Learning does not work for me like that either Doug, serendipity, excitement, rabbit holes & fascination are usually the drivers for me. something kicks in & then I am lost in it. I often believe this will change lots of things and emerge blinking to reality.
“failure and hope are the very things that have propelled human progress to date” the loss of the random and serendipity are worrying too. #tds1850
Loved the linked photoset of kids playing, outdoors & sometimes, somewhat risky: https://www.virascoop.com/25-historical-pics-of-kids-playing-reveal-how-much-technology-has-changed-our-childhood/2/
Doug quotes How to Host or Attend a “Tiny” Conference eight pointers for running a successful ‘Tiny Conf’: Keep it ‘tiny’ Make it application and invite-only I think I agree totally about the value of small. Not so sure about invite-only might miss some serendipity… There have only been a few TeachMeets in scotland recently, […]
I had been hoping to give a two minutes presentation at TeachMeet SLF 2017 this year, but had a calendar clash with parent’s night. Teachmeet is famously aimed at giving an chance to teachers to present as opposed to educational experts 😉. Now I’ve been returned to the teaching fold I was looking forward to […]
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray from: The_History_of_Henry_Esmond- William Makepeace Thackeray – Wikiquote This is my 1000th post on this blog. Just over a year since I marked 10 Years Blogging here on John’s World Wide […]
In past years I often written reviews of the years blogging, this year I am a little lazier this is a wordle for the titles of the 90 posts I made here this year. A list after the jump:
Interesting read on where good ideas come from #serendipity #creativity
I went along to TeachMeetGLA on Tuesday evening a couple of weeks ago. Arriving before the crowd I noticed the very pleasant surroundings in CitizenM and very fast WiFi. Folk and the pizza started arriving around 5 before the 5:30 kick off. It was a great TM harking back to the early days. Ian kept […]
Last week I attended the WordPress Big Media & Enterprise Meetup in London. I was asked down to talk about Glow Blogs. Given this was a meet up of pretty serious WordPress developers I was reasonably nervous about talking to them. I decided that I’d give an overview of Glow Blogs through the lens of […]
My last post was review of my 2014 on Flickr, this is a quick list of some of my other online lives in 2014: John’s World Wide Wall Display, this blog 57 blog post here this year. My favourite is probably RSS Serendipity. 57 compares to about a 87 post average over the last 10 […]
