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Alpha Metals Recycling was founded in 2004 by Edie Comminos , is the third-generation of her family, in the scrap metal industry. She is driven with a passion for the scrap metal business and a mission to set new standards in service, Edie has grown Alpha Metals to one of the top providers of metal recycling solutions in Chicago.
Today, Alpha Metals specializes in industrial services that maximize commodity values for scrap metal produced as a by-product of the manufacturing industry. Alpha Metals is firmly committed to providing value to our customers through premium service with personal relationships, a hands-on approach, and providing fair and competitive pricing.
On May 1, 2018, Edie was named Woman Business Owner of the Year by National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Chicago Chapter, an organization that recognizes an entrepreneur who excels at strategy, operations, finances, problem solving, overcomes adversity and gives back to her community.
With Edie at the helm, Alpha Metals Recycling is helping to redefine the metal scrap industry, with trust, knowledge and integrity.
Steve Rosenberg brings over 40 years experience in inventory management, logistics and greater operational efficiencies to Alpha Metal Recycling, as well as a seasoned scrap business perspective.
Prior to joining Alpha Metal Recycling in 2018, Rosenberg was Vice President and General Operations Manager at Scher Scrap Metal Company. At Scher, Rosenberg began from the ground level, learning all facets of the scrap business, eventually assuming the role of Vice President and General Operations Manager, with complete control and responsibility over every aspect of Scher.
Rosenberg prides himself on the longstanding relationships he has built over time with customers. As Vice President of Operations at Alpha Metal Recycling, he looks forward to further developing those relationships and building an even wider base of satisfied customers.
Renee Zastro joined Alpha Metal Recycling in 2017 as Director of Operations. In 2018, Zastro was promoted to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales. In her expanded new role, Zastro oversees daily operations and spearheads the development of growth strategies. As part of her responsibilities, Zastro manages the buying and selling of scrap metals and establishing the pricing levels for various metal categories.
Zastro's new position builds on her longtime industry experience. Before joining Alpha Metal Recycling, Zastro worked 13 years for Schiabo Larovo, the Stainless Steel and Alloy Division of SIMS Metal Management. The closing of that division led her to the Alpha Metal Recycling opportunity.
Zastro is a member of the Homer Glen Junior Women's Club and attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A Chicago native, Zastro lives with her husband Tony and son Dominic in Homer Glen, Illinois.


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This fabulous tour has a great mixture of culture, history, seaside fun and city exploring. Take in the beauty of St Andrews, visit the award-winning Glamis Castle, enjoy some exploring in the fair city of Perth and even experience the brand-new Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee.
Glamis Castle & the Fair CityVisit the finest castle in Scotland, winner of the best attraction award for the UK 2015. The castle is famed as being the childhood home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. After our guided tour of the castle we head to Perth, once upon a time the capital of Scotland and a picturesque playground for kings and queens. Today, the city is laced with gorgeous city architecture and an intriguing royal history.
Victoria & Albert Museum & City of DiscoveryDundee's hugely anticipated V&A Museum opened in September 2018 and tells a global story, investigating the international importance of designalongside presenting Scotland's outstanding design achievements. Entry is free but there may be some charges for certain exhibition areas. Laterin the day you can explore the rest of the this waterfront city which hosts attractions including the Discovery Point detailing Captain Scott'sremarkable Antarctic expedition.
Stately St Andrews & ArbroathWe head south to St Andrews – the world famous home of golf. As well as great sporting tradition the town also offers two fine beaches and a variety of individual shops, cafes and restaurants. On the way home we stop off at Arbroath which is famous for the "Smokie" (flamed haddock). Attractions include the beach, marina and the Abbey.
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The Park Hotel is located in the centre of Montrose only a few minutes' walk from the busy high street and the beach. There is an elegant restaurant serving a varied menu and a nice bar for you to sit and relax in. The hotel has been refurbished to a very good standard and has been awarded the TripAdvisor certificate of excellence. Outside there are beautiful gardens for you to enjoy and inside there will be some evening entertainment. There is no lift but plenty of bedrooms are on the ground floor.
Our free Door to Door service is available to customers within 15 miles of Dunfermline / Edinburgh / Bathgate / Glasgow / Paisley / East Kilbride / Hamilton.
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Lower School News
by Shauna Hobbs, Director of Teaching and Learning
How do we ensure that students who are exposed to multiple sets of academic standards in both English and Portuguese have consistent experiences? This challenge has become Graded's teaching and learning "problem of practice." To increase academic achievement and prepare students to excel, Graded is committed to providing a rigorous education while aligning curriculum and academic expectations.
Developing a Consistent Schoolwide Curriculum
During Graded's Strategic Plan process, focus groups identified the need for a consistent experience for students, regardless of the language of instruction. Using stakeholder input as well as academic achievement data, the strategic plan outlines goals and initiatives that ensure that courses are vertically aligned, scaffolding from one grade level to the next. We want to develop quality assessments that ensure consistency in PP-12 structures and expectations in both English and Portuguese courses. By vertically aligning standards across languages, we can provide a seamless transition between our Lower School, Middle School, and High School, as well as between our Portuguese and English curricula.
We are deepening our understanding of academic standards and expectations. This is done through the creation of learning targets, and development of a PP-12 vertical alignment focused on quality formative and summative assessments. The process of curriculum work requires the identification and prioritization of skills and content necessary for students to be successful from year to year. To ensure that Graded students have what they need for future success, the goal is to go deep and narrow the number of standards taught in both languages and across content areas. By doing this we ensure from grade to grade that students have the skills necessary for increasing academics. Faculty are utilizing the research of Larry Ainsworth, to select the most important standards to be mastered (power standards) using three criteria: readiness, leverage, and the knowledge of the student in the classroom.
Finding Alignment Between US and Brazilian National Standards
The release of new Brazilian National Standards, the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) provides us with an opportune time for teachers to begin discussing the commonalities between the American Education Reaches Out (AERO) standards and the BNCC.
The rationale for the discussion centers on the experience of the Brazilian student whose instructional day is primarily in English and with a lesser percentage of instruction in the first language of Portuguese. Individual courses and instruction across all content areas are strong, but there is a need for academic experiences between the two curricula to be systemically connected.
A focus on common skills emphasizes the student's educational experience in English. Language development research shows that instruction of common skills in both languages enhances the heritage language and increases academic achievement.
Recognizing that the foundations of both standards--AERO and the BNCC--are aligned, we have started this process by creating a document evaluating the commonalities between AERO and BNCC most important skills and content and focusing on correlating academic skills.
After completing the vertical alignment of their PP-12 expectations, the English and Portuguese departments are correlating standards across languages. The vertical alignment of PP-12 standards inclusive of common skills, outcomes, and mastery expectations will result in a more rigorous, deeper experience for students, regardless of the language of instruction.
