Learning is Change

What I'm Learning: Creating an RSS feed from Gmail using Google Apps Scripts

While this is a very specific purpose, I am interested in the idea of using email to create content. Just think about a filter in gmail that could push to an rss feed. This means, any time someone (or some service) sent an email on a given topic, it could be available to anyone who could subscribe to the feed. The social nature of email could get very interesting.

Creating a ‘full fat’ RSS feed for Google Gmail labels (enabling some dark social judo) | MASHe

In this post I want to cover three things. First I want to introduce a little app I’ve developed which allows you to create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels (with the option to remove certain links – useful if you don’t want others unsubscribing you from mailing lists). Secondly I explain how it was made and how you can use it yourself. Finally I want to discuss how this could be used in an open course environment, utilising the vast processing power from services like Twitter and reusing there target marketing emails to your benefit with a bit of ‘dark social judo’.

Alex Magaña, I don’t know if you have a lot of context for the Science Leadership Academy in Philly, but I think…

 

Alex Magaña, I don’t know if you have a lot of context for the Science Leadership Academy in Philly, but I think what their principal has to say might be valuable to you and to the rest of us as we struggle to find the vision for many of our schools.

To anyone, what do you think of his vision?

Originally shared by Chris Lehmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdsNK0CAZI&feature=autoshare

One of my favorite principals talking about what makes his school special.

 

One of my favorite principals talking about what makes his school special. I particular find the community of learners (both teachers and students) to be incredibly important for making this type of learning environment happen. What do you hear?

Originally shared by Chris Lehmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdsNK0CAZI&feature=autoshare//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

What I'm Using: Free and Beautiful Stock Photography

I ran across this wonderful list on Medium, and I immediately opened up each one in a new tab. They are wonderful. Special thanks to Dustin Senos for this list. 

Stock photos that don’t suck — Design / UX — Medium

What I'm Learning: #PaperTweets

Recently, I have found the need to lower the barrier to entry for people to use twitter, construct tweets, and learn how to create a social conversation with one another. I know that other folks have done this, so I went a searching and this is what I found:

Let me know if you have used a Paper Tweets protocol with students or teachers and I will add it to this post.

An Introduction to #2minPD (a PD movement started by @mpelochino)

I am so excited to be a part of the global movement started by Melisa Pelochino to reach 1 MM educators worldwide with 2 minute pd videos on topics that we are passionate about.

I will be creating a few over the next couple weeks, but if you would like to take part, this is what they can look like:

1. Intro:
Your name
Where you are from (city, state, country if not from US)
"Welcome to another 2 Minute PD"

2. What:
What are you sharing?

3. Why:
Why does it matter or why is it important?

4. How:
Concrete steps on how to implement this in the classroom. "do this…" or "try this.."

5. At least one visual.

(No more than 2:30 in length.)

Everything else is up to you. You can be as simple (talking head) or as complicated (animation, music, etc.) as you would like.

Please upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and include #2minPD in the title and then send Melissa a link.