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When it entered the market, Slack was a scrappy, independent entry in the era of worker-centered tools. But five years after formally challenging Microsoft, the company is being acquired by Salesforce for just shy of $30 billion. Casey Newton explains how this signals the end of era, not just for Slack but for workplace tools at large.
This was an interesting read.
I’ve not really spent much time in Slack. I have used Teams most days since the start of the pandemic.
I do have a tendency to prefer ‘one job’ tools (with pipes) rather than suites of apps.
I also have a tendency to bet on tech losers
Adding #microbit to our Steady Hand games. Now we can count the hits. #digiLearnScot @digitallearnNL pic.twitter.com/Fbgzw7JtmE
Some digital fun in class today
Adding #microbit to our Steady Hand games. Now we can count the hits. #digiLearnScot @digitallearnNL pic.twitter.com/Fbgzw7JtmE
— Banton Primary (@Banton_Pr) December 3, 2020
https://decodeproject.eu/ a fascinating project provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good @articonf
Expectation by Anna Hope
Read: Expectation by Anna Hope ★★★★☆ surprised that this feminist, to an extent, literary fiction kept me reading page turner. 📚
Thanks for the affirmation, Ian, currently swimming thru tons of #TeachMeet research data (yep, same dna as Pedagoo, BrewEd, CampEd). Key features: non-hierarchical, open, peer-to-peer. So far, *sharing* is the definitive value emerging from this global appreciative inquiry; tbc.
Along with avoiding @ewanmcintosh’s “keynote-speaker-sponsor-driven” & keeping to
@magsamond’s “non-hierarchical, open, peer-to-peer” I think early #teachmeet principals of everyone being willing to participate & serendipity of random were interesting ways to change dynamics.
The Wayback Machine is storing more than 475 billion webpages!
I just sent them some change: Donate to the Internet Archive!.
So what the bleep is this? Well, OBS Studio or Open Broadcast Software. What it offers is quite incredible and is a credit to what open source software can be. It lets you create composite scenes for video, switching between, and actually do the live streaming. It’s a digital video studio, and offers everything I used like 10 years ago running live streams from Second Life with Wirecast ($500+ software).
Hi Alan,
Thanks for this. Earlier in the year when schools were closed here I was racking what is left of my memory for a piece of freeware I used to use (perhaps pre osx) that did a little of this, system extension maybe.. I think I used it with Marritech…
OSB looks marvellous I’ll certainly try it if we go back into school closures here.
And your side rant nails it!
This is awesome. Audible wanted to create a proprietary “podcast” network (in quotes because of the contradiction), now instead will try an open one. The power of an open juggernaut.
podcasts & rss just want to be free…
Amazon is turning Audible into a true podcast app, but it’s got a long way to go – The Verge
We’re excited to announce the new English Language Arts Pack created in partnership with the National Writing Project. These 10 lessons for Minecraft: Education Edition focus on world-building and engage students in a game-based learning experience that will help them learn about the writing process...
via: Digitally Literate Newsletter #261 – Silence no longer an option.
There are a lot of good ideas for using Minecraft, I’ve found I need time to figure out how to use them in my classroom, so bookmarking for later.