Work Notes

A group of Southern Hemisphere Microsoft experts are running a month of live broadcasts under the hashtag M365May, more info Helen Blunden ran a session on How to Build Your Personal Learning Plan Notes Here are my rough notes and links to resources that Helen mentions: modelling based on most interesting project you have learned from - apply those ways of learning to your work think about filtering content you find using hashtags - in other words the early beginnings of establishing your own trusted sources the things we learned at school and university are often not used at all, and when they are the knowledge becomes obsolete more and more quickly - see Buckminster Fuller Knowledge Doubling (as augmented by IBM), see Half Life of Facts learning through connections and networks - see Microsoft “Where Work Gets Done), see Harold Jarche PKM Create personal learning plan (Helen’s approach, this bit mostly in her words) what’s the problem what do you need to achieve?

And then a whole month had gone without publishing a weeknote. The lockdown phenomenon of days blending together, combined with deep focus to support colleagues in pivoting to online delivery. We’re starting to move beyond simple digital replacements of one-day seminars (even though they have been very successful), and have started building out a six week whole-school-staff CPD course into Moodle. With a much reduced team, my time has been split between operational support to colleagues practising the mechanics of live seminars, configuring new resources in Moodle, minor software upkeep of a couple of applications (including merging new plugins and upstream changes into our Moodle build) and a bigger technical architecture project.

Initial use case - easily grab Kindle notes and post to markdown blog read clipboard convert HTML to MD output md file or paste to clipboard

A tool to create a static archive from a Federated Wiki instance or farm. pass base url(s) as parameter iterate over wikis Retrieve site map iterate pages retrieve page json convert to HTML save as file Update Consider this or this for possible retrieval shortcut and insight to json data structure

Adaptations…

In terms of work this was the first full week of distributed working. I spent a fair bit of time coaching colleagues on how to work more effectively using Teams. I think one of the hardest things for people who are first exposed to the messaging side of the application is to learn a more considered approach when posting in a channel. The difference between a new post and a comment seems very hard for some people to pick up, and I think the app could do more to signal to people that channel chat and messaging chat behave differently.

The lessons from abandoning focus time reporting, and adapting to life under Corona

Moving wiki to a new server

Setting up smallest federated wiki on a new server

Kaizen Compared to the previous week, the reverse trend - higher working hours but lower total focus hours and focus percentage. PomoDoneAnalysis week 2020-W07 Looking at the year to date the change from the previous week is striking. Ratio of focus time to working time, 2020 weeks 1-7 I’m clear about the root cause. As I mentioned last week, we had an all-day, all-staff meeting on Wednesday. Not only did this take up almost all the day, but I found it really broke my flow in the middle of the week.