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Stuff I build
My work requires a good bit of conceptualization and invention to discover ways of empowering lots of people. This page and its posts include some of the concepts, learning materials and engagement approaches I’ve produced over the years. Some of this work is a little bit meta, but the models, concepts and frameworks might make something you’re working on easier.
Promoting Informed Citizenship in a Connected World: Advancing Media and Information Literacy
This paper explores the evolving relationship between media, information, and digital literacy in light of rapid technological advancements. The project includes a season of the Tao of WAO focused on literacies.
Open Recognition is for Everybody
It’s been more than a decade since a small community of folks, including yours truly, started working on Open Badges. The concept is now mainstream. Open Recognition is for Everybody.
Learning Materials
Since the beginning of my career I’ve written, designed and developed learning materials on web and creative topics. These materials all use participatory methods. I’m slow at getting them all in one place.
the Open Organization
An Open Org Ambassador since 2015, I’ve done loads of thinking for the Open Org. I’ve helped develop the definition of openness and what an open leader is and written books, articles and more.
Greenpeace.org
From 2016 – 2020, I worked on the global redesign and development of Greenpeace web presences. Read all about this project in the Open Org series.
Modular Remix Model
In 2012, I started working on a massively customizable, modular model for educational initiatives and materials. The model is in use across Mozilla.
More links
- The Open Web Leadership Map started to define what leadership means when teaching, organizing and sustaining learning on the web.
- This meta arc for Mozilla was designed to help learners tinker and play. The pathway introduces tools and knowledge to increase web literacy.
- From Strategy to Content to Design to Coding, #TeachtheWeb was a HUGE body of my work, and it’s all under cc-by so there’s plenty to remix!
- I helped develop the Web Literacy concept since its beginning. Here’s a cool thing I made on dependencies for the pathways through Web Lit.
