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Knowledge Management & Networks
I’m thinking expanding the scope of my thesis (probably at a time when I should be thinking of focusing a bit more, but never mind). Instead of perpetuating the dividing walls between schools,...
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The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere
I started reading educational blogs in late 2004/early 2005. Back then, there were only a few educators blogging – the likes of Will Richardson, Vicki Davis, Wesley Fryer. Oh, and the inimitable...
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How I got started… and the difference it’s made.
Karyn Romeis’ dissertation is going to be on “the use of social media on the professional practice of learning professionals”. She’s asked the edublogosphere for ‘testimonies’ – how we got started and...
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Are you an ‘Edupunk’? I’m not.
Apparently, “the concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire” according to Stephen Downes. I must have been too busy with Twitter and FriendFeed to...
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“Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore!” (or, How to get...
I’ve been contacted by four different postgraduate researchers in the last two weeks. It’s getting to the stage where I’m considering setting up a new website/discussion space! A couple of them just...
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On the glorious weirdness of connecting with people online.
It’s rare in this fast-paced world of Twitter and synchronous communications to come across high-quality reflections on how we connect online both professionally and personally. The video below, put...
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[INCOMING] Personal digital hiatus.
Three years ago, at the end of 2007, I took a hiatus. Inspired by Stephen Downes, I realised needed a break from the stream. It’s time I took another one, but for different reasons. This time I’m...
View ArticleSpeaking in Lolcats: What Literacy Means in teh Digital Era
Speaking in Lolcats, Take 2 View more presentations from Stephen Downes In 2009, Stephen Downes gave several presentations entitled Speaking in Lolcats. He put forward three theses: That New Media is...
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Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
A few days ago, via Stephen Downes, I came across Project Reclaim, an attempt by Boone Gorges to ‘reclaim’ his data from the multiple silos he’s been putting them in. He’s talking about those places...
View ArticleChange MOOC – #change11
After seeing several MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) come and go over the past couple of years, I’ve decided to play a part in a new one being facilitated by Dave Cormier, George Siemens and...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Practicalities
This is my third post on Laura Thomson’s marvellous talk Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. In this one I’m focusing on the section she entitled ‘Practicalities’. All of the ideas in this post should be...
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[INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps13
TL;DR: I won’t be blogging or using social networks in November/December. This is twice as long as last year. You can see what I got up to last time here. For the past three years, I’ve sworn off...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Problem Solving and Decision Making
This is my fourth post on Laura Thomson’s excellent talk Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. In this one I’m focusing on the section she entitled ‘Practicalities’. All of the ideas in this post should be...
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Weeknote 42/2013
This week I’ve been: Working with the Mozilla Webmaker team to get a first version of the Web Literacy Standard on webmaker.org. It’ll be on staging soon. Responding to the requirements of organisers...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Goals, scheduling, shipping
This is another post on Laura Thomson’s excellent talk on Minimum Viable Bureaucracy all about the section she entitled ‘Goals, scheduling, shipping’. You should credit Laura with all of the ideas in...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Why have managers?
This is my last post writing up Laura Thomson’s excellent talk on Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. I’ve added the audio from the Q&A session below, but this text is taken from the final section of the...
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Where I’ll be at MozFest
It’s the Mozilla Festival this weekend. Below is where you can find me and the schedule is here. Friday 18:00-20:00 – Science Fair (Level 4) Saturday (Level 7) 11:00-12:00 – Open Badges & Web...
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Minimum Viable Badge
This is a stub of a post. I’ll come back and add more detail later, but I wanted to get it out there pre-#BelshawBlackOps13. When I say ‘badge’ I am, of course, talking about Open Badges. Just as we...
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Announcing the Web Literacy Standard (specification)
On-stage at the Mozilla Festival on Saturday, Brett Gaylor and Chris Lawrence announced a number of updates and additional features of webmaker.org. One of these, I’m delighted to report, was the Web...
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#BelshawBlackOps13 has started
As this post goes live I’ll be relaxing with my family in Gozo, a tiny island in the Mediterranean. It’s a wonderful place to recover from the madness of MozFest – as well as being an apt start to a...
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