- Weeknote 01/2016
- 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now £1.99!
- Monthnote: December 2015
- Happy New Year!
2015 (145)
- #BelshawBlacksOps15 Pt.2 has begun. See you in 2016!
- Weeknote 48/2015
- 3 reasons open source needs Open Badges [opensource.com]
- Weeknote 47/2015
- INCOMING: #BelshawBlackOps15 (Part 2)
- Weeknote 46/2015
- The New Nepotism
- Why the future remains bright for Open Badges
- Weeknotes 44 and 45/2015
- Deliberate Practice and Digital Literacies [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 43/2015
- 5 ways to use NFC-enabled business cards
- Open Badges location extension
- Weeknote 42/2015
- Weeknote 41/2015
- Weeknote 40/2015
- The TIDE is high...
- Weeknote 39/2015
- A Decentralized System for Education and Assessment
- Weeknote 38/2015
- Taking Another Look at the Digital Credentials Landscape [DMLcentral]
- How to sponsor Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel newsletter
- Weeknote 37/2015
- Radio EDUtalk session: talking podcasting, badges, and tools for productivity with John Johnston
- Apple product launches as attention conservation devices
- Your liberty will not survive combat drones
- Weeknote 36/2015
- An experiment in using LinkedIn Pulse for blogging
- Hey, I'm back! (with some thoughts on Twitter and an update on my newsletter)
- #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1) has begun!
- Weeknote 31/2015
- Towards a visual hierarchy of Open Badges
- How to help us build #OB101
- Reader survey: 2015 edition
- Weeknote 30/2015
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps15 (part 1)
- Weeknote 29/2015
- Identifying, scaffolding, and credentialing skills in an ever-changing digital environment [#celt15]
- Setting an Agile School Rhythm [DMLcentral]
- Claim your Advanced Kanban badge!
- Weeknote 28/2015
- Introducing the Open Badges 101 course! [pre-alpha]
- The Increasing Significance of Social Media in the Learner Journey [FE Week]
- The Increasing Significance of Technology in Further Education [FE Week]
- Weeknote 27/2015
- Claim your Kanban 101 badge!
- HOWTO: Trello Kanban
- Weeknote 26/2015
- Weeknote 25/2015
- Three of the best people I've ever worked with...
- Important news for subscribers to my weekly newsletter
- Weeknote 24/2015
- Weeknote 23/2015
- The potential of Chirp.io to send Open Badges between people and devices
- 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' is now £3.99!
- Weeknote 22/2015
- Extending Badges [DMLcentral]
- Wednesday Wisdom #38: Foundations
- Web Literacy: what happens beyond peak centralisation and software with shareholders?
- Flying a drone through Mitford Castle window
- Weeknote 21/2015
- Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
- Wednesday Wisdom #37: Confluence
- My #TwitteratiChallenge blog post
- Weeknote 20/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #36: Cats
- How to subscribe to (and sponsor!) my weekly newsletter
- Weeknote 19/2015
- Community Alignment model v0.5
- My Twitter ads verdict: a waste of time and money
- Weeknote 18/2015
- Experimenting with Twitter ads for my ebook
- Wednesday Wisdom #35: Copyright
- Open Networked Learning webinar
- Weeknote 17/2015
- An exciting week for Open Badges
- Wednesday Wisdom #34: Promises
- Why you should create canonical URLs
- A Community Alignment model
- Weeknote 16/2015
- The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges
- Wednesday Wisdom #33: Uncertainty
- HOWTO: Create a podcast
- Why I left teaching five years ago
- Weeknote 15/2015
- Tetris, badges, and learning pathways
- Wednesday Wisdom #32: Quality
- Weeknote 14/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #31: Context
- Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing [DMLcentral]
- The Next Chapter
- Weeknote 13/2015
- Today is my last day at Mozilla
- Wednesday Wisdom #30: Robots
- Weeknote 12/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #29: Completion
- Weeknote 11/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #28: Influence
- Today In Digital Education (TIDE): a new podcast from Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw
- Soft-launching Dynamic Skillset, my new consultancy
- Weeknote 10/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #27: Trying
- Weeknotes 08/2015 and 09/2015
- An important day for the Internet
- Wednesday Wisdom #26: Friends & Enemies
- 3 reasons I've decided to resurrect my LinkedIn account
- Weeknote 07/2015
- Wednesday Wisdom #25: Distraction
- A visual history of the first two years of Mozilla's Web Literacy Map
- Weeknote 06/2015
- My current Mozilla workflow: Trello, Google Mail, and GitHub
- Wednesday Wisdom #24: Courage
- Technological innovation and mental models
- #ScreenFreeSunday
- eBooks
- Cashing in on your privilege
- Weeknote 05/2015
- On working remotely
- Learning Pathways: Descriptive or Prescriptive? [DMLcentral]
- Wednesday Wisdom #23: Clash of Mythologies
- Bryan Mathers: who are you and what do you do?
- Do big ideas need big spaces?
- An Unreasonable Man writes his Damn Book
- Weeknote 04/2015
- How do you explain the web to your kids?
- Volcanoes and ambiguity
- Wednesday Wisdom #22: Have Double of Life's Necessities
- Seven places I find interesting, relevant and useful stuff in 2015
- Announcing TWO new e-books: #uppingyourgame v2.0 and an Essential Elements of Digital Literacies workbook
- Your questions answered about Dynamic Skillset, my upcoming consultancy
- Weeknote 03/2015
- The ABC of creating a system for personal productivity
- Wednesday Wisdom #21: Born in the right century
- On the difference between 'ought' and 'is' (and getting from one to the other)
- Join me this Thursday for a Connected Learning webinar: An Introduction to 'Teaching the Web' and 'Web Literacy'
- My next e-book: three options for you to vote on
- Scripting the first hour of each (week)day
- Weeknote 02/2015
- Answering questions from #durbbu
- What (some) people think about 'radical participation'
- Radical participation: a smörgåsbord
- HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website
- Towards zero: the pricing strategy for my ebook 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Yearnote 2014
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps14 (and what 2015 has in store)
2014 (102)
- #BelshawBlackOps14 has started - see you in January!
- Curate or Be Curated: Why Our Information Environment is Crucial to a Flourishing Democracy, Civil Society [DMLcentral]
- What I'm doing at #MozFest 2014
- A 10-point #MozFest survival guide
- Weeknote 42/2014
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps14
- Weeknote 41/2014
- Towards an architecture of participation for episodic volunteering
- Weeknote 40/2014
- Weeknote 39/2014
- Weeknote 38/2014
- Weeknote 37/2014
- Web Literacy: More than just coding; an enabling education for our times [EdTech Digest]
- Weeknote 36/2014
- POSTPONED: Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- Weeknote 35/2014
- Scaffolding Web Literacy Through Learning Pathways [DMLcentral]
- Twitter, algorithms, and digital dystopias
- Indie Tech Summit: On raising the next generation [VIDEO]
- Battening down the hatches (again)
- Weeknote 34/2014
- Open Badges: 3D printing for credentials?
- Hill Skills training in Northumberland
- Weeknotes 31, 32 & 33
- Announcing Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- Walking to calm the monkey chatter mind
- What I learned while dragging my family around Europe with a car and a tent
- Gone campin'
- Weeknote 30/2014
- FirefoxOS v2.0 is possibly the easiest-to-use smartphone operating system I've experienced
- A quick update on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 29/2014
- I needed to write a blog post this morning...
- Weeknote 28/2014
- Weeknote 27/2014
- Weeknote 26/2014
- Announcing the launch of 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 25/2014
- My morning routine
- Why I've just closed my LinkedIn account
- HOWTO: Ditch Gmail for self-hosted webmail
- Weeknote 24/2014
- Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation [DMLcentral]
- Launch preparations for 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- Weeknote 23/2014
- Faking Cultural Literacy
- Weeknote 22/2014
- So here's the problem...
- v0.99 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Weeknote 21/2014
- First world problems (or, On buying a house in 2014)
- An update on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies'
- On 'Kit Builder'
- Weeknote 20/2014
- An emerging workflow
- Weeknotes 18 & 19/2014
- Mozilla Webmaker training starts Monday 12th May!
- Be More Doug
- Weeknote 17/2014
- Software with shareholders (or, the menace of private public spaces)
- What's the project?
- Weeknote 16/2014
- Rethinking Literacy for the Web [Educating Modern Learners]
- Choose your silo (or, Why are we partying like it's 1999?)
