I’m not angry at you (republished) powerful stuff.
published on Medium in July 2016; I’m republishing because I no longer have access to Medium because it is blocked in Egypt
Category Archives: enviable stuff
Cisco’s Connected Conservation programme, in collaboration with Dimension Data. The team has installed a network of sensors and cameras in a South African reserve that, with the help of machine learning, monitor activity and alert keepers to intruders. The efforts have reduced poaching incidents by an astonishing 98 per cent in just three years.
The web is once again being deconstructed by its users in new and different ways. You can see it in tools like CodePen and Glitch, which lower the barrier to entry for folks that want to experiment with web technologies. People are building simple and complex things on these platforms, and whole communities have sprung up to encourage collaboration and sharing.
Amanda Rush(Placeholder, edit later) WordPress powers over a quarter of the web. With such a large market share comes a shared responsibility to create a web that everyone can use and enjoy, regardless of how they access it. (customerservant.com)Right now I am incredibly grateful and thankful for the extensive accessibility improvements to the WordPress widgets screen, because today I learned that there is at least one developer on this planet who actually worked to not support accessibility mode.
Is there a legitimate reason to do this other than pure unadulterated ableism? That’s not a rhetorical question.
not that I can think of. I often fail with adding alt tags to images, but I don’t do it oon purpose!
What I quickly found out was that NOTHING has made a greater impact on my students than the short notes that I’ve been writing them.
Update September 2024 blog seems to have gone Archive.org Link
“Key tips on mobile film making, in #DIYFimSchool Part II - consider lighting and audio, and be prepared. Plus, use apps. Hat tip to @lee_ballantyne for sharing the full resource
The linked guide looks useful and simple enough for primary school: DIY Film School
“#tds1516 Story or Scripture? https://t.co/8iiEuXoynC”
“Disheartening results from a well-designed study on flipped classrooms. Mixed results in short term but any benefit quickly faded and it exacerbated the achievement gap. The hope that technology would revolutionize learning is fading. https://t.co/54GFrrBJJc”
That’s all about hardware though. What about software? Also around the same time two years ago, I made a list of the 10 most influential computer programs ever written. I think the Apollo Guidance Computer is probably missing from both my lists, hardware and software – what else did I miss?
“Knowledge matters. Knowing stuff is important. These are some reasons why, that have nothing to do with cultural capital or social mobility or fitting in at dinner parties. 1/”
Read the thread.