Had a nice we walk this afternoon. Could see the last of the snow and the last of the snowdrops. A couple of peewits flapping around.
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A Saturday in Tabs
The tabs left open from yesterday. The internet is a more fascinating place that I’ve got time for.
- The Archive (macOS) • Zettelkasten Method Looks like an interesting application for organising text. I keep a lot of stuff in txt files which very badly organised (I use search). This might be helpful. I am using the 60 day trial at the moment.
- PressED – A WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter I am taking part in this on Thursday this week.
- Little grebe – Wikipedia Enjoying watching these on the Victoria Park pond at the moment.
- I am the Weekend – Beta Teacher Not read this yet.
- Doc Searls Weblog · Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
- The science of revision: nine ways pupils can revise for exams more effectively | Teacher Network | The Guardian
- John Sexton on Twitter: “is it just me – why are schools/teachers giving instruction to pupils via twitter? Many primary school – no one under 13 should be on twitter? Better ways to engage with pupils on line – I am sure Or am I missing something here???????” Nearly a month since John tweeted this. Still thinking about it.
- Read Write Respond – Read is to write, write is to respond. I find my self on Aaron Davis’ blog a lot these days. He is doing what I’d like to do if I could squeeze a few more hours into a day exploring the IndieWeb. Great to see a edublogger diving deep into this stuff.
- Ep. 74 Damien Williams “We Built It From Us” – Team Human A lin from Arron, I’ve bookmarked this podcast as it links with John’s tweet above.
- Creating a Deliberate Social Media Space for Students in School – Read Write Respond Another one from Arron, even more on social media in schools.
- A Walk In The Park | Checking out a couple of photos I posted to my blog with sunlit, just checking how they come through.
- AlphaSmart Neo2 | Jack Baty | Flickr I remember getting some of these in school years ago.
- FILM — Erland Cooper The first is beautiful movie “Solan Goose” (there turn out to be gannets), The music sounds good, I hope to watch/listen to the rest later.
- The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian this is linked everywhere, not too much on how we take it back but the Indieweb points the way.
Worth mentioning that a lot of these links are coming from micro.blog as well as my RSS reader.
2018-03-24
Glaswegian Parakeets amongst the spring buds, A changing sky and dabchicks on the pond.
I am taking part in PressED A WordPress & Education, Pedagogy & Research Conference on Twitter. Runs all day on #pressEDconf18. I’ll be talking #glowblogs at 19:05 BST 29-03-18 in about 10 tweets. Need to do a bit of thinking about how this will work.
@MarkRiches announces the closure of Makewaves. Although I never used the service it inspired me. Wonderful idea and much better than silo for education.
For Micro Monday I’d recommend @robertbrook for his fascinating stream of photos. Robert Brook
Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived?
The Hypercard Legacy – The Nextographer – Medium
– More HC love.
How to get Twitter back on song? #NoMoreRetweets | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian Mr Naughton should be on micro.blog
Life in Links 2-3-18
Some recent finds collected with pinboard
- Virtual Reality using HTML and javascript Computing At School
A collection of bite-size videos taking the user through free VR using Thimble and A-Frame to make relative simple and quick Web VR.
- ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma | News | The Guardian
The true scale of the problem is hard to gauge, but our best guess is that there might now be as many as 1.5m deer in the UK, at least half of them in Scotland; more than at any time since the last ice age.
Might be good info for class discussion/debate/writing
- Top 8 Word Decoding Rules – Help Your Class Build Their Decoding Skills! – Monday Morning Teacher Decoding rules
- iTunes U Garageband course
- Batch converting .ogg to .mp3 keeping the ID tag metadata – The Linux Community Forum Works on my os x system.
- Digital Public Library of America » Workshops Workshops and tutorials from gifitup
- The Only Good Thing About Winter Is This Story Written in Snow
now entering her fourth winter of carefully embossing serif letters into light snowfall. Before this weekend, the most recent sentence, composed entirely during a snowfall in March, 2017, cut off in the middle:
Featured images, a montage of gifs from skipi, which is stuttering away. For no particular reason.
@rogueamoeba announces the end of nicecast. Fairly devastating news as there is nothing that is as easy to use for streaming to icecast from mac. Been a great app.