This process of linking the AERO standards with the BNCC standards has sparked conversations. How we can use one set of standards to support the other set of standards? How can we enable teachers to articulate when and why the one set of standards may support the other standards in depth? Discussing the meaning of the different standards has prompted richer, deeper conversations between English and Portuguese teachers. This work is resulting in common faculty understandings of the various skills students need.
Bringing Alignment to Assessments and Next Steps
As we finalize the linking of the AERO and BNCC standards PP-12, we are also evaluating how to align our assessments. Utilizing common assessments in English and Portuguese that have similar skills and common standards provides us with an evaluation of similar skills in both languages. The results will allow faculty to address and to understand student needs.
Assessing common power standards to evaluate skills and areas of challenges in both languages is a way to identify students who have academic needs that go beyond language development. While evaluation is only one data point, the results help to support the identification of bilingual students who may need cognitive supports in addition to second language services.
We are still a long way from being finished, but this work on standards and assessments has allowed us to address our problem of practice. It has started us down a road of providing a seamless experience for all students in grades PP-12 both vertically and across languages. It has also created some unintended positive results, including curricular conversations between foreign and Brazilian faculty about definitions of rigor and academic expectations.


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From the cultural appearance of artificial intelligence and automated trading, Pollock's works have inspired technological innovation, which seems to be impossible. How did abstract expressionism flow to the cultural reappearance of artificial intelligence and automated trading? On the evening of December 12, 2017, as the last lecture of the "Leonardo Art, Science and Technology Series" lectures, Arne De Boever gave a lecture entitled "Automatic Art, Automated Trading". Arne De Boever taught in the Department of Criticism and Research, California Institute of the Arts, teaching on a course of American studies, and he also serves as Director of the postgraduate course in aesthetics and political science. Although he is a teacher from the Institute of the Arts, Arne De Boever is neither an artist nor an art historian. At the lecture, he borrowed from his unique literary and economic background to explore the relationship between automatic art and the current automated trading & artificial intelligence.
Jackson Pollock was an abstract expressionist painter whose art was called "automatic art", which was a direct analogy with one of the most abstract and complex recent neoliberal financial zones, namely the automatic trading or the trading of "black box". This discussion also led to another abstract and complex area, namely artificial intelligence. Automated trading is driven by a program of artificial intelligence.
Automatic Art and Automated Trading
In order to explain the relationship between Pollock and both, Arne first introduced the current economic environment and its operation. Starting with the classic M-C-M', he further elaborated the renovating theory of space and time by Steven Shaviro. At present, the capitalist financial system is no longer the market that relies on commodities shown by classical Marxism, while it often relies on financial instruments such as mortgages, securities, insurance and even student loans. Securities and stock exchanges are not crowded anymore, while people have supervision roles of the numbers, namely the so-called algorithm rather than an actual operation, and the HFT, the rapid, complex and abstract financial capitalism, poses a tremendous challenge to present a realistic performance, including both the economic theory and the art.
Prof. Arne believed that it was in need of speculative aesthetics rather than post-modern aesthetics at present. The private and unmanageable high-frequency-trading environment corresponds to the physics concepts of dark matter and black holes. In this financial reality, the essential question is: how does art help us to recognize or think of the contemporary technological infrastructure of the digital economy, and how is contemporary wealth created and produced? What can art do in this environment? Under the context of this question, we discuss Pollock's works.
Automatic Art and Financial Novels
What kind of works of art appear in financial fiction? In the first neo-liberal novel "American Psycho", which was the first financial novel, Bret Easton Ellis wrote many works by contemporary artists, but these works were just symbols of wealth. "Conceptual Art" explained the conceptual art that was born in the advent of the financial age, and both had a relationship with communion or parallel relationships. The first exhibition exclusively on conceptual art was held in 1970, at the beginning of the era of financial neoliberalism. Conceptual art has something in common with financial tools in its de-materialization, so that the appearance of works of art in financial fiction depicting financial markets is not only a sign of wealth, but also reminds people of the aesthetics – how wealth is produced in the financial age? The works in financial novels can be viewed in a conceptual sense, and contemporary art has become a tool to perfectly produce value. Prof. Arne took Jeff Koons and Damien Steven Hirst of YBA as examples, to demonstrate the conformity of contemporary art and finance.
Michael Houellebecq's "La Carte et le Territoire" denied the art and value of the two artists previously mentioned, in the first chapter. Prof. Arne thought Houellebecq succeeded in describing the present financial environment in a realistic way, by describing the life of an artist. Pollock's work appeared in Houellebecq's novel with a major image. Pollock's work became the source of inspiration for the hero's success in Teday Wayne's Kapitoil. Human and artificial intelligence which has a different understanding on Pollock's work which pushed the storyline of Alex Garland's film of "Ex Machina".
Automatic Art and Artificial Intelligence
Pollock's work plays an important role in both novels and movies. Pollock was born during the Great Depression in the United States. His work is reminiscent of the freedom of human expression, while the artificial intelligence is often associated with monitoring society and black-box society. Prof. Arne said Pollock's work was not directly related to the two. Pamela Lee's "Think-Tank Aesthetics" stated that Pollock considered his works as reproductions, while Lee connected it with the military organizations in the United States in the Cold-War era, calling it "a combination of military and aesthetics". During the Cold-War era, intelligence agencies such as the CIA analyzed the abstract form to find the object of reappearance, and predicted the enemy's actions based on an analysis of the result. Lee believed that the three fields of anthropology, military affairs and art should be brought together, in order to see the parallel relations between them both again under the historical conditions of the time. This relationship was not only established at that time, while the things that the military organizations were interested in have continued in the current digital age.
Which artists continue Pollock's ideas? Tyson's "Junction Box" placed variances in the algorithms so that it automatically generated an artwork and became the contemporary "Automatic Art". In the curatorial field, curator Aude Launay used the algorithms invented by Canadian artists to make an exhibition. Artists using algorithms for art have also started to focus on the financial sector. One of projects by the French art group RYBN is an art project on tax havens. RYBN treats finance as a playground for the art, observing finance in an artistic way. Prof. Arne believed that RYBN was a contemporary successor to the issues raised by Lee's discussion of Pollock, and beyond Lee's combination of military and aesthetics, it reveals a mixture of military, aesthetics and economy, and the issues of mixture, which were discussed in this lecture, are worth being explored.
Text by Wu Huixia, translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO
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Winterton Rangers fine recent form has taken them into that prized sixth spot in Toolstation NCEL Division One –and tonight they'll attempt to resist Hallam's attempts to break into the Play-Off picture when the sides meet at Sandygate, writes Colin Muncie.
Winterton Manager Rob Watson told the Bootiful Game "We're expecting a tough game and feel we must win again to stay in Play-Off contention. Hallam have been free scoring and we will have to be solid again -like we were against Yorkshire Amateur".


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Well, today is my birthday.
No big party here, just a regular day with some time for reflections and musing.
