Making the Social Web a Better Place: ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family
If you’re a blogger or content creator who wants to reach a wider audience, the ActivityPub plugin is perfect for you.
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Understanding polycontextuality through Happy Valley
by amiddlet50agency, assemblage theory, being, belonging, boundary crossing, connecting, connectivism, conversation, Digital Placemaking, digital-social age, ecology, experience, experiential learning, hybrid learning space, inclusivity, interactivity, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, liminality, network, networked authorship, networked learning, non-formal learning, place, placemaking, polycontextuality, Presence, situated learning, social, Social Media, social media for learning, space, Syndicated, third place, Third SpaceFebruary 26, 2023The penultimate episode of Happy Valley on BBC TV included a very tense scene that helps to explain polycontextuality and why it is useful for educators. It seems like the whole country was gripped by Happy Valley – a psychologically … Continue reading -
Being smarter than AI – rethinking our assessment design?
by amiddlet50Academic Innovation and Possibilities, academic integrity, active learning, agency, AI, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, assessment literacy, authentic assessment, authentic learning, case-based learning, ChatGPT, creativity, currency, deduction, enquiry-based learning, inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, nergotiated learning, open-ended, pbl, personaisation, problem-based learning, project-based learning, smart assessment, social, student-centred, SyndicatedJanuary 31, 2023The discussion channels used by educational developers have been dominated by the topic of ChatGPT since the New Year. There are two dimensions to this: concerns over academic integrity and the opportunity ChatGPT and other AI tools bring to assessment. … Continue reading -
Supercharge Your Social Media With a New Link in Bio Page
A .link domain name and Link in Bio page supercharges your social media by giving you a place to host all of your links. -
Connect With Your Audience: Integrate Social Media With Your WordPress.com Website
by @llilli5163#editing, blocks, community, Customization, design, Features, Feeds, HowTo, menus, Publicize, sharing, social, Social Media, Syndicated, WordPress.comJanuary 21, 2022Integrating your social media presence with your website is essential to finding and growing your audience. WordPress.com offers many options and tools that can help you optimize your website and social platforms. -
Drive More Traffic To Your Site With a “Link In Bio” Social Links Page
by @llilli5163#editing, blocks, community, Customization, design, Features, HowTo, social, Social Links Page, Social Media, Syndicated, WordPress.comDecember 7, 2021From your social media channels to your storefront and everything in between, you have a lot of links you want your audience to easily access. WordPress.com is proud to make this possible and take you a step closer to organizing all of your unique platforms with a seamless and reliable Social Links Page. -
Between states: metaxis, connectedness and fluency
by amiddlet50active learning, agency, becoming, being, belonging, boundary crossing, connecting, connectivism, embodiment, engagement, experience, experiential learning, flow, fluency, flux, formal learning, hybrid learning space, hybridity, informal learning, interactivity, interstices, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, liminality, metaxis, networked learning, ontology, permeability, place, placemaking, polycontextuality, Presence, Relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, social, space, Syndicated, tethering, third place, Third SpaceMarch 13, 2021Learning, for me, often describes a state of being between. This betweenness may refer to ideas, knowledge and understanding, modalities, or spaces. In this post I examine the nuances of terminology used to describe these states; terminology that goes beyond … Continue reading -
Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor
by @incbeshanchor, Better Blogging, Embeds, Features, New Features, podcaster, podcasting, Podcasts, Posting, social, Spotify, Syndicated, WordPress.comFebruary 22, 2021If you’re a blogger, you’ve already done the hard part by creating great content — so you should share that content as widely as possible! One way is by giving your audience an audio option, as well as your written blog. -
A New Way to Publish Your Blog Posts Simultaneously as Twitter Threads
by @Sheefa_ahmed October 12, 2020Share your entire WordPress blog post as Twitter thread–every word, image, and video will be carried over to the social media platform. It’s never been easier to amplify the reach and engagement of your content beyond WordPress. -
WhatsApp: A New, Convenient Way for Your Customers to Contact You
by @Sheefa_ahmed#editing, Block editor, blocks, community, Customization, Lead Generation, Mobile, social, Syndicated, Text Messaging, whatsapp, writingAugust 13, 2020The world is mobile, and your visitors and customers expect to be able to easily contact you using their mobile device. With WordPress.com’s new WhatsApp button, you can provide a one-click, secure way for people to open WhatsApp, with your phone number and a message pre-filled. Adding the button is … -
Working Remotely Isn’t Just About the Work
Being remote doesn’t mean being disconnected. At Automattic, we find different ways to socialize and connect. -
Active listening for active learning
by amiddlet50#learning, active learning, Applied Learning, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, conversation, engagement, feedback, interactivity, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, Listening, People, Presence, Reflection, Relationships, situated learning, skills, social, Syndicated, Teaching, trust, twalk, walk, walkingApril 19, 2019Active Listening sketchnote by Claudio Advocates of active learning must consider the active learning space from many perspectives. For example, I tend to think about space experientially, creating a picture in my own mind of a space that is used … Continue reading → -
Sharing Options from WordPress.com to Facebook Are Changing
by @llilli5163 July 23, 2018Starting August 1, Facebook will no longer allow third-party tools to automatically post to Profiles. Here’s how it affects you. -
Creating happiness and flow
by amiddlet50co-operation, creativity, experience, flow, Happiness, learner engagement, learning space, making, motivation, self-esteem, social, SyndicatedJuly 22, 2018Listening to 6 Music this morning, Marie-Ann Hobbs noted how both Viv Albertine and Johnny Marr could not equate happiness with creativity. Instead, creativity seems to be something quite separate. – a drive to be productive. I do a lot … Continue reading → -
Facebook vs Open & Free Expression and Blogging
by Antonio Vantaggiato April 24, 2018
That a defense of Facebook et al come from a blogger–a Cuban blogger– has some effects on me. I’m talking about Yoani Sánchez, the Cuban disruptive blogger who taught blogging while being persecuted by authorities. So I read with some … Continue reading →
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Researching academic innovation to foster belonging
I am working with an innovative subject group at the moment who have done much to foster student belonging. They have a long list of small recent and current initiatives intended to develop a cohesive disciplinary identity. Previously, they … Continue reading → -
#minitwalk demonstrates the flexibility of the #twalk model at #socmedhe17
by amiddlet50#socmedhe17, active learning, collaborating, CPD, Digital Placemaking, event, innovation, learning space, place, placemaking, Possibilities, sm4l, smart devices, social, Social Media, social media for learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, technique, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walkingFebruary 22, 2018Since our first successful use of the #twalk model in May 2017, a number of #twalks have used the model in different situations. Our experience and understanding of the #twalk is growing. A number of us involved in … Continue reading → -
Are you Introvert or Extrovert?
by badilicious#friends, Ambivert, chill, conversations, dance, deep, Extrovert, Happinness, happy, Heart, Introvert, lonely, Love, onetoone, popular, quiet, shy, Single, social, speak, Standingout, strangers, SyndicatedJuly 3, 2015Introversion and Extroversion are personality theories, used to explain why we behave in certain...
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