I send thanks to the buyer from Italy who purchased a canvas print of

Into the Surf -- stevehendersonart.com/featured…

May the artwork take you to a place of warmth and beauty, contentment and peace.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #sale #parenting #family #love #motherhood #mothers #teaching #beach #ocean #nature #fabric #color #colorful #joy

During my 10 years teaching 16 to 19 year olds we constantly heard we should teach current industry skills, such as Flash actionscript and Dreamweaver.

We preferred to teach more generic skills such as programming principles and HTML. I think we made the right decision.

#teaching #learning #edtech

shirtless triangle head...

#shirtless #trianglehead #triangles #teaching #whiteboard

When you think about high school or (US/Canadian) college gen. ed. history classes, what kind of content and teaching either engaged you or bored you?

Image: Still from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

#History #Teaching

📜🦁 The University of #Aberdeen has digitized the 13th-century Aberdeen Bestiary, one of the most lavish #medieval illuminated manuscripts featuring real and mythological #animals with moral teachings. Once owned by Henry VIII, this educational text served as a #teaching tool combining natural #history with #Christian moral lessons through detailed #illustrations of creatures from #lions to phoenixes.

👉 openculture.com/2025/10/the-ab…

#art #education #literature #christianity #technology #tech

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate and survive nature.

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Distraction from the awfulness

#AirPodsPro #Autumn #Libraries #LibraryAcquisitions #Nature #News #Outdoors #PhysicalHealth #Politics #Teaching

theowfactor.org/2025/09/20/dis…

Distraction from the awfulness

At the risk of coming across as uncaring, I’m finding the need, more and more, to find distraction from the awfulness. I doubt I need to explain what the awfulness is as I’ve made it quite clear ma…

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Learning is a process of trying, experimenting, imitating, practicing, and asking lots and lots of questions.

That's why children are -- before we train them out of it -- such great learners.

We, too, can gain that back by re-learning what we have been trained out of: experimenting, imitating, practicing, and asking lots and lots of questions.

Into the Surf art print -- stevehendersonart.com/featured…

#art #artwork #teaching #family #mastoart #fediart #quote #buyintoart #beach #ocean #color

I like to informally ask my students about halfway through a course what they like and don't like about the course. It doesn't take much more than 10 minutes: I give groups of 3-4 students a single piece of A4 that I divide into four sections (positives, negatives, suggestions for improvement, other comments).

It's always insightful. And not just for me: They often realise that they disagree on some things (e.g., too much or too little of something, too slow or too fast, etc.) and they frequently suggest things that are easy to implement, but can really improve things. And so I've just set up a collaborative document to collect useful shortcuts and a glossary of important #Rstats functions which I've called "Class Cheatsheet". #HigherEd #teaching

I found this posted on the wall at the university where I teach. I love when students have a weird sense of humor like this.

#Shitpost #Memes #Teaching

When the term's grading is finally done.

#humor #humour #cat #cats #catstodon #catsOfMastodon #teaching #university #college #grading