Internet findings (5)

maipenquynh on 14. December 2024

💻|👩‍💻 Scratch-Kindergeburtstag (Scratch children's birthday party)
The post from ben_ surprisingly took me back to the time when I worked at a primary school for a while and I was checking out STEM for this age group. Scratch, an ‘educational block-based visual programming language for children and adolescents’ (original source is the german version of the Wikipedia entry „Scratch (Programmiersprache)“was part of the outcome. I was very fascinated by this interface between programming and school. Now I've talked a lot about myself, though I just wanted to say: ben_'s enthusiasm in his text about the Scratch-Kindergeburtstag (Scratch children's birthday party) threw me right back into my own enthusiasm.

💻|📹 BeatUp
Via the text Der lange Marsch zu Dir selbst by ben_ I cam across the project BeatUp . This project is about young people from Hamburg producing professional music videos with experts. I have a soft spot for projects and initiatives in which children are allowed to get involved and create something themselves. It's all about self-efficacy. Even if it's not locally relevant for me, I think something like this should be seen!

💻|📷 Best Film Camera Finder – 5-Question Quiz to Reveal Your Options
Even though eventually everyone does their own research before buying an analogue camera: The 5 parameters of the Best Film Camera Finder by Dmitri help to get a rough orientation. Be it at the very beginning, when you first start looking for a camera, or in between, to check whether the chosen camera is among the suggestions. For me it was the latter and the quiz helped me not to forget my priorities for a new camera (*cough*).

💻| 🔌 Netzgeflüster: Es muss mehr über das Energieproblem von Gen AI (KI) gesprochen werden
Since reading Miss Booleana 's text, I always halt shortly when someone tells me in which situations or for which things ChatGPT is used. The questions and tasks for which ChatGPT is used are so insignificant compared to the energy consumption. Before the holidays, I need to read about the energy problem of Gen AI on Miss Booleana's blog.

🎧|🖊 GAG480: Kein Klecks – die Erfindung des Kugelschreibers
After Miss Booleana introduced me to the podcast Geschichten aus der Geschichte (GAG; Stories from History) months ago, I lost there every now and then. Most recently it was the episode about the invention of the ballpoint pen. This is an object I use every day and have never asked myself how it was invented. That's what GAG is good for!

📱|📚 Bookshop Spotlight
It's no longer a secret that I'm quite fond of book places.This includes bookshops, and through the bookshop in my town, I recently came across this Instagram account: Bookshop Spotlight. German bookshops are put in the spotlight and presented there.

💻|📷 Blogventskalender – Tür 1
Lucky us that I this edition of Internet findings is posted in December. Then you still have a few days of the blog advent calendar from blogventskalender by Fotografierenden Lehrerin. Every day she posts a photo that has received a lot of likes on Twitter/X, in ascending order (you can find more details from her in the post for the first door, see above - german though). It might be helpful to mention she likes to take photos using puddles. My favourites so far are Tür 5, Tür 9 and Tür 11.

Internet findings (2) + 1 Off-topic

maipenquynh on 6. July 2024

📖 A visit to Books on the Hill and a mini Daphne du Maurier exhibit
Michelle from the blog Daisybutter likes to visit places with books. This isn't the first post I've read from her where she visits one of these wonderful book places. But it's the first time I took the note to visit more bookshops and lose myself in these wonderful places. Especially in the small bookshops. Of course libraries are included in the wonderful book places!

📷 Each negative holds a thousand photographs
Jim Grey writes on his blog Down The Road about how one (1) film negative can bring out thousand positives (this is quite the blog post title). What Jim Grey writes is as simple as true. I can't even really describe what this post has done with me. But something revelatory, in a positive way. Especially his statement in response to the question of what is the truth in photography has touched a soft spot in my personal photographic development.

📷 Sean Tucker (YouTube channel)
I stumbled across the YouTube channel by Sean Tucker . He talks about photography, with focus on the "how". And even though I have only seen two (2) of his videos so far, they made me wanting see more of his videos. His style and his videos are pleasantly calm and slowing down. His content has an effect. I've already seen other videos' thumbnails that sound interesting but I want to take the time to watch each one.
The first video I watched was the following one: Making Candid Portraits in Street Photography (feat. Dawn Eagleton). Dawn Eagleton is a street photographer I haven't known before and it was very interesting to see how she works. Even though street photography is not my cup of tea, I really enjoy listening to others on this subject.

Only english content today but that's how it is. (This sentence obviously makes more sense in the german version of this post.)

🐧 Off-topic: I feel a bit uneasy as I haven't brought any blog post to an end recently. A number of posts have been drafted already and most of the post is finished. But I just haven't got round to finishing them. Mainly because the finalization must be done on the laptop/computer and on a lot of days, I didn't have the energy or just didn't want to have more screen time. A small disadvantage of blogging... 😫