Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The Call for Submissions for Law and Magic II is still open. It closes December 31, 2022. Looking for essays on law and magic in, for example, the law of the crafty sciences, the history of law and magic, law as magic, law and magic in popular culture, law and magic in anthropology, literature reviews of law and magic topics, magic in the courtroom (using magic in advocacy). There are many more possibilities! More information here.
https://lawlit.blogspot.com/search/label/Law%20and%20Magic

You've all heard of Elf on the Shelf, but in Canada we have:

I would do anything to help stop this 1936 nightmare. It’s not enough to keep condemning it.

So glad to be free of #elonmusk and #Twitter. Now just to get out from under his car. Anyone looking for a used #tesla?

Maybe most already know this but...

If you see someone using a Mastodon instance you don't know about but are curious, Just put the domain without username in your browser. For example, just go to mastodon.xyz, retro.pizza, or wondering.shop. This will load the local feed of that instance.

Click "..." in the mobile browser, or "About" by the domain name in the lower left on a desktop browser, and read about the general idea and policies of that instance.

"I never said all that shit."

~Confucius

Just sayin…

In case you missed it, Mastodon now lets you edit posts 🥳

You can edit any post you've made, and it will send a notification to people who have already interacted with it to prevent any hijinks or shenanigans. It also lets people see the previous versions.

You can access it through your server's website and some third party apps, for example iPhone/iPad app Toot! and Android app Fedilab.

(The official app doesn't yet support it, so it's another good reason to check out third party apps.)

Bad news for #university students in the Philippines who might want to take advantage of distance learning. @edutooters
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/11/16/2224293/ched-online-only-learning-colleges-universities-no-longer-allowed-next-sem

@TonyStark The only difference I see between the GOP of old (post Reagan) and now? They’re saying the quiet part out loud. They’re now dealing in the politics of every single “ism” out there. They’re desperately trying to create the “other” for vilification. They no longer govern, they only incite violence & pump up the rhetoric to whip their “base” into a frothing frenzy. So many don’t see it this way and that’s a real danger.

Grad students in the #UCStrike picket line were chanting:
MY NECK
MY BACK
WE DESERVE A FAIR CONTRACT

Condemning a GOP presidential candidate for dining with a neo-Nazi and holocaust denier should be the easiest thing for Republicans to do. Their refusal to do so makes clear how much Trump has succeeded in normalizing this dangerous behavior.

I run a small volunteering initiative, together with a colleague from Poland, that offers free online language lessons to Ukrainians 🇺🇦

If you'd like to teach English, for only one hour every TWO weeks, please consider applying!

If you speak Ukrainian or Russian to any degree, and/or if you have teaching experience - you'll be given priority❗

Boosts are appreciated 🙏🏻

Link to apply: https://www.movagroup.eu/eng/volunteer

Getting started with #mastodon and being an #edutooter #edtech

https://tech4teaching.org/wpblog/?p=4300

I'm wondering how many fellow #edutooters are leaving the bird site.

As you get older, the list of "Not *this* shit again!" gets longer.

If you're wondering why older folks are more grumpy.

@AlliFlowers @TechLitig8or @edutooters @academicchatter

There is a big difference between gamifying and game-based learning. A lot of discussion goes on about the relative benefits and drawbacks of each.

Welcome! 🖖 😀

Some tips to connect with #Librarians:

1) Add #K12Librarian hashtag to your toots/posts;

2) Join the K12Librarian List at https://go.mgpd.org/K12Librarian;

3) Follow and include @K12librarian group in every library related post and that will send the toot to everyone who follows it no matter what Mastodon instance they are on;

4) Add hashtags like #K12Librarian your toots. 🤩

5) Finally, check out these “tootorials” at https://go.mgpd.org/feditoots for quick tips. Don’t be afraid to boost toots/posts and share a hashtag rich #Introduction with others with that hashtag. :-)

Here is that same article from @Jelaniya on Apple News as one way to get around the website’s paywall.

https://apple.news/AvbRKXLn2TxWcg2KAq6p-gQ

@AlliFlowers @edmunds_t @edutooters @academicchatter
Absolutely agree: good instructors are a vital. I mention private ed because they are the ones focused on teaching (instead of research) in Brazil (where I come from) and many countries. That's not to say that public Ed can't attract and value good instructors: I think they should. But the current reality that I can see is not that, unfortunately.

Seasonal reminder: Alcohol is a completely legal drug that destroys lives, relationships and families. Don't make it hard for people who are trying to stay sober to enjoy festivities and functions.

(The author of the image is https://www.madsahara.com/illustration/)