- Weeknote 15/2014
- Weeknote 14/2014
- Bad Parenting (or, On The Meditative Nature of Screens)
- Why I still believe in badges [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 13/2014
- Writing and publishing openly online
- Weeknote 12/2014
- Weeknote 11/2014
- Does Open Education and the Open Web need 'defending'?
- What does working openly on the web mean in practice? [UK Web Focus]
- On the link between Open Education and the Open Web
- Open Education and the Open Web (#openeducationwk)
- Weeknote 10/2014
- What's new with Open Badges?
- Weeknote 09/2014
- New to digital literacies? Read this.
- More on the web as the platform
- Weeknote 08/2014
- Weeknote 07/2014
- Gozo no go
- Weeknote 06/2014
- Re-imagining the Where, When, and How of Educational Practice [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 05/2014
- 3 things I'm looking forward to at the Webmaker workweek
- 3 things I do to work more productively throughout the day
- Weeknote 04/2014
- Where I'll be at BETT (#bett2014)
- Weeknote 03/2014
- A Hacker News for education?
- The Web Literacy Standard is dead (long live the Web Literacy Map!)
- The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups)
- A letter from the future
- Weeknote 02/2014
- Find what you can influence, and focus your attention
- v0.9 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Why I'm ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity)
- 7 ways to make this your happiest year yet
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps13 (and what 2014 has in store)
2013 (140)
- #BelshawBlackOps13 has started
- Announcing the Web Literacy Standard (specification)
- Minimum Viable Badge
- Where I'll be at MozFest
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Why have managers?
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Goals, scheduling, shipping
- Weeknote 42/2013
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Problem Solving and Decision Making
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps13
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Practicalities
- My iPad Mini apps (October 2013)
- Weeknote 41/2013
- 3 things I saw at the Mozilla Summit that blew my mind
- Weeknote 40/2013
- What I learned from turning my 'Out of Office' auto-replies on for a month
- Weeknote 39/2013
- Moving on from SpiderOak Hive to BTSync
- Battening down the hatches
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Scale, Chaordic Systems & Trust
- Weeknote 38/2013
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Introduction
- The Ontology of the Web (Or, Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Learning Standards) [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 37/2013
- Weeknote 36/2013
- Weeknote 35/2013
- Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
- No, no, no, no, no
- On the NSA revelations
- Weeknote 34/2013
- The Silent Writing Collective
- My next 100 days at Mozilla
- I am not Richard Stallman
- Weeknote 33/2013
- A new blog: discours.es
- Transitioning into a new role at Mozilla
- Weeknote 32/2013
- Weeknote 31/2013
- Web Literacy Standard RFC
- Weeknote 30/2013
- Badge Camp 2013
- Weeknote 29/2013
- Weeknote 28/2013
- Who I am and how I work: Eugenie Teasley
- It's time to register for MozFest 2013!
- Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle (17 August 2013)
- Weeknote 27/2013
- v0.7 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- A quick look back at my first year at Mozilla
- Why would I send my child to secondary school?
- Weeknote 26/2013
- 5 reasons to use Open Source Software
- I've got a Firefox OS phone
- Weeknote 25/2013
- New Open Badges napkin sketch
- Privacy, the NSA and Web Literacies [DMLcentral]
- Weeknote 24/2013
- Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies [video + article]
- Weeknote 23/2013
- Reality check: in light of the NSA revelations, just who do we need to fear?
- Mozilla needs your help with a final push for the Web Literacy Standard (beta)!
- Weeknote 22/2013
- No more #LettingGrow
- TILTW reaches 100!
- Weeknote 21/2013
- I may not be subtle, but I am now @Svbtle
- Explaining Open Badges through analogy
- Weeknote 20/2013
- Reading, feeding and seeding
- Weeknote 19/2013
- Answering your questions about Open Badges
- How transferable are coding skills to other domains? Why is learning a little code important? (#teachtheweb)
- Weeknote 18/2013
- Profit: the purpose of education? [GETideas.org]
- Maslow and the minimalist movement
- What does a non-Web world look like? Investigating Bittorrent Sync.
- An Anarcho-Syndicalist critique of Web browsers
- Weeknote 17/2013
- First draft of Mozilla's Web Literacy standard now available!
- Roundup of some stuff I've been involved with recently
- Mozilla Webmaker MOOC kicking off May 2nd for 9 weeks!
- Habits are things you get for free
- You are not Mr Gove's audience
- Weeknote 16/2013
- Mozilla Web Literacy standard: draft release candidate
- My iPhone apps (April 2013)
- Structured procrastination
- Latest version of Web Literacy standard grid (15th April 2013)
- Why educational reform is like Jenga.
- Weeknote 15/2013
- Latest version of Web Literacy standard grid (8 April 2013)
- Weeknote 14/2013
- What does it mean to 'align' with the Web Literacy standard?
- Web Literacy Standard: a modest proposal (#weblitstd)
- Weeknote 13/2013
- Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges (#OER13 keynote)
- Weeknote 12/2013
- Why I
- v0.6 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Weeknote 11/2013
- Open Badges reaches v1.0!
- Thinking through the Web Literacy standard arc.
- Weeknote 10/2013
- A tribute to Chris Allan (@infernaldepart)
- Supporting a Generation of Digital Makers
- Weeknote 09/2013
- Belshaw beard blooms. (#LettingGrow update)
- First Mozilla Web Literacy standard community call recording now available
- Web Literacy standard weekly community calls starting this Thursday
- Weeknote 08/2013
- Two online gatherings you should be part of (today/tomorrow)
- Planning permission approved for my #shoffice!
- Recording of my #etmooc session on Digital Literacies now available.
- Why we need a learning standard for Web Literacy [DMLcentral]
- T3S1: Digital Literacies with Dr. Doug Belshaw (#etmooc)
- How to ensure your blog posts last forever.
- Weeknote 07/2013
- On 'rigour' in definitions of digital and web literacy.
- Reading books in front of kids is not enough.
- Thinking through helping my kids learn Web concepts.
- Weeknote 06/2013
- Towards a new, open learning standard for Web Literacy
- Towards a Web Literacy standard: (4) How?
- Towards a Web Literacy standard: (3) Who?
- Towards a learning standard for Web Literacy: (2) What? Why?
- Weeknote 05/2013
- Towards a learning standard for Web Literacy: (1) Introduction.
- Some Thoughts on Interest-based Pathways to Learning. [DMLcentral]
- Some (brief) thoughts about online peer assessment.
- Weeknote 04/2013
- MOOCs, online education and the rights of learners.
- How I plan my working days. [RESOURCES]
- Weeknote 03/2013
- On living in the future
- Mozilla Thimble + Popcorn Maker: a productive Webmaking partnership
- A conversation with Audrey Watters about Web Literacies.
- Weeknote 02/2013
- Videos for #openbadges workshops [RESOURCES]
- v0.5 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- What I got up to during #BelshawBlackOps12 (and what 2013 has in store)
- Letting Grow.
2012 (161)
- #BelshawBlackOps12 has started - see you in 2013!
- Why governments, schools and other public institutions should use Github.
- How to make #openbadges work for you and your organisation.
- Want a tablet? Choose your vendor lock-in.
- Why 'government as platform' is a really bad idea.
- Reading list for #BelshawBlackOps12
- What is 'technology' anyway?
- Why we need more e-learning staff tutors
- Some thoughts on learning technologies in the classroom
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps12
- Using Raspberry Pi and XBMC to build an ultra-cheap HTPC.
- Webmaker badges are GO!
- Preparing for #MozFest
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.9 (#mozweblit)
- Time for a NICE-r kind of education?
- More thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives.
- Some thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives [DMLcentral]
- On the 'openness' of Open Badges.
- How I use a MacBook Pro (October 2012)
- Open Badges, Clay Shirky, and the tipping point.
- Because obviously I'm a male chauvinist pig.
- A #shoffice update (October 2012)
- Mozilla Web Literacies white paper v0.8
- My response to the ICT Programme of Study consultation
- MozFest!
- Productivity for what?
- Blog redesign: October 2012 edition
- TeachMeet Mozilla Webmaker Edition: 6 October 2012
- What Constitutes 'Rigour' in Our 21st-Century Educational Systems? [DMLcentral]
- Time, innovation and funding.
- My high school report.
- BYOD and cross-platform tools for learning.
- On the mental cost of inventing new categories.
- On private schools becoming academies.
- What I'm up to for Mozilla at the moment.
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.7
- Thinking About Web Literacy, Making, & Sharing with Mozilla [AUDIO]
- Mozilla, Webmaking, and the Architecture of Participation
- Project Reclaim: a pragmatic update
- v0.4 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Game design, gamification, game mechanics and games-based learning.
