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Entries Tagged as 'Books'

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

S6 Premiere: ‘In Holland Stands A House’

This evening I ventured back to Knox Academy. The S6 Drama class were performing a version of ‘In Holland Stands A House’ by Sue Saunders and directed by John Naples-Campbell. John is a good friend and colleague of mine who teaches Drama at Knox Academy.
This is one of the events leading up to National Holocaust Memorial [...]

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Excel Works

As I mentioned in my last post, I was down in London for the Easter weekend. As you will be aware the GNER Journeys roughly take around four and a half hours from Waverley to King’s Cross. In past Journeys I have occupied my time mainly with marking. However, during this particular one I decided [...]

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Factoid 4: 1001 Uses Of Vinegar (AH Investigation?)

There are many great book shops in Edinburgh aside to Waterstone’s. My favorites include the secondhand shops in Stockbridge and on the Bridges. They are great for trawling if you don’t really know what you are looking for, but if you do, they are probably useless (I hope you know what I mean). One particular [...]

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

teachingexpertise.com

This is an up and coming new site. Though still in its elementary stages, it looks like it could be a ‘gold mine’ in the near future.
Teaching Expertise
The site was launched in November 2006 with three main areas:
Archive of articles
Archive of appointments
Shop (publications that can be purchased)
Although it’s not specific to Biology and Science, [...]

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I Want Your Ideas!

As you may have noticed, I am currently collecting information on ‘Useful Websites’. I want to create a catalogue of sites that are/will be particularly relevant to Science Teachers and Learners across Scotland. Initially, I am looking for sites that relate to my field; Science and Biology. This week I have asked my pupils to [...]

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Breaking into HTML

I am still in the midst of investigating many blogs, podcasts, the wonderful world of HTML. In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser, it is a code. HTML is used to structure information, [...]