Enviable Stuff 2015-12-14

From my Pinboard

Tips for Screencasting – BrettTerpstra.com I’ve been doing a fair bit of screencasting for Glow Blogs Help over the last while. I am very much a quick & dirty screencaster, one take and light editing. These are a great set of tips for getting better screencasts. The tips are universal but Brett uses ScreenFlow which is my favourite screencasting tool too.

Big Schools’ Birdwatch

Join in with our survey from 4 January-12 February 2016. Count birds with your class and tell us what you see. We’ll send you a free ID poster!

Looks like this could be a nice classroom/plaground activity to start the year with.

Create cognitive plugins for Minecraft with Bluemix, Docker, and Watson ~ Stephen Downes

So here’s the concept: you can put the intelligence of a large artificial intelligence like IBM’s Watson into characters or objects that inhabit a virtual world like Minecraft. This is not theory; this 4-part tutorial provides detailed instructions on how to do exactly that.

Quite mindblowing!

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