Watching cop 26 play out in my home town. The most positive thing, as a Glaswegian teacher, is seeing how confident and articulate some of the local young activists are.
I can also not help to wonder how they listen so much! But that is the beauty of this media form, it being really the only one I know of that you can partake of with attention, while doing something else.
Hi Alan,
A rich list, adding to the already overflowing pool of podcasts. I like to listen to a range of non-Edu podcasts. Even with two 40 minute plus commutes every day I still can’t get through much. Like you I really only listen to podcasts while driving. There are a couple of things that I find useful.
Castro, is a podcasting app that lets you sub to many podcasts but triage the ones you want to hear into you “queue”.
The other is Huffduffer, this is a bookmarklet that will pull individual episodes into your own RSS feed which you can then sub to. It will even rip YouTube videos to audio and host the mp3 for 30 days. https://huffduffer.com/johnjohnston is mine. Now I am off to huffduff some of your suggestions:-)
Read: Birdsong in the time of silence by Steven Lovett ★★★★★ 📚a metaphor filled recount of bird listening in lockdown along with many diversions into memory & natural history. Like many I spent a bit of time with birds during the first lockdown. This is a deeper dive.
I just donated to Pl@ntNet. It is an amazing app for identifying wild flowers. Pl@ntNet is also a amazing research and educational initiative on plant biodiversity. It is supported by donation, no ads. donate
My Class had a lot of fun and a little maths with Balloon Car Racing. Here on the Banton Biggies’ Blog:
Read: The President’s Last Love by Andrey Kurkov ★★★☆☆ 📚 life story of Ukrainian President Bunin. Simultaneously recounting three different time periods. Slightly surreal, satirical with hints of Bulgakov with out going the full “Heart of a Dog”. Gentleness too.
You can find more Halloween crafts on my timeline and on the 'News' link at https://www.darrellwakelam.com/
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My class had great fun with the skulls last week.
We took an idea from Darrell Wakelam to make some Day of the Dead skulls from paper plates.
We then took it a bit further
If you ever need an injection of positiveness, try this Twitter trick that'll show tweets with the word "love" from people you follow.
Well this is clever
Plenty of water in the Black Linn today.
I do not generally post about music but this is lovely and I know the artist. Empty Room by Michael Timmons. Sound fills your head and a west of Scotland voice.