Just finished watching season 1 of succession, not one likeable character, wonderfully funny. 📺
Quite a lot of rain recently, but we had a dry hour or so, some sun a a fairly strong breeze.
A few blue damselflies and smallish red dragonflies along the path. Sheltered by the bracken which is starting to droop, lots of flowers go to seed. Scabious coming up strongly.
A few peacock butterflies on the knapweed, a small copper on the path, the odd painted lady and white but fewer than recently.
I love seeing wood pigeons flighting in the wind. The Black Linn was full of rain water.
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Read: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell ★★★★★ Another one to re-read. Lovely voice. 📚
Changing Mindsets: Effectiveness trial
Read Changing Mindsets: Effectiveness trial
The project was a randomised controlled trial (RCT) and included 101 schools and 5018 pupils across England, assigned to either intervention or control groups.
Lots of food for thought.
I like the proportions of this fishing boat. Pittenweem harbour on a rainy Sunday.
Day 5 in @macgenie‘s photo challenge Determination. This is what the painted ladies need to migrate from North Africa to Scotland across multiple generations. Seems to be a big year for butterflies here painted ladies in particular.
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”
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
Read: The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★☆ second time round after many years, still a great read.
p5 .js – Classy Bramble Skulls
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;-))