Ophelia battered heron
Year: 2017
Approaching Arran
I am therefore thinking of creating a script in Sheets that collates all the links for the month in a Google Doc. To be honest, Google Apps Script is all still new to me, but I am wondering about the possibility of creating a template with merge fields. I remember Autocrat doing something similar. I could then use this to post in WordPress.
This sounds really interesting. I’ve not done much with sheet scripting other than copy the odd script. But I am wondering if you could still use a social bookmarking service, say pinboard, then use IMPORTFEED in your sheet to grab all the links, and descriptions . This might be easier than opening a google form every time you want to add a link? Or not YMMV.
But you could then automate the creation of the newsletter as you outline above. Pinboard would be goods as you can get a feed for a tag (newsletter).
Digital Nostalgia
I just opened my old 2001 iBook, running 10.3.9 (2005) with 320 MB of RAM. The Finder was surprisingly snappy. It slowed down a bit once I had an application or two running.
In the dock (on the right had side, vertical) Graphic Converter, Safari, SuperCard, AppleWorks, Claris Emailer, Flash MX, Tex-edit-plus, terminal, NetNewsWire, IE, QuickTime, System Prefs and Classic. There are a few other fond memories in the Application Folder.
I couldn’t get it on the Wifi but it connected via Ethernet.
I was hoping to find out what podcasts I was listening to back then, but no luck, nothing in iTunes at all, I think I cleared out it out at some point to pass on to my wife or daughter.
(My first mac was a performa 475 bought in 1996 just as the power pc macs appeared.)
Goose at Ardinning
Microcast 11: podcasting thoughts
A short podcast about my current thinking about and approach to podcasting.
i hope to be returning to microcasting more regularly. This cast consists of a brief history of my podcasting and some musing on where it will go from now on.
Great read Social Mobility: An Undeserving Philosophy from @disidealist
It is more complicated than we thought Is the Wolf a Real American Hero? HT @twoodwar
Growth Mindset, hmm…
“the chance of people replicating this in schools is very small. Carol Dweck told me that they don’t have a single example of a school successfully changing pupils’ mindsets.”
from: Weekend read: Is growth mindset the new learning styles?
I’ve not really paid much attention to Growth Mindset. I missed Carol Dweck the year she was at SLF but I remember a lot of excitement.
More from the post a quote from Carol Dweck:
“I was asked once, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ It’s the idea that my work – which was designed in opposition to the self-esteem movement – would be used in the way that the self-esteem movement is used.”
Interesting read and Carol Dweck will be a guest on the Tes Podagogy podcast on 18 October I think I’ll huffduff that for a listen.