{"id":2162,"date":"2011-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2162"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:30:01","slug":"no-time-to-think-then-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/no-time-to-think-then-link\/","title":{"rendered":"No \u00a0time to think&#8230;. \u00a0Then link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/5542666166\/\" title=\"FeeddlerRSS icon by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:4px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5180\/5542666166_31f71979dd_o.jpg\" width=\"131\" height=\"116\" alt=\"FeeddlerRSS icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog again for the last wee while. Not because I&#8217;ve nothing to blog about but due to lack of time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been neglecting most online activity, twitter, my rss reader and am just about keeping up with email.<\/p\n\n<p>In a, possible vain, attempt to keep it going I though I&#8217;d post links to a couple of interesting things I&#8217;ve seen recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#62;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both'>\n<h3>Interesting things<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/5544643048\/\" title=\"purpos\/ed by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:4px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5014\/5544643048_d1c75d51de_m.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"purpos\/ed\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/purposed.org.uk\/'>purpos\/ed<\/a> is a great source of ideas to think about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re a non-partisan, location-independent organization aiming to kickstart a debate around the question: What\u2019s the purpose of education? With a 3-year plan, a series of campaigns, and a weekly newsletter we aim to empower people to get involved and make a difference in their neighbourhood, area and country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are already a ton of thought provoking posts giving individual views of the purpose of education and I&#8217;ve not read half of the ones published so far. Coincidently as I am typing this I got a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/purposedpsi.eventbrite.com\/\">purpos\/ed Summit for Instigators<\/a> chaired by <a href='http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/josiefraser'>Josie Fraser<\/a> this looks like a really exciting event. If you are thinking of going please consider contributing to <a href='http:\/teriyaki.cc'><span class=\"caps\">EDU<\/span>talk<\/a> \u00a0while you are there.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I missed was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametolearn.org\/\/\">Game To Learn Conference<\/a>. I did see a fair bit of tweeting around the conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23gametolearn\">Twitter \/ Search &#8211; #gametolearn<\/a>, \u00a0and hope to catch up with some of the videos and presentations from the two days. some I have seen are <a href=\"http:\/\/ltsblogs.org.uk\/consolarium\/2011\/03\/22\/gametolearn-%e2%80%93-playful-learning-geocaching-workshop\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to #gametolearn \u2013 Playful Learning: Geocaching Workshop\">#gametolearn \u2013 Playful Learning: Geocaching Workshop<\/a> and a couple of prezi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/6xnrvecseaaa\/nintendogs-game-to-learn\/\">Nintendogs &#8211; Game to Learn by Anna Rossvoll on Prezi<\/a> &amp;<a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/mrv3losos82d\/2011-03-18-gametolearn\/\">2011-03-18 GameToLearn by Charlie Love on Prezi<\/a> both of which make you want to have been at the presentation. As a side effect made me sort of see the point of prezi, always made me a bit seasick before, it fits well with gaming meme.<\/p>\n<p>As well as bring invoved in Game To Learn Charlie Love had time to put together <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgamesdesign.com\/?p=6482\">Computing Teachers? Time to wake up<\/a> which has gathered a great deal of positive comment, interesting read even if you are not a computing teacher.<\/p>\n<h3>Other than that I&#8217;ve mostly been iOSing<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/5553622751\/\" title=\"Texttastic by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5291\/5553622751_4996e6ba7a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" style=\"float:left;margin:4px\" alt=\"Texttastic\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had news of the new iPad and some new iOS software, I&#8217;ve downloaded garageband and iMovie, I had hoped to write a post comparing iMovie to reelDirector but didn&#8217;t get past the screenshots: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/sets\/72157626258759086\/with\/5524037952\/\">iOS Move Editors &#8211; a set on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written most of this short post on the iPad, testing Edhita a free html editor, not quite what I am looking for. There are quite a few html editors for the iPad, I put <a href='http:\/\/www.quora.com\/iPad-Applications\/What-is-a-good-html-editor-for-the-iPad#ans453580'>a question on Qura<\/a> and am now finishing this post using <a href='http:\/\/www.textasticapp.com\/'>Textastic<\/a>, textastic has a nice top row added to the keyboard and it does syntax highlighting and previewing. Texttastic links to my dropbox account and to ftp servers. I use dropbox to store blog posts while I write them so it should fit in nicly with my workflow.<\/p>\n<p>i hope to manage a slightly more coherent post soon but in the mean time I think I&#8217;ve managed \u00a0to put in links to far better things than i could produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog again for the last wee while. Not because I&#8217;ve nothing to blog about but due to lack of time. 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