Archive for April 2007
Progress is slow
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 29, 2007
Have been playing with electrostatics quite a bit lately, partly to try and establish how to guarantee that the demos will work as expected (see previous blog). When it works well it is actually very impressive, but taking a video of this gives the impression that it is always this straightforward, which is not at [...]
Bloody Electrostatics demonstrations
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 23, 2007
Got up at 6:30 this morning to be in school at 7:15 to have lots of time to prepare for a form 5 class on electrostatics which I wanted to film. Now I’m not normally this dedicated, but because it was being videod (‘videoed’?) I wanted to get everything right. Electrostatics is dodgy at the [...]
‘now back to the books, which are less important’
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 22, 2007
I was reading an article in the Liffey Champion last night about Michael Hanly, who is working for Concern and spent quite a few years in Zimbabwe teaching in a rural school and working with the local development authority. Part of the piece reads: As past pupil of Belvedere College it was there that he [...]
Horrible Experiments
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 18, 2007
There are four mandatory experiments to do with Heat on the leaving cert syllabus. And we always do them. And, apart from the first, they can all give horrible (and I mean horrible) answers. I warn the troops in advance and suggest that a percentage of under 30% would be acceptable. It’s not unusual for [...]
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