Floods in the UK

Doctor Foster went to GloucesterIn a shower of rain.He fell in a puddleRight up to his middleAnd never went there again. But remember, kids: global warming’s just something Al Gore made up coz he was sore at losing the election.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Not sure why I read this stuff, as I have no connection whatever to education in the US, but a couple of posts recently caught my eye, one on the Freakanomics blog, and the other on Pissed Off (Teacher). Stephen Dubner of Freakanomics, dips into the mailbag and quotes this correspondent: Hi guys. I know [...]

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Al Gore presents…

From a link on Harold Jarche’s blog, I discovered Garr Reynold’s blog in which he recently analyzed some presentations given at the TED 2006 conference. Well, today in my Google Reader was a link to Jay Cross’ Google Reader Shared Items page, and no 2 was Al Gore’s presentation at TED 2006. I have yet [...]

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A different work/play space

As a follow-up to my previous post on work environment, here’s a pic of a different environment my partner-in-crime has created in a room which was not provided for that purpose. Unfortunately, this room will have to be dismantled in a few weeks, so I guess this photo has historical value! There’s of course nothing [...]

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Your teaching environment

It’s a meme that’s going around. No-one tagged me (yet, boo-hoo), but this blog post by Eric, complete with neat Gliffy diagram) sparked my imagination. Where I work, we’re not allowed to put things on the walls or leave non-standard (i.e. personalized) furniture in any classroom. The classrooms don’t belong to any teacher, or any [...]

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