Some gems from my Pinboard this week Howdy, Pardner! Round Up For #Western106 We are doing DS106 with a wide open theme of Western Stories– not West like the Western Hemisphere, but West like the Wild Wild West. It’s your standard Cowboy tales, and then not. Another round of DS106, if you want to learn […]
I’ve read a lot of interesting things on Medium over the last couple of years. It seemed to start as an online space to write longer-than tweet posts, and evolved. I’ve never written more than a few comments and one test post on Medium before this. I’ve been excited about blogging in a Domain of One’s Own and the ideas around […]
A minute from: Raising the Digital Generation in Scotland – Chris van der Kuyl, Entrepreneur and Chairman of 4J Studios at the Scottish Learning Festival …that is mental, that is absolutely mental that is like saying you cant carry a note book in school they are banned because you could write really seditious and crazy remarks […]
I’m not on holiday at the moment but taking the odd day off over the summer. Yesterday was one. I found a good set of amusing links, here are a few. The New Devil’s Dictionary From The Verge updates Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary. Examples: blogger (n.): An invasive species with no natural predators. GIF […]
I went along to TeachMeetGLA on Tuesday evening a couple of weeks ago. Arriving before the crowd I noticed the very pleasant surroundings in CitizenM and very fast WiFi. Folk and the pizza started arriving around 5 before the 5:30 kick off. It was a great TM harking back to the early days. Ian kept […]
Some recent links from my Pinboard. Mostly related to open resources. The Crusade for Curious Images | OpenGLAM n December last year the British Library released over a million images on to Flickr Commons. … … The Curious Images event held yesterday offered a whirlwind tour of the reuse of the images by artists, researchers […]
As part of the week 1 of P2PU Why Open? course participants were invited to join David Wiley on a google hangout (Why Open session with David Wiley). I could not make the live stream so have just finished watching the archive. I’ve also posted the audio ripped from the session, with permission, over at […]
Lifted from my Pinboard Had a busy week with EDUtalk, spent Saturday at the ACTS conference recording, nearly finished posting the audio with the actsconf2014 tag. We had a great show on Wednesday with Morag Watson and Rosa Murray talking about Learning for Sustainability. The final Show of the week was rather unusual #ed473 ‘Considering […]
Photo: Organic Networks – New Urban?, Creative Commons — CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The latest crop from from my Pinboard link farm. BBC News – Linking to free web content is legal, says EU Court Websites can link to freely available content without the permission of the copyright holder, the European Court of Justice says. PHEW! […]
Image: Double page from ‘Shinki ipputsu’ Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 2.0 from Wellcome Images. Notes from the bookmarks I’ve made this week. There is an awful lot of giffing going on. I noticed: 1840s GIF party: call for submissions at the Tate (yep the Tate!) The GIF the […]
