Longest walk since the start of lockdown, not very long. Nice morning, sun and clouds, quite warm.
Notes
Using the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface I recorded a timelapse yesterday with my pi-zero. Stiched together with ffmpeg & a wee bit of manipulation with QuickTime Player for fun. I particularly like the features of QuickTime v 7 and will miss it when it finally stops working.
Delighted to see a new version of Levelator. via TidBITS
In the Mac App Store
Older versions (& Windows & Linux) still at The Conversations Network
I’ve not used it for a while but have run 100s of episodes of Edutalk through it in the past.
Lost its rather individual UI.
It is the subtle things that let you know it is a school holiday.
Hopefully this situation when I type t in Alfred will change now the summer holidays are here and TextMate will be back in the number one spot! #microsoftTeams
I went 1.8 miles past the 5 mile limit to travel for exercise last night. The first time since lockdown started. Celebrating the end of term. It was worth it. So many things I’ve not seen; ringlet, kestrel, buzzard, larks, snipe, foxglove, heather, bedstraw, and so much more.
Aaron is wondering about Jetpack after reading Doug’s post about privacy. The post is fascinating and a useful reminder. On the Jetpack front I’ve got Jetpack installed but the “Publicize connections” & “Sharing buttons” turned off. I don’t see any traffic going to Facebook using two of the tool’s that Doug suggests. Perhaps Jetpack is OK? Or I don’t really know how to use the tools.
Podcast Listening Notes
In normal times I listen to podcasts. As I do this on a commute I’ve only listened to 2 episodes since schools shut. I miss it.
When listening I often want to remember something for later, perhaps for a blog post or like, usually this ends in frustration as my memory fails. I imagined a podcast player that had voice control and would let you make voice notes. Today this imagining came true.
Castro, the podcast app I use, had an update. This includes a pile of very welcome Siri integration which will help with hands free problems.
Even better the addition of shortcuts and one of the examples gathers info about the current playing episode and allows you speak a note. This is collated with data about the episode, podcast name, Castro url, show notes, position and saved into a New note.
I managed to edit the shortcut to get the information into Drafts instead. I’ve tested it a few times and I am now good to go when commuting starts again on 11 August.
Preparing for meeting with class this afternoon, squashing images with ImageOptim. Back when I started teaching pupils to blog the first thing I taught them was to resize images for faster upload & download. We relay on bandwidth & servers now, not sure if that is an advance?
- Creative STAR Learning | I’m a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!
- Learning Outside the Classroom | Supporting teaching and learning outside of the classroom.
- craigarmiger – OutdoorCoaching | The Outdoors is the Natural Place To Learn.
- Epiphanies in Environmental Education | Curriculum Beyond the Classroom
- Fagley Primary Forest School
- Using Wildlife to Learn
- Megan Zeni – Room to Play | The Classroom Gardener
- Learning Outside the Classroom | Supporting teaching and learning outside of the classroom.
- stories under stones
- Under the Parachute – Adventures in Outdoor Education from Hazlegrove School, Somerset. Bring a decent pair of wellies.