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Updating the list of my favourite tools for learning, and noting what has changed since 2019.

Has anything really changed for networked learning?

Digger is a command-line tool to extract annotations from web-based services into local Markdown notes

Looking back 20 years to some ideas from Tom Peters.

Ton expresses his concerns about annotations in any online tool (the example is Hypothes.is) being potentially risky, if nothing else as a consumer of learning time that isn’t well integrated with his other notes: The type of interaction and annotation I have/do with a source text I normally do locally. Unless it can be a PESOS (Post Elsewhere Syndicate to Own Site) flow, exchanging that current value of processing things locally for merely the potential for interaction and conversation is likely a bad trade-off for my learning.

I look at what a ‘web colleague’ has done, and think about how I might solve a similar problem.

Why you shouldn’t worry if your colleagues don’t switch on their cameras in virtual meetings

“Streaming demand for UK shows will create 30,000 film and TV jobs” says the Guardian, as demand from the global streaming giants for UK-made programmes goes unmet.

World-leading case rates per-capita again

Prof. Christina Pagel tweets about IndieSage’s work to improve Covid safety in schools and workplaces.