Tag: twitter

All Hands to the Pumps

On Wed 29th Feb, with our senior school out on exam leave for their prelims, and a clear desk (not sure how that happened, but it did) I dipped into my twitter stream and saw this tweet from Glen Gilchrist - Glen's post on PLNs and peer collaboration, details how he and Alexavier Fareheed made...


Background Radiation Map

Whilst covering the radiation part of the S3 Health Physics unit, we got talking about background radiation. Having given up our radioactive sources this is the only kind of radiation we can now measure, so I left the GM tube hooked up to an ALBA interface for about an hour, beeping away randomly, logging the...


#makeuseofglow

I gave a quick 'showcase' demo of Glow at our staff in-service yesterday. Despite a technical hitch - the projector failed 10 minutes into it - I got to show all of my colleagues a few of the things that I think make Glow an valuable tool in education. Encouragingly, a few people have spoken...