A fun way of keeping your students interested that will only work if you’ve put sufficient thought into the process and you’ve a personality that can pull this off.
This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention - by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lessons that lasted [...]
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Inform your students you will tell one lie each class
June 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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Plush roadkill animals
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Woo. I wouldn’t want one of these but they are really cool.
Just when you think plushy creations can’t get more weird, here comes a macabre soft toy creator in the UK who recreates roadkill. Currently you can choose from Twitch the Racoon or Grind the Rabbit complete with toe tags, tyre marks and cute giblets [...]
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Most beautiful spiral staircases
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Some of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the world have a spiral stair as the final flourish. The spiral stair is an architects favorite, from Gaudi to Corbusier to Foster, but some of the most interesting spiral stairs are accidental pieces of architecture, such as those inside lighthouses or on giant silos and [...]
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Gore picks up Nobel
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Yay. Shame nothing is going to get done, the political will for this does not exist.
Please note, lame political trolling on this post will not be tolerated. Geez, least you guys could do is be more subtle. At least pretend it is genuine or something, but block posting anti-Gore and anti-global warming comments, that is [...]
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Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store
April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
And about time, EMI leads the way and the other…
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Zapping Trash With Plasma Produces Clean Energy and Fuel and Unicorns
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Maybe not unicorns but everything else is … t…
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Bush Whacked
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments
As if we didn’t already know this but Bush is t…
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330 foot deep whole appears in a city … falling occurs
February 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment
A 330-foot-deep sinkhole swallowed abou…
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