It is great to see many people in my network again testing the Mastodon waters in the wake of the news of the sale of Twitter. Discovering and developing a new network can be difficult and is often a big barrier to moving to a new platform so to help get you started, here is a list of peo...
I wish that Mastodon’s list functionality was easier to use, but this method works well too. I won’t say anything about the irony of using the OG social network of the blogosphere to spread this useful information. 😉
Much of my short status updates cross post to @chrisaldrich@mastodon.social while everything can be found at the “Mastodon account” @chrisaldrich@boffosocko.com, which is really just my personal website pretending to be a Mastodon server.
If you want your own website that acts a lot like traditional social media I also recommend you try out micro.blog where you can follow me @chrisaldrich.
If you have difficulty finding/reading my content wherever your new internet home is, let me know and I’ll see what I can do to help. I try to support a number of open standards to be read in many forms and formats.
Before you leave, do let me know where I might find and stay in touch with you, because it’s the friends and the people that make any of this worthwhile at all.
Mark Essien (markessien.com)Many of us write tens of thousands of words yearly. All those words are written on some corporate social media website, and they can wake up any day and ban your handle. When that happens, your entire collected works, which could represent a lifetime of thoughts are gone. We put so much effort into writing - we should not just make sure this writing is preserved - we should also ensure that we own it.
Here’s an overview of what some of it looks like: A Twitter of Our Own (short video) along with slides. Those with some technical expertise should be able to get this up and running for themselves.
If it’s your dream, I hope you look into the solutions and come join the growing community.
What are the ideal features you'd look for in a tool-for-thought that ... didn't use **any text whatsoever**?
— Codex OS (@codexeditor) April 2, 2022
What could you capture and express that would still enable you to preserve & augment meaning?
Jennifer Gonzalez (Cult of Pedagogy)A summary of 8 best practices in note-taking, straight from the research.
The most detailed form of the idea can be found in Sönke Ahrens’ book How to Take Smart Notes, which also looks closely at much of the note taking and psychology related research over the past several decades. While he frames the method in terms of writing and creation as the end goal, much of the method dovetails with Bloom’s Taxonomy as I’ve outlined. It could also be framed as Cornell Notes with a greater focus on atomic notes that are highly linked and thereby integrating a student’s new knowledge with their prior knowledge.
I’d love to see more educators scaffolding the use of this note taking tool in their classes, especially in high school and undergraduate education.
Cross reference: https://boffosocko.com/tag/note-taking/
Playing w/ ideas for physical Hyperlink cards!
— hyperlink.academy (@hyperlink_a) March 28, 2022
Basic concept:
-Hyperlink app has digital cards w/ custom data
-We print physical cards w/ unique QR codes
-You scan em & create unique physical <> digital link
A bunch of ways these might be useful… (we'd love your ideas too!) pic.twitter.com/7g6RdVXF6Tooh yeah! One I keep coming back to as well is using em for indexing quotes from books. You take a photo of the quote with the card in frame, and it creates a new card with the quote picture linked to the book card.
— jared (@jrdprr) March 29, 2022
Announcing our next Obsidian Book Club, beginning next week, in which we will synoptically read two books: Too Much to Know and The Extended Mind. Everybody is welcome, whether or not you have been in a book club before. It's a really good group and I think these books will spark some very interesting conversations. If you're interested, drop me a line at the email in the video and I'll send you the details.
The last two clubs were incredibly scintillating, so I can’t wait to see what this incarnation holds. Everyone interested in the topics and/or the process is welcome to join us. Details in the video.
In addition to the fun of the two particular texts, those interested in note taking, information management, personal knowledge management, zettelkasten and using tools like Obsidian and Hypothes.is in group settings will appreciate the experience. If you’re an educator interested in using these tools in a classroom-like setting for active reading and academic writing, I think there’s something to be learned in the process of what we’re all doing here.
Tentative Schedule beginning on Saturday, March 26, 2022 Saturday, April 2, 2022
Week 1
Paul: Introduction and Part 1
Blair: Chapter 1
Week 2
Paul: Part 2
Blair: Chapter 2
Week 3
Paul: Part 3
Blair: Chapter 3
Week 4
Paul: Conclusion
Blair: Chapter 4
Week 5
Paul: Any overflow from before??
Blair: Chapter 5
A trained astrophysicist, Dr Duane Hamacher is a lecturer in the Nura Gili Indigenous Centre at the University of New South Wales. After studying planets orbiting other stars for two years, his interest in the crossroads of science and culture was too great and he decided to complete a PhD in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. He researches in how navigating the boundaries between Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science can show how these ways of understanding the natural world are beneficial to both.
I’m personally interested in reading/learning about these areas above and beyond the primary education levels which are presented here.
