Underway in Ireland

Details at http://congregation.ie

Bernie @topgold interviews @magsamond about her Third Space and gets suggestions that enhance teaching and learning. Get shownotes for episode 7 of Congversations from Ireland at https://www.insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-1807.html and catch up with more Congversations by subscribing to https://www.spreaker.com/show/3263384/episodes/feed

Here's what's on the show:

00:25 The handle @magsamond
01:19 Images of round tables
03:08 Johnson’s Theory of Cooperative Learning
05:11 Cooperative learning and artefacts.
07:22 We need to teach people to listen
07:57 Third Space of Magsamond
10:28 Google Keep as a Third Space
12:28 Bianca, a Digital Champion
16:09 Digital literacies for teachers
18:14 Advice from DermotCasey
19:30 What is Mags reading?
19:43 Hans Rosling Factfulness and Raymond Williams Keywords
21:53 #cesicon
22:42 @Pamobrien is next

Listening to students from Clonmel Presentation School discuss artefacts they have in their homes.

I'm starting to eat less red meat, even though I feel less patriotic making that change in my diet. The kids really enjoy fine cuts from our local butcher but they also hear the United Nations saying the single biggest thing people can do to limit harm to the environment.

Catching up with Ireland's Youth Media Team in #feilte2018

Interesting numbers from sources in Sunday newspapers in Ireland on the 9th of September 2018.

Trying to consolidate my working files in portable digital storage. Adding a 4TB My Passport Ultra to my wishlist because our broadband speed will drop significantly below 20 Megabits per second.

Watching small post offices close in Ireland. But you need people--not just elderly people seeking a social interaction at a post office counter--in small towns to keep _all_ of the little town's life blood flowing.

Russia is using diplomatic cover to bring spying and transmission equipment into Ireland. Image from Reuters.

Remembering the 71 people who died 30 years ago during Europe's worst airshow disaster. "Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd. More at http://www.insideview.ie/2018/08/my-personal-flugtag.html

I haven't mowed much this year. And we're moving, maybe to a mountain road.

Thinking about many of my favourite walks in Ireland. Up Croagh Patrick in the fog. Along the eroded cliffs from Greystones to Bray. Shuffling miles after work from the DART. Getting my first hiking boots for treks up the Sugarloaf Mountains. Enjoying the colour purple in the Knockmealdown Mountains. Seeing topless Germans on Achill Island. Smelling lovely aromas at night in centre city Dublin. Lifted by the smell of hops in Kilkenny's laneways. Sucking on raspberries along the boreens of County Tipperary. Walking through Burgagery Lands in Clonmel on the way to work. And marveling at long boats in the River Suir while walking the Blueway.

After a week at the top of the charts on Anchor v2, I decided to move across to version three. And Eli Garf is coming with me! I heard from Maria Humphreys and Paul O'Mahony so I put them into this episode as well. A lot of people are talking about where podcasting is headed, so I recapped Tom Webster's Medium article that answers that question. And I've included Auf dem Wasser zu Singer by Franz Liszt as well as Zoe Keating's "We Insist" from her excellent "One Cello x 16" collection. You should buy both of them too. If you want more than me babbling, you should head over to http://insideview.ie where this episode features in a blog post.

Bernie experiments at @omaniblog's request by using iOS11 to hear both audio and video content before repurposing that content as MP3 uploads to Anchor. No Waves were harmed during this experimentation with Limor, Anchor, Converter+ and Voice Record Pro (in cover art).

Here Comes @topgold on Anchor v3

I've been listening on Anchor since its first release on iOS and I miss the social audio dimension that attracted me to the Anchor platform. So nowadays, I'm spending most of my time on Spreaker (where I'm topgoldie) and on http://limor.ie (where I'm http://twitter.com/topgold). I remember Anchor's heyday, with daily content from @askavie and @ileane and although their voices can still be found online, they come to my ears via my podcatchers. I don't want to ignore people who call in, so I've cobbled together several recent calls from http://soundcloud.com/techauthoritypodcast and http://anchor.fm/fryedoreo and http://anchor.fm/firemanrich, and http://anchor.fm/maria-humphreys because they're worth sharing from my earbuds to yours. If you get all the way to the end of this clip, you'll hear @freakyfwoof in the background. If you want to catch up with me, look for @topgold on all good social networks.

We shared several country homes with our four American cousins. The four kids insisted upon having swimming pools so http://maryborough.com obliged right away. Brilliant sunshine greeted us during our four hours among the wildlife at http://fota.ie but a high point of the trip for the kids had to be meeting their cousins, seeing our two rehomed cats, and hanging out in our attic. The kids enjoyed crawling around historic places like Cahir Castle in the cover art. A significant part of our good times happened because of homes we found on http://airbnb.ie and self-catering easily cut seven hundred euro off the cost of this week-long Irish holiday. But no matter what, if we're hosting friends in Ireland, we're recommending the Cork International Hotel as their point of departure. We've always had a top class experience with the staff and the child-friendly facilities there.

With @donegangardens in County Tipperary

While walking in County Clare at sunset low tide.

Fanfare Piston captured Busking in City Centre Cork.