https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiq04esE9zM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZZGsNRJYdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6INV91bXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwzjlmBLfrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBJkf2xbqI

There are some interesting parallels between these calendar pages and associated images and the general ideas behind sketchnotes.

via: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/medieval-book/using-medieval-book/v/medieval-calendar

The Attack on "Critical Race Theory": What's Going on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P35YrabkpGk

Lately, a lot of people have been very upset about “critical race theory.” Back in September 2020, the former president directed federal agencies to cut funding for training programs that refer to “white privilege” or “critical race theory, declaring such programs “un-American propaganda” and “a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue.” In the last few months, at least eight states have passed legislation banning the teaching of CRT in schools and some 20 more have similar bills in the pipeline or plans to introduce them. What’s going on?

Join us for a conversation that situates the current battle about “critical race theory” in the context of a much longer war over the relationship between our racial present and racial past, and the role of culture, institutions, laws, policies and “systems” in shaping both. As members of families and communities, as adults in the lives of the children who will have to live with the consequences of these struggles, how do we understand what's at stake and how we can usefully weigh in?

Hosts: Melissa Giraud & Andrew Grant-Thomas

Guests: Shee Covarrubias, Kerry-Ann Escayg,

Some core ideas of critical race theory:

• racial realism
  • racism is normal
• interest convergence
  • racial equity only occurs when white self interest is being considered (Brown v. Board of Education as an example to portray US in a better light with respect to the Cold War)
• Whiteness as property
  • Cheryl Harris' work
  • White people have privilege in the law
  • myth of meritocracy
• Intersectionality

People would rather be spoon fed rather than do the work themselves. Sadly this is being encouraged in the media.

Short summary of CRT: How laws have been written to institutionalize racism.

Culturally Responsive Teaching (also has the initials CRT).

KAE tries to use an anti-racist critical pedagogy in her teaching.

SC: Story about a book Something Happened in Our Town (book).

• Law enforcement got upset and the school district
• Response video of threat, intimidation, emotional blackmail by local sheriff's department.
• Intent versus impact - the superintendent may not have had a bad intent when providing an apology, but the impact was painful

It's not really a battle about or against CRT, it's an attempt to further whitewash American history. (synopsis of SC)

What are you afraid of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TO-OkIMtI

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis</span> in 📑 How to remember more of what you read | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>08/20/2021 12:31:59</time>)</cite></small>

How To Do Sketchnoting (Even If You "Can't Draw"!)

a lesson with Emily Mills of the Sketchnote Academy

video

Types of Sketchnotes

• Lecture based
• Experience based

Skills for sketchnotes

• Listening
  • looking for ideas, high level
• Writing
• Drawing

Pairing images and words together to be dynamic and memorable.

One doesn't need to be the greatest artist to do sketchnotes.

memorable >> masterpiece recognizable >> realistic big ideas >> nitty gritty

Basic drawing

Seven building blocks for drawing

• dot
• straight line
• crooked line
• curvy line
• circle
• triangle
• square

Rules

• The fewer elements, the easier
• Rearrange rotate, reorient shapes

People

• standard stick person
• A person
• oval person
• star person

Containers and connectors

Boxes are boring, so add frames or more interesting Use containers to separate information that is different from the rest or to highlight.

• boxes
• frames
• nails/thumbtacks
• star "pow" outline
• box with a shadow

Tell people where to read next

• Create a really clear header
• help people with connectors (dotted lines, arrows, numbering)

Start out small first as it's more intimidating to use bigger formats

Tools

• Sketchone marker (thin point ink, pigment or permanent and not water-based, otherwise bleedover in coloring)
• Tombow dual brush markers for color
  • two grey tones, one lighter and one darker
  • small handful of colors (red, blue, yellow, green)

How to Sketchnote

• Step 1: Header
• Step 2: Layout (top to bottom/left to right is usually more intuitive) Pre-plan this. Think about connectors.
• Step 3: Consistency
  • headers, characters, size of writing,
• Step 4: Refine
  • check spelling
  • whiteout for mess ups (gellyroll white gel pen)
  • ensure connectors are obvious
• Step 5: Guiding shapes (to help flow of information on page)
  • stippling
  • cloud outlines
  • lines in the negative space (also creates contrast)
• Step 6: Coloring in
  • greys first, dark then light
  • highlighting connectors
  • shadows on boxes, ribbons, connectors
  • color should be more of a highlight than a background filler (it's not a coloring book)

Higher contrast notes are better

Resources

• 👉🏻 Find Emily (and her awesome resources!) at https://www.emilyamills.com
• 👉🏻 The Sketchnote Academy free course: https://www.sketchnoteacademy.com
• 👉🏻 The Art of Visual Note taking by Emily Mills

Sketchnoting forces students to take ideas from a lesson and turn them into their own ideas. It also forces modality shifts.

