Sonya McChristie @sonya@scholar.social

I don’t know why, but I found this article speculating on what life will look like in a few million years after we’ve killed ourselves as a species really positive!

https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/06/paleontologists-predict-what-future-animals-might-look-like/

#WorthReading - Good take on the coronavirus pandemic, and it's place in the wider contexts of neoliberalism and ecological destruction from Kim Stanley Robinson:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-coronavirus-and-our-future?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

New blog post:

Job Opportunities
https://blog.mcchristie.com/job-opportunities/
#CELT #COVID-19 #Design #Instructional #Job #Sunderland #Vacancies

Good 20 minute talk on where subscriptions models seem to be leading us. Learned a lot of new terms, including 'Service as a Software Substitute':

https://www.verdict.co.uk/watch-rented-future-talk/

New blog post:

Honorlock Demonstration
https://blog.mcchristie.com/honorlock-demonstration/
#Apocalypse #CPD #Exam #Honorlock #Invigilating #Proctoring #Quiz

New blog post:

It’s the End of the World as we Know It
https://blog.mcchristie.com/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
#Apocalypse #BigBlueButton #Closure #COVID-19 #Panopto

New blog post:

LTA Workshop: Gamification
https://blog.mcchristie.com/lta-workshop-gamification/
#CPD #Gamification #Learning #LTA #Play #Workshop

New blog post:

Speedwell OSCE Training
https://blog.mcchristie.com/speedwell-osce-training/
#Assessment #CPD #OSCE #Speedwell #Training

“Become a government informer. Betray your family and friends. Fabulous prizes to be won!”

Seriously, can Microsoft just go and fucking die already? I’ve just signed back into OneNote on my home computer and suddenly I don’t have any notebooks anymore. Whatever. Weird Microsoft bullshit. Signed in online, and I have my notebook. Except, randomly, for the one fucking section I fucking need. I hate fucking hate fucking Microsoft. Everything they touch turns to fucking shit. More fucking fool me for trying to use their fucking shite again.

I am providing no context for this text I just received from a friend:

“Coronavirus was made by gargamel to get the smurfs in one place and infect them”

Here's a 1.8 billion pixel photo taken by a robot probe on a planet some 200 or odd million kilometres away to bring a bit of awe and wonder to your day.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7610

The Office365 rollout at work is going well... As a general rule I find that avoiding Microsoft and Google products as much as possible works well for my sanity.

New blog post:

Speedwell Train the Trainer – Advanced
https://blog.mcchristie.com/speedwell-train-the-trainer-advanced/
#Assessment #CPD #Exam #MCQ #Speedwell #Training

Potentially interesting read for anyone in #EdTech #LearningTechnology - https://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/blogging/the-state-of-edtech-2020/