- Digital literacies and why they're important... for everyone!
- Why a 'mixed economy' of digital devices is best for your educational institution.
- A few brief thoughts on the Google Nexus 7. [REVIEW]
- Some thoughts on time, performativity, and the State.
- On the relationship between Digital Literacies and Web Literacies. [VIDEO]
- Announcing TeachMeet Mozilla Webmaker Edition 2012 [EVENT]
- Digital Literacies and Web Literacies: What's the Difference? [DMLcentral]
- Announcement: there may be some turbulence. [SITE UPDATES]
- Famous for 42 seconds. [AUDIO]
- Evaluation: the absolute basics
- What we're up to with Mozilla Webmaker (Open) badges.
- Productivity 101: calendars (nouns) and reminders (verbs)
- Stuff I continually reference.
- Doug's new #shoffice
- Another day, another Connected Learning webinar [VIDEO]
- Google Apps for Education UK summit [HELP REQUIRED]
- How to implement technology successfully in your organisation.
- Connected Learning webinar on Hacker Literacies featuring yours truly. [VIDEO]
- An elevator pitch for #openbadges (v0.2) [VIDEO]
- Sullen.
- On (not) working in academia.
- Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8: vendor lock-in for the masses?
- v0.3 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
- Have you subscribed to TILTW yet?
- Is Michael Gove systematically dismantling English state education?
- [UPDATED] Google+ Hangout about #openbadges TODAY 11:00 (BST)
- Mozilla Web Literacies v0.5
- HOWTO: Issue #openbadges in 5 steps using WordPress + WPBadger
- Web Literacies: What is the 'Web' Anyway? [DMLcentral]
- What a weekend! (#MozParty Newcastle & #GreatNorth10k)
- Education: sometimes it's not complex (a reply to Nick Dennis).
- Informal learning, gaming, and #openbadges design
- Lesson plans, social bookmarking and the purpose of education: a response to the latest Hack Education podcast
- Coming to an event near you...
- My elevator pitch for #openbadges (v0.1 alpha) [VIDEO]
- Aim for the high ground, not the high horse.
- On the important differences between literacies, skills and competencies.
- S2R reporters interview me about #openbadges at #MozLDN
- On digital ownership. This is HUGE.
- Working for an Academy vs. working for JISC infoNet [visualisation]
- Web Literacies: building on the work of Michelle Levesque
- Getting up to speed on the technical side of #openbadges
- Some clarification of my position on private schools.
- The 10 most popular posts of the first half of 2012 are...
- #OpenBadges through the rear-view mirror?
- Some thoughts on the Department for Education's consultation on 'Parental Internet Controls'.
- Doctor Doug.
- Why the knowledge vs. skills debate in education is wrong-headed.
- Join me at #MozParty Newcastle on 21st July 2012! [EVENT]
- On the Importance of Webmaking [DMLcentral]
- Commodification, consumerism and the new 'Retina' MacBook Pro.
- Web literacies? (v0.2 beta)
- How to focus in the age of distraction. [GRAPHIC]
- Two presentations (#TELIC1 & #iDragon) [VIDEO]
- Why I'm becoming a MoFo(er).
- Digital literacy, digital natives, and the continuum of ambiguity (#openpeerreview)
- Displaying #OpenBadges with BadgeWidgetHack.
- Purpos/ed: #500words Take 2
- Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies (#EdTech12)
- Examining conceptions of innovation in educational technology [INTERVIEW]
- Reconfiguring Mozilla's Web Literacies (v0.1 alpha)
- Changing thinking vs. Changing systems.
- This is why teachers leave teaching.
- On routines and rituals.
- Project Reclaim: experimenting with openphoto.me
- Purpos/ed #500words Take 2
- [RECORDING] Connected Learning webinar on Open Badges
- Arson at Ellington Nature Reserve.
- v0.2 of 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' now available!
- On writing every day.
- A few things that may interest you...
- Wordle-like Twitter screens for conference keynote presenters?
- 3 rules for our five year-old (that work!)
- More on P2PU's School of Webcraft
- 9 ideas in search of a blog post.
- Project Reclaim: consolidating my blogs.
- 3 principles for a more Open approach.
- Platforms as standards? 10 days with the Nokia N9.
- Swimming Against the Tide: Tracking the Genesis of 'Rebellious' Approaches to Educational Technology.
- 100 people have now bought in to my e-book on digital literacies!
- Badges: talking at cross purposes?
- Gaining Some Perspective on Badges for Lifelong Learning [DMLcentral]
- Beyond Elegant Consumption.
- Interview: Josh Johnson
- My TEDx talk on 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' [video]
- Beyond the Textbook?
- On the new politics of technology.
- Surfacing stuff you may not have seen.
- Getting back on the productivity wagon.
- School of Webcraft: Webmaking 101
- Obliquity, PISA, and 'shareholder value' in education.
- #TEDxWarwick: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
- Impact: the most important reason for working in the open? (#openeducationweek)
- DML Conference 2012 (#DML2012) - my highlights
- Education: it's what you can't see that counts.
- Connected Learning: a new model of learning.
- The story behind 3 presentations: #cetis12, #dml2012 and #TEDxWarwick
- Tools and processes
- Teaching the fourth “r:” webmaking as a vital 21st century skill?
- Why the REMIX is at the heart of digital literacies
- What's the point of education? [Guardian Teacher Network]
- Twitter, TweetBot and Custom API endpoints
- Announcing my new e-book: 'The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies' (#digilit)
- Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change [DMLcentral]
- The Essentials? (#divest12)
- Web literacy? (v0.1)
- Stripping back: #divest12
- In defence of digital literacies.
- Beyond academic journals?
- Journals, academia and the ivory tower.
- You need us more than we need you.
- Radio EDUtalk and #LWF12
- Ed.D. thesis: an update
- 2012 blog reader survey: full breakdown
- 2012 reader survey: interim results and book winners!
- How to create searchable notes from books using Evernote and your smartphone.
- Take my inagural reader survey. It'll take 5 minutes, tops. Promise.
- Best of Belshaw 2011 now available!
- What I got up do during #BelshawBlackOps11 (and what 2012 has in store)
- Thanks for waiting! Dr. Belshaw will see you now.
2011 (158)
- Start here
- #BelshawBlackOps11 has started. See you in 2012!
- We need education for resilience, not flexibility.
- Investing in infrastructure: does it work?
- The Pre-Digital and the Post-Digital.
- Video of my Hybrid Days presentation about digital literacies now available!
- Come and ask me questions LIVE at my Hybrid Days presentation on digital literacies.
- #ukedchat #fail: TES attempts takeover cover-up whilst Pearson muscles-in on grassroots Twitter teacher CPD.
- JISC Online Conference session on digital literacy (#jiscel11)
- An example of innovation being built upon standardization.
- Exploring digital literacies and illiteracies
- How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others [PRESENTATION]
- Robots: the elephant(s) in the room?
- Innovation in education: what I'll be talking about at the Guardian event today. (#IIE2011)
- Stop SOPA.
- [REMINDER] #BelshawBlackOps11
- Building a better future (despite the 1%)
- Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- Why peer-review is flawed.
- Bauman on inequality and the logic of capital.
- Zygmunt Bauman on Liquidity vs. Solidity
- If not now, when? Why we need #openbadges and #dmlbadges for lifelong learning RIGHT NOW.
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps11
- My mobile learning article for the Guardian Teacher Network
- Of Bitcoin and Badges.
- What I Learned at #MobilityShifts last week in NYC.
- On the importance of human agency.
- Getting started with Digital Literacies [Presentation]
- Introducing neverendingthesis.com! (a.k.a. today's the day I submit my Ed.D. thesis...)
- What did we learn during a 'semester of learning' on #openbadges over at P2PU.org?
- My Belbin results - Part 2
- Responding to some criticisms about 'badges' for lifelong learning
- 7 upcoming events about which I'm super-excited.
- 'Badges' for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate (#openbadges, #dmlbadges)
- My Belbin results - Part 1
- Change MOOC - #change11
- Commoditising learning through the #flippedclassroom (or, the difference between education and training)
- Launch of the Mobile Learning infoKit
- #openbadges - Learner Stories
- What do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
- Doug's Daily Planner (v1)
- Anarchy in the UK? The reasons behind the breakdown of social order.
- A quick rundown of what I'm up to until Christmas.
- We need to open our eyes to systemic injustice.
- Has England lost its rhythm?
