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Grey Goose flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I woke up this morning with a jingle in my head: Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny, then... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJb
December 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Grey Goose flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I woke up this morning with a jingle in my head: Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny, then... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJb
346/365 Weeping Angel flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ9
December 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
346/365 Weeping Angel flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ9
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Essential Reading That's Even More Relevant TodayHumphrey Carpenter's biography might well remain the definitive account of that remarkable group... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ7
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Essential Reading That's Even More Relevant TodayHumphrey Carpenter's biography might well remain the definitive account of that remarkable group... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ7
News from Britain’s most geographically isolated school Hello! Thank you so much for visiting our website and a very warm welcome from the UK’s most remote primary school! We are a peerie (that’s Shetland dialect for small) non-denominational school situated on... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ3
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
News from Britain’s most geographically isolated school Hello! Thank you so much for visiting our website and a very warm welcome from the UK’s most remote primary school! We are a peerie (that’s Shetland dialect for small) non-denominational school situated on... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nJ3
I saw a note from Sarah Honeychurch in an email thread about a problem with FeedWordPress, the plugin that makes the ScotEdublogs Aggregation work. This alerted Alan Levine who raised an issue and simplified the solution. Alan also had blogged about the problem, with... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIO
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I saw a note from Sarah Honeychurch in an email thread about a problem with FeedWordPress, the plugin that makes the ScotEdublogs Aggregation work. This alerted Alan Levine who raised an issue and simplified the solution. Alan also had blogged about the problem, with... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIO
Shady Map flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license On a cloudy day Still, there are moments of light Birds sing, and I smile TDC5078... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nII
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Shady Map flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license On a cloudy day Still, there are moments of light Birds sing, and I smile TDC5078... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nII
Hello! Today I want to talk about teachers and other educators getting involved in research, and specifically, about ‘action research’.What is action research?By action research, I mean research that reflects on and attempts to inform one’s own practice. Often,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIQ
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hello! Today I want to talk about teachers and other educators getting involved in research, and specifically, about ‘action research’.What is action research?By action research, I mean research that reflects on and attempts to inform one’s own practice. Often,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIQ
333/365 Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIK
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
333/365 Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIK
Today’s TDC asks us to: Find a suitable image. Now cut it up into several pieces (16-32 is a good range). Now rearrange those pieces to form a different image. Bonus points if you go beyond squares and triangles. I decided to make a jigsaw, so I searched for a free,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIM
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today’s TDC asks us to: Find a suitable image. Now cut it up into several pieces (16-32 is a good range). Now rearrange those pieces to form a different image. Bonus points if you go beyond squares and triangles. I decided to make a jigsaw, so I searched for a free,... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIM
Today’s TDC asks us to At the site, Plotted, users make maps from books they are reading. Explore the site’s many maps and choose one to share, or use one of the maps to make some interesting art, or if you want, create your own literatured-themed map there or... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nHP
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today’s TDC asks us to At the site, Plotted, users make maps from books they are reading. Explore the site’s many maps and choose one to share, or use one of the maps to make some interesting art, or if you want, create your own literatured-themed map there or... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nHP
Day 4 of my advent calendar of simple #H5P examples, in. Glow Blogs. A wee game for primary school pupils every day till Christmas.... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIC
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Day 4 of my advent calendar of simple #H5P examples, in. Glow Blogs. A wee game for primary school pupils every day till Christmas.... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nIC
Today’s TDC says: You love creating art, right? You like doing with it us here in the Daily Create, right? Put it on the shelves with this frame (transparent PNG to overlay your image of CreArting DS106 style). For my first attempt I uploaded my doodle to LunaPic and... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nGr
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today’s TDC says: You love creating art, right? You like doing with it us here in the Daily Create, right? Put it on the shelves with this frame (transparent PNG to overlay your image of CreArting DS106 style). For my first attempt I uploaded my doodle to LunaPic and... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nGr
Over the last couple of updates, I’ve shared some thoughts on the ‘learning styles myth’. So, what does all of this tell us about metacognition in general?To my mind, the issue is not just that specific myths about how people learn should be discouraged. The fact... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nG5
