One of the things keeping me sane in this madness has been noodling about on #ds106radio, most usually with Tannis Morgan and Maren Deepwell. With the recent upgrade to the server infrastructure to use Azuracast, Jim offered me the opportunity to kick the tyres a … Continue reading Playing with Azuracast #ds106radio
Tag: hacking
#ds106radio – some futzing and an improved broadcasting setup
I’ve been further tinkering with and trying to improve on my #ds106radio broadcasting set-up and have had a little bit of a breakthrough which has finally led to me getting a new setup in place that I’m pretty chuffed with. As much as anything I’ve … Continue reading #ds106radio – some futzing and an improved broadcasting setup
Apprentice SPLOT Maker
Continuing my foray into enquiry-based, self-regulated, mastery learning, I’ve been hacking away at some more SPLOT code. After my last efforts I felt like I now had enough knowledge to try customise the SPLOTBox theme to see how well it might fit my requirements for … Continue reading Apprentice SPLOT Maker
Getting inside SPLOTs
Like many, I’m a big fan of the SPLOT, and for a while I’ve wanted to spend a little time looking under the bonnet. Today turned out to be that day. https://twitter.com/ammienoot/status/1048958527279194114 When I’ve shown SPLOTs to colleagues at Edinburgh, they’ve liked the way that … Continue reading Getting inside SPLOTs
Spicy liquor
I’ve told a few people about this and made at least on other person try it, so I’m going to blog it for posterity now. I scored a bunch of spicy peppers* on the cheap from the supermarket a few weeks back and was wondering … Continue reading Spicy liquor
Going out of my head thinking about headless
Since coming back from Verona I’ve been continuing to think thoughts about headless WordPress, and even more so again when asked at the start of this week how we could make the University “Teaching Matters” blog be a part of the University website. The immediate … Continue reading Going out of my head thinking about headless
“At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun”
Whilst on a recent holiday to Verona I had the pleasure of snatching a few hours of chat over a drink in the sunshine with Jim Groom, during which he relentlessly argued the case for more use of the WordPress API for syndication and aggregation. … Continue reading “At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun”
MozFest Reflections
This post was also posted on the Association for Learning Technologists blog. This year was my fourth trip to MozFest – the annual global gathering of the Mozilla Foundation. The event has been held in Ravensbourne College in London for the last 7 years and … Continue reading MozFest Reflections