Reviewing over a lecture after the fact to create sketchnotes is incredibly similar to some of the point and purpose of Cornell Notes.

While watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOHcWhdguIY

Want to Write a Book? You Probably Already Have!

Patrick Rhone

video

Paper is the best solution for the long term. If it's not on paper it can be important, if it's not it won't be.

Our writing is important. It is durable.

All we know about the past is what survived.

Analogy: coke:champaign glass::blogger:book

Converting one's blog into a book.

"The funny thing about minimalism is that there's only so much you can say."

Change the frame and suddenly you've changed the experience.

Sketchnotes by Chad Moore and Chris Wilson

https://vi.to/hubs/microcamp/pages/chad-moore-and-chris-wilson?v=chad-moore-and-chris-wilson&discussion=hidden&sidebar=hidden

Sketchnotes are ideas not art.

Squiggle birds - take squiggles and give them beaks, eyes, and bird feet. (Idea apparently from Austin Kleon.)

How you might take notes if you'd never been told how to.

• There is no particular app or platform that is the "right" one.

Common elements:

• Headlines and sub headlines are common
  • Elegant text / fancy text
• Icons
• containers - ways of holding information together
  • this can be explicit or via white space
• flow of information (arrows)
• arrangements or layouts of how information is displayed
  • top to bottom, circles, columns, stream of flow of ideas
• people
  • emotions, perhaps using emoji-like faces
• shadows, highlights

Icons

Simple can be better. Complexity may make understanding more difficult.

Examples

A few they pulled off of the web

Sketchnote Selfie

Goal: Create an info rich portrait with character. Portrait, name, info, location, passions, hobbies, interests, social usernames, now section, etc.

Eminem on rhyming orange: "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage and ate porridge with George." #

Eminem shows Anderson Cooper his form of commonplace book in a 60 Minutes interview.

Instead of calling it "commonplacing", he uses the phrase "stacking ammo".

Cooper analogizes the collection as the scrawlings of a crazy person. In some sense, this may be because there is no order or indexing system with what otherwise looks like a box of random pages.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>u/sorrybabyxo</span> in Eminem has his own version of commonplace system containing words that rhyme. : commonplacebook (<time class='dt-published'>08/10/2021 09:45:39</time>)</cite></small>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssTOVkdngYQ

Comparison of the various Hobonichi planners

Paper Discovery:

• Research Rabbit
• Connected Papers
• Citation Gecko
• Papers With Code

Zotero SciHub - for downloading papers into one's Zotero instance

Academic Networking

• lens.org (also good for discovery)
• OrcID
• Impact Story

Ginko App (trees and cards interface) for writing with interesting import and export

around 2:56: A bit too much Andy Matuschak worship? Pretty sure he didn't invent the so-called Andy Mode. Index cards pre-dated them surely as did Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki. There are many other idex-card UIs prior to Matuschak.

Map of Content (MOC) apparently comes from How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think by Lion Kimbro.

• it's a glorified Table of Contents really

Plugins he's using:

• 3:22:15 add codemirror matchbrackets js
• 3:23:31 advanced tables
• 3:26:09 Better word count
• 3:26:41 calendar
• 3:27:32 copy code block
• 3:28:25 cycle through panes
• 3:29:55 Dataview
• 3:30:33 editor syntax highlight
• 3:30:43 extended mathjax
• 3:31:08 file explorer note count
• 3:32:04 full-screen mode
• 3:32:23 highlgiht public notes
• 3:33:11 kanban
• 3:33:35 kindle highlights
• 3:33:56 metatable
• 3:34:24 mindmap
• 3:35:36 NLP dates
• 3:36:10 pane relief
• 3:36:42 paste URL
• 3:37:21 periodic notes
• 3:37:44 recent files
• 3:37:59 relevant line number
• 3:38:33 show current open note
• 3:38:45 review
• 3:39:43 sliding panes
• 3:40:42 super charged links
• 3:41:11 random note
• 3:41:39 tag wrangler
• 3:42:22 templater
• 3:46:05 zoom

textsniper for OCR and potentially text-to-speech, apple only, so leark for others.