Okay...I am 53.
No homestead yet.
Don't even own a patch of dirt to call my own.
I have dreams and goals and plans and , hopefully, they will all come to fruition.
What have I done with my life...what have I actually accomplished that wouldn't have happened except for my presence?
I have had 7 kids
Started one non-profit
Physically saved 2 lives
Rehabbed around 17 houses
Married 3 times
Divorced 3 times,heh.
Been in love several times.
Had a few guys fall in love with me.
Planted several thousand trees
Hunted and killed 6 deer, innumerable rabbits and squirrels, 1 elk, various *varmit* animals.
Been in 3 car wrecks...NONE of which were my fault! (Damn MEN drivers!)
Started 4 businesses.
Went out of business 4 times, lol!
Written countless poems and a few books.
Been published in a few poetry journals.
Painted countless paintings.
Sold a few paintings...I mainly give them for presents.
Milked several thousand cows.
Branded several hundred cows.
Slaughtered and butchered 4 cows, 6 sheep, countless chickens and rabbits and 4 pigs.
Tanned innumerable hides from cows, sheep, deer, snakes, rabbits, etc.
Started countless gardens.
Owned several damn fine dogs and four good cats.
All in all, an average life.
Since I plan on living until 106, I am only halfway done and I plan on doing much, much more before my ashes are scattered. (Oh yes, cremation is the way to go...why take up a patch of dirt that could be better used for a pasture or garden?)
Today is my 53rd birthday.
Cake and ice cream for everybody!!!


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Dart gets the nod on garbage contract
The Government Information Service (GIS) on Wednesday announced that a Dart-led consortium has been chosen as the preferred bidder for the proposed Integrated Solid Waste Management System (ISWMS) to be implemented in the Cayman Islands.
The new system is expected to process and divert up to 95 percent of waste from being landfilled.
The consortium, led by Dart, was identified after careful consideration by the ISWMS project team as the preferred bidder because its proposal best follows the recommendations in the outline business case and offers the greatest value for money.
DECCO Ltd., which is Dart's construction/development division and Island Recycling partnered with Guernsey Recycling Group are all apart of the bid team.
The bid team also includes a Denmark-based company Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) who are expected to construct a waste-to-energy facility.
While U.S.-based firm Cambridge Project Development Inc. will deal with the residual landfill component, and the international consultancy firm GHD completes the group, handling environmental and design aspects of the new facility.
The next stage of the process is for government and the preferred bidder to finalise a number of technical, financial and legal details before the contract can be entered into; a step which is expected to take several months.
"I am extremely pleased that the efforts to deal with the pressing issue of the landfill have taken such a significant step forward," said Dwayne Seymour, Minister for Health, Environment, Culture and Housing.
"As the matter now falls within my portfolio, I look forward to working with all parties to ensure that the people of the Cayman Islands are provided with a modern waste management system that caters for the essential needs of our country," he added.
Ground-breaking is anticipated next summer for a phased implementation of the new waste management system, with the aim to have it fully operational by 2021.
"The DECCO consortium team has the specific experience and expertise to introduce and manage an ISWMS in the Cayman Islands," said Cameron Graham, President of DECCO Ltd.
"Finding a sustainable alternative to the existing landfill is a matter of national importance, and we are pleased to be a part of the solution," he added.
ISWMS will include the closure, capping and remediation of the current landfills on Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands, with recycling, composting and a waste-to-energy approach at the heart of the new operations.
The Department of Environmental Health will continue to provide waste management collection services for ISWMS.


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Just when you're feeling competent again after an unsettling barrage of holiday delights, Google has swooped in and stirred up chaos, confusion and concern for webmasters everywhere.
Like most people, you were obviously watching your accounting firm's website with bated breath as you awaited an update to Panda. When updates came through on the second weekend in January, you naturally assumed it had arrived and would, you hoped, reset your site's Panda score and resolve any damage from the algorithm's original sweep.
No such luck. As it turns out, the weekend's action was actually a major core ranking algorithm update that had not been announced, but has since been confirmed. At the same time, we learned that Panda is now incorporated into the core ranking algorithm, baked in permanently. (This seems to have gone into effect late last year, but the news has only emerged now.) The long-expected pure Panda update is still to come.
These developments led, quite naturally, to a flurry of confusion and questions. While some have been answered, many more are still floating out there. Here's a brief summary of the issues that may be troubling you, along with what answers exist at this point.
Since Panda is now baked in, does it run in real time? The answer is a definite no. Gary Illyes of Google has clearly stated that Panda still does not run in real time.
Does Panda update when the core algorithm ranking is refreshed? Again, no. Google's John Mueller specifically addresses that question in a Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (at 28 minutes). Gary's response to a question on Twitter also supports the fact that the weekend update did not involve Panda: "The recent ranking fluctuations you noticed have absolutely nothing to do with Panda or other animals."
So when will Panda be updated? There's no clear answer here. Any time now…. The good news is that in the same Hangout, John says (around the 30-minute mark) that Panda updates should be coming "a little faster, a little bit more regular[ly]" now that it's a part of the core algorithm.
Unfortunately those are the only solid facts we've gotten so far, leaving a host of important questions yet to be answered:
- Is the entire Panda algorithm included in the core ranking algorithm or are some elements independent?
- Does Panda run together with the core ranking algorithm or separately, with results included in the core?
- Do the answers to the above questions affect webmasters or not? Do they need to do anything different to appease a fully baked Panda?
- What about the major update over the weekend? Which sites did it affect and which signals did it include?
Confusion still abounds but sooner or later it should all be cleared up, and when it is, we'll update you here. In the meantime, let's blame Google for any untoward page ranking changes your accounting firm suffers. Or maybe pin it on El Niño.


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The Duchess is Casual for Flight to Fiji
Meghan was in casual separates for today's 3-1/2 hour charter flight to Fiji.
A video of the couple boarding their plane.
#DukeandDuchessOfSussex leave Hervey Bay for the next stage of their royal tour to Fiji & Tonga. They'll be a guard of honour to greet them followed by a welcome ceremony known as the Veirqaraqaravi Vakavanua, showing Fijian culture and heritage #harryandmeghan pic.twitter.com/3ZwVTh5YwA
— Russell Myers (@rjmyers) October 23, 2018
And a lengthier report via The Morning Show.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived at Hervey Bay, and are on their way to the airport where they'll be flying to Fiji. #TMS7 pic.twitter.com/Ut0tShixta
— The Morning Show (@morningshowon7) October 22, 2018
With apologies, we have not been able to license any photos, but the link in the next sentence does have pictures. More on the next leg of the tour from News.com Australia:
Their arrival in Fiji's capital of Suva later today will be followed by two days of engagements focused on the environment and education before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex head to Tonga.
