Life in Links – 40

Every so often I come back to this idea of posting sets of rather random links. I love seeing them pop up on my on this day page. For organisation and discoverability it might be better to post links separately. Mostly in pinboard too.

I checked how many posts I had tagged lifeinlinks and that makes this one number 40.

james brunt artist (@RFJamesUK) / Twitter excellent Twitter stream of land art, should inspire my class the artists working code will be good for class discussion too

Day 14 of 30 Days of Creativity – YouTube looks like a interesting set of ongoing videos for iPads in the class. Via Steve Bunce

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) Search via Alan of course OER is mostly higher Ed at the mo, but a search for fractions found me a knowledge organiser from 1890 Fractions | Library of Congress

Digital Detox #4: Habits, Data, and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Microsoft for Education – TRU Digital Detox

Ultimately, it seems to me that at least part of the problem wth Microsoft for Education, and particularly Teams and the integrated Office 365 suite, is that it wasn’t designed for education; education is a useful revenue stream for an enterprise communications solution. So as we’re learning about the value of a multimodal learning environment for students that blends synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences, we’re looking to a video conferencing software with deeply embedded surveillance functionality as a solution. This isn’t to say that individual instructors aren’t doing incredible things with Teams — I know they are, I see it everyday. But I worry about a tool that has been designed first and foremost as a corporate solution by a company with a poor track record on data privacy, leaping into the learning management game in the middle of a crisis.

Having spent a lot of time in the last couple of months in Teams this was interesting. Most of my problems with Teams stem from the UI, I keep expecting the native app to behave like a native app.

There’s a hidden message in the parachute of NASA’s Mars rover – The Verge you can make your own message Encode Mighty Things might be fun in school.

No to catch up! Yes to recovery, reconnection and PLAY! catch up vs play post COVID.

The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game I’ve no idea how good a chess player this is, but it seems pretty amazing. Like the Queen’s Gambit design, and how good is the https://vole.wtf/ home page.

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