Archive for March 2009
The Chemistry Hour
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 27, 2009
The Chemistry Hour Gerard Bullett Now let me praise, not famous men, But men who, for little reward, Scattered the floor of my dusty pen With crumbs of truth from a cherished hoard, And in particular him who came, On Tuesday and Friday, praise the Lord, Hoping to set our hearts aflame [...]
Shhh, I got me this sweet deal goin’ on
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 25, 2009
Don’t tell anyone. I got a got a sweet deal with my bosses and I want to share it with just you. Keep it to yourself. These are in no particlular order. What have I left out? See where I work nobody checks up on me. I get paid over 60 grand a year and my [...]
‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ online science game
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 20, 2009
Wonderful online science game - who knew learning could be fun? Bring the class down to the computer lab and have them play in teams of mixed ability. Millionaires get no homework. But watch out – it’s a little addictive. Who wants to be a millionaire? These and more from Jefferson Lab.
Why aren’t we teaching about global warming in schools?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 18, 2009
Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories we’ll be lucky to get away with four degrees. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse [...]
Podcast on Leaving Cert definitions
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 16, 2009
After taking so much time to put the last podcast together on neutrinos and then post about it, the hosting site Podomatic went down for maintanance for 24 hours. So I don’t know how that affected your feed, but if you got nothing then for once it wasn’t my fault. Unless the reason it went down [...]
Neutrinos they are very small
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 11, 2009
I posted about neutrinos recently, but didn’t do them justice (John Updike’s poem excepted). So I’m taking a second stab at it. I usually include (what I consider to be) interesting tit-bits at the end of the relevant chapter in the Student Notes, but at five pages this would be too much. so I’m going [...]
thephysicsteacher.ie gets a mention in the paper – nice one.
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 8, 2009
It was nice to see thephysicsteacher.ie promoted in a revision page in The Irish Times recently. One of my students spotted this on a teachers’ door. Thanks Evan for pointing it out. One of these days I should really make the site look a bit more presentable.
Dissection – great fun entirely
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 4, 2009
I have been experiencing a renaissance in my teaching life ever since I decided to embrace my ignorance on all issues biological (still can’t learn to love Chemistry unfortunately, but there may still be time). We did heart dissections the other day. I spent an evening searching for related videos on youtube. I am a firm [...]
What would Jesus do?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 1, 2009
If Jesus was around today, would he use Powerpoint? Would he have an Interactive WhiteBoard? Would he twitter/blog/youtube/podcast/mindmap/moodle? Would he give out about the syllabus? What would be his homework policy? Could he turn the other cheek to Batt? The following does the rounds every now and again: Then Jesus took his disciples up the [...]
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