It is cold outside, so a bit of baking. 📷
Life in Links 2-3-18
Some recent finds collected with pinboard
- Virtual Reality using HTML and javascript Computing At School
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.
- ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma | News | The Guardian
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
- Top 8 Word Decoding Rules – Help Your Class Build Their Decoding Skills! – Monday Morning Teacher Decoding rules
- iTunes U Garageband course
- Batch converting .ogg to .mp3 keeping the ID tag metadata – The Linux Community Forum Works on my os x system.
- Digital Public Library of America » Workshops Workshops and tutorials from gifitup
- The Only Good Thing About Winter Is This Story Written in Snow
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.
Listening to Aaron’s microcast
The dilemma in supporting schools in using technology: Give out fish or teach to fish. Before I came back to school I was faced with this problem more than once.
What I would say now, in hindsight, is that if you make the solution yourself it adds risk. I thoroughly enjoy making simple scripts and workflows, but these are generally fragile. You might end up with more long term support than you thought, or worse raising and dashing expectations.
In my part-time life I am still supporting Glow Blogs. Quite often it would be easier to fix something in response to a request for help. More often now I try to write instructions instead. I can add these to the help and point the next problem a those.
I need to get back to microcasting. I enjoyed listen to this on my commute. The focus on one subject in the short form podcast is valuable.