The flight carrying staff, journalists and the royals is expected to land in Fiji around 3:30 pm local time, that is 12:30 am EDT; this is an hour earlier than expected according to local media. A quick reminder that if you need help translating time zones, our little tour clock widget is now on Fiji time. A look at the menu for today's flight, courtesy of ITV's Rupert Evelyn.
Nick Dixon of ITV is in Fiji and shared photos of the last minute preps underway.
The red carpet is being rolled out for the royal guests.
Here's what we can expect when the Duke and Duchess arrive:
- They will be greeted by a guard of honour at the airport in Nausori.
- The couple will call on His Excellency, President Jioji Konrote at Borron House in Suva, shown below.
- They will then be officially welcomed in a ceremony at Albert Park which will mirror the format of the ceremony attended by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1953. Below, HM and the Duke arriving in 1953.
- Here is a video with coverage of the 1953 visit.
Meghan and Harry will then head to the iconic Grand Pacific Hotel.
The Hotel website has some great background on the property's history.
The Grand Pacific Hotel has been an icon of the South Pacific for over a century. Totally rebuilt, the Hotel reopened in May 2014 on the hundredth anniversary of its original opening and has already regained its place as the "grand old lady" of the Pacific – a wonderful blend of fascinating colonial architecture and history combined with magnificent Fijian hospitality and friendliness.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at a state ball held in her honor in 1953.
HM has been to the Grand Pacific three times.
More about the suite from wetu.com:
..this suite is symbolic of the splendour of colonial days past. Overlooking Albert Park, the suite opens onto to the largest balcony at the Grand Pacific Hotel – the very place where Queen Elizabeth II stood and greeted her subjects to huge acclaim and international publicity shortly after she became Queen in 1953.
Tonight we will see another royal reception and dinner at the hotel. It will be the first time we see the Duchess in formalwear.
We have a very cursory glance at what we think Meghan wore today.The Duchess wore a pair of jeans that we haven't yet been able to ID, as well as a white blouse. It is not the J Crew linen shirt that we have seen before, nor is it the Misha Nonoo Husband shirt.
She had on a new pair of shoes IDed by Gemma of Food, Fash, Fit, a studded suede style from Aquazzura called the DJ Mule ($555).
It looked like Meghan had on the same necklaces worn yesterday, the Adina Reyter Pavé Teardrop Necklace ($418), as well as the Pascale Monvoisin Cauri Nº2 Necklace ($475). We'll leave you with a graphic that may help in planning how you watch the royal visit. The Fiji Times is promoting its live coverage of the visit.
If interested in following the Fiji Times coverage, the paper's Facebook page is here, its Instagram page is here and its Twitter feed is here.
UPDATE: Here is a report filed by The Fiji Times at roughly 3:15 p.m.
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Nancy October 23, 2018 at 11:06 pm
Christina O. October 23, 2018 at 1:22 pm
I imagine the last minute walkabout on Kingfisher Pier changed Meghan and Harry's timetable a bit but it looks like they made their charter flight on Quantas! They look comfy for the 3.5 hour flight and from the looks of the menu they, and everyone else on the flight, will enjoy a fantastic meal. Harry and Meghan will have to change onboard…that's not easy!
Carolyn J October 23, 2018 at 4:15 pm
Kitty October 23, 2018 at 6:56 am
sally October 23, 2018 at 5:58 am
love the Zimmerman dress that Meg was wearing when they arrived in Fiji. Stunning and elegant!!. The blue formal dress that Meg wears for the gala night event is amazing, gorgeous colour and looks like the colour of the ocean. Love it!!
Did you check the Qantas menu – Banana lollies and caramello bears, how cute!!
ElizaMo October 23, 2018 at 3:45 am
Great to see old favourites of white shirt and jeans for travel — the old Meghan is still there. Those shoes are wild, I remain mystified as to how folk can remain attached to mules once they are active in the outside world, I won't risk mine outside the house. But studded mules are a whole new dimension — a savvy pick!
Ella October 23, 2018 at 1:17 am
Bonnie October 22, 2018 at 11:54 pm
Talk about ultra casual. Harry and Meghan look like someone left with their suitcases, leaving them scrambling to find something to wear. Then again, who doesn't want to be comfortable on a plane? I love Meghan's shoes and am pleased for her when she forgets the stilettos and goes for comfort.
Really enjoyed the video of the Queen and Prince Philip in Fiji in 1953. My how times have changed.


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Chemical Safety Board's (CBS) Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobil Refinery in Torrance, CA
CBS Evening News investigation: California refinery explosion could have been much worse
Los Angeles' local CBS affiliate reports on the "near miss" at the refinery in February and interviews Torrance Mayor Pat Furey
Ongoing coverage in the Daily Breeze newspaper and other publications
8/22/17: AQMD: Not enough data to prove safety of deadly toxic chemical used at Torrance refinery
5/6/17: Department of Justice sues ExxonMobil for 2015 refinery explosion records
5/3/17: Federal investigators: Safety culture needs to change at Torrance refinery
4/1/17: Safety lapses at Torrance refinery not acceptable, AQMD board says
10/29/15: Torrance refinery repairs push back PBF Energy sale closure to second quarter of 2016
10/28/15: Why did emergency alerts fail during latest scare at ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance?
10/27/15: Latest ExxonMobil Torrance refinery accident another close call, oil industry analyst says
10/23/15: Torrance refinery should prioritize public safety over profits: Al Muratsuchi
10/14/15: Torrance, AQMD to study use of alternative to toxic chemical at ExxonMobil refinery
10/12/15: Federal lawmakers again blast ExxonMobil for hampering federal investigations ahead of Tuesday refinery meeting
9/23/15: Ethics expert: ExxonMobil's behavior since Torrance refinery blast is worse than Volkswagen's
9/16/15: Torrance residents protest ExxonMobil's refinery safety record
9/15/15: ExxonMobil failed to follow proper procedures in wake of acid leak, Torrance officials say
9/14/15: Editorial: How can anyone trust ExxonMobil after the Torrance refinery explosion?
9/11/15: ExxonMobil fails to respond to federal subpoenas for information about Torrance refinery blast
9/11/15: More problems at ExxonMobil's Torrance refinery
9/10/15: Leak of potentially dangerous gas sparks state safety probe at Torrance ExxonMobil refinery
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Zeta LT Jacket
Long approaches through coastal rainforests are typical of backpacking trips in coastal BC and Alaska, and it's those rugged and wet landscapes that the Arc'teryx Men's Zeta LT Jacket was designed for. The jacket implements a lightweight and compressible design, so it won't eat up too much pack space, but with a Gore-Tex Pro three-layer shell, fully sealed seams, and an Arc'teryx Nu water repellent finish, the jacket doesn't compromise an ounce of weather protection.
