Common Blue Damselfly & Common Darter at Ardinning yesterday. Also saw very large dark blue dragonfly.
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continuing to support the plugin through 2022 is the right call for the project as well as the community
Given that we have just enabled blocks on Glow Blogs I am glad classic will continue to be supported. I am still on classic here too.
A batch of newspaper blackout poems.
Nice examples of blackout poetry from the master. I must remember to get my class to do some this session.
It doesn’t take much experience with Microsoft’s OneDrive to learn that it is an unmitigated car-crash: it purports to be a productivity tool that makes it possible to share files quickly and easily.
Hi Nick, When I read this I was going to let you know that OneDrive had been rock solid for a while for me. I use a mac in school and at home. I didn’t get to write the comment.
On Monday arriving in school I opened my daily plans, a set of txt files in OneDrive, to find that they had not synced from Sunday at home. No plans 😖
Read Second Place by Rachel Cusk ★★★★☆ 📚 pretty intense narrator who is obsessed with self absorbed artist.
James Durran (@jdurran) (James Durran)An account of a poetry lesson, with some thoughts on efficiency, on how we treat texts and on knowledge.
efficiency in teaching is a problematic idea. Of course time and energy shouldn’t be evaporated away by gimmickry or activity with no purpose. But an element of theatre, an injection of emotion, or a playful unwrapping of ideas can be worth the time if ideas are more memorably imprinted or are more deeply understood.
Interesting post in relation to knowledge, exploratory learning. I’ll be revisiting the blog for the primary section which looks really valuable.
Kilpatrick Muir today, heather very much in bloom, few butterflies about despite the overcast weather. Peacock & Green Veined White.
Lofi music streams for studying, working, and relaxing.
lofi.cafe – lofi music 🎧, last session I played a bit of this type of music, from YouTube in class. Went down quite well. Think this may be useful. Via @joejenett‘s pointers
Data.
Boiling down children, human beings, to data.
Data on maths and literacy.
That’s what league tables do.
They don’t demotivate me because I know they paint a tiny, incomplete picture of a school, a smaller one of a class and a microscopic view of an individual child. https://twitter.com/mark_mclaughlin/status/1428405387355623425
Perchance is a platform for creating and sharing random text generators. To create a random generator you simply create lists which reference other lists
Wonder if this could be useful for the classroom. Certainly plenty of story-starter types. Also Word Problems (Adding and Subtracting) might be a start.
Via: Joe Jennet create a random generator