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Replied to tweet by @athole (Twitter)
“Always felt TeachMeet movement was about reimagining a world without keynotes and guest speakers. They’ve a place at the table but dominate professional learning dialogue to an unhealthy degree, I worry. Too often about platitudes and polemics than practice & messy imperfections”

@athole nails the feeling that TeachMeet started with. A move away from professional development being done to us to being done by us. It is clear teachers need help from experts, research and leaders from both inside and outside the classroom but TeachMeet was started to provide a different sort of space. It is worth trying to keep it that way.

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Liked Code Strip (Flickr)
This is the strip of code characters that appeared in the Shooting Code Across the Void photo next in this photostream. NB: I had difficulty uploading it, probably due to the aspect ratio (10000 x 300 pixels), it didn't "look like a valid photo". Tried resizing it, and it finally worked if I made it taller (10000 x 1000), but I didn't like the looks. However, when I used the "replace" function from the image page, flickr allowed me to upload my original long photo. Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!

👍 Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!

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Replied to Introducing the all-new Anchor: Podcasting for everyone. by Anchor (Medium)
Today we’re unleashing Anchor 3.0, featuring a re-imagined mobile app built for effortless podcast creation

🔗 I’ve followed Anchor with interest and used if a wee bit in both of the earlier versions. But I don’t think I’ve the energy to dive back in this time. A pivot to far?

I do appreciated the post as it reminds me to get back to microcasting soon.

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Liked Excellent teachers in an age of fads by Mark Enser (Teaching it Real)
Many things that get labelled as “fads” might work for an individual teacher (although many things might work better) but they only become fads when divorced from their original meaning and then are spread around and are imposed on other teachers.

I’ve always been interested in the idea that changing almost anything in the classroom will lead to improvement. This post digs around the territory. We probably teach at our best when we are enthused and the beginning of a fad is enthusiasm.