Both versions of my @jimllpaintit 10th anniversary picture (Father Jack and the original Regan) are available on my print site http://happytoast.co.uk now and also on http://redbubble.com/people/happytoast for t-shirts
Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:
1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made
Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant
Entire brown loaf filled with crinkle-cut crisps
#DailyCrispSandwich https://vole.wtf/buttystock/~jimmeruk/17/
For those yet to see it: Europe's sleeper trains, mapped... https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/ (Paris-Italy, and into Spain - those yawning gaps in the network just scream 'fill me!' don't they...)
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.