Day 8 of the Ten Day Accessibility Challenge was especially useful, on the topic of using Complex Images in Canvas sites. Online Ed 🏫

The website Conferences that Work has been rocking it lately with regard to how to facilitate great activities online, with an emphasis on attendee agency. 🏫

Currently reading: Small Teaching by James M. Lang 📚

Currently reading: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 📚

I am grateful for the ability to skip a workout day, knowing I can catch up tomorrow.

I am looking forward to the beet soup I made last night. Lithuanian Cold Beet Soup (Saltibarsciai)

Finished reading: The Power of Ritual 📚

Finished reading: Two in the Far North 📚

Good morning, sourdough crumpets🍞

My view on the morning walk to the lake 📸

This is a happy day! Keynote finally supports “Play Slideshow in Window” which will be a game-changer for Zoom. #edu

Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚

Currently reading: Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie 📚

As an online instructor, I’m excited to find and attend the “10 day Accessibility Challenge” created by Foothill College to make Canvas Learning Management System courses accessible to all. View on YouTube. #edu

And I put iPadOs 14 on the iPad Mini. It was a completely seamless installation and so far everything works just fine.

Looks great @mistercharlie

Your new site is beautiful! And I’m trying out embed to see what it looks like:

I’m going indie! I’ve started my own site, writing about tech, science, the environment, and Testing the embed

straightnofilter.com

This domain used to point to my microblog, but I moved to Wordpress as it was better-suited at this time. Still hanging out here … mistercharlie.micro.blog

Today I am grateful that somehow in this pandemic I have managed to develop a healthy and regular workout routine.

I am looking forward to my cup of tea tomorrow morning, with the cream and honey that I can have … see above.

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn I LOVE this album, have already listened to it many times. It gives me hope for a future world where humans focus on what we have in common instead of what divides us.

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Doing yoga via Zoom has become normal. I’m happy that I bought my iMac with a VESA mount so it’s easy to move the monitor from “desk view” to “mat view.”

No, really, I’m not kidding, it’s time to get my taxes done! The reprieve in April was quite welcome, but now, suddenly, it’s less than two weeks until they are due. I’d better get on it!

I excited to hear about how well the Apple betas are going (so far) this year. I’ll hold off on any installations myself (except possibly my iPad Mini) but I find myself looking forward to Big Sur and iPadOS 14.

Did you know Scott Berkun has written a new book? How Design Makes the World It’s next on my To Read list, but I’ll read White Fragility first. 📚

Fantastic video on teaching online. Geared toward higher ed but there are nuggets here for all: www.youtube.com/watch

Closing your Apple Watch Stand Ring Every Day I used to fail to close my Stand Ring all the time, and I never understood it because I stand a lot. I finally learned the trick. You have to swing the arm that wears the watch. Without arm movement, you don’t get credit for standing.

Finished teaching my course yesterday. Seems like just yesterday that I was counting down to the launch, but that was back in January, pre-lockdown. Now I’m redesigning it for 100% online next time instead of hybrid.

I just spoke to a friend from high school. We hadn’t been in touch for over 40 years. It was a wonderful conversation, we talked for an hour and a half. I’m so glad we both made the effort to reconnect once we rediscovered each other. Facebook has its uses.