Sandy Kendell @SandyKendell@qoto.org

I must say, that even in the last few days since I joined Mastodon I’ve seen a culture shift - more #politics, more ‘hot takes’, less discussion, fewer #CWs, less #AltText. I hope it’s a blip and urge newbies like me not to unwittingly play out the #coloniser #stereotypes and ride roughshod over the existing culture. It’s a lovely, gentle, curious #community here, would be awful to ruin it because we’re conditioned to something worse.

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” -Seneca #Stoic #Quote I feel like I am trying to find more people to learn from on Mastodon, as I once did on Twitter and other social media. 🙂

I am now compiling a list of all servers who may have an interest in joining the United Federation of Instances.

Quite a few instances have already signed up.

Please reach out to me, all servers of any size are welcome!

This is non binding, its just to get a preliminary list. You can withdrawl at any time and dont have to go through the application process. I just want to know what servers to reach out to once we begin kicking things off.

If you are a server admin please let me know **in DM** if you have an interest and I will add you to the (for now) private list. I want to only release the list once we have enough momentum so please respond in DM only.

for those who are new to this you can read the proposal here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

You can read the early draft of the full bylaws here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf

Both of these will still undergo a lot of modification. For information on how to join the conversation see this post:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109433298021890915

You can see the progress and conversation specifically at the official repo here:

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi #mastoadmin

"Education as a whole is not a problem waiting to be fixed but a set of issues, problems, and opportunities to be addressed." (Weller, 2022).

I'm an advocate for #DesignThinking. Not as a way of solving problems but as a way of exploring the world. This idea comes from Jon Kolko, a designer.

This thinking helps push past the idea that #education is broken and opens up to us (educators) the opportunity to explore issues, opportunities and problems and develop new approaches (small) based on evidence and feedback.

This is me just unpacking my thinking. 😋 @edutooters

I am starting my own 14 Days of Create-mas!
I hope you enjoy it!
#edutooer #edutoot #edtech #tlchat https://www.tech4schoollibrarians.com/it-is-beginning-to-look-like-create-mas/

I will die on this hill telling everyone that wants to write opinion pieces about this platform over the next few months that THIS IS A MAMMOTH, NOT A MASTODON!!!! Please #mastodon, help.

“Let’s not forget how many Republicans have chosen to minimize the Jan. 6 attack, which included insurrectionists wearing shirts emblazoned with ‘Camp Auschwitz’ and ‘6MWNE,’ that is, six million were not enough.”

https://america.substack.com/p/hello-nazis-and-nazism-are-bad

It's time for our Friday #news #quiz!

Early reviews are it's a bit harder this week, but let us know what you think.

6-20% of the U.S. population is deficient in what vitamin, which is only found in foods from animal sources?

https://theconversation.com/the-conversation-u-s-weekly-news-quiz-189437
#Trivia #Fun #Nutrition

Do you know that Mastodon support groups ? ... via other services of the Fediverse.

Here is an article :
https://raphael-jolivet.name/en/blog/groups-in-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

Summary :

➡️ https://a.gup.pe/ : ad-hoc groups, not moderated.

➡️ https://chirp.social/ & https://groups.qoto.org/ : Managed groups, moderated

➡️ https://join-lemmy.org/ : Federated clone of Reddit. You can follow and react (like & comment) to topics from Mastodon but not create them yet.

➡️ https://joinmobilizon.org/ : You can follow public announces & events.

Google has free fonts that are THAWsome for wintertime.

You can add these to the Fonts menu in Google Workspace apps and you can download them from fonts.google.com.

#teaching #EduTooter #GoogleEdu @edutooters #fonts #googleslides #edtech

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html