Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@TechLitig8or @edmunds_t @AlliFlowers @edutooters @academicchatter I think perhaps the terms "gamification" and "gameify" are also a barrier to those who (perhaps understandably) feel compelled to defend the seriousness of their disciplines in an atmosphere of anti-intellectualism. The merits of such approaches aren't necessarily well served by terms that also finds a home in marketing techniques within the experience economy.

26.11.2022, photo:

Vladimir #Makey, 64, head of #Belarus Foreign Affairs #Minister, is dead. There are rumors he might have been poisoned.
Makey was named as a possible successor of Lukashenko. He was one of the few not under #Russian influence.
Rumors say this might be a hint to #Lukashenko.

#introduction I have been wanting an alternative to Twitter for a long time, but this seems to be the time.

Live in Norway, did a PhD in computer supported collaborative learning #cscl #education, very interested in #pkm. Currently work at tana.inc.

Have done some experiments with Twitter API before, but it was very restrictive. Very curious if anyone are experimenting with ActivityPub for alternative interfaces, community sense making, integration with PKM etc. Let's chat!

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

For educators, I have made available many of my resources around teaching and learning, including more than 100 interviews with digital media and learning pioneers http://rheingold.com/learning

Weird how the GOP hates Sharia Law in Muslim countries, yet they want Christian Law in the United States.

A bit of reality #massshootings

So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency

📚 This is your reminder that your LOCAL LIBRARY probably offers lots of great resources in addition to physical books. E-books, access to newspaper websites, book recommendations, etc.

Go check out yours _now_!!

NIH-funded PIs who have a single major NIH grant and do work in DEI: 🚨
Administrative supplements are available to support your efforts 😮 and due February 17, 2023!

NOT-OD-23-002, an Administrative Supplement to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Mentorship
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-002.html

#BlackInSTEM #dei #NIH #mentoring

The new owner of Twitter just told his 100 million plus followers that Alexander “Vindman is both puppet & puppeteer” and said “the question is who pulls his strings.”

So Musk isn’t just allowing anti-Semitism on Twitter. He’s enflaming it.

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