ViperCard is an open source rewrite of 1987’s HyperCard.
Hmm HyperCard plus gifs, unbeatable technology 👍
Category Archives: enviable stuff
A Saturday in Tabs
The tabs left open from yesterday. The internet is a more fascinating place that I’ve got time for.
- The Archive (macOS) • Zettelkasten Method Looks like an interesting application for organising text. I keep a lot of stuff in txt files which very badly organised (I use search). This might be helpful. I am using the 60 day trial at the moment.
- PressED – A WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter I am taking part in this on Thursday this week.
- Little grebe – Wikipedia Enjoying watching these on the Victoria Park pond at the moment.
- I am the Weekend – Beta Teacher Not read this yet.
- Doc Searls Weblog · Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
- The science of revision: nine ways pupils can revise for exams more effectively | Teacher Network | The Guardian
- John Sexton on Twitter: “is it just me – why are schools/teachers giving instruction to pupils via twitter? Many primary school – no one under 13 should be on twitter? Better ways to engage with pupils on line – I am sure Or am I missing something here???????” Nearly a month since John tweeted this. Still thinking about it.
- Read Write Respond – Read is to write, write is to respond. I find my self on Aaron Davis’ blog a lot these days. He is doing what I’d like to do if I could squeeze a few more hours into a day exploring the IndieWeb. Great to see a edublogger diving deep into this stuff.
- Ep. 74 Damien Williams “We Built It From Us” – Team Human A lin from Arron, I’ve bookmarked this podcast as it links with John’s tweet above.
- Creating a Deliberate Social Media Space for Students in School – Read Write Respond Another one from Arron, even more on social media in schools.
- A Walk In The Park | Checking out a couple of photos I posted to my blog with sunlit, just checking how they come through.
- AlphaSmart Neo2 | Jack Baty | Flickr I remember getting some of these in school years ago.
- FILM — Erland Cooper The first is beautiful movie “Solan Goose” (there turn out to be gannets), The music sounds good, I hope to watch/listen to the rest later.
- The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian this is linked everywhere, not too much on how we take it back but the Indieweb points the way.
Worth mentioning that a lot of these links are coming from micro.blog as well as my RSS reader.
This is the strip of code characters that appeared in the Shooting Code Across the Void photo next in this photostream. NB: I had difficulty uploading it, probably due to the aspect ratio (10000 x 300 pixels), it didn't "look like a valid photo". Tried resizing it, and it finally worked if I made it taller (10000 x 1000), but I didn't like the looks. However, when I used the "replace" function from the image page, flickr allowed me to upload my original long photo. Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!
👍 Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!
Let me answer that question for you: For MOST* of us, audience DOESN’T matter. Stop talking about it. Period. End of conversation.
👍 Audience Doesn’t Matter, I lost this link and was reminded by @mrkrndvs
Many things that get labelled as “fads” might work for an individual teacher (although many things might work better) but they only become fads when divorced from their original meaning and then are spread around and are imposed on other teachers.
I’ve always been interested in the idea that changing almost anything in the classroom will lead to improvement. This post digs around the territory. We probably teach at our best when we are enthused and the beginning of a fad is enthusiasm.
Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage
🔗 👍 Tom Critchlow says Small b blogging
writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them
Every time I hear something about limiting screen time I cannot help but think about how poorly the concept has been thought out. If we talked about “food time” instead maybe that would help us think that while time matters (eating for hours each day is probably a bad idea), how long you eat p...
@twoodwar’s tasty analogy for thinking about this.
Science fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at age 88. Le Guin was the subject of this long New Yorker piece from a cou
👍 love Ursula K. Le Guin and “gender ghetto” of the Golden Age of science fiction, Kottke has one of the best Ursula K. Le Guin stories.
“Tinkering with realtime world creation in @Scratch. Character on the screen is coded to interact with different colored objects. (Black is floor. Red is lava. Green is the goal.) Kids can be creating and coding these worlds simultaneously in realtime. https://t.co/giiR6HCmNR”
I want to track this to see if the “how to” requests get an answer. Looks clever. Might not need much kit?
Life in Links 28-01-2018
- DarkSiteFinder.com – Light Pollution Map Quite an amazing map. I think I can get fairly dark in about an hours drive from home. Some people are not so lucky. I’ve not seem the milky way for years. I used to see it all the time when I was a child and teen. Hopefully fix that sometime this year.
- Designing Emotion: How Facebook Affordances Give Us The Blues – Cyborgology
Facebook’s design features work in several ways to reinforce status quo ideas and popular people while maintaining an ancillary status for those on the margins. Given findings about the psychological effects of production versus consumption, these features then have behavioral consequences and in turn, emotional ones.
I find this sort of think fascinating. How we are affected by software. By design or as a side effect.
- Comic Sans: the myths, the lies and the truth about fonts
The big question of this article, then, has a clear answer: Comic Sans use should not be justified by claims of increased readability or benefits to dyslexic students or indeed for handwriting, but if you just like it, and your pupils like it, there is no good reason you should not use it. Or not use most other fonts for that matter. Font choice, it seems, is the least of your worries.
I’ve always followed the general prejudice against Comic Sans, but I use the similar chalkboard more often than not when making resources for pupils. In general I just don’t really notice fonts.
- Xeromino’s Pastebin – Pastebin.com A ton of processing scripts. I used one of them this week.
Featured image: a screenshot of the DarkSiteFinder.com map.