Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)This is an intriguing representation of social media over time: It is useful as a provocation for many conversations.
Thanks Aarron,
Worth watching more than once. Lovely, fascinating animation. I wish I had some data to put into Flourish!
“Disheartening results from a well-designed study on flipped classrooms. Mixed results in short term but any benefit quickly faded and it exacerbated the achievement gap. The hope that technology would revolutionize learning is fading. https://t.co/54GFrrBJJc”
Read: The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★☆ second time round after many years, still a great read.
I’ve been having a wee play with the p5.js web editor.
p5 .js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today’s web. Using the original metaphor of a software Sketchbook, p5 .js has a full set of drawing functionality. However, you’re not limited to your drawing canvas, you can think of your whole browser page as your sketch! For this, p5 .js has addon libraries that make it easy to interact with other HT ML5 objects, including text, input, video, webcam, and sound.
I’ve occasionally dipped my toe into processing and found it good fun.
Over the summer I’ve seen a stream of tweets and instagram posts from Tom Smith which got me interested in p5.js.
I don’t really have much of a clue but have had a bit of fun. Especially when I found you can use a library with p5.js to export gifs. The feature image on this post is one made by my sketch: Classy bramble skulls 4. This one has a background image, some animation, the mid-ground, the sleeper and computer and then the window frame which are drawn. If I had though I’d have used 3 image layers sandwiching 2 animation ones. Early days.
There seems to be a ton of learning material available and it is easy to duplicate interesting p5.js sketches to edit and play around with. (The school holidays are not long enough;-))
Day 3 in @macgenie‘s photo challenge the sun relaxes after a hard day battling the clouds and rain.
That’s all about hardware though. What about software? Also around the same time two years ago, I made a list of the 10 most influential computer programs ever written. I think the Apollo Guidance Computer is probably missing from both my lists, hardware and software – what else did I miss?
A wee mess with p5.js Web Editor I’ve been watching Tom Smith‘s sketches on twitter with interest. I’ve not spent enough time playing with this, but potential for a lot of fun. One good thing is the cloning of interesting projects.
joe jenett (the.dailywebthing.com)Nature Soundmap – Hear the world like never before
Reminded me of Sound maps – UK Soundmap | British Library – Sounds where the sounds were crowd sourced. A lot of fun to join in with.
A quick Glitch embed, a small css animation test. I’ve been messing about with glitch for a while. It is an interesting free tool. An online editor that can edit html, css and JavaScript. It can also add a node.js and SQLite on the server end. This makes it a more powerful system than service that only allow you to edit the front end.
The above page only uses html and css. I made am almost useful page Flickr Poem Promptr a while back that dug a little deeper.
“Knowledge matters. Knowing stuff is important. These are some reasons why, that have nothing to do with cultural capital or social mobility or fitting in at dinner parties. 1/”
Read the thread.
