{"id":3059,"date":"2015-07-27T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?page_id=3059"},"modified":"2023-07-09T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T19:08:16","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edutalk is an \u2018open to any contributor\u2019 podcast and Internet Radio Station about education.<\/p>\n

EDUtalk is organised by David Noble (@parslad) and myself (@johnjohnston)<\/p>\n

You can find out How to contribute, listen and more on the site. The project had been on an extended holiday since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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ScotEduBlogs is an aggregation of Scottish Educational Blogs.
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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. Here is an example stamped image:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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photoblitzer\u00a0is 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 I originally made it for a #ds106 project (20 Minute Photo Challenge: ds106 Photoblitz \u2013 CogDogBlog) and blogged about it on my 106 blog\u00a0106 drop in \u2013 Photoblitzin. Since then I\u2019ve used it as a starting activity on a […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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This web page lets you quickly type a sentence on a pupils device and mix it up from them to sort out. I\u2019ve 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 […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n

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An attempt at a simple plugin that loads the last observations on iNaturalist.org uses a shortcode where user is my username and count is the number I want displayed. 19 Jul 2025: I’ve now added the ability to choose a day for example gives:  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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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: I do not know if this is […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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GifMovie site I am trying to make a plugin that will: add sounds to a gif present a gif as a \u2018movie\u2019 starting and stopping on a click. I do not really know what I am doing. I have seen a few plugins that \u2018freeze\u2019 a gif until clicked, they seem to generate a jpg […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n

Web Mashups & Gif Fun<\/h2>\n

These are mostly webpages I’ve put together for fun and learning a bit about the web.<\/p>\n

I’ve an unhealthy\u00a0fascination\u00a0for animated gifs, not only making them<\/a> but in messing around with displaying them and mixing them up.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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DS106 Gif TV is a\u00a0weird 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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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pechaGif Clicking\u00a0Start\u00a0will 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\u00a0Random\u00a0Gif API’, the challenge would be to improvise a\u00a0incoherent presentation from gifs you have never seen. Escape will get you out of fullscreen, reloading the page will give a new […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Social Media is\u00a0this is a wee bit of fun using\u00a0Google autocomplete to explain different social media applications. Notes on creation of these gifs:\u00a0Automating autocomplete Gifs.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Make Strange Don Draper gifs in the browser. The offshoot of ds106 that is\u00a0#giffight\u00a0has given me\u00a0a 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. After much testing and playing around I\u2019ve managed to get to a place […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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This is a little bit of fun I’ve been playing with Random Flickr Blendr It blends random Flickr Images. I’ve blogged a bit about the process on my DS106 blog: http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/accidental-allure\/   The featured image on this post is a screenshot from Flickr Blendr, the images blened are: Racetrack – Death Valley, United States – […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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GifMovie site I am trying to make a plugin that will: add sounds to a gif present a gif as a \u2018movie\u2019 starting and stopping on a click. I do not really know what I am doing. I have seen a few plugins that \u2018freeze\u2019 a gif until clicked, they seem to generate a jpg […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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