Weeknote 40/2017

7 October 2017 • 1 min read • Weeknotes / weeknote / work

This week I’ve been:

Sending out Thought Shrapnel, my weekly newsletter loosely structured around education, technology, and productivity. Issue #277 was entitled ‘GIF it up’. I send all of the links that end up in the newsletter (and more!) to the Thought Shrapnel Live! channel on Telegram. You can support this work by becoming a valued supporter.
Tweaking the website prototype I’ve put together for 6th Morpeth Scouts during a meeting with leaders. GitHub really does make it easy to change things on the fly, and capture issues for further development. I also helped the Scouts last weekend with the walking/navigating part of their expedition camp.
Travelling to Barcelona to present and run a workshop at the ALL DIGITAL Summit. I spoke on decentralised technologies, digital literacies, and Open Badges. An audio recording of my presentation along with my slides can be found here. The workshop was packed-out and there was lots of enthusiasm about using badges to develop digital competencies across Europe!
Meeting with Richard Allaway about my visit next week to help the International School of Geneva with their digital strategy.
Putting together a proposal for Jeroen de Boer to help Bibliotheekservice Fryslân in the Netherlands with their initiatives around digital literacies.
Catching up with Sarah Horrocks about the technology-enhanced teacher professional development report we’re researching and writnig for the Education Development Trust.
Picking up my Dad from Barcelona airport, as he’s joining me here for the weekend.
Writing:
- Currencies and ‘current-sees’ (Discours.es, 6th October 2017)
- Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites (Open Educational Thinkering, 5th October 2017)
- Future Infrastructure, Future Skills, Future Mindsets (ALL DIGITAL Summit, October 2017) (Literaci.es, 3rd October 2017)

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Photo of me presenting at the ALL DIGITAL Summit taken by Ana Vitorica