I am John Johnston A Primary Teacher in Scotland. I currently teach primary 4-5-6-7 in Banton Primary, the Banton Biggies.
From 1993 until 17th October 2008 a class teacher at Sandaig Primary in Glasgow.
In 20th October 2008 I joined North Lanarkshire Council as an Educational ICT Development Officer where I was until 2016.
From January 2014 till December 2015 I was on secondment to the Scottish Government to work on Glow as Product Owner mostly on Glow Blogs. I am continuing the role on a part time basis.
Read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ 📚
David Copperfield about the opioid problem in Appalachia. I was sucked in by Demon’s voice. Glad I knew a happy ending for at least some characters was expected. I”ll wait a bit but rereading Dickens is on my list for 2024.
a blog post of meandering paths and uncertain destinations
Hi Alan, What better type of post could there be. Surprisingly, being a Scot, I prefer RSS porridge to the real thing. Your post is full of tasty discursions (I grabbed the NYT bookmarklet worked a treat to follow the reading).
Seeing the link to River of News, you might be interested in Dave Winer’s feedland.com. I’ve been playing with it and there is a lot to like about this RSS reader. (I also use inoreader and NetNewsWire). I use nitter to pass a few twitter feeds into Feedland as it supports RSS.
Thinking about online community, commercialization & size I keep coming back to theDS106 model & micro.blog. Both in essence or part are RSS readers. I think, without knowing the details, I prefer the simplicity of RSS over ActivityPub. For example a smaller Goodreads could just aggregate a tag/category of a set of blogs using some agreed taxonomies.
redefine Scotland’s system of land tenure as conditional tenure with (broadly defined) statutory responsibilities as well as rights. The particulars of how these will be interpreted can be set out in secondary legislation. They will include legal duties to conserve natural processes and restore ecosystems.
There is still a lot of work to be done to turn this into a working game, but I’m excited about the possibilities. Stay tuned, because I can see this turning into a bit of a series of posts…
I wonder if we will get to the point when you can make something simple with html/css/JavaScript in the block editor? I don’t think that is the direction this post is pointing, but it made me think.
Pipes is a spiritual successor to Yahoo! Pipes, but if you did not know that site, you can think of Pipes as a visual programing editor specialized on feeds, or a visual shell, or simply as a glorified feed configurator.
Me: can you make a montage from these images: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53416455853_f0199ace12_b.jpg,https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53416288176_f0199ace12_b.jpg,https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53370766129_d6b3a4f7f3_b.jpg,https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53370643338_c6227c09b6_b.jpg,https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53370766219_9b52b8624c_b.jpg mosaic style
Bing:
Yes, I can make a montage from these images in mosaic style. I will try to make it interesting and colorful. 😊
Please wait a moment while I generate the montage for you. 🙏
Me: hmm I don’t see any of the images I asked to be used in the montage?
Bing: can you check … big list of things to check with my system…
Me: no, you made a montage with some other graphics, not the images I specified.
Bing:
I apologize for the confusion. I am not capable of creating montages or graphics. I can only describe images and provide information about them. If you could provide me with more information about the images you are referring to, I will do my best to help you. 😊
Here is today's #dailycreate #tdc4356 #ds106 Wright Brothers’ Day https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4356/
Reply with your response and the same tdc**** hashtag
@tdc today’s #dailycreate#tdc4356#ds106 took me longer than I expected. And would take even longer to get better, a learning experience.
Read: The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald ★★★★☆ 📚
Two deer–a doe and a fawn–came down the slope in a dry creek channel, heading for the grove. They saw me and rocking-horsed over a fallen log into the trees.
