#BYOD4L wraps

So the January 2018 run of Bring  Your Own Device for Learning (BYOD4L) is over! Thanks to the team, Sheila McNeil, Alex Spiers, Neil Withnell, Debbie Baff, and Suzanne Faulkner for their expert guidance!

I didn’t do the tasks, but I did do a fair amount of connecting, communicating and curating this time.

My TiddlyWiki record of #BYOD4L 2018 is byod4l.cpjobling.net. It’s one HTML page (index.html) which you can copy by pressing the save button. (The magic is all done with JavaScript.)

This TiddlyWiki an open resource (CC BY), so do explore, steal, and remix!

Techy Stuff

The Super Techy Stuff

If you want to do something similar, get yourself a GitHub account; clone github.com/cpjobling/byod4l.cpjobling.net. Check out the website for the branchgh-pages. Open index.html in your browser. Find out more about TiddlyWiki, and how to use it, here.

BYOD4LChat Number 1

I created this page as a proof of concept using CoDog’s link extraction tool on the story that was curated by Sheila McNeil.

Observations, long tweetchats like this should be edited in the Text view in WordPress. Rendering the tweets in the Visual HTML editor view is not something that the WordPress can cope with, but is probably necessary if you want to add commentary to a chat rather than a straight record.

The page will take a long time to load as each tweet has fetched as HTML, embedded in the post and rendered by the browser! (I assume Storify caches the embedded tweets somehow to avoid overloading the Twitter APIs.)

There’s a danger that you might crash your WordPress server!

Conclusion, a story which can be archived as a static website (See Archiving Tweetchats) may actually be preferable!

Here is the Archived Chat

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/952907031068934144

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952993978357608449

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952994346713976832

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952994692387483648

https://twitter.com/drkhemsworth/status/952995825654919169

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952996409871126528

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952996834108235782

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952997882638077952

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952998368405606401

https://twitter.com/drkhemsworth/status/952999098994618369

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999281417445377

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999583457726464

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999828220506113

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/952999904409997312

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953000168751759360

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953000632721518592

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953001594777370626

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953002203152900102

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953002647103172611

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953003290182193152

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953003338945228800

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953004302557220865

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953004594514284544

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953005931050291201

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953006205424816128

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953007234598031361

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953007326440673292

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953007499245969409

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953007550781411328

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953008502699708421

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953008878064726016

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953009505159270401

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953009524901908482

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953009972199284736

BYOD4L 2018

Cat in sillhouetteIt’s time for Bring Your Own Device for Learning 2018 (my 6th) and this year there are 5 additional C’s (Confidence, Capability, Copyright, Community and Celebrating) to add to the usual menu of ConnectingCommunicating, Curating, Collaborating, and Creating.

I’m probably not going to have the freedom that I had last year to contribute as much as I would like, but I will be using a new curation tool – TiddlyWiki  – and its mobile editing app Quine.

You can follow my progress by checking out my Byod4L TiddyWiki on Dropbox. Just download a copy of index.html and open it in a browser.

To Be or Not to Be?

[Cross posted from my Work Blog.]

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/949747428848295936

 

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick's skull (photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885–1900).
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick’s skull (photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885–1900). Image from Wikimedia Commons as published in Hamlet (Wikipedia).

I’ve had a work blog, courtesy of my employer Swansea University, for a number of years, but rarely use it.

Instead, I tend to post most often in this personal blog.

So, at the start of this new year, a time for reflection and resolutions, I find myself asking myself should I keep this blog and start using it more systematically or should I abandon it?

In answering this, I suppose I intended my work blog to be a place for reflecting on my teaching and learning and to support my students taking my courses?

This blog was meant to be more personal, but in reality, takes on more of these work-related issues than my work blog does.

Should I, therefore, copy the posts over from my work blog to this blog, and have a single place to reflect? Or should I leave things as they are?

For an open practitioner (as I hope that I am) Is there an advantage in having separate work and personal blogs?

Are there disadvantages?

Which is the real me?

What do you think?

 

Reclaiming my sites

My adventures of Domain of One’s Own with Reclaim Hosting continues.

I’ve just resurrected the Dokuwiki that I used for various modules related to Internet and Communications Technology (ICCT). You’ll find this at its new home at dokuwiki.cpjobling.net.

I’ve also set up a new development blog using the static-website generation tool Nikola. You’ll find Crispy Dev hosted at dev.cpjobling.net as well as on GitHub at cpjobling.github.io/dev.cpjobling.net.

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