- Light, packable rain shell designed for trekking and backpacking
- Gore-Tex gives waterproof, breathable protection
- C-Knit backer enhances breathability for active endeavors
- Three-layer construction enhances packability and durability
- Adjustments at hood, hem, and cuffs ensure secure coverage
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Amazing jacket and spectacular shipping!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: XL
- Height: 6'0"
- Weight: 210lbs
My husband reminded me that his old Arc'teryx had given out after ten years - right before our hiking trip to Portugal. I had to get something quickly and this came in one day . The jacket is once again spot on and I was thrilled with the delivery time.
Great sleek rain layer
Got this for my brother who lives in Chicago, so he was looking for something dude-chic but also outdoorsy. He loves it, it fit super well, the fabric has been durable and great so far!
Great Rain Jacket
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Height: 6'4"
- Weight: 180lbs
I purchased this as a lightweight rain jacket. It is very high quality, a little stiff, but still comfortable in warmer weather over a short-sleeve shirt, for example. Arc'teryx makes a couple other versions that are even lighter if you are looking something minimalist, but I like this as an option that is very durable, completely waterproof, but still pretty light. Great all around rain jacket. I expect that it will last a long time for both hiking and everyday use. I am normally between a medium and a large, but a medium was quite roomy; so, it may run slightly large.
Great product
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: Runs large
- Size Bought: Small
- Height: 5'8"
- Weight: 150lbs
I gave this as a gift but have feedback to share.
I usually wear medium, but small fit much better. The jacket has a great feel to it – far less stiff than a typical Gore-Tex shell. Actually comfortable to wear with just a t-shirt. Have only worn it in two snow storms – mild ones, but layered well and kept everything dry. So far, I love it!
Great design and fit
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Large
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 185lbs
I had to return the medium for a large. If you're using the jacket in warm temperatures with a light shirt layer underneath you could get away with medium. However, I use the rain gear in cooler climates where I have a warm under layer - example Iceland I need to throw the jacket on at a waterfall or chilly rain and wind.
I think it runs true to size. If you need it as a "shell" for colder weather get one size up.
Thank you for the valuable feedback Michael!
Amazing rain jacket
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs large
- Size Bought: Small
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 180lbs
The is the best rain jacket material I've ever encountered, keeps your dry but doesn't heat you up or feel slimy or like plastic inside. Regular price is kind of ridiculous, definitely a luxury item even if you find a sale, but far and away the best lightweight jacket I've ever seen. Fits a little big for my taste. I'm 6'1" 180, I'm usually a medium or a large. I went down to a small and I'm happy with the fit. I don't have a gut, but it is snug around the waistline, that seems to be the most tailored part of the jacket.
Loved it, had to return it.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: Runs large
- Size Bought: Medium
- Height: 5'10"
- Weight: 170lbs
It looked and felt great while appearing to be of solid construction, however the fit just didn't work for me. Perhaps if I were a little larger in the chest and arms it would have been perfect, however I can't pay this price for a product that fits me poorly. Would be a great product for the person who it fit properly, However the price is obviously higher than I think most find reasonable, they could probably sell more at a lower price point.
FYI: I'm 5'10'' 175lbs.
Chest ended up being a bit baggy and the sleeves 2'' too long for me. Waist circumference was perfect and length at back was just about perfect, maybe an inch longer than my ideal, which might sort itself out on someone with bulkier shoulders..
I hope this helps.
Good and light
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: L
- Height: 5'11"
- Weight: 205lbs
Just went on a trip to Patagonia ans it was so very useful, it does the job and easy to pack.
Very good
Very good.
Fantastic fit
I am 5'10" 185 lbs with a 42" chest and 30" waist. It is difficult to find tips that don't look like trash bags on me, so finding a shell was quite the task. I tried on five or six different arc'teryx jackets before this one, and they all seemed to need to be a small to fit my waist, but were tight at the armpit. The waist cinch on this jacket nailed it. Arms were plenty long, and the sleeve Velcro fit great around my tiny wrists. For an oddly shaped body, this jacket was great for me!
What size did you get..?
The Zeta in Patagonia
A happy report of the Zeta LT from my customer, using it on his trip to Patagonia.
Looks great, feels great, sizing didn't
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: Runs large
- Size Bought: medium
- Height: 5'10"
- Weight: 140lbs
Tried on this jacket and feels quality and durable. However, it felt too baggy. Additionally, the sleeves were far too long. Ended up returning it.
Awesome jacket...but didn't work for me
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Large
- Height: 6'4"
- Weight: 170lbs
Looking for a fall hiking/camping and winter shell jacket. I have a hard time finding jackets that fit. I'm 6'4" 170lbs 39 chest long arms. I can usually get away with Arcteryx large as long as it's slim fit. Not this jacket. I was really swimming in it, even with a few layers. I purchased the medium but that was too tight with a midweight and too restrictive in the armpits. It's really too bad because it is a really nice looking and feeling jacket (love the gore C-Knit)and knowing it is Arcteryx, it would have performed exceptionally. Also it is not as crinklely as most hard shells. I think I will look into Norrona based on a couple gearhead suggestions.
Exactly what I was looking for
I have been looking for this jacket for at least a year, and didn't even realize it was the one till I stumbled on it. At a glance it appears to be a mix between Gore active shell and the 40d lightweight pro shell. I just wanted an all arounder rain shell, but couldn't live with the short fit of the beta series. This fit nails it for me, at 6'3" and 185 the large trim fit still leaves room for a nano puff easy. Without a layer the jacket fits great, so that was the real selling point for me. It also packs down super small and weighs next to nothing. Durability would be my only question but it doesn't feel any flimsier on the surface than the same denier in pro, but I realize the backer is less robust.
C-KNIT™ Technology
Finally, a Goretex that works!! Oh, wait, wasn't it the last generation that was supposed to finally work? I know that I need extra protection when I'm walking in slow motion -- after all, you're just out there that much longer.
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The chief executive and chairman of BP will face hostile questioning from Congress today after the oil company's efforts to co-operate with White House demands were marred by another public relations gaffe as the company's chairman referred to Gulf coast residents as "small people".
BP bosses agreed in full to the US government's demands after a four-hour meeting with Barack Obama, and agreed to suspend dividend payouts to shareholders until next year and to set up a $20bn fund over three years to meet clean-up costs and compensation claims following its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
But as he left the White House, BP's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg provoked fresh irritation among the oil company's critics with a poorly worded apology to the American people. He pledged to repair the damage caused by the spill and to look after all the shrimpers, fishermen, tourist workers and property owners affected.
"We care about the small people," said Svanberg, a native Swedish speaker who was formerly the head of the telecoms company Ericsson. "I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care but that's not the case with BP. We care about the small people."
Svanberg's comment prompted criticism in the blogosphere and among locals in the region hit by the spill. Douglas Brinkley, a Gulf coast historian at Rice University, said it was another example of BP's insensitivity. "It's snotty and deeply condescending and it shows the kind of corporate arrogance that BP has been exuding ever since the Deepwater Horizon accident," Brinkley said.
