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.
It is cold outside, so a bit of baking. 📷
Some recent finds collected with pinboard
A collection of bite-size videos taking the user through free VR using Thimble and A-Frame to make relative simple and quick Web VR.
The true scale of the problem is hard to gauge, but our best guess is that there might now be as many as 1.5m deer in the UK, at least half of them in Scotland; more than at any time since the last ice age.
Might be good info for class discussion/debate/writing
now entering her fourth winter of carefully embossing serif letters into light snowfall. Before this weekend, the most recent sentence, composed entirely during a snowfall in March, 2017, cut off in the middle:
Featured images, a montage of gifs from skipi, which is stuttering away. For no particular reason.
@rogueamoeba announces the end of nicecast. Fairly devastating news as there is nothing that is as easy to use for streaming to icecast from mac. Been a great app.
Swans – Snow ❄️📷
1 hour after snow plow took the road to black. Snowing hard. 📷
School Closed so getting a better beverage than usual.
Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage
🔗 👍 Tom Critchlow says Small b blogging
writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them
“Did you realise you might have lost your Google 'View image' button? I didn't. "Anger at Google image search 'peace deal'" https://t.co/RW2doyhaaf via @Downes There's a lot to think about in here.”
This is fascinating to me for a couple of reasons: When I tested it I’d forgotten I’d been using duckduckgo.com on all my devices for 4 months, so I could see a view file link. Obviously I’ve not missed google searches.
Is it such a bad thing that you have to visit a site to download images. That gives you thinking time and might help you check copyright.