MathPix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Qsu03Oz30

This same sort of functionality is something I'd built into my TiddlyWiki ages ago. Interesting to see some of these same sorts of functionalities being built into other note taking tools.

Sort of makes me want to consider nested tags in Obsidian...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl3dJZjQpXE

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>u/FluentFelicity </span> in (2) I found a gem : Zettelkasten (<time class='dt-published'>07/29/2021 22:10:56</time>)</cite></small>

Watched up to 2:33:00 https://youtu.be/wB89lJs5A3s?t=9181 with talk about research papers.

Some interesting tidbits and some workflow tips thus far. Not too jargony, but beginners may need to look at some of his other videos or work to see how to better set up pieces. Definitely very thorough so far.

He's got roughly the same framing for tags/links that I use, though I don't even get into the status pieces with emoji/tags as much as he does.

I'm not a fan of some of his reliance on iframes where data can (and will) disappear in the future. For Twitter, he does screencaptures of things which can be annoying and take up a lot of storage. Not sure why he isn't using twitter embed functionality which will do blockquotes of tweets and capture the actual text so that it's searchable.

Taking a short break from this and coming back to it later.

Nothing new.

Good demonstration of some of the simple graph views of Obsidian and the depth of display.

Nothing tremendously new to me, but a good example of how one might use graph view within an Obsidian based zettelkasten.

I am curious as to how he creates the "Slipbox" section of the first note that he shows... that could be cleverly useful.

Douglas Adams' Hyperland

suggested by Kevin Marks on TWiG 622

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

A satirical take on John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book Black Like Me

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs </span> in Writing a Life | The Hedgehog Review (<time class='dt-published'>07/22/2021 12:15:27</time>)</cite></small>

Clever

What an awesome little video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-zzr5F2Hw

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Best Bible Note-Taking System: Jonathan Edwards's Miscellanies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqq-4-LiFVs

Overview of Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies system along with a a few wide-margin bibles. Everhard apparently hasn't heard of the commonplace concept, though I do notice that someone mentions the zettelkasten system in the comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EAu3nB1vk

Most of this is material I've seen or heard in other forms in the past. It's relatively well reviewed and summarized here though, but it's incredibly dense to try to pull out, unpack and actually use if one were coming to it as a something new.

3 Productivity hacks

• Zen Meditation (Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryū Suzuki
• Research Process -- Annotations and notes, notecards
• Rigorous exercise routine -- plateau effect

The Zen meditation hack sounds much in the line of advice to often get away from what you're studing/researching and to let the ideas stew for a bit before coming back to them. It's the same principle as going for walks frequently heard from folks or being a flâneur. (cross reference Nassim Nicholas Taleb et al.) The other version of this that's similar are the diffuse modes of learning (compared with focused modes) described in learning theory. (Examples in work of Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski in https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn)

I've generally come to the idea that genius doesn't exist myself. Most of it distills down to use of tools like commonplace books.

Perhaps worth looking into some of the following to see what, if anything, is different than prior version of the commonplace book tradition:

The Ryan Holiday Notecard System @Intermittent Diversion - https://youtu.be/QoFZQOJ8aA0

Article On Notecard System [1] https://medium.com/thrive-global/the-notecard-system-the-key-for-remembering-organizing-and-using-everything-you-read-4f48a82371b1 [2] https://www.writingroutines.com/notecard-system-ryan-holiday/ [3] https://www.gallaudet.edu/tutorial-and-instructional-programs/english-center/the-process-and-type-of-writing/pre-writing-writing-and-revising/the-note-card-system/

• 'oreit - alright
• over by there, now in a minute
• dai shop - colloquial name for tradesperson (john the butcher, eddie the milkman, etc.)
• year, ear, and here all sound the same
• thanks drive
• Twin Town is the best film ever
• lunch is dinner, dinner is tea with regard to timing
• daps or trainers - tennis shoes
• to after where and by before here
• tuthbrush
• half and half (half rice, half chips)
• all explanations begin with "What it is..."
• call people "mun"
• your butt is not what you sit on (mate, friend)
• you don't get cross, you get tampin'; to get tampin' mad
• cry when you her Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (national anthem)
• Tescos
• check the weather back home when on holiday
• wearing felt leeks
• cheer when you see the bridge from England back into Wales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFYZT8pgZNI

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1920's slang

• dough, bread: money,
• vamp: (of women)
• Sheik: a attractive man (from Valentino film)
• and how!: indeed!
• putting on the Ritz: dressing up, 1929 Putting on the Ritz with reference to Ritz Hotel
• Ragamuffin: a bedraggled or messy person
• tomato: a pretty woman "ready for the picking"
• wet blanket: a killjoy (used to put out a fire)
• whopee: having a really good time (sex)
• fried, smoked, bent, zozzled, ossified: drunk
• bump off: to kill someone (from gangster culture)
• cheaters: glasses
• hot: stolen
• hock: pawn something for quick cash
• petting party: get together of men and women where kissing or petting occurred
• bob: short haircut style
• heebie jeebies: shaking or trembling as a result of psychological
• it: sex appeal, from eponymous film title starring Clara Bow

This was an hour incredibly well spent.

