Weeknote 27/2013

Open Thinkering Weeknotes, Air Mozilla, Badge the UK, Chloe Varelidi, CoderDojo, James Langley, Laura Hilliger, MDN, Mozilla, Paul Lewis, University of Hull

This week I’ve been:

  • Meeting up and geocaching with James Langley while talking Open Badges. He was up near where I live in Northumberland preparing for an activity day. 🙂
  • Wondering why I’d send my children to secondary school.
  • Booking travel. Lots of travel.
  • Celebrating my first year at Mozilla.
  • Hosting the weekly Web Literacy Standard community call. You can listen again here.
  • Communicating with various people and organizations via Skype/phone/email about integrating with the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) – including Codecademy.
  • Releasing v0.7 of my iterative ebook: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
  • Talking with Laura Hilliger about the link between hacktivity kits and the Web Literacy Standard.
  • Mapping the UK Open Badges people/organizations/projects I’ve spoken to who are ready to issue badges.
  • Planning a potential Game On-style challenge or competition for aligning with the Web Literacy Standard with Chloe Varelidi. She also pointed me towards MDN’s Dev Derby.
  • Talking to the Comms team about what we need to do in the run up to the beta launch of the Web Literacy Standard on July 26th.
  • Running an Open Badges workshop at the University of Hull.
  • Visiting the Google London office to visit my very talented friend Paul Lewis.
  • Hosted the (very successful) Badge the UK launch at the Mozilla London office. It should soon be on Air Mozilla as it was livestreamed and recorded!
  • Trying to take the holiday day everyone at Mozilla was given on Friday (but actually doing my expenses and travelling to Glasgow instead)
  • Running an Open Badges workshop for CoderDojo Scotland at Glasgow Science Centre.

Next week I was going to be in Berlin to run an Open Badges workshop with Tim Riches, but now I’m just going to be in London on Sunday night/Monday for ePIC conference (where I’ll be running three workshops). I also need to get planned a Maker Party event at the Centre for Life that I’ve booked for August 17th.