John Johnston
@johnjohnston.info
Retired primary school teacher, Scotland. Part time Product owner Glow Blogs https://johnjohnston.info Likes, blogs, rss & podcasts. Being outside. Posting to BlueSky mostly from my blog, POSSE.
Bookmarked The Right Words in the Right Order by William Davies. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ri... "As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an ideal of “learning.” johnjohnston.info/blog/link-th...
Link: The Right Words in The Right Order
Bookmarked The Right Words in the Right Order by William Davies. As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an i…
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I like geotagging & mapping photos. This wee AppleScript finds the location of a photo in the finder & opens OpenStreetMap showing where it was taken. Easily changed for other map webpages. Needs the wonderful exiftool. I run it from FastScripts, also wonderful.
Get the location of a photo selected in the finder and opens OpenStreetMap with a pin on the location.
Get the location of a photo selected in the finder and opens OpenStreetMap with a pin on the location. - photo-location.scpt
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Park Pond, two young dabchicks with one or two parents. Never saw the parents at the same time. Fishing & feeding the wee ones. About 10 metres along another adult & young one. Was surprised as I’ve not seen many about over the summer. Nesting in the space between Islands out of sight I guess?
Lots of the ivy was alive with hoverflies wasps & bees on Tuesday. Lots of buzzing!
I haven't blogged in years, but prompted by an email @qualifications.gov.scot I've dusted off some old ideas... drewburrett.substack.com/p/revisiting... Please feel free to comment and share.
Revisiting Assessment & Certification
(and tentatively returning to sharing my thoughts)
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Blustery afternoon on path to Greenside, mostly blue sky. Despite the wind a few butterflies, peacocks, painted lady, red admiral & a few speckled woods. Goldfinch in the meadowsweet. A raven circled high in the blue. The news reported less speckled woods this year, but I’ve seem more than ever.
I am experimenting with gathering links with rss.chat here. I am pulling a rough post together for some of the links gathered there. Education This looks like a very interesting book. "As important as her deep reporting on the tech indust... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-links-69/
Just has an email telling me telex has been retired. Telex was built onto of WordPress playground and allowed you to crate with A.I. plugins and themes. I experimented and made a few. Kept a bit of a record of the prompts I used and the problems I cam... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/telex-retired/
Greenside morning, brighter than expected. Sunshine brought out the butterflies. Mostly Painted Ladies with a lot of Speckled Woods. One very battered Small Tortoiseshell. Near the reservoir a flock of about 50 or so mixed goldfinch & linnets, s... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/greenside-insects/
I don’t usually devote a full post to a single webinar, but this one genuinely merited it. The session offered one of the clearest, most practice‑grounded explorations of how AI is reshaping assessment and feedback across FE and HE.Teachermatic is an award-winning... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nVR
Victoria Park, drizzle them brightened, a couple of white butterflies over the flower beds. Went to investigate. Among the bright flowers were a few thistles. A couple of bees working over the thistles ignoring the other flowers. One butterfly came off a thistle too. Not sure which type of white.
Wikipedia has a tip for nearly every part of the editing experience. Started in 2004, the "Tip of the day" project provides useful daily advice on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. Bookmark it ➡️ w.wiki/HT5G
Out to Greenside this morning, warm, close and sometimes sunny. Butterflies: Green-veined Whites, several spotted woods, peacocks, small tortoiseshells & painted ladies on thistles. I rather like this odd view of a painted lady. few more photos on f... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/painted-lady/
#bloomstrolling for #bloomscrolling in Glen Douglas yesterday. Lots of sparkles on the ground. #flora.
Could Markdown go to School?: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/could-markdown-go-to-school/
Could Markdown go to School?
I prefer using Markdown over Word for document creation, it is simple and structured. Daring Fireball reported the integration of Markdown with OneDrive. I wonder if it could be used for teaching c…
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A society that protects its trees and water is investing in generations it may never meet.
Nature Lake
ALT: Nature Lake
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An interesting post from Matt Mullenweg: "Builders are the site shapers, webmasters, the agencies, the companies, the content managers that think in a more page-first rather than post-first way. Tagging? Blogroll? Date-based permalinks? Who ne... https://johnjohnston.info/blog/who-uses-wordpress/
Who uses WordPress?
Thinking about teachers and pupils using WordPress, sparked, in part by Our Core Division posted by Matt Mullenweg
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