Since I’ve not commuted for over 7 weeks I’ve not listened to a podcast. Tonight I walked the streets rather than the park, opened my podcatcher, a rather overwhelming list. I decided to listen to @jeremycherfas talking to @macgenie on micro Mondays. What a great choice.
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Random Remote Notes 13 May 2020
Notes to self as I try and teach myself to teach remotely. See More lockdown learning for some sort of background.
I remember when Apple Keynote came out I really liked it. For me the interface was simpler than PowerPoint and the files took less space. Now I am making a daily PowerPoint for our class meeting I’ve notice the file size situation is reversed. Exporting a keynote to PowerPoint is resulting in a smaller file.
I am still using Keynote as I am quicker and happier with the simpler UI.
For our meetings I am making, for me, quite long, 20 – 40 slide presentation. I get the impression that leaving out transitions and keeping them simple speeds things up. Pupils sometime get a blank screen, some of them have found that opening the chat and closing it sorts that out. I guess forces a screen refresh.
I try to keep the meeting moving along, were are doing an hour a day, covering a few different things each day. Given primary, age 8-11, I can’t expect a lecture to work. Getting the pupils to respond with voice as much as possible. Sometimes in turn, sometimes fire-at-will.
I am only getting around half my class of 24 turning up most days and imaging this would be more difficult with a class of 30.
“All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass” Yeats seen too late for last weeks micro.blog challenge 💭
‘You cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold’.
The Sunlight On The Garden Poem by Louis Macneice – Poem Hunter
Some IndieWeb pennies dropped when I poked around the source of this post, No Deep Work in Shared Spaces . My learning style (;-)) is not read and understand the manual I am afraid.
fish. A vegetable.
One of Teju Cole’s takes on Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas In Place of Thought
Get Drunk
…So as not to feel Time’s horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing.
But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.
Baudelaire trans M. Hamburger
They gave us six fishhooks
and two blankets embroidered with smallpox.
From Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
one word to you, to
you and your children:
stay together
learn the flowers
go light
from For the Children by Gary Snyder
And the days are not full enough.
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Ezra Pound 💭