- JOIN US! A semester of learning about Open Badges and assessment.
- The real story behind the #londonriots?
- Help me kick the tyres at semestersoflearning.org!
- Semester of Learning: Open Badges and assessment
- A brand-new campaign for Purpos/ed: #purposedassess
- On the important difference between 'elite' and 'elitist'.
- The Setup.
- What would a post-test era look like for our schools?
- Jesus as a Social Marker? (or, How to Build a Community)
- Social Objects and the importance of sharing.
- Competition and the problem with 'reality'.
- What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
- Why Google+ is like an extended unboxing video.
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes - #6 - Open Educational Resources
- Purpos/ed, the #neverendingthesis and productivity [Ed Tech Crew podcast 165]
- How do you define attendance? [JISC Inform article]
- Read the first complete draft of my doctoral thesis on digital literacies.
- Why I'm starting to blog at DMLcentral
- My new work blog and other RSS goodies.
- Special Delivery: a letter to my children this Fathers Day.
- Project Reclaim: backing up to local network storage
- Giving my visitors some (virtual, P2P) cash.
- Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
- The myth underpinning '21st Century Skills' [Future of Education]
- Introducing 'User Outcomes Weekly'
- Pragmatism as a candidate methodology
- What I Talk About When I Talk About User Outcomes #5 - Productivity vs. Performativity
- Methodology section: Post-Structuralism
- "It's About Time!" Introducing Synechism Ltd.
- Blog name change
- Methodology section: Critical Theory
- Quick overview: iA's Writer app
- Schools as resources for fairness. [Future of Education]
- On the paucity of our collective imagination. [Future of Education]
- The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
- Umbrella terms and micro-literacies
- How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
- The Digital Native/Immigrant dichotomy.
- How to teach using mobile devices
- Shift up a gear: work with me from September 2011!
- New Literacy Studies
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity is NOW FREE!
- Reflecting on yesterday's Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators (#purposedpsi)
- Epistemic games and situated learning.
- From my research: New Literacies around the world
- The USA: a New Literacies desert?
- What I talk about when I talk about ‘user outcomes’ #4
- Hog roasts, Amazon EC2 and traffic lights.
- Digital Media Literacy in Australia
- How to do battle with Status Quo. And win.
- 5 interesting productivity-related resources I've come across recently
- The future of learning organizations: What do we mean by 'attendance'?
- 5 free, web-based tools to help you be a kick-ass researcher.
- Learning taxonomies: why 'creating' is not a cognitive skill.
- New literacies (or the lack of them) in Singapore
- My favourite quotations from 'Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use'
- 10 things educators forget to do after teacher training.
- e-Learning: Mobile learning, VLEs and Quality [video]
- I Got 99 Problems But a Workflow Ain't One.
- What I talk about when I talk about 'user outcomes' #3
- Exploring Mobile: Considerations and Opportunities
- Mobile phone ban? #govephonehome
- 'Digital literacy' in Norway?
- Purpos/ed featured in the TES
- mobiMOOC: 2 April - 14 May 2011
- My thesis is your thesis.
- Bad Trip
- Revolutionary tools do not a revolution make.
- My research is your research.
- Collaboration, perception, and context.
- Trajectories of ambiguity: my first journal article.
- Web apps and workflows
- Digital literacy, e-safety and donating to Japan
- Is digital literacy 'in crisis'?
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes (2)
- Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- Feeding back.
- What's the opposite of 'digital Taylorism'?
- New Literacies and 'worked examples'
- Keith Belshaw's contribution to the #purposed debate
- i'm in ur conference startin a revolushunz
- Feed me! Feed me NOW!
- Less shiny.
- Gestures as semiotic domains
- Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy (and never will be).
- HOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
- PRINCE2 for schools (or, why don't schools have project managers?)
- The perils of shiny shiny educational technology.
- Effective learning and the physicality of the classroom.
- Speaking in Lolcats: What Literacy Means in teh Digital Era
- Literaci.es: Reflecting on New Literacies
- Futurelab's Digital Literacy: professional development resource
- Digital literacy and the public/private boundary
- Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
- More on the (fragile) nature of reality.
- #ukedchat TONIGHT about #purposed
- Digital media literacy in the 2011 Horizon report
- Social media, backlash and the nature of reality.
- Productivity via Moleskine notebook indexing.
- Reflecting on Day 1 of Purpos/ed
- BOOM! Purpos/ed launches.
- Why I spent my twenties unlearning my teenage years.
- One week to go until we launch #purposed!
- Operationalising digital literacy #1: Wikileaks
- Educational philosophy, the zeitgeist, and #purposed
- Nobody knows what digital literacy is.
- Liminality and spare capacity
- The Productivity Prompting Box
- Best of Belshaw
- 30 things I've learned in 30 years.
- How I'm organising my digital outputs in 2011
- Why I've re-designated Synechism as CC0
- 10 things I did during Belshaw Black Ops.
2010 (378)
- Belshaw Black Ops.
- My most 'engaging' posts of 2010
- Creative Ambiguity and Digital Literacy
- Things I Learned This Week #50
- Weeknote #30
- [INCOMING] Personal digital hiatus.
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor: conceptual ecologies, productive concepts, and hypozeugma
- Models of Learning: #tmoxon presentation
- Things I Learned This Week - #49
- Weeknote #30
- Online Educa Berlin 2010
- JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
- Dell Latitude 2110: a review.
- Things I Learned This Week - #48
- JISC Innovating e-Learning 2010 Online Conference - #jiscel10
- Weeknote #29
- Blogging: 5 things I've learned in 5 years.
- What I Talk About When I Talk About 'User Outcomes': #1 - Douglas Adams, Feng Shui & controlling behaviours.
- Things I Learned This Week - #47
- Weeknote #28
- HOWTO: Roll your own #twebay
- 5 ways Twitter could revolutionize education.
- You don't 'build' better teachers.
- Interesting North 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #46
- Weeknote #27
- The one thing I never want my son to say again.
- Media Literacy: the biggest enemy of UK 'digital literacy' initiatives?
- User outcomes: bona fides.
- Comments policy
- #amazonfail: a perspective
- Do you remember the first time?
- The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [Review]
- Types of relationship and communities of 'ought'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #45
- Weeknote #26
- 'So... what do you do?' (v2)
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #5
- The best blog posts I've ever written, by category.
- Things I'm Thinking About
- Use is not strategy.
- Major blog redesign.
- Digging deeper: some considerations for blog design.
- Why we don't celebrate Hallowe'en in our house
- Things I Learned This Week - #44
- Weeknote #25
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #4
- A story of three requests.
- Too many bricks, not enough mortar.
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 5
- Things I Learned This Week - #43
- Weeknote #24
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #3
- Edtech companies: inspiring or conspiring?
- mLearn 2010
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: restructuring
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 4
- Notifo: a notifications inbox
- Ed.D. thesis restructure
- Things I Learned This Week - #42
- Weeknote #23
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #2
- Got 5 seconds? Help with the redesign of this blog!
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 3
- Things I Learned This Week - #41
- How not to write a thesis.
- Weeknote #22
- Glowing first review of #uppingyourgame!
- My 5 favourite non-fiction books
- Oxford E-Learning Debate 2010
- Mr. Men on the opposite of productivity
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 2
- Performativity, fetishism & the aristocracy of everyone.
- Things I Learned This Week - #40
- Weeknote #21
- 10 Things I Shared This Week - #1
- #uppingyourgame: finished and now on sale!
- Things I Learned This Month - September 2010
- MoLeNET Conference
- 3 reasons teachers should smile
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 1
- Things I Learned This Week - #39
- 3 things I've learned in my 11 years as a student in Higher Education.
- Weeknote #20
- Why parents don't engage with schools
- 5 things it's currently fashionable to say (without much evidence)
- 3 things common to most successful people
- Why I've turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- Scottish Learning Festival 2010
- What goes into my conference bag?
- Is now a good time to get an iPad?
- Creativity: confusing inputs with outputs.
- Things I Learned This Week - #38
- Weeknote #19
- HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
- Pragmatism, dead metaphors & the myth of the echo chamber.
- How is as important as why.
- Things I Learned This Week - #37
- Weeknote #18
- A response to Donald Clark's #altc2010 keynote
- #uppingyourpresentation
- The 3 most important things I learned at ALT-C 2010
- 5 things I can do with my Kindle that you can't with your dead-tree books.
- Free schools: the good, the bad and the ugly.
- Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- Things I Learned This Week - #36
- Weeknote #17
- 10 reasons I like reading ebooks more than paper books.
