johnkuti @johnkuti@social.coop

browsing https://index.community/ which gives statistics on fediverse instances... for example % of insularity (posts mention people in the same instance) , and "neighbours" (based on mentions of users on other instances)

visiting profiles of the Open Educators in this list https://edtechfactotum.com/open-educators-on-mastodon/

the latest moodle podcast https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4255986 features Martin Dougiamas on the ideals which inform the Moodle project. "How do we empower teachers to improve the world?"

Found a proper schedule for live feeds from the UN. https://media.un.org/en/webtv/schedule

Watching the Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly. https://youtu.be/Z2WIVGl1qso which began with a minute of prayer or meditation

podcast about #moodle net a social platform for teachers to share digital #OER https://moodle.com/news/moodle-podcast-episode-3-moodlenet/

free online launch event for the Open World Learning book by PhDs in the OU's Institute of Educational Technology https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ouleverhulme-open-world-learning-knowledge-exchange-and-book-launch-tickets-249333291587

This new moon is for the #lunar hare - as seen from China and in Borges' "Manual de zoología fantástica" ... (reckoned to be the start of the year 4720)

An outline of the Delhi "happiness Curriculum" mentioned in the #learningplanet festival today

https://happinessdelhi.blogspot.com/p/happiness-syllabus-outline.html

UK think-tank recommends a four-day week for schools:

https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2022/1/16/4-day-week-for-teachers-pupils

#learningplanet festival starts online next Saturday https://festival.learning-planet.org/

28 1/2 - A beautiful drama-doc-opera set at the Youth Delphic Games in Samara.
https://vimeo.com/525458720

snowy afternoon in the city centre

some analogies for "zoom fatigue" like being in a lift, or having an assistant holding a mirror up, so you can see your own face all day long https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/nonverbal-overload/release/2

metaphors that help model what teachers could do with online #OER in #moodlenet https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/01/06/oer-discovery/

New Moon - the start of a #lunar cycle is the optimal time for making resolutions.... solar years are too long to stay on track for.

I got a badge from the new #Moodle Academy today: https://eu.badgr.com/public/collections/69e0b119007e85c56bceb90900429589 "Introduction to Moodle Net"

this new moon is for #Hanukkah definitely the right day for a festival of light in SPb... Sunset this afternoon at 15:57, -16 celsius and my phone says "it feels like -24"

recordings of last weekend's #decentringELT conference are available https://youtu.be/KjgL2t9sIZ8 de-centring, as an idea, stresses the importance of geographically local "communities of practice".