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I love this video from WordPress. Very similar in style to what I always imagined we could do for Micro.blog.
A hit of space to light out for the Territory at the end too.
Category Archives: enviable stuff
Every Wednesday in March and April, Teaching Matters will examine a different aspect of blogging as part of the Academic Blogging mini-series.
Anne-Marie Scott Introduces a series of posts to support blogging at Edinburgh university. A lot of WordPress going on.
Open Source Podcast Audio Chain. Contribute to sritterbusch/ospac development by creating an account on GitHub.
Beside other features, ospac includes a robust leveler, two solutions to avoid crosstalk and soft silence skipping.
Might be a replacement for The Levelator when 32 bit apps no longer work.
Facebook has targeted politicians around the world – including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne – promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy legislation
Surprised?
Twitter, cpd, actor-network theory and flânerie
“BEST. PD. EVER!” Some teachers make bold claims for the way that Twitter supports their professional development, yet research into this area is rather limited. This study sought to gain a better understanding of the practices involved and the part that Twitter plays. It uses a sociomaterial sensibility informed by actor-network theory (ANT) to unravel the complex webs of relations which form, break apart and reform when knowledge practices are enacted in the mediated arena of Twitter.
To explore this rich but messy environment, I evoke the spirit of the Parisian flâneur to develop an ethnographic approach I refer to as ‘flânography.’
Ian Guest’s phd should make for fascinating reading. I’ve followed along on his blog as best I could. The idea of twitter as CPD is a popular one that needs the sort of examination that Ian carried out.
We have interviewed Ian on Radio Edutalk about his phd back in 2016 and I am looking forward to talking to him again soon. He also published audio of some of his research interviews on Edutalk: CPDin140.
Who in their right mind wants to enter into something that, as you yourself have said, could make us worse-off for the next 50 years?
I do wonder whether it should provide experiences only – because if you provide the outcome for each experience you’ve pre-determined the learning and that’s detrimental to the learning process.
'Revisiting our educational history might encourage us to question some of the prevailing orthodoxies of our time...Perhaps we should ask why there are no comparable radical voices in Scottish education today.'
Hard hitting stuff. in reply @athole lists some possible radicals Sceptical Scot looks like a good addition to my rss reader.
Retrieve public RSS feeds from SoundCloud and iTunes urls
I had linked to another tool that did this that has now disappeared.
DIY alternative Get RSS feed from iTunes podcast links – Super User
Liked: No, Wikipedia didn’t get actress Olivia Colman’s birthdate wrong
Nice opertunity to counter poor reporting of Wikipedia accuracy.