- Greplin: potential solver of a huge problem?
- Go to conferences? Use Lanyrd.
- Methodology for Pragmatists
- UX: 5 valuable resources
- Things I Learned This Week - #35
- Weeknote #16
- Let me tell you what I think 'this' is.
- I sync therefore I am.
- Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
- Innovation, productivity and frames of reference
- Things I Learned This Week - #34
- Weeknote #15
- What's this?
- #runningtunes
- Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don't feed-read...
- 10 things I learned from 'Why Don't Students Like School?'
- I am not a person who teaches.
- 5 characteristics of successful organisations
- Things I Learned This Week - #33
- Weeknote #14
- 5 reasons to avoid seeing 'The Expendables'
- New metaphors and symbols required!
- Google Apps Marketplace: apps worth installing
- Productivity: don't break the chain!
- Things I Learned This Week - #32
- Write lots? Buy this.
- Weeknote #13
- Why my wife should be happy with her adopted surname.
- Why I'm not the Wizard of Oz
- The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- Google Knol: the future of academic journals?
- Calling myself into the office: August 2010
- Experience, skill, and user experience.
- Things I Learned This Week - #31
- 3 ways to influence people.
- The sublime and the ridiculous.
- Weeknote #12
- Google Earth for #GTAUK
- Google Apps (Education Edition) vs. Microsoft Live@Edu
- Things I Learned This Week - #30
- Weeknote #11
- One week until #GTAUK
- 3 things I need to maintain my productivity.
- Motivation comes from within.
- Intention vs. Effect
- You are what you habitually do.
- Is it time to get rid of secondary schools?
- Productivity: value your time
- The importance of domain knowledge
- Things I Learned This Week - #29
- Weeknote #10
- #onfire: ignite your productivity [free ebook - please RT!]
- Flying without wings
- 4 solutions to office-based productivity-sappers.
- Highest common denominator.
- eBooks
- #onfire: ignite your productivity.
- Recontextualization.
- Things I Learned This Week - #28
- Weeknote #9
- On Minimalism.
- Academic reading on the Amazon Kindle
- #GTAUK: Google Earth wiki & ebook
- A life in my technological day.
- Calling myself into the office: July 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #27
- Weeknote #8
- HOWTO: Go Camping (according to my Twitter network)
- TeachMeet SHP Edition 2010
- Are we doing young people a disservice?
- Why do we use technology?
- 5 steps to making other people more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #26
- Weeknote #7
- How to design the ultimate presentation.
- Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware & creative ambiguity
- Open Educational Resources infoKit
- Hands-on with the Dell Streak.
- 5 ways Google Calendar is turning into my ultimate productivity system.
- Things I Learned This Week - #25
- Weeknote #6
- Designing for Creative Ambiguity
- HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
- Moving beyond '21st century skills'
- ...and 5 reasons why I bought a Dell Streak again.
- Productivity: choose your friction.
- Things I Learned This Week - #24
- Weeknote #5
- 10 reasons I returned my Dell Streak today.
- Freire, Conscientization & Digital Literacy
- Apply for Google Teacher Academy UK!
- (In)decisive Doug, the Dell Streak and iPhone 4.
- Calling myself into the office: June 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #23
- Weeknote #4
- The post-Becta, QCDA and GTCE future.
- Digital literacy: a function of poor design?
- 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
- The future of mobile is open and smart.
- The 3 biggest productivity-killers.
- Things I Learned This Week - #22
- Weeknote #3
- Shut happens.
- My bMoble TeachMeet presentation
- Twitter is not the best CPD you've ever received.
- 5 reasons I'm using less and less Open Source stuff.
- Establishing your productivity 'endgame'
- Things I Learned This Week - #21
- Weeknote #2
- Battery life: iPhone 3GS vs Google Nexus One vs HTC Desire
- bMobLe Conference 2010
- The Hyperlinked Society [Full Review]
- Wednesday Wisdom #20: Disreputable occupations.
- Why Open Source should be more like Fairtrade.
- How to find your 'productive song'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #20
- Weeknote #1
- Design and the 5 Golden Rules of Technology purchases.
- What's the most common type of ambiguity in definitions of 'digital literacy'?
- Wednesday Wisdom #19: Be a person of integrity
- How to use Netvibes as a project management hub.
- Surviving to thriving: 10 steps to ensure you remain productive after a rough night.
- Where do you get your ideas for blog posts from?
- Things I Learned This Week - #19
- Why we need Proportional Representation [infographic]
- A short note on syndication
- Why the European view of 'digital literacy' is ambiguous.
- Wednesday Wisdom #18: Be common in nothing.
- Google Wave: now with added usefulness.
- Calling myself into the office: May 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #18
- Innovation: where it's at.
- Roadbud: a new iPhone app for runners [Review]
- TeachMeet North East 2010
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: my first journal article.
- Wednesday Wisdom #17: Prize intensity.
- 3 online tools I'm using to increase my work-related productivity
- 7 things the Bible taught me about productivity.
- Things I Learned This Week - #17
- My resumé as a London Underground map.
- 10 things I've learned since starting work for JISC
- Using a Sony Reader PRS-600 to make notes on academic articles.
- Wednesday Wisdom #16: Thumbscrews
- The first new media election?
- Support Northumbria Conference 2010
- My interview on Productivity for educators
- Things I Learned This Week - #16
- Recommended Design-related blogs
- Best 3 things about my new job?
- If I were trapped on a Desert Island...
- Why I bought a Sony Reader ebook reader today.
- Wednesday Wisdom #15: Credulity
- JISC Conference 2010
- Why I'm using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- JISC Conference 2010: Introductory Debate
- HOWTO: Productively hack your workday.
- Rationale
- Things I Learned This Week - #15
- Leadership by Design.
- The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you've got your presentation slides.
- Why I use Google stuff
- HOWTO: Set up Google Scholar to do the heavy lifting for you.
- Wednesday Wisdom #14: Imagination
- Some reflections on the organization of #BectaX
- #uppingyourgame v0.5 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #14
- Education is easy - in theory! [visualization]
- Music I'm running to at the moment,
- The end of the beginning.
- Leaving the circus
- Wednesday Wisdom #13: Erudition
- Learning Score, a lesson-planning tool. [Review]
- How to be overwhelmingly positive (even when you don't feel like it)
- Things I Learned This Week - #13
- #newleaders is #movemeon for... guess who?
- Education 2.0
- What I learned about education whilst in the UAE
- A partial review of 'The Hyperlinked Society'
- Wednesday Wisdom #12: Things have their period
- How to move forward with Open Source: a teacher's perspective
- How to 'chapter' your life to make it more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #12
- LastHistory: a great way to generate Last.fm visualizations
- Hello? Is it me you're looking for?
- The ambiguity of new literacies [mindmap]
- Wednesday Wisdom #11: Exaggerated expectations
- Technology in History teaching: disseminating good practice in Turkey
- #uppingyourgame v0.4 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #11
- A brief history of infographics.
- You're doing it wrong.
- EUROCLIO: Third Authors and Experts' Workshop, Kizilcahamam
- Seven types of ambiguity and new literacies
- Wednesday Wisdom #10: Application and ability
- HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- #uppingyourgame: an audio preview
- Advertising vs. Sponsorship
- Things I Learned This Week - #10
- How I put together 'Things I Learned This Week' [visualization]
- Escaping the circus.
- Ten big questions for education
- Wednesday Wisdom #9: Life is a warfare against malice.
- Things I'm interested in talking about at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- Get that cool Google-style 'reveal' effect on your site.
- Notes from interview about productivity for teachers
- #getthatjob: now FREE
- Why did I make #getthajob free?
- Things I learned this week - #9
- Exam performance of looked-after children in England [infographic]
- 5 tips for new bloggers
- My favourite proverbs from around the world.
- How I organize my Ed.D. thesis
- Wednesday Wisdom #8: Excellence needs some polish
- Alternatives to Google
- #getthatjob: my guide to applying for teaching-related jobs
- #getthatjob: an educator's guide to finding, applying, and interviewing for a teaching-related job
- Things I learned this week - #8
- Blog post popularity as a treemap [infographic]
- Modern procrastination and cycling trivialities.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: digital literacy & ambiguity
- Wednesday Wisdom #7: Cultivate relationships
- iPhone apps I currently use.
- #uppingyourgame v0.3 now available!
- Things I learned this week - #7
- Google Buzz is not a Twitter-killer.
- Tenori-on, Little Boots and Melodica
- Some considerations regarding ebook readers for academics.