I came across this from a link today at IAnno21 to the broader http://marginalsyllab.us/ site.

Great description of a Welsh cake:

"Made like a scone, cooked like a pancake, eaten like a cookie"

Welsh Cakes:

• 8oz flour
• 4oz salted butter
• 4oz sugar
• 4oz currants
• 2 pinches of allspice (or nutmeg)
• 1 large egg
• splash of milk until the dough holds together

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Mike Caulfield</span> in Mike Caulfield on Twitter: "Ok, pressing play again." / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>06/09/2021 15:47:36</time>)</cite></small>

Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E., & Nordmann, E. (2021). Watch Party Lectures: Synchronous Delivery of Asynchronous Material [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ys4jn

This animated film is a collaboration between economist Kate Raworth, puppet designer Emma Powell and song writer Simon Panrucker.

Definitely watch the accompanying video series.

Extracting .pdf annotations using [[Zotfile]]

Go to Settings > Advanced > Config Editor and then filtering by pdfExtraction.

The end section on templates was rushed and make take some more time to properly configure Zotfile and the notes exports to get what I want.

Not quite my cup of tea from a research perspective.

dataview plugin - check in on this for queries and MOC

citations plugin - zotfile

• cat's walkthrough shows all this stuff

A somewhat useful overview, but skips some of the detailed specifics which we'll need to pull up elsewhere.

An interesting method, but not my favorite flavor.

Retrieving data at rest and realtime data.

Sensor API for Huawei

Tizen API accessing amount of green, red, and IR light reflected from a blood vessel

Wear OS description

Cannot directly interface with fitbit with Google fit, can only export processed data from fit bit and send to google fit...

Google Fit API for Android allows raw data access!!!

Fit bit's sensor API... only preprocessed data and not raw. Fit bit does not use Android API for sensor access..

Thread on finding devices that provide raw data

Can download fitbit data..

Google fit allows access to raw sensor data

Study that used Huawei Watch 2 PPG sensor to measure stress levels

android /wear OS allows for raw PPG data access, but need drivers...

No info on PPG sensors... not accessible through API?

Unable to get fitbit ppg through web api? from 2018

Reading raw PPG data for 'Android Wear'.

a "dwt" is a small person/thing (term of endearment)

sometimes "little dwt"

"alright or what" as a greeting

• "alright" means hi/hello (in South Wales)

"Ychafi" - horrible or disgusting

cwtch is a Welsh hug

Conversation beginnings:

• What it is...
• See...

"Tidy butt" as a response to how are you? (translates as good friend)

Baaard (sick)

bog snorkeling

I'll meet you "now in a minute" (aka shortly)

Good intro for new learners.

To more easily memory text verbatim, practice methods for reclling the information rather than simply repeating it.

A nice overview of indigenous art in Australia from about the 1940's until today. Some fantastic pieces in here.

Code for accessing heart rate data from apple watch, from 2015

Thread that explains how to access heart rate data by simulating a workout... No direct way to access sensor

May need approval from apple for sensor kit access??

This variable may be an issue..

List of sensors that can be measured/accessed via SensorKit API

Response from Apple employee when asked about retrieving raw PPG data.. Need to use HealthKit and can only get processed data

No way to access raw PPG data from apple watch... this guy has an app that does some processing on the data from apple..

Assists with accessing PPG data for android watches

Ability to get raw PPG data from android watches

iirc, snarfed said this was one of his favorite talks

Monday on the NewsHour, we look at the violence in the Middle East as rockets continue to fly into Israel, and Israelis hammer Gaza with heavy airstrikes. Then, we talk to the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, as U.S. troops leave his country and violence escalates. And, we explore why Americans are divided on whether or not to follow new CDC guidance relaxing mask and distancing rules.

Cymry ar Gynfas Seren Morgan Jones a Kizzy

In this programme the artist Seren Morgan Jones who's famed for her strong portraits of women will attempt to paint a portrait that will please singer/songwriter Kizzy Crawford.

