Our students are young teenagers. Remaining two metres apart from each other is an unnatural thing for them to do, as is sneezing into the crook of their elbow, or using a tissue, or washing their hands thoroughly, or keeping their fingers out of their mouths, noses and eyes.
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liked: Self-hosting TiddlyWiki with GitHub Pages
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)TiddlyWiki is most often used as a private wiki for personal note taking and creating private journals. Because it is a single text file usually named index.html written in HTML, CSS and some JavaScript, I thought it would make an ideal candidate for a simple-to-use personal website that can be ho...
Liked: Indigenous for Desktop
Re: Indigenous for Desktop
Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)This is exciting Aaron, testing the reply feature on my desktop now.
HMM, I need to manually add the response properties in my blog. Not sure if that is due to your emoji in title or…
“As “our anxiety about future scenarios and inequalities during lockdown excarberates, we may want to use this time to engage in a wider (digital) conversation about the values we want technologies to enact and the kinds of literacies our children may need” https://t.co/xsdncxndIz”
Go ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know. Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account needed.
That’s the honest truth about modern software, it’s vulnerable. It’s ALL vulnerable so you have a choice to use something that is honest about it’s vulnerabilities or hides behind the door of closed source providing an ignorance is bliss situation.
Some great information and food for thought, @johnmclear is not trying to sell the product. Relevant to @dgilmour’s link to creativecommons & #OER I don’t think this is the time to pivot tools, but one to keep in mind.
“I’m very concerned about the stream of stories about safeguarding issues with Zoom. The dangers of a ‘free tech tool.’ My grade safeguarded student video conf participation (adult in room etc) but the software itself seems fundamentally flawed. Thoughts / suggestions?”
I wonder about Etherpad which I just found out has video. Free, but without the problem of “commercial free”. Not sure about security cc @johnmclear
Zoom seems a bit of an ethical & security disaster but I think there are plenty of other worries around equity of support, environment and devices.
Etherpad being open source is certainly a positive.
Ive used etherpad in the past, a quick test of the video version shows it works fine on iPad and iPhone. A moot point for me as I think North Lanarkshire will be instructions us to use Teams.
In a primary setting I think there is a lot more to think about around video conferencing, at the moment I don’t think it is a golden bullet for our current problems.
“#tdc3004 #ds106 Face. Today celebrate our many different faces in a photo. https://t.co/C7y4AetYfy”
#tdc3004 #ds106 Face. Today celebrate our many different faces in a photo. Not sure this is a celebration!
“Education in Times of Crisis and Beyond: Maximizing Copyright Flexibilities - https://t.co/nia86x1tS3 @johnjohnston @TheoKL”
Open education is not a short-term fix to a passing problem—it is a long-term solution to ensuring equitable, inclusive access to effective educational resources and learning opportunities.
In the same way open science is better science (the world is sharing COVID-19 research to create a vaccine), open education is better education.
So good, thanks David. Also, IMO, as much as possible should be accessible by the simplest tech.