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Teacher as Game Show Host?
A couple of years I wrote a post exploring a metaphor of the Teacher as DJ. It was well-received and stemmed from the amount of music I use in an average lesson! Today, I came across another metaphor...
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Are organizations like brains?
As part of my Ed.D. course through the University of Durham I had to take some taught modules. One of them that I took back in 2006 was entitled Management, Leadership & Change. It was an excellent...
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Surviving the matrix: 5 common leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them.
by Jamie Zawinski (Wikimedia Commons) Jo Owen, in his excellent How to Lead: what you actually need to do to manage, lead and succeed has a wonderfully concise and vivid section on the ‘pitfalls of...
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New metaphors and symbols required!
What’s wrong with this image? Part of the problem with technology adoption in education comes from perceived parental pressure and expectation. This is fuelled by a rather reactionary media who use...
View ArticlePragmatism, dead metaphors & the myth of the echo chamber.
Building upon Karl Fisch’s post from July about the myth of the echo chamber, this post reflects my thinking towards engaging and building consensus amongst colleagues as a result of studies towards my...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About ‘User Outcomes’: #1 – Douglas Adams, Feng...
This is the first in the series of a series of occasional posts in which I attempt to explain, either through my own words or those of others, what I mean by my ongoing project of ‘improving user...
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Explaining Open Badges through analogy
One of the best ways to help people understand something they’ve not come across before is through metaphor and analogy. A year or so ago, for example, my son had a cold and said “my nose is deaf” –...
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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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Teacher as Game Show Host?
A couple of years I wrote a post exploring a metaphor of the Teacher as DJ. It was well-received and stemmed from the amount of music I use in an average lesson! Today, I came across another metaphor...
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Are organizations like brains?
As part of my Ed.D. course through the University of Durham I had to take some taught modules. One of them that I took back in 2006 was entitled Management, Leadership & Change. It was an excellent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surviving the matrix: 5 common leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them.
by Jamie Zawinski (Wikimedia Commons) Jo Owen, in his excellent How to Lead: what you actually need to do to manage, lead and succeed has a wonderfully concise and vivid section on the ‘pitfalls of...
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