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Over the last couple of updates, I’ve shared some thoughts on the ‘learning styles myth’. So, what does all of this tell us about metacognition in general?To my mind, the issue is not just that specific myths about how people learn should be discouraged. The fact... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nG5
Glasgow Uni Tower and the River Kelvin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nFm
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Glasgow Uni Tower and the River Kelvin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nFm
There has been much said about the perceived drop in standing of the teaching profession.Some of this I put this down to familiarity. A doctor understands the darks arts of medicine, the lay person has no understanding of this as it is cloaked in scientific and latin... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEy
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There has been much said about the perceived drop in standing of the teaching profession.Some of this I put this down to familiarity. A doctor understands the darks arts of medicine, the lay person has no understanding of this as it is cloaked in scientific and latin... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEy
Today’s TDC asks us to: You and your favorite book. Combine that pair into art. We want to know the title of the book. Use text and images; parts of the story; your emotions and drive to read that one. I chose Alice in Wonderland – one of my many favourite books. I... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEu
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Today’s TDC asks us to: You and your favorite book. Combine that pair into art. We want to know the title of the book. Use text and images; parts of the story; your emotions and drive to read that one. I chose Alice in Wonderland – one of my many favourite books. I... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEu
Amidst a very busy week, I really benefitted from listening to Martin I. Jones, Jonpaul Nevin and Nathalie Pattyn (via the Optimising Human Performance podcast) discuss how good training programmes build both #robustness (how long it takes to knock you down) and... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nE8
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Amidst a very busy week, I really benefitted from listening to Martin I. Jones, Jonpaul Nevin and Nathalie Pattyn (via the Optimising Human Performance podcast) discuss how good training programmes build both #robustness (how long it takes to knock you down) and... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nE8
Dr. Steve Munby's advice to School Leaders and Senior Leaders when asked, "How can we change the system?" has lived rent-free in my head for over three years because of the power of the embodied sentiment: "Don't try and think you can change the whole system, but you... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEa
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Dr. Steve Munby's advice to School Leaders and Senior Leaders when asked, "How can we change the system?" has lived rent-free in my head for over three years because of the power of the embodied sentiment: "Don't try and think you can change the whole system, but you... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nEa
Today’s TDC asks us to Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST! So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nDI
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today’s TDC asks us to Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST! So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nDI
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. Advent – Some H5P games and fun for Christmas This site provides some simple examples of H5P content in Glow Blogs. A little bit of fun every day in December for primary... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nCs
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. Advent – Some H5P games and fun for Christmas This site provides some simple examples of H5P content in Glow Blogs. A little bit of fun every day in December for primary... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nCs
Royal Cats flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license TDC5066... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nBG
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Royal Cats flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license TDC5066... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nBG
Today’s TDC asks us to Make a digital photogram without the need for special paper or chemicals. It’s a busy day here, with work and also a wee guy painting the house, so I knew I’d need to cheat to do this one. I found some black card and sketched out an owl, cut... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nzB
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today’s TDC asks us to Make a digital photogram without the need for special paper or chemicals. It’s a busy day here, with work and also a wee guy painting the house, so I knew I’d need to cheat to do this one. I found some black card and sketched out an owl, cut... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nzB
Last time I raised a topic that divides opinions across education: learning styles. Many educators and researchers in cognitive science research are dismayed that so many people appear to believe that students can be categorised by learning style. It’s also quite hard... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nzs
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Last time I raised a topic that divides opinions across education: learning styles. Many educators and researchers in cognitive science research are dismayed that so many people appear to believe that students can be categorised by learning style. It’s also quite hard... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nzs
Prime Poem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license One Recipe for Creativity Take: One cat One cup of tea And one Daily Create And mix together Do not shake TDC5063... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nyX
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Prime Poem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license One Recipe for Creativity Take: One cat One cup of tea And one Daily Create And mix together Do not shake TDC5063... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nyX
Glasgow Uni Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nyV
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Glasgow Uni Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nyV