Easy-Bake Oven Is About to Become Hard to Use – DailyFinance

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteEasy-Bake Oven Is About to Become Hard to Use – DailyFinance. AND…. home-made incubators. I have instructions for building your own incubator that relies on the fact that light bulbs give off heat. You also can’t use the ‘new’ bulbs … Continue reading

Are Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre Household Bugs A Risk To Human Health?. Date: 26 Jan 2011 – 4:00 PST Well, DUH! Of COURSE they are! Do they really not think that feeding antibiotics to farm animals as if they were regular feed is going … Continue reading

Social Login and FB Celebrities

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook Launches Social Login & HTTPS To Protect Your Privacy. I’ve had occasion to try this social login thing – FB has been using this when you download all your FB stuff. It has potential – but like everything else, … Continue reading

EA says single-player games are finished?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrank Gibeau from EA says: I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same thing. They’re very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online … Continue reading

Is your approach to life more like a cat or like a dog?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve often thought we could learn useful attitudes about life from various animals. I have learned a great deal from my dogs. I have learned for example, that I should always look carefully at the place I am about to … Continue reading

The Decorative Media Principle

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve been looking around at a lot of educational sites and I keep running into the same thing. Many of them LOOK nice – I mean: they have nice colours, cute or otherwise appealing characters and graphics; some of them … Continue reading

How I Got Into Computer Science (The Early Years)

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesA while back, I came across a post on Mark Guzdial’s blog about a new blog on women in computing. Among other things, they were looking for contributions from people in computing that talk about their experiences in IT. I’ve … Continue reading

Why aren’t Faculty better teachers? Prompted by a book review of: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education « Tony Bates

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesBook review: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education « Tony Bates. Sadly, I don’t actually have time to read this book just now as I am writing one of my own. However, from the sounds of … Continue reading