Spooky McGhostie @sonya@scholar.social

I've posted a lot on Twitter over the years about the augmented reality startup Magic Leap, first with excitement, then trepidation, then cynicism. This write up on their recent LEAPcon says it all - sick burn of the day: "no one, ultimately, could articulate why Magic Leap needs to exist..."

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/10/the-magic-leap-con/

My university is currently rolling out Solstice Pods in teaching rooms and collaborative spaces for wirelessly casting a computer, phone or tablet to a screen, and I’ve had the chance to play about with it this morning. And crickey, it works really well! I was impressed. The only thing that failed was screen mirroring from my phone.

https://www.mersive.com/solstice-pod/

@Quinntessential I am traumatised

Some random notes from #CanvasCon afternoon keynote by Alex Beard (Natural Born Learner) - Jobs which are least likely to be automated are those which involve creation; Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new; Teaching is so esteemed in Finland that there are 10 applicants for every place.

Middle of October and it’s 23 degrees out and glorious sunshine. I love it

@hollyamory set up a forwarding rule to the email address you actually want to use?

#CanvasCon quote of the morning: how do you get students to change fixed mental models?

Take away: small incremental changes from ground up; ask and engage students.

To research further: Muller, Sharma and Reimann on cognitive load theory: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sce.20244

Canvas Commons preview tool coming soon. Will make for many happy bunnies. #CanvasCon

625 people from 300 institutions at #CanvasCon today. 4 years ago there were only 35.

I’m at #CanvasCon in the Barbican today, and yikes this is huge. Wonder if the hashtag will be used much on Mastodon?

Google+ is shutting down after a big hack. I could be sarky, but I actually kind of liked how it worked. Shame it was Google. Shame no one used it. Voluntarily.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17951890/google-plus-shut-down-security-api-change-gmail-android

@xaphania @bhtooefr holy shitballs that is cute

Manny! Fran! Come here - I found The Black Books shop! Now bring me wine.

@drbjork bump in solidarity 🤜

@scribblefrog I enjoyed ^_^