Thomas Hodgson @twsh@scholar.social

Does anybody know of a good way to turn an android tablet into a graphics tablet of sorts? The idea is to use my tablet to draw on the whiteboard on my linux PC. Something like http://sunnysidesoft.com/virtualtablet/ but for linux

#sociology I'm looking for accessible (beginner students) documentation about Parson's systemic theory. Does anyone have this?
(cc @marionline)

OMFG A FEDERATED SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM!

I literally cannot wait to dig into this!! It's what I've been wanting!

https://olki.loria.fr/platform/

Any recommendations for #FOSS alternatives to prezi.com? To create nice slides and presentations?

Hey all – if you needed to host lecture videos online and freely available for streaming, what would you do? Is there a nice AWS/S3-self-hosted solution around? (I'm comfortable/familiar with the tech needed for whatever.) I'd really rather not put them on YouTube if I don't have to.

Today is the day that #bandcamp are giving all their revenue to artists!

Post your favourite albums available on bandcamp

I'm making a "How to Online Student 101" guide for my community college's students—both because it can be helpful and because I think we in the library will do a more empathetic version than our non-library colleagues who initially said it should happen.

We've got a very distinct digital divide here in Idaho, serving some very rural areas as well as the state's biggest cities.

Anyone have favorite #OER guides or top other suggestions?

How can we on scholar help each other during this time?

I know a lot of us are still pressured to produce research, teach, and everything else.
What are some ways that we could use this platform to help each other deal with typical academic nightmares that are now amplified?

Anyone have recommendations for a word processor (ie. can do page layouts, table of contents, multimedia) that can handle large documents well? i.e. ~100 pages

Especially useful if you're being turned to remote meetings/lessons b/c of COVID19, but useful other times, too:

I wrote up a "video call hosting guidelines" doc for my workplace. We use Zoom for calls, and provide tips for how to handle calls from start to finish. It's Creative Commons licenced, so if you'd like to re-use it for your remote lessons/calls/seminar/webinars/lectures, feel free! https://github.com/intermine/community-call-archives/blob/master/community-call-guide.md

Now that we all are going remote, I've started to compile a guide to FOSS tools that could be useful for distance learning (from the "teacher" pow) http://jgbarah.github.io/Notes/foss-distance-learning.html Feedback & contributions welcome! #freesoftware

I'm looking for a way to organise ideas and notes with an aim to eventually produce something. Discipline issues aside, has anyone ever tried this Zettelkasten method for organising notes and ideas? I'd be glad to hear other suggestions, just asked about this one because it was mentioned in an article I read recently.

Can anybody recommend good poetry / short fiction podcasts? English or Spanish.