Projects

Collaborations

ScotEduBlogs

ScotEduBlogs is an aggregation of Scottish Educational Blogs. If you blog about education in Scotland you can Submit Your blog to ScotEduBlogs. If you use an RSS aggregator you can subscribe to all of the Entries. You can read more about ScotEduBlogs on the site itself.
Edutalk

Edutalk is an ‘open to any contributor’ podcast and Internet Radio Station about education. EDUtalk is organised by David Noble (@parslad) and myself (@johnjohnston) You can find out How to contribute, listen and more on the site. The project had been on an extended holiday since 2020.

Tools

These are things that hopefully could be useful.

Mixed Up Sentences

This web page lets you quickly type a sentence on a pupils device and mix it up from them to sort out. I’ve also a system to create links to that page that will have a particular sentence already created. Example. I made the page creation a little easier and also add a QR code…
Photoblitzer

photoblitzer is a really simple wbpage page that just gives a list of ideas for taking photos. I originally made it for a #ds106 project (20 Minute Photo Challenge: ds106 Photoblitz – CogDogBlog) and blogged about it on my 106 blog 106 drop in – Photoblitzin.
Simple FlickrCC Search

Simple FlickrCC Search is a way to search for, and stamp with attribution, Flickr images that you can use. It is designed with school pupils and mobile in mind. You can use the images in blog posts, presentations etc and not worry about attribution.

WordPress

A few modifications on this blog

inaturalist Observations

An attempt at a simple plugin that loads the last observations on iNaturalist.org
First of Year

I am often searching my blog for the time I notice some natural event, the first snowdrop, cuckoo or the like. This requires looking through a few posts. I though I could make something that woud search and sort by day and month, not year. This is it:
GifMovie

GifMovie site I am trying to make a plugin that will: add sounds to a gif present a gif as a ‘movie’ starting and stopping on a click. I do not really know what I am doing. I have seen a few plugins that ‘freeze’ a gif until clicked, they seem to generate a jpg…

These are mostly webpages I’ve put together for fun and learning a bit about the web.

Web Mashups & Gif Fun

I’ve an unhealthy fascination for animated gifs, not only making them but in messing around with displaying them and mixing them up.

GifMovie

GifMovie site I am trying to make a plugin that will: add sounds to a gif present a gif as a ‘movie’ starting and stopping on a click. I do not really know what I am doing. I have seen a few plugins that ‘freeze’ a gif until clicked, they seem to generate a jpg…
Gif the Dub

Gif the Dub This is a experiment with mixing a couple of APIs the Giphy one and the freesound api. I used neocities to host the page for free to try that site out.
Random Flickr Blendr

This is a little bit of fun I’ve been playing with Random Flickr Blendr
The Zen of Don

Make Strange Don Draper gifs in the browser. The offshoot of ds106 that is #giffight has given me a lot of fun. Every so often the giffight tumble posts an image with the invite for anyone to use it to create an animated gif from.
Social Media is

Social Media is this is a wee bit of fun using Google autocomplete to explain different social media applications. Notes on creation of these gifs: Automating autocomplete Gifs.
Pechagif

pechaGif Clicking Start will start a slideshow of 20 gifs, that will last 20 seconds(or your selection) each. The gifs will be a random selection from the ‘DS106 Random Gif API’, the challenge would be to improvise a incoherent presentation from gifs you have never seen. Escape will get you out of fullscreen, reloading the page will give a new…
DS106 Gif TV

DS106 Gif TV is a weird way of looking at gifs created by some of the DS106 participants while listening to DS106 Radio. It used the DS106 Gif API a bit of silliness that I am playing with: Gif Scraping and a DS106 Gif API