Yn y rhaglen hon bydd yr artist Seren Morgan Jones sy'n enwog am ei phortreadau cryf o fenywod yn mynd ati i geisio peintio portread fydd yn plesio y cerddor a'r gantores Kizzy Crawford.

Exact memorization of individual lines like this is difficult at best, even with these methods.

I wish they'd gone into some more detail on the headless piece and how to actually do that portion, though that's not much of a video thing.

See also: https://history4today.com/2021/04/29/zotero-to-obsidian/

7:09 - Discussion of a custom template for use cases; this sounds a bit like some customization similar to Open Scholar on Drupal

Here's a link to Alan Levine's work here: https://cogdogblog.com/category/twu-portfolios/

What has support for WPMU looked like within the pandemic?

Laurie Miles, UNC Asheville

• Uptick with faculty looking for tools to be online. They've gone from 6 or 7 in past years to 17
• Sharing resources with colleagues within the department or at other institutions

Shannon Hauser, University of Mary Washington

• They've seen a disconnect between their LMS (Canvas) and Domains with the LMS winning out

Colin Madland, Trinity Western University

• Didn't have a culture of online teaching
• Fine arts department started tinkering and others within the department are using that template. They spent some time and thought in the Summer and that made it easier for them in the fall.

Jim Groom talked about a "motherblog" (a planet made via RSS). How can we center the idea of a webmention hub to do this?

There was a lot of reversion to what was comfortable in the move to all online pedagogy. Professors were comfortable with lectures, so they stuck with that. There wasn't an emphasis on actual learning.

I should note Glenn Zucman's art work to Colin to pass along to their art department. There could be a community of use cases that might help each other experiment and expand on their ideas.

Darius Kazemi randomly tweets out pages from books in the Internet Archive as a means of creating discovery and serendipity.

Library Futures, Jennie Rose Halperin @Library_futures @little_wow

Idea of artificial scarcity being imposed on digital objects is a damaging thing for society.

Ideas to explore:

Libraries as a free resource could be reframed as a human right within a community.

Librarians as local community tummelers around information.

Joanne McNeill

You're right. I had to do a double take to go back. What a fascinating life Abel Meeropol must have had.

Manifold – Building an Open Source Publishing Platform

Zach Davis and Matthew Gold

Re-watching after the conference.

Manifold

Use case of showing the process of making the book. The book as a start to finish project rather than just the end product.

They built the platform while eating their own cooking (or at least doing so with nearby communities).

Use for this as bookclubs. Embedable audio and video possibilities.

Use case where people have put journals on the platform and they've grown to add meta data and features to work for that.

They're allowing people to pull in social media pieces into the platform as well. Perhaps an opportunity to use Webmentions?

They support epub.

It can pull in Gutenberg texts.

Jim Groom talks about the idea of almost using Manifold as an LMS in and of itself. Centering the text as the thing around which we're gathering.

CUNY Editions of standard e-books with additional resources.Critical editions.

Using simple tools like Google Docs and then ingest them into Manifold using a YAML file.

TEI, LaTeX formats and strategies for pulling them in. (Are these actually supported? It wasn't clear.)

Reclaim Cloud has a container that will run Manifold.

Zach is a big believer in UX and design as the core of their product.

I love his image of a single open window on a major building with closed windows. And finished with more homey building with all open windows.

Something was. Then something changed. ---Erin Morgenstern in The Starless Sea p.363 (Apple books edition)

Ed's 5 Big NOTs of Teaching

• Knowledge is NOT simply content
• A textbook is NOT the only perspective
• A course is NOT an isolated context
• The teacher is NOT the sole authority
• Students are NOT empty vessels

Hegarty's 8 Attributes of Open Pedagogy (see reference below, which I'd like to read).

"OER requires an extra amount of effort and time." ---Ed Nagelhout

"It was you, me, and Mike Caulfield." - Jim Groom (Don't we all wish we could say this...)

I'd watched this live during the conference, but with morning duties, it was definitely worth watching again, especially for the student project diagrams at the end.

References:

• Brandt, D. (2011). Literacy as involvement: The acts of writers, readers, and texts. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Cushman, E., Kintgen, E. R., Kroll, B., & Rose, M. (2001). Literacy: A critical sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• Hegarty, B. (2015). “Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources.” Educational Technology, pp. 3-13. Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Ed_Tech_Hegarty_2015_article_attributes_of_open_pedagogy.pdf
• Selber, S. A. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.