We had a short walk along a couple of miles of the River Ayr way. walkmap
Passed along John Macadam’s experiments in tar macadam roads.
I don’t think FirstClass likes O365 😉
We had a walk this afternoon. Bright, warm and calm.
A couple of ravens. plenty of peacock butterflies.
A strange hairy caterpillar.
A common lizard. I am getting much better at spotting these.
The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff ★★★★★ a lovely unexpected delight. A 2 week family holiday in 1930s Bogner described in gentle detail. Tender and a little sad.
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert ★★★★☆ for the first half, some nice fast paced banter. Really laughed out loud.
What I quickly found out was that NOTHING has made a greater impact on my students than the short notes that I’ve been writing them.
Update September 2024 blog seems to have gone Archive.org Link
@gruber lists a few pieces of software that have been around as long as Fetch missing from the list is one of my favourites SuperCard, born 1989. I think I’ll be needing a VM to run it after Catalina arrives:(
“Key tips on mobile film making, in #DIYFimSchool Part II - consider lighting and audio, and be prepared. Plus, use apps. Hat tip to @lee_ballantyne for sharing the full resource
The linked guide looks useful and simple enough for primary school: DIY Film School
Listened: Tide ep 119
Listened: TIDE
The last show recorded before Dai’s death. A moving intro by Doug followed by a typical Tide.
Dai’s comments about classroom relationships spoke to me. I’ve am now in a very small, two classroom school that means I get the same pupils for several years. This feels very much like Dai’s experience with older pupils. Relationships are quite different when you have taught a pupil for 3 years.
I also especially enjoyed the second last segment of the show, “AirDrop crossfire”, airdrop is used many times a day in my class but I had no idea about this.
It has been interesting and enjoyable listening to the ebb and flow of conversation between Dai and Doug over the episodes, my agreement on many of their opinions goes back and forth too. I enjoy the thinking aloud and working things out on air. The joint podcast make you feel close to the broadcasters, Dai and Doug were a good mix balancing each other nicely.
My thoughts are with Doug and others close to Dai.
NetNewsWire 5 Feature Requests
Read: NetNewsWire 5 Feature Requests
I first used NetNewsWire back in 2002, really started using in in 2005 stopped when it left Brent Simmons’ hands.
The new version is lovely, I am still hooked into inoreader so hope that one of the feature requests it to add that as a syncing option. Until I will use NetNewsWire for a few feeds (I think the default one), I don’t do all my reading via inoreader anyway so usually have a few double reads anyway.