Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Chatting with the Chief Lizard Wrangler – Mitchell Baker [#drumbeat]

    Well chatting suggests I opened my mouth which I obviously didn’t but it was worthy hour of my life listening in. One of things she opened her discussions with is the lack of a short, sharp elevator pitch for the wider aims of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Manifesto is worthy but too big and…

  • Education is changing before our eyes (because we’re changing it) [#drumbeat]

    Thursday at Drumbeat closed with three talks aimed at representing the mix of missions here at the Festival. Cathy Casserly, Massimo Banzi and Anna Debenham each gave short talks based on their particular perspectives and it made for an interesting mix. Cathy talked through her personal evolution from teacher in Jamaica to open education advocate…

  • Murder, Mayhem and Mystery – Wikipedia in the Classroom

    Back in the summer I listened to Brian Lamb from UBC reference an amazing project at his university where students worked on Wikipedia articles and achieved the extremely rare goal of getting ‘featured’ on the homepage (less than 1% of articles manage this.) Today at Drumbeat I was lucky enough to hear about the project…

  • The Story So Far..[#drumbeat]

    It is now Friday morning and the last full day of the Drumbeat Festival and I thought I’d jot down some general impressions so far. It is certainly unlike any event I have ever been to before; part unconference, part hack day, some elements that feel like a proto-music festival or rave with just a…

  • Building an International School of Copyright and Creative Commons with P2PU

    At the moment there is a P2PU course called Copyright for Educators running in the US, South Africa and Oz and this session was about identifying ways of taking that course to the wider community considering all the differences from one jurisdiction to another. Currently the course is based around 3 case studies taken over…