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Most days, I sit here worrying my pretty little head with the question What is Google Wave good for? (to the tune of Edwin Starr’s earworm Wave, huh, yeah / What is it good for / Absolutely nothing / Say it again). But slowly, the light is beginning to dawn.
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We continue on with a discussion about physicians, nurses and others in the healthcare system ignoring some patients’ modesty concerns and the need for a gender selection option offered to patients who wish to have their say in who examines and treats them. ..Maurice.
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“Here about the beach I wander, Nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, And the long results of time.”- Alfred Tennyson
The Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era featured coral reefs in shallow seas, and abundant life – jawless fish, sea scorpions, nautiloid cephalopods, [...]

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At the ESTICT event yesterday, Steve Draper threw out some challenging comments, as expected. For me, the most interesting was not about electronic voting systems (EVS), but about PowerPoint. Steve made the point that primary and secondary education have not sold their souls to PowerPoint as HE has done. One of the main reasons [...]

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Today I’ll be helping out at the ESTICT (Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology) event here in Leicester. Mostly I’ll be doing this by staying out of the way, keeping my opinions to myself and doing exactly what I’m told. Well, I might venture the odd tweet using hashtag #estict
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On two occasions last week I came up against The History Problem:
When do you teach the history of a subject?
If you leave the history until later in a course, students have no context on which to hang the facts: Why are you telling us all this stuff?
If you discuss the history early on, students [...]