Finally got my ticket for WordCamp Glasgow. There are not many left. Looking forward to going along on Saturday 8 February.
Category Archives: Micro
Read Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Read Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★★, maybe not quite as great as Olive Kitteridge but still… got better and better as it went on and the last paragraph… 📚
The OceanMaker
I used this video in class as a writing stimulus. I also watched a few time in preparation.
I’ve had got a lump in my throat every time I’ve watched. The class liked it too. HT @LiteracyShed.
Every time we watch we see more detail and things to talk about.
Read: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Read: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier ★★★☆☆ I enjoyed the gentle pace and mild despair. For the most part it felt like it was right in place in between the wars. 📚
osm-haiku
@vasta on micro.blog posted about satellitestud.io/osm-haiku/app (one of my favourites)
we automated making haikus about places. Looking at every aspect of the surroundings of a point, we can generate a poem about any place in the world.
I’ve been having fun generating random haiku and then matching with photos from my camera roll of the same places.
Watched: The Lion in Winter
Watched: The Lion in Winter (1968 film) – Wikipedia ★★★★☆ 🎥
Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!
Where Succession got some ideas.
Read: the confession by Jessie Burton
Read: the confession by Jessie Burton ★★★☆☆ 📚
Read: Seven years of open
Seven years of open | Open Scotland
Over the course of this month, I hope to explore activity in Scotland related to some of these lesser-blogged-about areas of open practice. Given my own role in widening access with the Open University in Scotland, you can expect to hear about projects I’ve been involved with. I am very much hoping that these can be the start of a conversation and would love to hear about – and boost – some of the exciting things you’ve been doing since the Declaration.
Sounds like an interesting development in the Open Scotland world. We don’t talk about OER at school level much, as far as I know, I wish we did.