#blogvember 6 – Family I don’t blog about my family. Not a big deal, I just don’t. I might have name checked my wife half a dozen times and my daughter a couple, but only to mention they were on a walk I’ve described. Blogvember Prompt List.
Read: Snail Habitats For Mrs. Nations Class
Snail Habitats For Mrs. Nations Class
These are student created snail habitats. Each habitat has a Raspberry Pi computer with a mini camera attached to it, which is programmed to take a snapshot photo every hour. This will allow students to see where the snails are hanging out the most and improve their habitats over time.
This looks like a great project. I wish we has seen it when we had our mud snails in class.
I don’t think we could have used Raspberry PIs on the school network but I am sure this could have been adapted to see the photos locally in the way we use our @naturewatch camera.
It also reminds me of my Raspberry Pi Gif Cam
10. Raymond Chandler – The High Window – Backlisted
Poking through the Backlisted backlist, this is a joy.
#Blogvember 5 Nature
I’ve always been interested in natural history. Recently I’ve been more aware of the effect of nature on me.
When I was in my twenties I worked in a zoo and alway presumed I continue to work outside and with nature somehow.
That didn’t really happen.
As I get towards the other end of my working life I find I am bringing nature into my classroom and talking my pupils out a lot more. The push for outdoor learning is helping as is the school I am currently working in.
I am also spending more of my weekends outside after a couple of decades of ‘spare’ time in front of a computer.
I notice a shift in my interest and attention, I now see things l must have passed many times in my youth, flora, small creatures and signs of their passing. I was always on the looked for these, but in the last couple of years I seem to be getting better at it.
I’ve seen half a dozen lizards this year in places I’ve been visiting for years without a sighting. I sometimes am aware of the depth of space around me as insects come in and out of focus. Colours, clouds and landscapes take on not much meaning but better a definition of sorts.
#Blogvember 4 inauthentic ribollita
Inauthentic ribollita, no stale bread involved. Tasty.
This post was inspired by Andrew Canion’s Blogvember Prompt List. This arrived in micro.blog at he same time as #mbnov, microblogvember.
following the light along Barassie Beach.
Watched Late Night
Watched Late Night ★★★★☆ Emma Thompson and some funny jokes. 🎬🎥
Watched: Olive Kitteridge ★★★★★ what an enjoyable miniseries I will read the books. 📺
Sweeping education reforms have done very little to change the fact that in the UK, being born well is by far the surest route to prosperity. Since the 1980s, the degree of social fluidity in Britain has plummeted with more people experiencing descent than ascent.
Not particularly surprising, but worth keeping in mind.
Failure – #Blogvember 3
What a topic for a lazy Sunday.
The temptation to delve deep would lead to a failure to finish this post. After a short while my thoughts become jumbled and apprehensive.
Then there is the education and business cliche of learning from failure and the Dylan koen. On the education side I am ambivalent about the idea. #nowrongpath, although many folk I admire take part, makes me feel a little uneasy. I think I’ll skip these too.
Or I could go meta and look at my failure to meet on line challenges like this one, photo a day and a variety of voluntary courses. This might loop back to the personal and get messy too.
So I think I’ll continue my successful 3 day streak with blogvember by failing to get to grips with failure and hit publish.
This post was inspired by Andrew Canion’s Blogvember Prompt List. This arrived in micro.blog at he same time as #mbnov, microblogvember.