🎧 Listened The GIF as an increasingly important visual communication tool nice to hear ref to gifitup & ‘artistic’ gifs near end HT @ianinsheffield
Looking for and not finding Claire’s Knee to rent on Apple, Netflicks & Amazon Prime so much for the long tail…
Science fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at age 88. Le Guin was the subject of this long New Yorker piece from a cou
👍 love Ursula K. Le Guin and “gender ghetto” of the Golden Age of science fiction, Kottke has one of the best Ursula K. Le Guin stories.
“Tinkering with realtime world creation in @Scratch. Character on the screen is coded to interact with different colored objects. (Black is floor. Red is lava. Green is the goal.) Kids can be creating and coding these worlds simultaneously in realtime. https://t.co/giiR6HCmNR”
I want to track this to see if the “how to” requests get an answer. Looks clever. Might not need much kit?
Life in Links 28-01-2018
- DarkSiteFinder.com – Light Pollution Map Quite an amazing map. I think I can get fairly dark in about an hours drive from home. Some people are not so lucky. I’ve not seem the milky way for years. I used to see it all the time when I was a child and teen. Hopefully fix that sometime this year.
- Designing Emotion: How Facebook Affordances Give Us The Blues – Cyborgology
Facebook’s design features work in several ways to reinforce status quo ideas and popular people while maintaining an ancillary status for those on the margins. Given findings about the psychological effects of production versus consumption, these features then have behavioral consequences and in turn, emotional ones.
I find this sort of think fascinating. How we are affected by software. By design or as a side effect.
- Comic Sans: the myths, the lies and the truth about fonts
The big question of this article, then, has a clear answer: Comic Sans use should not be justified by claims of increased readability or benefits to dyslexic students or indeed for handwriting, but if you just like it, and your pupils like it, there is no good reason you should not use it. Or not use most other fonts for that matter. Font choice, it seems, is the least of your worries.
I’ve always followed the general prejudice against Comic Sans, but I use the similar chalkboard more often than not when making resources for pupils. In general I just don’t really notice fonts.
- Xeromino’s Pastebin – Pastebin.com A ton of processing scripts. I used one of them this week.
Featured image: a screenshot of the DarkSiteFinder.com map.
👍 enjoyed Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans | Boston Review especially in ‘reader view’.
GDPR seems to be a hot topic at the moment. Tweeted this gif earlier in the week, blogging ’cause why not.
Gutenberg on iPad
I’ve been testing the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress a little. I just sent the url to this short video in the feedback form.
I am finding using the editor a little tricky on iOS. It is a lot better in portrait mode. I can see that many folk will like Gutenberg and it has some interesting features.
I really hope that the experience on iOS can get better before we get this in Glow Blogs. Just from a selfish point of view, my class use iPads to post to their e-portfolios. Having said that I alway get them to write in the Notes app first. Pasting multi-lne text in to Gutenberg seems to be handled nicely, the double/treble returns my pupil like to type gets stripped out sensibly.
“It’s how you use it” is wholly unsatisfying, philosophically misguided, and a total corporate cop-out that places disproportionate responsibility on individual users
How Facebook Affordances Give Us The Blues HT @mdvfunes
Banton Playground dawn this morning, snow is all gone. 📷