The first snowdrops I’ve seen in 2021 a bit later and a bit muddier due to all the rain but so welcome.
I’ve told this story at conferences – but due to the general situation I thought I’d retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in Lo…
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML – Terence Eden’s Blog
But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Super story that those of us providing for distant pupils should probably pay attention to. Via Doug Belshaw
An almost complete list of external content you can embed in #GlowBlogs #GlowScot including a few new ones.
A few new things in #GlowBlogs
Themes, plugins and embed more external content #GlowScot
Summerwater by Sarah Moss ★★★★★ 📚
Read: Summerwater by Sarah Moss ★★★★★ 📚 I love the way you are taken into the character’s heads. Feels very real to me.
Ardinning around dawn
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An owner of a team (a teacher) was muted and couldn’t post in any channels within the team. There’s no option to mute or unmute a team owner, so she couldn’t chat with her class.
This was handy. Driving me crazy.
Beautiful sky over @Banton_pr this morn. A warning?
I got a new iPad today
I got a new iPad today. The 8 gen model nothing fancy. Set up in a tick using my phone. I’ve installed a bunch of application, but no work ones. No FirstClass no Teams, Office, no work or glow account in mail.
Hopefully going to be a browsing, reading and blogging machine maybe messing with media a little but no work.
Over lockdown 1 and 2 my Mac has become filled with work. I sit down to do whatever and an email or teams ping. My browsers are full of tabs of teaching. My phone is pretty much the same.
My younger sister, she was in seventh grade, had written a little report about Pablo Neruda. So, I took her school report and turned it into the Wikipedia article on Pablo Neruda.
Britta Gustafson quoted in An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia by Tom Roston
via: John Naughton Wednesday 20 January, 2021 – Memex 1.1
Really interesting article about the rise of Wikipedia.