The remark is likely to be one of many contentious topics raised in a Congressional hearing today at which Svanberg and BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, will be questioned by 35 lawmakers about the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the pair would be well-advised to adopt a supine posture in a forum that often becomes theatrical.
"They've just got to sit there and take it," says Dan McGinn, a communications adviser at TMG Strategies who has coached business bosses for similar hearings. "They've got to express deep regret and genuine humility. Hayward needs to say he accepts responsibility, that this happened on his watch."
Trying to deflect any portion of blame onto other parties would only inflame political outrage, as would any public quibbling over cost of the clean-up. But the examination requires a tricky balancing. Svanberg and Hayward also need to look authoritative, in command of the situation, to avoid any further erosion of confidence among investors.
"I would tell him [Hayward] that this isn't about you – you're a prop," says McGinn. "The theatrics, the setup – if you're looking for deep substance, forget it. They'll just want to pummel and hit BP, to demonstrate to the public and to their districts that they're tough."
Carl Messineo, organiser of a "seize BP" campaign that argues for the company's assets to be ring-fenced, says he wants to see Svanberg and Hayward brought to book for their "lies" in grossly under-stating the size of the spill, which has exploded from early estimates of 5,000 barrels per day to as much as 60,000 daily: "I would like Hayward to explain to the people of the Gulf coast directly why they should not be able to feed their families this week, they shouldn't be able to make their rent payments."
BP's $20bn fund will start with a $3bn contribution in the third quarter of 2010, followed by $2bn in the final three months of the year, then $1.25bn each quarter until the total is reached. It will be administered by Ken Feinberg, an independent Washington lawyer who assessed claims following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. BP will also set aside $100m to pay the wages of workers on rival firm's oil rigs laid off by a six-month freeze on deepwater drilling.
To create the disaster fund, BP intends to sell $10bn of "upstream" oil exploration assets around the world and will cut back capital investment in its global operations this year from $20bn to $18bn. The company hinted that it could seek contributions from US contractors involved in the leaking well – including Anadarko, Halliburton, Transocean and Cameron – by saying it expected its partners to "meet their obligations".
When asked what BP had obtained as a quid pro quo, the company's chief financial officer, Byron Grote, expressed hope for an end to "rhetoric" that has damaged the firm's reputation and stock price: "What we've got out of it, we believe, is an opportunity, for the first time, to have a constructive dialogue with the president of the United States and the administration."


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Review: DynaKars
DynaKars are fantastic devices for producing distance-time and velocity-time graphs. They are really engaging and my classes just love them. They are constantly asking me, "are we using the DynaKars today, Miss?"
"No, because we're learning about Biology..."
They are really easy to use and set up, just plug and play and the software is really accessible. It can plot different shaped graphs for motions, be used instead of a light gate for a whole journey, really used for any sort of motion analysis.
Another fantastic thing about them is you can easily find the area under the graph or the gradient to find acceleration or distance travelled, which makes them fantastic for KS3 or KS4.
The cars have hooks at their base so they can be accelerated with masses and pulleys and are a much more exciting form of the traditional trolley down a ramp (which is the only experiment any adult can ever remember doing when I tell them I'm a Physics teacher).
A really awesome little piece of kit, making motion graphs much more exciting!
Review: uLog USB Sensors
uLog sensors are a very good set of USB sensors that are fantastically easy to use. Even a Biology teacher can use them (just kidding)! They also have an excellent range: forces, sound, temperature..... and they all use the same software. They mostly have autosense so will record what the children should be recording automatically. Great for demos and class experiments.
I'm excited to announce that my Physics Review article about BB8 has been published and I'm on the front cover!
I was so excited to get onto the raspberry pi educators course. It has a really long waiting list but is completely amazing and well worth it.
The course is two days long and gives you a great introduction to physical computing, raspberry pis, sonic pi, python, twython and then a day of project work that really gives you a chance to play with the new tools. I'd recommend it for beginners and more advanced users.
I can't wait to try out my new skills!
A-Level Teachers Workshop in Electronics, Computing and Physics- University of Southampton
This was an excellent workshop and came with loads of absolutely amazing free goodies (a teacher's favourite kind)!
This two day course was a combination of admissions information, obviously they were trying to sell their university, and practical workshops using the free kit.
The first workshop was in optics. We were given the photonics explorer kit, which is brilliant kit full of mirrors, lasers, polarisers, filters... everything you need to teach light to most key stages and a whole class set. It also comes with handy worksheets full of suggested experiments. These were part of an EU project and you can only get your hands on them through training courses but keep your eyes out.
The second fantastic piece of kit were were given was a Music Mixer board (or 15 of them!). This is a kit that was designed by students at the university as part of an outreach project. It is a circuit board that has components on it for several A Level experiments: wave interference, potential dividers and deriving Plank's constant with different coloured LEDs. It's a brilliant bit of kit that is incredibly useful for us as Plank's constant kits are normally very expensive but also for the University as it is emblazoned with their logo.
We also had an introduction to Isaac Physics and lots of chances to network with other teachers. It was free two day event with free accommodation and a fancy dinner. Really worth a visit!
Review: Google Expeditions
Imagine a school trip where you didn't have to fill in any paper work, carry around 5 epipens, 6 inhalers and a ridiculous number of spare pack lunches, no counting students onto and off buses, no registering every 5 minutes, no apologising for their behaviour, no debate as to whether they should wear uniform (if they do you can easily see where they are but if they don't no one knows that the children belong to you...). Well look no further: google have the answer!
Google Expeditions is an app for your smart phone or tablet that has loads of trip destinations: my students have dived in coral reefs and floated in space stations. There are simply loads to choose from: you'll definitely find one for your subject. The teacher is the expedition leader and chooses what the students will look at. These pictures will appear on their tablets. It works with cardboard and other VR devices but I have only used it with tablets: the children can move their tablet around to look at the 360 degree view. As a teacher you can see where each of your students is looking at as it's labelled like the marauders map on your screen. If you want to draw their attention to something in particular, tap on it and an arrow will appear on all of their screens encouraging them to turn around. The fantastic thing is that not only can you take them to interesting places, there is lots of information there for the teacher to read out as the narrator. It's such a fantastic hook or activity in a lesson and what's more, it's free and easy to use. I thoroughly recommend you try it out. You will need a google account to sign in though.
Notes from BETT 2017
A bit of a stream of consciousness but I saw LOADS of inspiring and exciting things.
Talk: Ed Before Tech
The media is often quite negative about the use of educational technology but we can't deny that when paired with a professional teacher, it improves students' learning. Jo Neale warned against using technology for technology's sake rather than to improve learning. Apps should be assessed using the following criteria:
Remember pedagogy is the drive and tech is the accelerator.
Further reading: Stratosphere by Michael Fullan and Creative Schools by Ken Robinson
Talk: Answering creativity's call for STEAM talent: the untapped opportunity to redress the career gender and diversity gap
The panel were from both engineering and the creative arts and discussed the engineering skills gap. The creative arts need lots of STEAM graduates to do coding for apps, data analysis and graphic design. It is important that students know they need these skills in later life.
