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February 18, 2008

Accessibility makes it to the Super Bowl ad frenzy

Here’s a great ad. Click it to start. PS. You don’t need to adjust the audio on your computer.

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February 9, 2008

Lost and found in SF

Thursday night I was wandering around SF with a friend who was in town for a training (she was born and raised in SF, but has been in NC for almost 20 years). After going up Coit Tower (neither of us had before!), we wandered up the curvy part of Lombard Street on our way to a restaurant (Alive on...

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January 19, 2008

A great article on Peace by an old friend

I’m helping to organize my Berkeley High 30th year reunion this fall, and in the process am catching up with some old friends as well as making some new ones (BHS was–and still is–a big school, you didn’t know everyone). Joey Yovino-Young wrote a great piece in the Berkeley Daily Planet that I’d recommend: In the Beginning is the Word.

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December 8, 2007

Grade Machine is dead, long live Grade Machine

The grading program I have been using for over ten years, Grade Machine, has been purchased by an educational conglomerate (Pearson), who will discontinue support for it effective August 31, 2008. They have posted a “License editor” that allows users to generate the registration key required to re-install the program (you need the serial number from your purchase). The nice...

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October 29, 2007

Comet 17/P Holmes starting to light up the sky

There’s a comet that’s starting to sparkle the night sky: Comet 17/P Holmes. It is said to look quite nice with binoculars or a small telescope, but is also visible with the naked eye. NASA has a great 2D model of the comet’s orbit. (You’ll need Java, but almost all computers these days have it installed.) I’ll post more soon,...

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October 29, 2007

Book review: How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom

I haven’t read How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom yet, but it is available to read online, and a quick skim of it enticed me to come back soon for more. From the web site: How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical...

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August 8, 2007

Into North Dakota

I made it across the Mississippi today! Guess that means I’m in “the West.” I crossed the Big Muddy where it isn’t so big, nor so muddy, in Brainerd, MN. If memory serves me right, Brainerd is the city where Marge Gunderson is from in the movie Fargo. Well, put a physics teacher behind the wheel of a car for...

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August 1, 2007

Wonderful talk by George Coyne

The capstone of my time here was a talk by George Coyne, SJ. Coyne talk was titled “Dance of the Fertile Universe: Cosmic and Human Evolution.”Coyne is the former Director of the Vatican Observatory (1978-2006), and has written extensively debunking the “Intelligent Design” theory. He gave a quick history of the universe (“if the universe is one year old, scientists...

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August 1, 2007

So that’s what it feels like…

I’m usually really good at directions. I can spend a few hours in a town and have a good sense of which way is north, where to catch the bus, where the health food store is, etc. However, for some reason I have Greensboro upside down. I keep thinking that the north direction is south. Which leads me to mix...

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July 31, 2007

Slow day… ?

Today was kind of a slow day. I let myself sleep in–till 8:00 🙂 I saw one plenary speaker who discussed his role in international physics education. I found it interesting at the time, but can’t remember many of the details now. The second plenary speaker was Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500, speaking on...

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