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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

Love a book with an evocative soundtrack, as listed at the back in Val McDermid's 1979 and 1989, or in this charmer set in 70s Yorkshire with Elton John classics woven thru.

The cover of a book called The List Of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey, with a drawing of a crow perch on milk bottles about to peck open the foil cover of one of them.

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

CS teacher and doctoral student Irene Stone reminding us of how little research has been done on what *students* think around the genAI in *their* education. RQ - what are the attitudes, understandings, experience of students regarding AI and programming […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

Education after the Algotithm - the rapid elevator session ... #DCU @Eamon @bryanmmathers

Several smiling humans squashed into an elevator looking thru a selfie sign which says Education after the Algorithm

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

New to me today - zero plastic sticky tape. Does exactly as it says on the tin - easy tear, very sticky. I bit icky to handle but hey, it's one move forward. Very appropriate as it is for a workshop based on SDGs. There will be #glowies

A box labelled Sellotape Zero Plastic Extra Sticky Easy Tear with a roll of tape visible thru a window in the box.

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2025

this morning in the local public library we had that time of week where *everyone* ends up smiling and full of hope & joy a crococdile lind of tiny humans in hi-vis jackets walk in with their minders and huddle down to listen to the librarian read to them […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cover of the book Issy Ooh You say Aah by John Kane has a violet donkey with pink spotty underpants on his head

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

my favourite piece of kit from #FosDemJunior belongs to @4pip ... yes, the brother embroidery machine is grand, but the red trolley case 😍 (Brother machine in a singer case, what could happen?)

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

talking in the education track at #FosDem2025, @bromagosa speaks of @microblocks as a PIPA language ...

A screenshot a tiny screen showing the words Portable Interactive Parallel Autonomous

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

three generations of humans composing great beats together at #SonicPi music workshop at #FosdemJunior with @4pip cc @samaaron

A workshop in a university classroom with people working in groups at laptops

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

wonderful atmosphere at #FosdemJunior all morning, families at #Turtlestitch workshops with @4pip #FosDem

Families working out blocks of code and stitching out their designs

A woman seated at a table working with an electronic embroidery machine

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

Full house at #Fosdem25 to hear @rmillwood speak of codded embroidery using @turtlestitch and #inkscape with thanks to @megjlow

Room full of people gathering for a lecture

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

A German, an American, and a Catalan walk into a university, and ... deliver a cracking keynote to a packed auditorium. Compelling theme of evolution of coding (spirals, funnels) from Logo via Smalltalk & Scratch & Microblocks & Snap! & Turtlestitch. And a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Watching a live stream on TV, three dudes live coding in Snap!

Five adults strewn on couches and floors watching in a living room

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

February 1st is the day of Brigid of Kildare in Ireland. New national holiday on Monday. The Saint Brigid's Cross below coded and stitched by @rmillwood using @turtlestitch to celebrate #FosDem weekend in Brussels

A blue celtic cross embroidered into a white shirt

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

#ThickTrunkTuesday Taken last Friday on a visit to Warley Palace Nature Reserve in Essex, England. Much of the layout planned by Ellen Willmott. This wonky trunk is one of a line of Sweet Chestnut tree. A beautiful place to walk.

A very thick and gnarled tree truck in a woodland clearing, the ground is a thin layer of moss

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

Total #london vibe on Saturday with these youngsters clashin' out great music under the bridge on the Jubilee Greenway 💂 Great name, #TheChalamets 🎸

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2025

@triploidtree look what I found on Poland Tree, London - happy days ✂️🧵🪡

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

when you wear your Elizabeth Line socks but today train is a replacement bus ... 😭🫣😄 #NotCool #TfL #ThatLondon

A foot clad in a sparkly black sneaker and a sock with Elizabeth Line striped design rests on the floor of a bus

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

The inimitable @4pip Pauline Maas in her interactive dress telling us some of the coding and making activities in her classroom #teachmeet #MicroBit

A blonde woman in a floral dress on stage, giving a talk called Girls, Coding and micro:bit

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

Well, @dannynic is here, so it must be near time for #tmBETT25 ❣️

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

ooh fancy new bus stop signs in Cavan and for @rmillwood a glimpse of the Abbey Bar, not small just faraway 🍺 #BETT via #TFI bus #BA plane #TFL train looking fwd to meeting #teachmeet fam

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025

this is the January book for the reading group in our local library ... if the power in the opening chapter persists, I may not surface for the rest of the day ...

Book cover, title Mouthing, author Orla Mackay, image of three geese cackling towards each other in a huddle

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2025

Used a ball of "scrubby yarn" today that I was given in 2021, made a pot scrub and two pieces for a shower body scrub. A frustrating mix of unwieldy cotton and an unruly scrubby mix. Glad there was only one ball - not easy to work with. Nice colours though […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Swatches of cricketers wool in a variegated mix of pink, teal, white and blue. The wool label says Sugar n Cream Scrub Off.

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2025

all this talk of messing about with Greenland reminds me that most of what I appreciate about Greenland came from repeated reading of one my fave books. if I was #DonTheCon, I would not go about threatening Miss Smilla's folk.

A book cover with title Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow set against a snowscape with a human striding away in the distance

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

less than perfect oversight of this pancake on the pan led to a fragile lacey pattern at the edge

Very fragile dark lace like edges to a pancake

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024

I met this tree today;the dramatic pose suggests it has been working out and is ready to face this new year and a whole lot more

A tree with dramatically shaped side stem growth suggesting arms raised in triumph or ready to fight

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

The best online bookstore in the universe, bar none! And the first to operate in Ireland (even before the big river!) Thank you Kenny's of Galway. Timely delivery from An Post this morning, four small people will be happy on Wednesday 🎁🎁🎁🎁

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mags amond @magsamond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

#FensterFreitag from last Friday's visit to the National Museum Cardiff

In front of a tall window between two pillars hangers a temporary sign which reads streic 84-85 strike

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