Priya Lakhani OBE led the panel discussion. She left law to found the big data firm Century-Tech and is a member of the Department of Business and Skills Advisory board. Pretty impressive CV, good speaker – Wider World/ Inspiring Women?
Talk: The best apps to use with the equipment your school probably already has (secondary)
The panel discussed how to best choose the technology to use in your school. Despite the title they didn't name very many apps to use but cautioned that all teachers should use the same set of apps.
Some apps they did mention: Explain Everything (this is brilliant, if we don't have this on the ipads, we should. I will check)
They suggested Twitter for trip updates
Google Expeditions- this is a 3D VR tour of various places. I will trial this on my cardboard and update. You can also use it in 2D. I have asked HH to install this on the iPads. You can give tours of coral reefs, CERN etc. A good hook or introduction to lessons. Probably excellent for Geography or Biology.
Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence in Education- Priya Lakhani, Anthony Sheldon, Graeme Laurie, Jim Nigh, Rose Luckin
Further reading-
"The Fourth Education Revolution" by Anthony Sheldon, to be published soon
This talk was about how AI could be used to improve learning in the classroom. It was suggested that an AI assistant could be used to monitor student progress in various areas and feedback to the teacher. It could mark work and suggest further tasks leaving the teacher free to teach. To wander around the classroom providing the nurture and personal attention that the children need.
AI could also be used to analyse learning styles and provide different work for each student (adaptive learning) so that they could all work at their own pace towards a goal. There are already a few companies in their infancy working on this. Pearson also has some adaptive learning software but it does not use AI.
AI could also be used to monitor the social interactions and well-being of students. Buckingham University is currently running a trial that students can sign up to. Their social media is monitored for trigger words and the wellbeing of the university is being tracked. The chancellor can see the university as a whole but individual students can see what their own wellbeing is.
This approach could provide truly personalised learning that would improve social mobility. It was then discussed that the current school system was not fit for purpose as it was designed in the 19th centuary. Children did not need to be rote learners of facts but appliers of information. They needed skills. If we had AI in the classroom monitoring all aspects of their learning we would not need examinations as their abilities would already be know. Companies could then use this data to hire them.
This would make life easier for the teachers and would help solve the current teacher recruitment crisis as long as staff and parents could be persuaded that this would help. It could eliminate marking and reports.
They then went on to discuss how such a system could be implemented and when the technology would be able to achieve it. It would be able to do it now but we need more data monitoring and would it be ethical to sign children up to it. It would also cost a lot of money but in the long run save the billions that the UK pays towards exams.
Talk: The role of the teacher in the future? From teacher to coach how will the teacher-student relationship evolve?
This was given by e-learning coordinators and SLT members of one to one device schools. They talked about how ed tech has improved their classes but changed the roles of the teacher and the student. With the age of the internet and students' ability to find out information easily, it allows them to collate the information that they need to learn quickly for themselves and for lessons to move on swiftly to the discussion and application of information. They suggested that the flipped classroom model is very easy to achieve now. Apps can also allow a much better dialogue in marking and students can redraft or respond to comments easily.
However, it takes time to create a classroom that works well with the equipment. The students have to be trained to be more independent and the teachers have to be trained to let go a little more. The teachers are still 'driving the education bus but the students can now help them navigate'.
Teachers will need training in different apps and different departments need bespoke training in order for it to work effectively. Often the students know more about the technology than the teachers do so the teachers can say they want a video and the students will download and use the appropriate app. However, because things like videos and posters etc can be made to look much more professional teachers need higher standards for the work that is handing it. Students make good digital leaders that can be leant out to classes to help. They also make good e-safety leaders as they know what is trending.
Talk: The black box Inside the Black Box
This was a talk with tips on how to use technology to make tasks more efficient. There were lots of good ideas from the school, which can be found on the following link: https://Goo.gl/KghjgM
The most interesting uses were:
Using the 'draftback' add-on on google docs. You can see the work that was done on fast forward and when the document was accessed. Very useful for watching how the student is approaching the task and structuring ideas. It also allows you to see whether the student is allowing the right amount of time for the task.
Using the app 'ants' to annotate videos. This would be really good for Drama or English to analyse plays. Or even for science- you could add explanations to a skydiver to explain the forces for Terminal Velocity ect.
Taking photos of marking and putting feedback online (eg. Using the Firefly app) allowing feedback to be a conversation and it can't be lost if the book or piece of paper is lost.
Use of lesson blogs. They are awesome, I agree. Excellent for sharing resources with students and other teachers in your faculty.
Things to follow up: does Microsoft have an equivalent to 'Draft back'. Trial 'Video Ant' app
Stuff I already have at school
Isams update
There is a new systems update for isams coming soon. Everything is going to look a lot more colourful and friendly. There will be separate dashboards for different levels of staff so teachers and Heads of Year etc will be able to access the modules they need more easily.
The isams calendar will now sync with outlook. We currently use outlook for our calendar rather than isams. I imagine that outlook will only be able to read the isams calendar rather than write to it so this won't really affect us.
All timetables are going to become more like a calendar with a day view, week view or month view. The natural progression from this would be that you could add one off events to the timetable.
There is a new admissions module that allows registration and fee payment to take place on line.
There is a new sanatorium module that can manage doctors appointments ect. This would probably be more useful for a boarding school.
The A2C project was scrapped by the government so there is a delay in the new exams module. There will be an update soon, however, with new reports. In the future they are hoping to be able to use it and the cover module to do invigilation.
The parent portal is being phased out to be replaced by the parent and student apps. The parent app allows parents to see all the information on the portal but is more accessible and less chunky. It is hard to customise the portal and there is a lot of functionality we don't use. The photos haven't been updated since 2011. I think we should move the parents onto the iparent app. I do not believe there is currently a use for the istudent app.
The new iteacher app is out. We have this already and use it on the registration ipads. It will be upgraded slightly and there will be the option to write reports on it soon. Our free trial ends at the end of this year and I thoroughly recommend we buy the module. It has huge functionality and would be even better if staff could have it on a mobile device to use all the time.
Firefly update
Firefly 6 looks great. It has some exciting new features but some stuff has moved around. Its main features are the student and staff planner. It is gaining more functionality with its teacher and student apps. I really think it would be a good idea to have these: it would be great to replace homework diaries with task setting and you can use Firefly to keep a mark book. There are now new task setting features so you can include anything with the tasks: a page of resources, youtube video, basically all the content of your lesson, similar to a lesson blog.
I spoke to Yvonne Mitchel Director of Digital Strategy of Fettes College and they raved about using Firefly. From September they got rid of homework diaries and all homework had to be set through Firefly with both staff and pupils using the app. She reported that it has been a huge success. However, it did mean a change in the rules about pupils using mobile phones and the staff had ipads.
