Phil Barker @philbarker@mastodon.social

Symlinks (via @lolamby@birdsite)

that and wondering if anyone wants to write about what they think digital literacy is...

Forbidden Unicode

I have been receiving letters from a dear friend by the name of Ophiuchus. He has been researching some curious anomalies in the Unicode Standard. While I cannot vouch for all he has written, I thought it worth presenting his discoveries to you. My friend, I bring you a curiosity! I have been engaged in…[...]

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=30373

#fiction #unicode

Question: if you went through this slide deck without any context, what would you be puzzled about? What's missing?

http://bit.ly/2J1apI3

It's for a general audience, some of whom might be educators while others are sysadmins or PHP devs.

#MoodleNet #ActivityPub

It's been a long time since I wrote a post on the blog, but the occasion deserves it. I have a new job! And one of our goals at @moodlenet is to make the world freer and less dependent on large corporations #ActivityPub https://alexcastano.com/moodlenet-more-than-a-technical-project/

#FollowFriday #LearningTechnologist and #EdTech edition.

In the interest of connecting with fellow learning technologists (and related) and building a community here, I’m starting a list. Toot me if you’re a learning technologist on Mastodon and would like to be added. Boost for visibility? TY! ^_^

@martinjc
@philbarker
@isabellgru
@edtechdev
@dajbelshaw
@jgmac1106
@sahoward

The US Library of Congress has been digitizing out-of-copyright video and films and is now releasing those materials on the National Screening Room: https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-screening-room/about-this-collection/

Currently 287 items available, from documentaries to training films to travelogues to animated films to home movies to...

#LOC #films #video #copyright #publicdomain

If you are looking for #OpenEducation #OER materials, try the Mason OER Metafinder: https://mason.deepwebaccess.com/mason__MasonLibrariesOpenEducationResources_5f4/desktop/en/search.html

It searches lots of repositories at once, has a "sharable search" and an embeddable widget.

More info: https://publishing.gmu.edu/whos-using-the-mason-oer-metafinder/

Looking for more sources of audio/visual material in #publicdomain or #CreativeCommons or licenses giving similar freedom for creative (re)use.
Other than the 'classics' wikimedia, archive.org, ccsearch, openclipart, gutenberg.org, librivox, freemusicarchive, fontlibrary, freesound

Retoot to write a list together!

For the #OpenDesignCourse for refugees, starting on Monday.

Introducing #MoodleNet at ALT-C

https://blog.moodle.net/2018/alt-c/

#altc

It's heartening to see this new (to me) project called TagTeam from the Berkman Center that invests in RSS/Atom syndication as a way of aggregating and analyzing web content.

https://github.com/berkmancenter/tagteam