- Wednesday Wisdom #6: Avoid the faults of your nation.
- Some thoughts about online privacy.
- Finding your 'well' of productivity and motivation.
- Things I learned this week - #6
- Worldwide car colour popularity [infographic]
- Towards a fitter Doug.
- Initial thoughts on Digital Competence/Literacy/Flow
- Wednesday Wisdom #5: Avoid outshining your superiors
- A quick way to add a 'sparkline' to your blog.
- #uppingyourgame (v0.2) now ready!
- Things I learned this week - #5
- A subtle redesign.
- Daniel Pink on motivation.
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: The Autotelic Self
- Wednesday Wisdom #4: Ruling your impulses
- Why I no longer wear a watch.
- A tribute to Dan Meyer.
- Things I learned this week - #4
- GCSE results by location/ethnicity [visualization]
- BumpTop: 'interesting' or genuinely useful?
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: Tetrads & Connectivism.
- Wednesday Wisdom #3: Arriving at completeness
- Learning Score
- #uppingyourgame: an educator's guide to productivity (v0.1)
- Things I learned this week - #3
- My visual resumé [infographic]
- NOT Friday Fun
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: digital epistemologies & ontology.
- Wednesday Wisdom #2: The value of novelty
- The new blog order.
- #uppingyourgame
- My favourite music of the 'noughties'.
- Things I learned this week - #2
- Off-site and cloud-based backup: my solution.
- Some Friday fun!
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: dialectic.
- Wednesday Wisdom #1: Character and intellect
- Feedback: why you read this blog.
- #movemeon
- Mac OSX apps I currently use.
- Things I learned this week - #1
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: moving beyond Traditional Literacy.
- Commitments for 2010.
2009 (180)
- Read what I've read: 2009 edition.
- OpenBeta
- OpenBeta: a publishing model.
- Why do you read this blog?
- If I wrote a book, would you buy it?
- Merry Christmas!
- #blogsilike
- Twenty-nine.
- #movemeon book now available!
- Disclaimer
- Google: excellence and diversity?
- How I deal with email.
- Hyperlocality and iterating towards 2.0
- My digital reading workflow.
- A non-Luddite rebuttal of technology integration?
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the roadmap for 2010.
- The evolution of communication.
- The future of my Ed.D. thesis.
- 'Information literacy': its history and problems.
- #eduhivefive (a suggestion).
- The history of 'new literacies'.
- Best of Belshaw (2009)
- Beyond Creative Commons: uncopyright.
- The problem with free stuff.
- E-safety: the 'googleability test' (a suggestion).
- #twitter365 (2009)
- The difference between visualizations and infographics.
- Social media, open standards & curmudgeonliness.
- On the glorious weirdness of connecting with people online.
- 10 things people like me want for Christmas.
- My #TMETRU09 presentation: #movemeon & CPD via Twitter
- Research supporting collaborative, enquiry-based learning.
- Back to (theme) basics.
- A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- Design the (e-)book cover for #movemeon!
- Affinity spaces, secondary orality & digital epistemologies.
- #movemeon - a suggestion.
- My first infographic competition.
- Infographics and my future.
- Learning and growing.
- 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
- Learning objectives: the importance of trigger verbs
- Ed.D. Thesis snapshot: towards a bedrock definition of literacy.
- How I mark students' books.
- Got a blog? Do this simple thing to boost your readership.
- The difference between 'crowdsourcing' and being lazy.
- Why Ewan McIntosh *was* (partly) wrong.
- Learning objectives: the basics
- It's energy that matters, not the hours you put in.
- How to restore a very large MySQL file without errors.
- What to do when your 'get up and go' has got up and left.
- On the importance of 'real-world learning'
- Where we're headed with the Academy's E-Learning ecosystem.
- Leadership by smiling.
- 3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom.
- A proposal to get more high-quality explanatory videos to learners.
- Embracing the future: why I've ditched MP3s and signed up to Spotify Premium
- Has Wordpress-powered P2 left me 'more organized and productive'?
- Who are you and where do you come from?
- Activity, Passivity and Failure.
- Sign up for TeachMeet ETRU edition 09!
- On the important difference between hitchhiking and bandwagon-jumping.
- Carol Dweck on 'growth mindsets' and motivation.
- Assessment in UK schools: a convenient hypocrisy?
- How Wordpress-powered P2 is (hopefully) going to leave me more organized and productive!
- E-Learning Strategy Overview (a.k.a. my 3-year plan)
- My Google Apps Education Edition 'nano presentation' at TeachMeetSLF09
- 'So... what do you do?'
- What I learned about leadership from Seth Godin's 'Tribes'.
- elearnr posts now at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- Leadership by gesture.
- Heuristical Templates (or, how to review elearning stuff in a way that benefits others)
- A video introduction to using Google Calendar for timetables and meetings
- A Week of Divesting: Reflections
- A Week of Divesting: Blog design
- A Week of Divesting: Software
- A Week of Divesting: 'Analogue Time'
- A Week of Divesting: Domains [incl. a competition!]
- A Week of Divesting: Media
- A Week of Divesting: an introduction
- Why I'm trying to make myself redundant.
- Join us for EdTechRoundUp 2009/10!
- Director of E-Learning: Doug Belshaw
- A Tale of Two Guest Houses (or, what are you offering your students this academic year?)
- Quit whinging and 'use the difficulty'!
- Why digital literacy != the 'aftermath' of literacy
- A (temporary) farewell to a hero.
- The story behind the new design of dougbelshaw.com
- My 'Edonis' interview with David Noble
- HOWTO: Tether an iPhone to a netbook running Jolicloud
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: 'aspirational naming,' hegemonic power and finishing early?
- Jolicloud: my first impressions of the 'cool new [social] OS for your netbook'
- The 8 C's of digital literacy
- Which is the best netbook operating system?
- Watch my Ed.D. thesis grow in real-time...
- Using Joe's Goals to track and then improve your productive outputs.
- The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning.
- How to SPIN your way to giving more constructive negative feedback.
- The Big Move
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (advanced)
- Surviving the matrix: 5 common leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Leadership Day roundup
- Four ways to make your organization live long and prosper.
- Be more productive: take 'caffeine naps'.
- Pure gold nuggets from Shirky
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (the basics...)
- Raising achievement in History at KS4 using e-learning
- How to Lead: Being Professional
- How to Lead: Being Positive
- Daniel Goleman on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- How to Lead: Focusing on People
- Thinking of changing this blog...
- Four ways to understand organizational change
- Are organizations like brains?
- Open Source Schools - Open Source Software: an overview
- Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
- Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required!
- What I learned at TeachMeet North East 09
- Lord Bilimoria on leadership.
- Gill Rider on leadership.
- Colin Day on leadership.
- David Brandon on leadership.
- The future of education? My visit to RM's REAL Centre
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the confusion around 'digital literacy'.
- Why governmental educational reforms fail.
- How to promote organizational innovation.
- One step ahead of the storm.
- Like words in a letter sent, amplified by the distance.
- The 3 key elements of productivity.
- Stepping out of the stream.
- Digital Literacy and the 'Digital Society'
- My presentation @ TeachMeet Midlands 2009
- Why (educational) technology?
- Everything that's wrong with educational management, summed up in 3 Dilbert cartoons.
- Schools and the Procrustean Bed: are we really 'personalising' learning?
- What are the 'functional specifications' of a VLE that drive real learning?
- Looking to the future of education: learning spaces and mobile devices
- HOWTO: Make yourself more visible online by building a Google Profile
- Telling a new story.
- Ignore everybody.
- Ed.D. thesis Literature Review: a start has been made!
- Conversations about (new) literacies
- The Big E-Learning Questions
- How ‘microblogging’ sites such as Twitter can be used in education
- How E-Learning can contribute to raising achievement
- HOWTO: Present full-screen using Prezi and an Apple Remote [OSX]
- Flow and the Autotelic Classroom
- The six month slap-in-the-face for UK teachers
- Podcasting: a 3-step guide
- Alternative ways of presenting content and information to pupils
- "You can tell a lot about someone from what they're like."
- The evolution of EdTechRoundUp
- Ways to find great resources and ideas for lessons
- Quasi-motivational posters
- Under-promise and Over-deliver: the language of productivity.
- Open Source Schools curriculum meeting
- Why 'digital literacy' is central to 21st century education.
- Digital things upon which I *do* and *would* spend real cash.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the way ahead
- The Problem with Promotion
- Dilbert on 'learner voice'
- Podcasting: Step 3 - Converting and uploading your podcast ready for the masses!
- Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
- My Ed.D. thesis concept map on 'Digital Literacy'
- New music section at dougbelshaw.com
- 'Following' me on Twitter? These people are!
- HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites
- 'Flow' and the waste of free time
- Podcasting: Step 2 - Recording and editing your podcast
- My Computing History
- Hannon: 'Reflecting on Literacy in Education'
- Podcasting: Step 1 - RSS and setting up a teacher blog
- Safeguarding: the next step in the transition to Web 3.0?
- BETT 2009, TeachMeet & and iPhone misfortunes
- What if....?
- BETT 2009 and EdTechRoundup
- The Third Conversation
- Gunther Kress on Literacy
- The problem(s) of 21st century literacy/ies
- 7 Things You May Not Know About Me
2008 (206)
- Top 25: The Best of Belshaw 2008
- Merry Christmas!
- I'm 28, I'm not *old*...
- My response to the GTC's proposed 'code of conduct' for teachers in England.
- Productivity: the problem for me, summed up in two images.
- SEN Department E-Learning Session
- elearnr: what have I been up to?
- 5 interesting web applications to mess around with when you're bored over Christmas!
- Wanna buy my Macbook?
- Productivity, Organization & #tweetmeet
- 3 reasons I'm against the Edublog Awards
- The Simpsons 'do' Apple...
- Beyond boring Powerpoint presentations.
- The very best of teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- Interesting Ways to use Netbooks in the Classroom
- Finally! a video that explains what I'm aiming for as a teacher.
- How to use Google Earth more effectively.
- Functionally and aesthetically-speaking: Asus Eee 1000 vs. Advent 4211
- Glogs - create interactive and rich media web pages quickly and easily!
- Forms of Literacy
- First photos with my new Canon 1000D digital SLR
- 'Literacy'
- Take your computer with you with PortableApps!
- The Vortex of Uncompetence
- Getting to grips with the school email system
- More on Teaching as a Subversive Activity
- Living offline
- Using del.icio.us to synchronise bookmarks & find new, exciting stuff
- What does it take to build a community?
- 3 ways to prevent being 'unfollowed' on Twitter
- Digital Permanence: Death & Data
- Why we should adopt the OA5 system in education
- Give your students a voice with VoiceThread
- My Ed.D. thesis: introduction and a ?
- How to create engaging video starters without any creative talent using Animoto
- What to do when you can't be RSSed...
- Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
- Politics: the biggest problem in education
- Teacher as Game Show Host?
- Good teaching is good teaching.
- Never lose a document again: how Google Docs can change the way you and your department work!
- Doug's first world tour!
- Blue Skies Thinking vs. Grey Skies Thinking
- 4 reasons you should jailbreak your iPhone 3G
- Creating a homework blog in 3 simple steps using email
- I'll tell you this for free...
- Librarian blogs and social networks
- Good ideas, sheep and wolves.
- How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom
- Dilbert on 'best practice'
- Some questions about teaching
- 10 ways to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- 10 ways to make your working day more productive
- My way or the highway.
- Class spreadsheet for teachers
- How to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- Why as an educator you should care about Open Source Software
- 5 ways my teaching will change because of today's GCSE results.
- Posterous
- 90% digital, or 12 ways my teaching ecosystem is evolving.
- Buddha knows best, or why 'digital literacy' is so hard to pin down.
- elearnr - new blog for a new role!
- Twitter Fantasy Football
- The feature that will make Posterous better than Edublogs is...
- 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year
- 3 reasons I returned my iPhone 3G
- My life in the next couple of weeks...
- edte.ch barnraising: get involved in forming a community!
- My new Digital Literacies codex
- Synaesthesia, migraines and creativity
- Help me fill in the gaps.
- 5 productivity tips/hacks I've come across recently.
- Knowledge vs Experience
- 'In The Night Garden' as a communist utopia
- I am Spart-arthus!
- I need YOUR help with the future of edte.ch
- The Never-ending (Gadget) Story... the Advent 4211
- Skype Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- An invitation to a conversation...
- SHP Conference 2008
- SHP 2008 Videos
- Social Fabric
- Doug lives in rural isolation thanks to the Internet
- I want educational technology to be boring.
- 2 Amazing Firefox plugins: Stylish & Feedly
- Censorship and the Personal/Professional divide
- Introducing TweetMeet
- The stream becomes a trickle...
- "Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore!" (or, How to get started in the Edublogosphere...)
- Posts imported from edte.ch
- I'm a published author!
- Gym'll Fix It!
- Help me write my job spec. for next year!
- AUP 2.0
- Are you an 'Edupunk'? I'm not.
- Porn in every school? or Why filtering will soon be irrelevant.
- I've sold my Asus Eee 4G. What now?
- Into the Wild world of Hitler and Attachment Theory.
- The most amazing thing you'll see on the Internet this year!
- Serendipity, living in an echo chamber, and Learning to Change.
- Some web-hosting advice, please...
- How I got started... and the difference it's made.
- EdTechRoundup 5 - group discussion on VLEs and GLOW
- What is a VLE?
- My Ed.D. thesis proposal: What does it mean to be 'digitally literate'?
- dougbelshaw.com redesign
- Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote
- That's my boy!
- Mobile-phone based interactive whiteboards using WiiMotes?
- History KS3 Programme of Study for QCA 2008 orders
- Are you Alice, Dilbert, or the Boss?
- Towards a forward-thinking Acceptable Use Policy for mobile devices
- EdTechRoundup 4 featuring, erm, me again...
- Holiday in North Yorkshire
- Questions about the future of education
- (Almost) everything you need to know about the 14-19 changes
- The Working Classes
- I'm going to miss this...
- We have a winner!
- What is 'digital literacy'? It's certainly not this...
- Animoto now free for educators
- Meme machine
- Is a degree enough?
- Competition: win a Macvatar Macbook skin!
- Educational Technology Integration Matrix
- 10 'Home Truths' about Schooling and Education
- On having a space to myself
- Things I've been reading online recently
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius.
- The saddest picture in the world...
- I've started using Twitter with my pupils...
- Use Your Head.
- Seminal blog posts
- April Fools Day, Google-style...
- Wixi: a bizarre yet useful free file-sharing / web-desktop hybrid
- Is Twitter bad for you?
- The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere
- Timelines.tv points the way to the future of learning History
- New Asus eee user? Read this!
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 2
- Eee-aye, eee-aye, eee-aye... oh.
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 1
- EdTechRoundup 3 featuring Yours Truly
- A win at last!
- AppleTV? Pah!
- Recommend me 3
- We've sold!
- Google Apps proposal
- Better off because of Budget?
- Is handwriting dead?
- Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- 4 blogs that enhance my productivity
- edte.ch Monthly Roundup (February 2008)
- Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- 15 days of Google answers
- Google Sites - wikis for Google Apps users!
- (Google) Talk to me!
- Classroom organization and its relation to pedagogy
- 3 'well, duh' BBC Education articles
- Don't miss Stephen Fry's blog and podcast
- Windows Live SkyDrive
- THIS is how technology can enhance learning
- Ken Robinson on creativity v2
- More on mobile phone projectors
- Be notified of follow-up comments
- Why 'high culture' for pupils is highly wrong-headed
- 3 strikes and then out for UK 'illegal' downloaders?
- Benjamin Belshaw's 1st Year
- Hacking an AppleTV v1.1
- How to turn your Nokia phone into a wireless hotspot
- Using Google mobile apps in schools
- EdTechRoundup: Episode 2
- Animoto rocks! Here's proof...
- Wordpress customization
- Asus unveil new Eee PC's
- 3 reasons the majority of students are NOT 'digitally literate'
- Context is everything
- Schools SHOULD be small!
- House up for sale
- Pimp your 5g iPod Video to look like an iPod Touch
- 5 things School of Rock can teach us about real education
- Page Peel Script
- Google Apps in China? A response for EdTechRoundup
- 7 ways to improve your productivity as a teacher
- 5 ways to make 'textbook lessons' more interesting
- EdTechRoundup needs your help with Google Apps UK!
- Ben can almost walk!
- RM Asus Minibook
- EdTechRoundup podcasts are go!
- Skribit: Suggest topics for me to blog about
- Mac OSX: changing spots back to stripes
- Emotional truancy
- New header image
- Why schools should exclusively use free software
- Reflections on BETT 2008
- edte.ch @ BETT 2008
- I don't like paper
- BETT 2008
- My Seminar at BETT
- Hi, my name's Doug Belshaw...
- Mobile phone projectors? Now we're talking...
