Archive for February 11th, 2008
Chain Reaction part 2 – Rube Goldberg machines
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
One of my very first blog posts was about a Chain Reaction project which I carry out with Transition Year students. The technical term for these things is actually Rube Goldberg machines. From Wikipedia: A Rube Goldberg machine is an incredibly overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion [...]
We are all monkeys
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
This is a wonderful four minute clip which trys to dispel the myth that humans and monkeys are completely different. Or that we are supposed to be the clever ones. I play this regularly at the end of a class. It doesn’t seem to have the same affect on students as it did on me [...]
CESI conference 2008
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
I attended the CESI conference over the weekend. It was a wonderful occasion. I hope to blog about the various presentations over the next week or so. I have been to plenty of conferences in the past but can never one where there was such an amount of energy coming from the floor. I think [...]
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