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Digital literacies and why they’re important… for everyone!
(can’t see the video? click here!) Nigel Robertson (@easegill) works at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. A few weeks back he asked if I’d have time to put together a short video...
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v0.4 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
I’m pretty much on schedule with the writing of my new e-book The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. This post it to announce that v0.4 is now available! Those who invested in previous versions...
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v0.5 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
I’m pleased to announce the latest iteration of my e-book The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies is now available. This takes it to v0.5! Those who invested in previous versions have already...
View ArticleThinking through helping my kids learn Web concepts.
TL;DR version: I’ve been thinking of the best ways to help my six year-old son understand some of the concepts behind the Web. I’ve settled on a non-linear, interest-based approach that sparks his...
View ArticleReading books in front of kids is not enough.
TL;DR version: Patrick Rhone wrote a post recently about the importance of his children seeing people reading physical books. While I agree with the sentiment, it’s not enough in and of itself. They...
View ArticleOn ‘rigour’ in definitions of digital and web literacy.
TL;DR version: If we define rigour as something that’s ‘unchanging’ and ‘objective’ then it’s almost impossible to be ‘rigorous’ about digital and web literacy. Instead, I propose that instead of being...
View ArticleT3S1: Digital Literacies with Dr. Doug Belshaw (#etmooc)
I’m running my first-ever MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) session on digital literacies as part of #etmooc. Anyone can join in at 8pm GMT on Monday 18th February 2013. The link you need is at Point 4...
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Recording of my #etmooc session on Digital Literacies now available.
Last night I led (what seemed to be) a well-received session for #etmooc on digital literacies. While you can catch the whole thing again through the Blackboard Collaborate recording, you’ll need Java...
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Two online gatherings you should be part of (today/tomorrow)
Earlier this week I led an #etmooc session on Digital Literacies. The slides for that are here and the video, audio, chat and etherpad archive can be found here. I’m involved in another couple of...
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v0.6 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
I’m pleased to announce the latest iteration of my e-book The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies is now available. We’re now at v0.6! Those who invested in previous versions have already received...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Digital Literacies [video + article]
About this time last year, the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) kindly invited me over to keynote their annual conference. I had a great time and presented on Zen and the Art of Digital...
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v0.7 of ‘The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies’ now available! [E-BOOK]
I’m delighted to announce that the latest iteration of my e-book The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies is now available. This takes us to v0.7! Those who invested in previous versions have...
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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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