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👓 Learning for Growth | Extend Activity Bank

Read Learning for Growth by Lisa KosterLisa Koster (Extend Activity Bank)

I completed Domain Camp last year and I found it quite rewarding. I am still agonizing over the right “home address”.  I chose the name learn4growth because I believe when we learn new things, we grow as a person, both personally and professionally.

Last year we made all kinds of cool subdomains and pages.  So my work from last year is a bit of a mess.

My goal this year is to start to develop a long term plan for my site.  I am thinking I will start by putting all my work in a subdomain: camp2019.learn4growth.com

Nothing is there at the moment, but I look forward to populating it!

Looking forward to sharing!

Lisa

👓 Domain Name | Extend Activity Bank

Read Domain Name by Tricia BonnerTricia Bonner (Extend Activity Bank)

Wow, some great stories for your names. Thanks for sharing.

Similar to Nell I could not come up with something unique. This is a very very new venture for me and right now it is really about the learning so I simply went with TriciaB – it is how I am known through my circle of friends as there are two Tricia’s. I am hoping maybe it will catch on like Mel B did for the Spice Girls. I wish I could some up with something a bit more interesting but for now that is it.

👓 What’s In a Domain Name | Extend Activity Bank

Read What's In a Domain Name by Kim CarterKim Carter (Extend Activity Bank)

cupofTEAching.ca is what I have decided to use for my domain name. I struggled to decide because I wondered if something with my name was more appropriate. The truth is I have no pre-conceived ideas about what a domain is and how I will eventually use it. The name cupofTEAching was something my “kids” (adult millennials) helped me come up with; a mash up of two of my favourite things teaching and tea. I think it works because a cup of tea can be so satisfying and a pot of tea too filling. Similar to teaching and subsequently learning (in measurable doses) can be so satisfying and too much a little overwhelming. I look forward to learning about constructing a domain, its uses, and how (one cup at a time) it will enhance my teaching and learning.

👓 Tech For Teaching Domain | Extend Activity Bank

Read Tech For Teaching Domain by jesslyndwjesslyndw (Extend Activity Bank)

There is no fancy story for my domain TBH! Tech For Teaching is the way I brand the tech-related coaching I offer faculty here at the school (ed tech is confusing here – do you mean the AV dept? or our LMS? or something entirely different??)  So I just want a flexible way to post new information to support faculty, and want to stretch my skills a bit to try something new.

I’m working with a bit of a static web page, or a yucky non-blog tool, and needed a more flexible solution for my own work.  I was pretty sure I could figure out this whole domain thing, if I tried!  And I’m lucky that I’m on my way – thanks to Alan for making this happen at the perfect time for us all

👓 Week 1: Meeting Cpanel, Landing Pages, Files | Domains of Our Own

Read Week 1: Meeting Cpanel, Landing Pages, Files by Alan Levine (Domains of Our Own)
The first week of Domain Camp includes sharing domain name stories, meeting cpanel, creating a simple landing page with Site Builder, and using the File Manager to upload and modify content in your domain.

Followed Xinli Wang

Followed Xinli Wang (mathrojak.ca)

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I teach mathematics courses at University of Toronto Mississauga and Seneca College since 2016 when my family moved to Canada from Singapore. I taught full-time at Singapore Polytechnic as a math lecturer from 2012 to 2016. This is the space where I explore and share my journey of teaching mathematics, conducting education research projects, and learning about OER.

👓 Blogging As An Act Of Defiance In An Age Of Social Media Manipulation | Steve Lawson

Read Blogging As An Act Of Defiance In An Age Of Social Media Manipulation by Steve Lawson (stevelawson.net)
So this website finally had an 11 year overdue overhaul. Total redesign and optimisation. If you need yours sorting out, talk to Thatch, who did this one – he did such a great job. Have a rummage around to behold the goodness and read all of the words. There’s a bit of me that feels like announc...

❤️ MelMitchell1 tweeted Bound galleys of my new book arrived today! It will be published in October. https://t.co/VmC51EzL53

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🔖 Origins Of Life | Complexity Explorer

Bookmarked Origins Of Life (complexityexplorer.org)

About the Course:

This course aims to push the field of Origins of Life research forward by bringing new and synthetic thinking to the question of how life emerged from an abiotic world.

This course begins by examining the chemical, geological, physical, and biological principles that give us insight into origins of life research. We look at the chemical and geological environment of early Earth from the perspective of likely environments for life to originate.

Taking a look at modern life we ask what it can tell us about the origin of life by winding the clock backwards. We explore what elements of modern life are absolutely essential for life, and ask what is arbitrary? We ponder how life arose from the huge chemical space and what this early 'living chemistry'may have looked like.

We examine phenomena, that may seem particularly life like, but are in fact likely to arise given physical dynamics alone. We analyze what physical concepts and laws bound the possibilities for life and its formation.

Insights gained from modern evolutionary theory will be applied to proto-life. Once life emerges, we consider how living systems impact the geosphere and evolve complexity. 

The study of Origins of Life is highly interdisciplinary - touching on concepts and principles from earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics.  With this we hope that the course can bring students interested in a broad range of fields to explore how life originated. 

The course will make use of basic algebra, chemistry, and biology but potentially difficult topics will be reviewed, and help is available in the course discussion forum and instructor email. There will be pointers to additional resources for those who want to dig deeper.

This course is Complexity Explorer's first Frontiers Course.  A Frontiers Course gives students a tour of an active interdisciplinary research area. The goals of a Frontiers Course are to share the excitement and uncertainty of a scientific area, inspire curiosity, and possibly draw new people into the research community who can help this research area take shape!

I’m totally in for this!

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Followed Jon Beckett (jonbeckett.blog)

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This blog records the thoughts, ideas, and daydreams of a software and web developer, sometime blogger, and somewhat secret internet superhero called Jonathan (me).

While not bashing my head against the desk repeatedly at work, or traveling around Europe pretending to be clever, I write idiotic blog posts, and attempt to survive living in a house with four women, two cats, a hamster, and a number of fish.

I live in deepest, darkest England – land of good manners, punctuation, starched shirts, and silent indignation. I grew up near Oxford, and have ended up living in the countryside just outside London.

I like pizza (or anything easy to cook, really), wine, chocolate biscuits, tea, coffee, movies, music, and cycling. I am as as colour-blind as a hedgehog in a bag, but can draw a mean doodle. I listen to random music on Spotify, watch streaming TV shows on the internet, and wish I had more time and/or money to pursue a colossally nerdy interest in comic book artwork.

I take lots of photos – none of which are posted here. Many of them can be found at Instagram.

If you would like somebody to jump down the internet rabbit hole with, click the follow button, or send me a message – I love meeting new people, and love writing messages instead of getting on with what I should be doing.

👓 A Perfect Cup of Tea | jonbeckett.blog

Read A Perfect Cup of Tea by Jon BeckettJon Beckett (jonbeckett.blog)
A long time reader of my blog has asked if I might describe how I make a cup of tea. Apparently being English introduces some kind of hoodoo into the process – some magic or other that the wi…
Naturally they naturally put their pants on one leg at a time–just like everyone else. The bit about cracking porcelain was a nice tidbit though.

👓 Entitled and Aloof | jonbeckett.blog

Read Entitled and Aloof by Jon BeckettJon Beckett (jonbeckett.blog)
While walking back from town earlier with groceries I turned a corner and came across a man in his mid-thirties walking his dog. The dog was attached to him via an extending lead. Both he and the d…