Inside View

Interacting with Tadhg

-- Tadhg's online handle is ___________. Bernie is @topgold

-- What does "interaction" mean?

-- How was Tadhg interacting in the year 2015?

-- How does interaction make Tadhg a better animator?

-- What sort of online interaction has Tadhg done during this period of social isolation? Where was Tadhg in Discord during the past month?

-- What sort of technology prevents people from feeling isolated?

-- What are MMOs? What creative opportunities are possible through MMOs?

-- What are disadvantages of interacting in virtual reality?

-- How can someone put a bad experience with Tinder behind them?

-- How could a newly trained animator find work through the concept of interaction?

-- What strategy about future employment would you be willing to share?

-- What do you think interaction will look like in the year 2050?

 

 

@firemanrich We're experimenting with @taperealapp #socialreality

THESE DAYS OF SOCIAL DISTANCING have made me more eager for real connections so the arrival of the TapeReal App on our well-used iPad piqued my interest.

I made a video tape from our sitting room couch. If you listen, you can hear the sound of our proximity alarm barking.

Set Piece from a Locked Down Semester #clonmeldigital

SPRING SEMESTER 2020 enjoys historic standing as the time traditional academics pivoted dramatically into an emergency remote mode. Fortunately for me, I had 20 students near the finish line of the "Emerging Trends and Technologies" module who could produce a set piece that will enjoy critical appraisal whenever anybody looks back at what might be possible through a distance education collaboration of students.

Another Chilling ICU Story h/t @jameshamblin @katlwells

DOCTOR HANDSOME aka James Hamblin (the Preventive Medicine doctor above) and Nervous Nelly aka Katherine Wells (executive producer of many creative things) join me many mornings as I walk our Bedlington Terrier on a tightly constrained two km radius of our home in Ireland. I listen to their prescriptions for Social Distance, because their podcast from The Atlantic seems to drop into my podcatcher around sunrise many mornings just as our dog announces it's time. This morning, I reinforced my prejudice against being admitted to the hospital for something as critical as COVID-19. Actually, I became more acutely aware of underlying conditions that erode my health.

Sunday Reads are Best Long Reads

I'm rarely disappointed when the same long reads appear in both my podcatcher and my blog reader. I recommend a long read from both The Daily and Audm about astronomy and extrasolar planetary science. Few astronomers have contributed to exoplanet research as mightily as Dr. Sara Seager of MIT.

You can hear the brilliant story about The Woman Who Might Find Another Earth" by subscribing to The Daily on all good podcast networks.

Sara Seager

 

Planning for a World without an Office Water Cooler

ONE OF THE BIGGEST concerns I have about being locked out of work is losing any sort of internal communications. Since we cannot meet casually around a coffee dock or chat at a table in the canteen, I'm trying to use apps (in the screenshot) that give me meaningful online pulse points.

Listen to "Planning Better Home Screen Newsfeeds E494" on Spreaker.

As I write this, I realise I have no watering hole for staff communications. We have no listserv, no online commons area. More than ever, we need to leverage Microsoft Teams.

Behind my screens of social isolation h/t @zoom_us @calendly @socrative @moodle @MSedu_IRL

I'VE STARTED USING my laptop and Note 9 screens to stay in touch with people through Zoom. I feel I'm getting closer to people by having meaningful conversations and then documenting the process through open education initiatives.

Spliced Feed Lockdown Project

YEARS AGO, Dave Winer set up Weblogs as a frictionless way to share collaborative notes. In the late 90s, I pulled commentary from around the world through Winer's Radio Userland and then the newsfeeds of the world started hiding behind closed apps.

I want to use some quiet time during our current social lockdown to experiment with feeds of information spliced from disparate sources. Today, I'm trying to see if I can indirectly create an RSS feed from my Pinboard notes. Pinboard Notes often extend from my Moleskine Notes.

Today's snippet is just a few lines of annotated workflow snipped from Pinboard. I need to figure out how to activate this scraping with Zapier.

Lockdown test

Weld Mesh Gabion Seat

Weld Mesh Gabion Seat

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus for the Limerick Institute of Technology.]

Three Self-Isolation Observations

LIKE MANY FAMILIES, we're practicing evidence-based techniques of self-isolation--such as the ready-made face protection shown in the photo. I've also observed three items related to surviving during the 2019 Corona Virus. The three images in this post are the three most-viewed through my Flickr account on Friday, March 13, 2020.