Archive for April 2008
More youtube and some Flickr
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 25, 2008
Decided it was time to see what I could do with Flickr, so I spent the day taking photos of Junior Cert Science demo apparatus. The plan is that I will show this to students and they will have to name the demonstration. Hopefully it will help the second-years revise for Summer exams. It must [...]
The Photoelectric Effect
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 24, 2008
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I have been trying to get this to work for years, without success. And then recently I tried it again and lo and behold it worked like a dream! Part of the problem was that if the day was even slightly humid the gold leaf electroscope wouldn’t hold its charge. Secondly it had to be [...]
Excellent resource for Power points
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 21, 2008
I don’t tend to use Power-Point much. ‘Not sure why; guess I can never stay still long enough to give a formal-type lesson. I did however use Education Using PowerPoint a few years back and was very impressed. It’s a very extensive set of resources, put together and managed by Will Richards. A complete set (including [...]
Do you teach a modern language? If so subscribe to Joe Dale now!
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 21, 2008
There are a whole lot of education blogs out there, but one of the very best has to be Joe Dale’s “Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom“. He gave a presentation at the CESI conference this year and people had to be turned away at the door. Every subject needs to have a [...]
Queerer than you can suppose: Dawkins on ted.com
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 16, 2008
I’m not RIchard Dawkins biggest fan (I know; like he’s worried); for someone who holds the Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science he seems to take enormous delight on slighting those he disagrees with – particularly in relation to Creationism. However it is in relation to extolling the wonder of science that [...]
Microscale Vacuum Apparatus
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 13, 2008
This went down well at the ISTA conference in Letterkenny at the weekend where I was demonstrating as part of the Science on Stage team and I promised people I would let them know where I got it, so here it is: teachersource.com There is a lot more where this came from. I posted a [...]
Just getting the hang of this camera lark
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 4, 2008
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I figured it was time to buy me a camera so I after considerable research (thanks Rory) I went for the Panasonic FZ-18 above from amazon. Now it’s time to play
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