@MarkRiches announces the closure of Makewaves. Although I never used the service it inspired me. Wonderful idea and much better than silo for education.
📚 The Little Red Chairs – Edna O’Brien Not sure this really worked for me. Felt like half a novel and then several short linked pieces. The violence was brutal. Maybe the unexplained and spaces helped but I thought there was something missing. ★★★
For Micro Monday I’d recommend @robertbrook for his fascinating stream of photos. Robert Brook
“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.
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!
Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived?
The Hypercard Legacy – The Nextographer – Medium
– More HC love.
📷 Glad to see the Victoria Park Parakeets survived the cold and snow. One of a flock of eight in a tree this evening.
How to get Twitter back on song? #NoMoreRetweets | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian Mr Naughton should be on micro.blog
Let me answer that question for you: For MOST* of us, audience DOESN’T matter. Stop talking about it. Period. End of conversation.
👍 Audience Doesn’t Matter, I lost this link and was reminded by @mrkrndvs
his colleagues remember him arguing passionately in the 70s that it was absurd for scientists to be paid more than dustmen, because they had the inestimable privilege of loving their work
from: John Sulston interview: one man and his worm | Science | The Guardian