- Paul Stamatiou: the most productive person I (virtually) know
- References
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal (almost there!)
- How to upgrade your Nokia N95 to v12.x firmware and make it a whole lot better
2007 (233)
- Read what I've read: my books of 2007
- 'I Am Legend' has it all
- No place for 'gadgets' in the classroom?
- Lost my contacts
- Ed.D. blog moves home
- Paradigms within research methodology
- Why's everyone using Pownce?
- Facebook in the future?
- More on Research Methodologies
- Research Methodologies
- Hakia: web search with meaning
- Guide: using Google Apps for Education
- Zoho writer now available in offline mode
- Birmingham Leading Edge INSET
- Google Presentations now with custom backgrounds
- edte.ch workshop now open!
- More on RFID tags in education
- Busy, busy, busy...
- Sub-$200 PC... and not the OLPC project!
- The obligatory iPhone in education post
- RFID in school uniforms
- Ning now ad-free for educators!
- Numeracy improvements thanks to the good doctor
- How educational technology should change
- Becta warns UK schools off Microsoft
- New layout and theme at edte.ch
- Phew! So it's not ADHD...
- Linux on all computers in Russian schools by 2009
- PVR comparison and roundup
- The Online Office space hots up
- In these we trust: 5 basic edtech tools every teacher should have in their toolbox
- Ben crawling!
- Now THIS irritates me...
- A day in the library at the University of Durham
- Wikispaces now has widgets
- Google Docs made simple
- Amazon MP3 launches, not for UK
- Google Presentations now live!
- OLPC laptops about pedagogy, not price
- Freebase, oSkope visual search and our relationship to knowledge
- Hannah's new car
- Moodle the most popular VLE?
- Argument for thesis proposal
- Howto: host multiple websites using one web hosting account
- Google wikis soon?
- New edte.ch logo
- Google Warehouse Model Viewer
- Zoho Creator - web forms made easy!
- Did You Know? 2.0 UK version - it exists!
- Google Phone
- SMART Notebook interactive viewer
- IT managers should not dictate pedagogy
- Information Literacy
- Freebase: a useful companion to Wikipedia
- Did You Know? 2.0 - UK version?
- To-do v2
- Yahoo! Teachers social network
- Two new Google Earth features
- Twitter even closer to the perfect professional development tool
- Zoho Writer becomes more useful for students
- The cinema? Pah!
- Change of supervisor
- Ilana Snyder
- Never again...
- Back on the thesis proposal trail...
- Unexpected problems
- Business as usual - well, not quite…
- Expect some downtime
- Perfect Promos
- 8 Random Facts Meme
- Laura & Sean's wedding
- Zonbu now available
- CommentPress
- e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
- Great Ideas
- Demotivational posters
- Using Google tools for student projects
- Deki: Wiki 3.0?
- HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- Comments now working again...
- 3D searching with SpaceTime
- EdTechTalk
- Digital students
- Live Ink: an example of the benefits of digital text
- Definitions of digital literacy' from the book of the same name by Paul Gilster
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor - 24 July 2007
- $100 laptop nears production
- National Christian Football Festival 2007
- My favourite lolcats
- Google Docs keeps getting better…
- Edit and merge PDFs for free
- Soundsnap: podcast-safe and free!
- How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- NESTA 'Hidden Innovation' report
- The problems with Human Rights legislation
- Gelato: Wordpress for tumblelogs?
- Virtual Desktops: an update
- Twitter Screensaver
- Picasa Mobile
- Feedburner Pro now free
- TwitterGram
- Great annotated Web 2.0 links
- Sausage Roll
- Heavens open, schools shut
- Free and Open Source educational Mac software
- Google Docs update
- Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- OpenSUSE to compete with Edubuntu
- Facebook vs. MySpace
- Death by Powerpoint
- Web 2.0 Backpack
- HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- Ed.D. thesis proposal failure
- YouTube Remixer
- Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- Visit to London village
- Google Powerpoint support
- RSS Toolbox
- Minor update to blog design
- How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- GMail for universities
- Google Custom Search updated
- The end of power cables?
- Pageflakes Student Edition
- Philosophy
- Podcast directory
- Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- Microsoft Surface: imagine the edtech possibilities!
- Google Street View
- My first GPS-tracked run
- The 3 quotations I live by
- Zonbu: the linux-based school computer of the future?
- coRank: make your own edtech Digg clone
- Google Calendar now mobile
- Coursework 2.0
- Nokia N95: the solution to problems I didn't even know I had...
- MindMeister
- Virtual Desktops: really useful when teaching!
- Book review: Wittgenstein's Poker
- Mojiti
- Ben in his bouncer (video)
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- More photos of Ben
- iQuiz: learning games on an iPod
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Offline Wikipedia
- Ed.D. thesis proposal bibliography
- Ed.D. thesis proposal finished!
- Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- Google Spreadsheets now with chart capabilities
- 21Classes
- HOWTO: Collaborate Online
- Pay Attention: your students are Digital
- RoboBraille
- Geekifying my run
- Thesis proposal mindmap
- References to follow up - 2/3 April 2007
- Office 2.0 Database
- CommentPress
- TeacherTube
- Tumblr - a great way to get your students (and colleagues?) blogging!
- Schoolr: useful search engine
- Happy Mother's Day Hannah!
- Wordpress Plugin Repository v2
- Jersey job and the return of the Mac
- Picasa Web Albums vs. Flickr
- The Curse of Our Society
- Scribd: YouTube for documents
- Technology in exams?
- Return of the Mac
- Ralph Wiggum: boy genius
- Introductory quotation
- Another definition of literacy
- References to follow up - 3/3/07
- 21st Century Literacy
- Firefox Extension: Tab Groups
- Voice chat for Second Life
- xFruits - the Swiss Army knife for RSS feeds
- Steve Jobs outlines his vision of a textbook-free future
- More people reading my teaching blog than I thought...
- Writing tips from George Orwell
- 1 million OLPC laptops already on order!
- Intelligence vs. Wisdom
- Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest...
- The BBC are Twittering
- Sidekiq: all your search belong to us
- Macbook woes
- My (finely crafted) information environment
- GMail now available to everyone!
- Picnick: photo editing on the web
- Photoshopped animals
- PSPs as learning tools
- DVD Flick - burn any video file to DVD!
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal, v2
- Open Word documents through Google Docs in GMail
- Google Book Search now includes Google Maps
- The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Global Knowledge-Based Economy
- Run Doug run
- OpenDNS
- bubbl.us
- Easy conditional formatting in Excel
- Contact
- Hannah and Ben back home
- BBC plans online children’s world
- Flickr slideshow of Benjamin Daniel Jonathan Belshaw
- Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” released
- RSS feeds = homework?
- Human-computer interfaces of the future
- Kinaesthetic Data
- Pre-release review of the LG Shine (KE970)
- The threat of mobile technology
- References from 'Breaking Down the Digital Walls'
- Edublogosphere survey results
- Learnscaping
- Is Podcasting the new Powerpoint?
- How computer games help children learn
- EDUCAUSE articles
- Stacks of Books vs. a Search-Engine Culture
- Too much technology in the classroom?
- Top Firefox 2 extensions for educators?
- Wikiseek
- Articles on technology and the future of education
- References from ‘Schools and the Changing World’
- References from 'Reclaiming Knowledge'
- Systematicity
- References to follow up from today's reading
- References from 'Knowing Knowledge'
- Open Thinking & Alec Couros' PhD dissertation
- Expanded thesis proposal outline
- Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Resources r.e. Dan Pink & 'A Whole New Mind'
- Knowledge Management & Networks
- Links to training sites/blogs from Jim Belshaw
2006 (24)
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline (expanded)
- Some ideas about the structure of my thesis proposal essay
- What does literacy look like in the 21st century?
- 21st Century Skills: not just about ICT
- The Pressure for Knowledge to Change
- Property, 21st Century Knowledge, and Creative Commons
- Connectivism
- Groups vs. Networks
- Knowledge Management in Education
- Email to Gareth Mills (QCA)
- The purpose of education? It isn’t this…
- Where do educational ideas originate? A digital paper trail…
- Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right?
- Barriers to teachers’ use of ICT
- The Community as the Text
- Managing Organizational Change - diagram
- Chris Sessums - ICT and the ‘locus of control’
- Papert on Why School Reform is Impossible
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline
- The difference between groups and networks
- Some great quotations about education in the 21st century (and in general)
- Learning Teacher Network - 10 recommendations for the future of teaching
- Research Methods & Interactive Whiteboards
- Tentative area for thesis