Today attend to all sounds in your day as if they were your favourite music.
I didn’t manage all sounds, but I did listen with care a couple of times. First time at 7:30 when I went out to go to work. I often notice the bird song but don’t pick up the traffic as much.
I don’t think of myself as musical and probably pay more attention to lyrics than melody or harmony. Listening to the morning I don’t think I managed to approach it as music.
Later after work I went for a walk round the park. A few times I started listening. Again, traffic, less birds, more voices and dogs nails clicking the Tarmac. Listening seemed to also quieten them nee dialog a wee bit and open the eyes and senses. It was a lovely spring evening, I saw my first bat of the year that my ears are far to old to hear.
The morning audio uploaded dosent seem to play here, so:
@livedtime #tds256 Smile, breathe and go slowly …
It took me all day to get here.The smile and breathe come easily enough takes a while to slow down.
This photo taken as the light went.
Radio #EDUtalk at #OEPSforum4
I was along at the OEPScotland, Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Forum 4 this week representing Radio #EDUtalk. Not to broadcast or record but to show our poster 1
It was a great meeting, I did broadcast and posted some comments on EDUtalk along with some links after the event..
The keynote by Josie Fraser was filmed and I hope that it will be put up somewhere as it was great.
The attendees were mostly from Higher Education, but I think the ideas behind openness are more than relevant to schools and other learning spaces. Josie’s work is in the school sector and would be a great model to follow: Open Education for Schools – Policy & Practice.
I’ve put some good links on the Radio Edutalk 09-03-2016 #OEPSforum4 post.
- Unfortunatly there is a wee typo on my email address. ↩
A better Glow Link Shortener
From Charlie Love. A while back I posted here about shortening Glow O365 links to avoid the double authentication. Charlie has rebooted his glow.li link shortener and added in this feature in a much neater way. The form recognises a link to Glow O365 automatically and sorts you out with a link to take you in via RM Unify.
Charlie’s http://www.glo.li is beautiful, and has the advantage of nice branding with a url to remind you it is a glow link.
@livedtime #tds251 all the leaves will fall
There are more than 75 @livedtime #tds248
Yesterday’s stillness was to pick one of 75 pleasures and
take time to enjoy it. Show us in a photo
Well I did a few of those things yesterday, but I don’t think I paid much heed. I had a better chance this afternoon. A walk, a seat beside the loch, a wee bit of stillness.
I have become a bit more aware about how I am skipping by these chances to quickly.
I am finding the daily stillness almost always interesting. I don’t always respond publicly, sometimes I am too busy, sometimes I want to keep my response to myself. I am particularly enjoying the recycling of the exercises.
I am reminded of Jin Shengtan’s list of 33 happy moments, I’ve just found these on tumblr but I read them ia an old secondhand book many years ago.
13.It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open a window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like it has had a bath.
Ah, is this not happiness?
from: 33 Happy Moments, 13.
@livedtime #tds245 excitment vs stillness
Take 10 minutes to enjoy the ‘ephemeral absolute’ today. Could you just sit back and enjoy? Did you find yourself getting impatient and wanted to see the next painting and the next and the…? Did you want to break the artist’s intent and get a screenshot of that favourite painting to keep (Disclosure: we nearly took a screenshot for this daily)? So many lessons about how we relate to the impermanence of life in such a simple artistic idea.
from: #tds245 Ephemeral art for stillness | The Daily Stillness
Géneration …Etc… This is great. Even before I had got through reading the daily post I was thinking screenshot.Â
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes my mind race.
Before I have watched three images stream by: how is this done, can I do something like it, let’s look at the source.Â
Not stilling my mind. I pop down to the bins and the newsagents. I am excited, gifs, servers, writing this response. I love being excited by a stream of thoughts and ideas.Â
Half way through the hundred yards to the shop I remember that this should be about stillness. Feel my feet, watch my step, breath, follow a crow, smile. A few seconds later I am thinking about thinking, and this post, and my neighbour who passes…
Back in the flat I watch the webpage while coffee boils. Not exactly stillness, but absorbing. Are there patterns? or am I making them up. I like this stuff, maybe I can get it on the big screen at work…
I could save any image by pressing and holding on the iPad. I don’t.Â
The image with this post is a gif made from a string of imaged generated by Decim8 on my phone. Giffed with a reduction of colours in fireworks. Sort of inspired by the images from Géneration …Etc…
Radio #EDUtalk is going to #OER16
I am really excited about this one.
Radio #EDUtalk will be at #oer16
OER16: Open Culture
19th & 20th April 2016, University of Edinburgh, UK
The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on the 19th-20th April 2016 at the University of Edinburgh.
OER16 will focus on:
- The strategic advantage of open and creating a culture of openness.
- Converging and competing cultures of open knowledge, open source, open content, open practice, open data and open access.
- Hacking, making and sharing.
- The reputational challenges of openwashing.
- Openness and public engagement.
- Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education.
from: OER16
I am not sure what we will be broadcasting but I hope it might include conversations between various speakers and attendees.
Slow train coming #tds242 @livedtime
https://youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE
I didn’t make it very far through this video but I got further than I though I would. There is something nice about watching the world come towards you and pass by.
I didn’t learn to drive until I was 24 and got my first car at 49 so I’ve spent a fair bit of time as a passenger. This is quite reminiscent of that. The track, like the road markings at night focus and slightly hypnotise your attention.
I am finding the recycled dailies from @livedtime a very nice thing. Often I read these in the morning but don’t follow through, it is good to get another chance. They are also the kind of exercise that can take a bit of repetition.
An interesting mix: Chromebook and Raspberry pi
Last week I spent some time with a chromebook. It was the cheapest one on the Scottish procurement. I was surprised how responsive it was, quick to start up, reasonable trackpad and OK keyboard.
It seemed to be that if you were mostly using the web or if your needs were met by web browser applications that it would do quite a lot. I was reminded of Clarence Fisher talking about using a raspberry pi and finding it could meet a lot of his needs.
Personally I’ll stick to my MacBook for as long as I can afford to. I’ve got a lot of muscle memory, customisation and spent a fair bit on applications over the years. Along with the long life of Apple computers I don’t think I pay too much for what I get. I was interested in exploring how to do some things with a chromebook and the raspberry pi connection got me googling.
It seems you can connect to a raspberry pi in the same way I do from Mac and iOS devices, via ssh.
According to various sites and posts I found there is a built in terminal in the chrome browser that supports ssh.
So I hit control-alt-t to open the wheel and typed in ssh username@pi.johnj.info
At that point I got a message saying that the built in tool was no longer there and I needed to install an app. This I did.
I’ve now got the secure shell app. This lets me easily connect to and work/play on the pi in the same way I already do from Mac or iOS.
For a dabbler like myself this is a pretty nice setup. Especially at less than £200.
I am just kicking tyres on the pi without any depth of knowledge but it already is running:
- john’s pi server a standard we server.
- River5 Dave Winer’s RSS reader using node.
- some Python that takes photos and makes gifs of the sky and posts them to tumblr: Sky Pi and Broomhill Sky
Quite a lot for such a wee box and there are tons of other things I could add given a bit of reading.
I think this points to the possibilitys of two small cheap devices adding value to each other and opening up some possibilities.