“Twitter friends in Scotland would you be able to help my local school with their project. Thx”
Twitter friends in Scotland would you be able to help my local school with their project. Thx pic.twitter.com/5tInad5KH5
— MosesG68 (@mosesg68) October 19, 2018
Over a decade ago, a few Scottish educators got together in a pub for a meetup. This spawned something that is still going to this day: the TeachMeet. I’ve been to a fair few in my time and, particularly in the early days, found them the perfect mix of camaraderie and professional learning.
Doug quotes How to Host or Attend a “Tiny” Conference
eight pointers for running a successful ‘Tiny Conf’:
- Keep it ‘tiny’
- Make it application and invite-only
I think I agree totally about the value of small. Not so sure about invite-only might miss some serendipity…
There have only been a few TeachMeets in scotland recently, I wonder if it is worth keeping TeachMeet.scot going?
Daring Fireball: Sometimes It’s Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing
Next, I wanted to delete every single photo and video from my iPhone. To my knowledge there is no easy way to do this on the iPhone itself. (There are a lot of tasks like this that are easy on the Mac thanks to Edit → Select All that are painfully tedious on iOS.) I connected the iPhone to my Mac with a Lightning cable and used Image Capture to delete all photos and videos from my phone. Image Capture just treats the iPhone like a regular camera. Image Capture crashed three times during this process (I’m still running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, for what it’s worth), but after the fourth run the iPhone had no photos or videos lefp.
I just deleted all the photos from a school iPad yesterday by selecting a couple and the dragging to select the rest. Worked with ~3000 photos but a bit clunky. I’ll use Image Capture in future. It’s an application I don’t remember very often.
In a 1-2-1 iPad class I do get a lot of benefit from having a mac in school. There a several things that can be solved with a quick airdrop to the mac and back. Given the iPads and mac are of similar vintage (2012).
I’ll edit a note on the mac, it syncs to the iPad (instantaneously it feels like) and I can Airdrop to class or group via classroom app. Now the Classroom app is available for the mac I need to think about upgrading the ageing mac to Mojave. I think it is new enough but spinning hard disk and skimpy ram might be a problem?
Chris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)A side benefit of going IndieWeb and posting everything to my own site first instead of to social silos like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinboard, Reading.am, Pocket, Mastodon, etc.: It’s pretty easy to rack up big consecutive day posting streaks in WordPress. Toaster notification on my computer...
Liked: https://boffosocko.com/2018/10/11/wordpress-posting-streak/
5 years ago I doubt any of us could have envisioned the world as it stands today. The
Liked: 5 years on and struggling with my silence.
Shelia’s post is brave & heartfelt.
Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)A quick tutorial Go to Brid.gy Click on WordPress.com Authorize the account Copy the code Add a text or html widget to your side bar Next Step Add an h-card. An h-card is the website equivalent to a business card. You can design it anyway way you want. Add an html/text widget to your sidebar
Liked: Adding Bridgy to WordPress.com
Bridgy brings comments from twitter, flickr, instagram etc back to your blog.
The most exquisite food in the world, say many celebrated chefs, is being made not in Copenhagen or New York, but in a remote temple complex south of Seoul by a 59-year-old Buddhist nun.
fascinating.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)My presentations with Cathy O’Halloran and Richard Callanan held at Manor Lakes College on 6th and 7th April, 2017 Connecting Learners with Google
Huge pile of resources and links for folk who use gsuite and google classroom.
francesbell (Frances Bell)I won’t be answering the question in the title but I’m hoping that writing this post will take me a step along the way.
Lovely post both from the real and metaphoric angle.
Kicks Condor (kickscondor.com)Link freely. This has the added benefit of creating a TON of noise for Google. If the tradeoff on something is “bad for bots, good for humans,” I’ll take that trade.
