Every so often I come back to this idea of posting sets of rather random links. I love seeing them pop up on my on this day page. For organisation and discoverability it might be better to post links separately. Mostly in pinboard too.

I checked how many posts I had tagged lifeinlinks and that makes this one number 40.

• james brunt artist (@RFJamesUK) / Twitter excellent Twitter stream of land art, should inspire my class the artists working code will be good for class discussion too
• Day 14 of 30 Days of Creativity – YouTube looks like a interesting set of ongoing videos for iPads in the class. Via Steve Bunce
• Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) Search via Alan of course OER is mostly higher Ed at the mo, but a search for fractions found me a knowledge organiser from 1890 Fractions | Library of Congress
• Digital Detox #4: Habits, Data, and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Microsoft for Education – TRU Digital Detox

• Ultimately, it seems to me that at least part of the problem wth Microsoft for Education, and particularly Teams and the integrated Office 365 suite, is that it wasn’t designed for education; education is a useful revenue stream for an enterprise communications solution. So as we’re learning about the value of a multimodal learning environment for students that blends synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences, we’re looking to a video conferencing software with deeply embedded surveillance functionality as a solution. This isn’t to say that individual instructors aren’t doing incredible things with Teams — I know they are, I see it everyday. But I worry about a tool that has been designed first and foremost as a corporate solution by a company with a poor track record on data privacy, leaping into the learning management game in the middle of a crisis.

  Having spent a lot of time in the last couple of months in Teams this was interesting. Most of my problems with Teams stem from the UI, I keep expecting the native app to behave like a native app.

• There’s a hidden message in the parachute of NASA’s Mars rover – The Verge you can make your own message Encode Mighty Things might be fun in school.
• No to catch up! Yes to recovery, reconnection and PLAY! catch up vs play post COVID.
• The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game I’ve no idea how good a chess player this is, but it seems pretty amazing. Like the Queen’s Gambit design, and how good is the https://vole.wtf/ home page.

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