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My Class had a lot of fun and a little maths with Balloon Car Racing. Here on the Banton Biggies’ Blog:
Read: The President’s Last Love by Andrey Kurkov ★★★☆☆ 📚 life story of Ukrainian President Bunin. Simultaneously recounting three different time periods. Slightly surreal, satirical with hints of Bulgakov with out going the full “Heart of a Dog”. Gentleness too.
My class had great fun with the skulls last week.
We took an idea from Darrell Wakelam to make some Day of the Dead skulls from paper plates.
We then took it a bit further
If you ever need an injection of positiveness, try this Twitter trick that'll show tweets with the word "love" from people you follow.
Well this is clever
Plenty of water in the Black Linn today.
I do not generally post about music but this is lovely and I know the artist. Empty Room by Michael Timmons. Sound fills your head and a west of Scotland voice.
3 years ago I was posting occasional lists of interesting posts on microblog, this one, 🗓️ ♥︎<280 Turned up on my on this day page today. A lot of broken links.
Carton of mixed pasta Rachel Roddy is a marvellous conduit between the many culture...
I enjoyed this one, Rachel Roddy’s page is the first one I read in the paper on a Saturday.
Life in Links 44
Mostly School and TiddlyWiki things.
- The Subsume Plugin — Turn links into sliders! TW plugin for using the html details tag. Sliders seems a little misleading, I’ve added this to the maths TW I am making which pulls together E&Os, Benchmarks and resources.
- Font Awesome — using Font Awesome with TiddlyWiki 5 could be used to prettify a wiki.
- Mini Mangonel – Alom Shaha blog with some pretty simple making stuff for the classroom.
- Outdoor Learning ideas Outdoor Learning Resources
- Digital Downloads | Dust-to-Digital We increase access to hard-to-find recordings via preservation, research, and production