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Thoreau⤴

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Thoreau
Thoreau flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today was a very hot day, so we decided to head out to the woods with a packed lunch. Despite the inevitable traffic jams around Balloch it was a lovely drive in an air conditioned car up to Ardgartan. We arrived shortly after 1pm and had an hour’s walk through the woods along Croe Water.

Today’s Daily Create asks us to make a motivational poster based on one of Thoreau’s quotes, so here’s mine above. It did, indeed, make me well going out there today. Happy Birthday, Henry.

Ardgartan Woods
Ardgartan Woods flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Ardgartan Woods
Ardgartan Woods flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Ardgartan Woods
Ardgartan Woods flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Ardgartan Woods
Ardgartan Woods flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Life in Links 63⤴

from @ wwwd – John's World Wide Wall Display

montage of six webpages listed in article

Craig Mod on The Talk Show

Interesting take on the morality of using AI

But I have a hard time parsing out what is moral or amoral about how this stuff is being used, or how the information’s been gleaned, or whatever it’s been sucked up from.

-✂️ snip-

00:03:25 ◼ ► I don’t use any of the photo generation crap or whatever.

00:03:28 ◼ ► What I do think is profound, and I feel like it’s way more morally defensible, is the code generation stuff, just because of all the open source stuff, yada, yada

The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 421, With Craig Mod

The Sea

▶︎ The Sea | Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy | Notice Recordings


wilding.radio

From the famous Knapp estate via Joe

we have installed a solar-powered, quadrophonic live audio feed just north of the dam: A pair of hydrophones brings us closer to the sounds of the water itself and reveals the tiny sounds of fresh-water organisms. A pair of microphones in a fallen willow tree let us get to know the birds and mammals that live near and visit the water and hear the play of weather in the trees.

wilding.radio

Organic Maps

I’ve installed this on my phone with the intention of giving it a shot for recording walks.

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community. Powered by OpenStreetMap data.

Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.

Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation

Poetry on the line

Quite delightful raspberry pi project.

 a vintage phone brought to life with Raspberry Pi

Poetry on the line: a vintage phone brought to life with Raspberry Pi – Raspberry Pi

My ‘secret strings’ game to unlock ‘texts’ 

Looks like a good classroom activity.I’ve done similar occasionally but the prompt is much better than mine.

 You tell the children/students that they are going to be poem or story ‘detectives’ and their job is find the ‘secret strings’ in a poem or story – or play or any ‘text’.

Secret strings run within texts linking words, phrases, sentences and pictures or ‘images’. The students’ job is to find them. 

Sometimes the link is to do with sound – eg alliteration, assonance, rhythm, rhyme, repetition, long phrases, short phrases. 

Michael Rosen: My ‘secret strings’ game to unlock ‘texts’ (stories, poems, plays, non-fiction etc)

It is World Curlew Day⤴

from @ wwwd – John's World Wide Wall Display

Liked World Curlew Day (curlewaction.org)

World curlew day What is World Curlew Day? World Curlew Day (April 21st) is a grass-roots initiative which champions the curlew worldwide. Created by Mary Colwell in 2017, the day shines a light on the dangers curlews face as a result of shifting factors both globally and locally. Many of these are factors deeply linked …

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I did not know this, followed a link from the Caught by the river newsletter to Curlew Country. Both sites have activities and resources for schools. I wish I’d seen it earlier as it would have fitted nicely with Earth Day/John Muir day which we celebrated today in school.