It took me all day to get here.The smile and breathe come easily enough takes a while to slow down.
This photo taken as the light went.
Month: March 2016
Radio #EDUtalk at #OEPSforum4
I was along at the OEPScotland, Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Forum 4 this week representing Radio #EDUtalk. Not to broadcast or record but to show our poster 1
It was a great meeting, I did broadcast and posted some comments on EDUtalk along with some links after the event..
The keynote by Josie Fraser was filmed and I hope that it will be put up somewhere as it was great.
The attendees were mostly from Higher Education, but I think the ideas behind openness are more than relevant to schools and other learning spaces. Josie’s work is in the school sector and would be a great model to follow: Open Education for Schools – Policy & Practice.
I’ve put some good links on the Radio Edutalk 09-03-2016 #OEPSforum4 post.
- Unfortunatly there is a wee typo on my email address. ↩
A better Glow Link Shortener
From Charlie Love. A while back I posted here about shortening Glow O365 links to avoid the double authentication. Charlie has rebooted his glow.li link shortener and added in this feature in a much neater way. The form recognises a link to Glow O365 automatically and sorts you out with a link to take you in via RM Unify.
Charlie’s http://www.glo.li is beautiful, and has the advantage of nice branding with a url to remind you it is a glow link.
@livedtime #tds251 all the leaves will fall
There are more than 75 @livedtime #tds248
Yesterday’s stillness was to pick one of 75 pleasures and
take time to enjoy it. Show us in a photo
Well I did a few of those things yesterday, but I don’t think I paid much heed. I had a better chance this afternoon. A walk, a seat beside the loch, a wee bit of stillness.
I have become a bit more aware about how I am skipping by these chances too quickly.
I am finding the daily stillness almost always interesting. I don’t always respond publicly, sometimes I am too busy, sometimes I want to keep my response to myself. I am particularly enjoying the recycling of the exercises.
I am reminded of Jin Shengtan’s list of 33 happy moments, I’ve just found these on tumblr but I read them in an old secondhand book many years ago.
13.It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open a window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like it has had a bath.
Ah, is this not happiness?
from: 33 Happy Moments, 13.
@livedtime #tds245 excitment vs stillness
Take 10 minutes to enjoy the ‘ephemeral absolute’ today. Could you just sit back and enjoy? Did you find yourself getting impatient and wanted to see the next painting and the next and the…? Did you want to break the artist’s intent and get a screenshot of that favourite painting to keep (Disclosure: we nearly took a screenshot for this daily)? So many lessons about how we relate to the impermanence of life in such a simple artistic idea.
from: #tds245 Ephemeral art for stillness | The Daily Stillness
Géneration …Etc… This is great. Even before I had got through reading the daily post I was thinking screenshot.Â
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes my mind race.
Before I have watched three images stream by: how is this done, can I do something like it, let’s look at the source.Â
Not stilling my mind. I pop down to the bins and the newsagents. I am excited, gifs, servers, writing this response. I love being excited by a stream of thoughts and ideas.Â
Half way through the hundred yards to the shop I remember that this should be about stillness. Feel my feet, watch my step, breath, follow a crow, smile. A few seconds later I am thinking about thinking, and this post, and my neighbour who passes…
Back in the flat I watch the webpage while coffee boils. Not exactly stillness, but absorbing. Are there patterns? or am I making them up. I like this stuff, maybe I can get it on the big screen at work…
I could save any image by pressing and holding on the iPad. I don’t.Â
The image with this post is a gif made from a string of imaged generated by Decim8 on my phone. Giffed with a reduction of colours in fireworks. Sort of inspired by the images from Géneration …Etc…