Tablets for staff
I know in the past I have been anti-ipad as there are a limited number of apps and it does not have a keyboard. However, the software that we currently use, isams and firefly, both have really excellent apps for mobile devices that I think would be very beneficial for staff to have. I have been trialling my Microsoft Surface and it is lovely, very light and easy to carry around with a good sized keyboard. But I have yet to use it in a lesson as we don't have a way (I'm sure there is one but suggestions I have had have been quite expensive) to connect it to the board and keep the board interactive. We already have a way to do that with the iPads: they can airplay to the laptop connected to the board. I think I am moving my support away from Microsoft surfaces and back towards ipads. However, staff would not be able to plan their lessons with just iPads; they would also need their laptops so this would be an extra expense.
Apps for Parents and pupils
We use two main pieces of software that parents need a log in for and sadly they have different functions and cannot be reduced to just one:
Isams is for the general running of the school – attendance, reports, exam results, updating their contact details
Firefly is for learning- homework, trips, the vle and vdi
I think that we should have the parent apps for both firefly and isams. We certainly need it for isams as the parent portal is going to be phased out. As Firefly allows us to send letters and set tasks for parents and we are trying to move everything onto this system, it might be worth having the app for that too. However, all tasks are emailed to the parent so possibly not necessary.
I don't think that we need the isams app for the students. I'm sure they don't need to look at their reports or their merits more often than could be done with their parents' phones.
It is worth considering if we are going to use Firefly's excellent task setting and marking functions to set homework for the students. If we do, they should have the student app.
New Apps and interesting technology
Look at Century Tech- an interesting idea using AI and data to track learners progress and best learning styles. Content can be created by the teacher or there is lots of content already for GCSE English and Maths. Tracks progress in different streams. Asks questions more frequently if more practice is needed and will ask again in a few weeks to revise. Good homework program? Better when there is more content. In a few years I think this will be excellent but not ready yet.
Glam Science- go into schools and events to run tailored workshops on science. They are a charity so you only have to pay for travel but you can donate more (as a private school we should). Would be good for Science Week next year. http://www.glamsci.org/about.html
Scientific Literacy Tool- this is a widget that can be added to a web browser. When you highlight a scientific word it will show you lots of information/ papers/ web pages about that. It's free. I think we should look into installing it. Everyone needs a log in, perhaps there should be a school login? It is free. http://literacytool.com/
Partake Augmented Reality- this is an app that costs £300. It is a virtual museum. They have scanned in various exhibits from around the world and you can look at them in augmented reality and rotate them in 3D. It includes an audio track telling you about them. There are a few science resources but most of them are historical artifacts. I think this is an excellent ipad app and is worth asking for a free trial to show to History and Classics departments to see if they could incorporate this into their teaching. Very engaging and very interesting. http://www.partakear.com/
Microsoft Hacking Stem- these are free downloads showing how to use arduinos, office and easy to gather materials such as cardboard and copper wire to make awesome little robots. This would be a good STEM club activity or cross curricular project for a year group. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/education-workshop/default.aspx
Hydrogen Horizon- this is a school racing project- pupils research renewable energies and then design and build a hydrogen fuelled racing car and compete in an endurance race. I think this would be really excellent. There are several good racing events but they mostly involve building cars for people, for which Queen's Gate doesn't have enough space. This is a small remote control car so it could be just the thing. I would like to contact the person running it to discuss what DT equipment the school would need to properly take part. This could also be an excellent STEM club project. http://hydrogenhorizon.org/
Video Ant- this is a web-based program that allows you to add annotations to a streaming video. This can easily be shared and exported as it is all html5 code (it could be uploaded onto a MyQG page. I think this could be really good for Drama and English- perfomances could be analysed and discussed. I would like to play around with this a little more and then report back, training up the relevant departments if it turns out to be good. https://ant.umn.edu/
Google Expeditions- this is a fun app that works really well with Google cardboard and mobiles on a headset but also will work on the ipads (it has now been installed on all of them). It would work as a very good hook to engage students. I can see it being used a lot in science and geography. Lots of 360° photos that can be looked at. A teacher 'leads' the students through the different scenes and can highlight interesting things, eg on the ISS or looking around a coral reef. I would like to have a further mess around with this and demo it in a staff meeting.
Draft Back- this is a chrome extension that allows you to watch back a sped up version of your work on google docs. It could be good to see how students are writing their essays and planning their structure. I think it would be a powerful tool to analyse how students are working. However, it requires them to use google docs rather than normal word. https://draftback.com/ This can be done by getting students to turn on the 'track changes' mode when they work in Microsoft Word. You can see all the things that have been deleted.
Nearpod- a lesson planning and presentation app. Students can annotate etc. Would like to trial this a little to see what it is like. Lots of recommendations from speakers at BETT.
Glisser (or equivalent)- throughout the talks BETT were using Glisser for audience questions. The audience log onto the talk with their mobile devices or laptops and can type questions when they think of them. A question board is formed for the speaker to answer at the end. You can also upvote other audience members' questions so the most popular questions are answered. It's free for up to 100 logins and 5 presentations a month. I thought it might be interesting to trial it during a wider world talk.
Revisio- this is an online revision tracker and planner. You input which GCSEs and IGCSEs you are taking and it links to the syllabuses, past papers and mark schemes. You tell it how much revision you want to do a day and it provides you with a timetable to make sure that all areas of the syllabus are covered and gives you time to do exams. It also gives you an exam timetable. You can tick off what you have done and make notes for yourself. It will adjust the timetables accordingly. Teachers and parents can access past paper grades and monitor whether you are completing the revision. £30 a student. I think we should get all of this year's UVth to sign up before Easter. It would be a good test of the system and it is quite cheap, particularly if we pass the expense onto the parents. www.revisio.co
Modelling SUVAT with Scratch
I read a great article about using scratch to teach Physics principles and thought I would try it out.
It's a great chance for students to play with ideas. I tried it with the year 12s- they didn't have much programming experience but managed to produce nice models in the end.
Using programming is a good way to introduce the concept that velocity is a change in position and acceleration is a change in velocity.
I've put the instructions below but you can find the project here.
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Review: MatchGraph!
MatchGraph! is a free game from Pasco Scientific and it is well worth playing if you have their data logging software. It uses their motion sensor and blue tooth transmitter. Connect your iPad to the bluetooth sensor and away you go. You are given different shaped distance and velocity graphs that you have to try and act out in front of the sensor. You are then marked on accuracy and given a score out of 100. The graphs range from easy to very difficult and are brilliant fun. They children loved this from KS3 to A Level who were incredibly competitive about it. It's fantastic.
I would normally get the children to draw motion graphs for their partner to act out: this is a great activity to do after they have warmed up with that as they can be assessed. With weaker groups, you can get them to discuss the shapes before they give them a go.
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