“Our S2 elective created pull up nets! They loved them! @STEMglasgow #STEM #STEMGlasgow https://t.co/sQSBS4BQ68”
Our S2 elective created pull up nets! They loved them! @STEMglasgow #STEM #STEMGlasgow pic.twitter.com/sQSBS4BQ68
— STEM @ Whitehill (@WhitehillSTEM) November 2, 2018
This looks like a lot of fun.
Event #51: “Build a Community with WordPress and Social Media”, by Luna Carmona
Luna started by giving Mark Z of FB as a good model for communication. Someone to be trusted! I guess this indicated I was not the target audience;-)
I did enjoy the talk. Luna covered the way she had used social media to support building a community around Achieve More Scotland. This is a small but valuable organisation. In a couple of years they have greatly increased online engagement.
Takeaways:
There are lessons for online educational communities here.
There wasn’t much specific WordPress information I wonder if some IndieWeb tech could help?
Some links I’ve put on my virtual pinboard recently. Ready for the new term?
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The Free Universal Construction Kit: a matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten* popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems—enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs, and ultimately, more creative opportunities for kids.
This looks as if it could be very useful for schools.
"Batteries in parallel and in series. 3D visualization of energy, voltage, and the flow of electric current in a circuit." https://t.co/PXURXHEdm6
Never seen circuit electricity presented quite like this. Interesting #Physics— Ian Guest (@IaninSheffield) October 5, 2018
Our Forest, Our Future helps teachers and pupils to explore the interdependence of people and forests and the vital role forests play in sustaining our environment – in the past, the present and hopefully the future.
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?
Radio EDUtalk is shaping up for the rest of the year. If you would like to be a guest, please get in touch.
Radio #EDUtalk 05-19-2018 Loose Learners Ep 12: Taking a Break. @mdvfunes and I talked about her 3 month break from twitter. I talked a bit about micro.blog.
Up early on the Holiday and I think I’ve got this sorted out. Might have made it too complicated, but an hour with skype test call is enough for now.
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.
Taking a Break from social Media. Tomorrow evening, Wed, 8pm UK @mdvfunes & I will be talking about taking a break from twitter. Loose Learners #llearn Radio #EDUtalk listen
