Litro & IGGY Young Person’s Short Story Competition 2011

Last Wednesday (12th October 2011) I had the pleasure of attending the award ceremony for the 2011 Litro and IGGY Young Person’s Short Story Competition 2011 held at the 3i offices in London. This is the second year this competition has run, and the prize to the winner was a substantial cheque, and their story published in the Sunday Times…

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XBugs

Received one of these as a gift fom a graduating tutee, and thought it was so cool it was worth a blog!  These bugs come as a flat disc of aluminium, you twist out the pieces, fold and arrange them and then hold it all in place witha single nut and bolt (allen key provided!). As a bonus it comes…

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Second Life Maths Sculptures

This post is to highlight the various sculptures scattered around the Second Life “Warwick University Maths” island, which can be accessed at this SLURL. There is always a lot of discussion over the impact of education using Virtual Worlds (usually against a backdrop of the bad publicity that always makes the tabloids), but what cannot be denied is that there…

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Revision Class Prezi

Tried out my first proper Prezi presentation today, revision class for my Differential Equations module plus general exam advice. Think it went well, although something odd happened half way through (think I managed to recover quite well though). There is definitely a bit of a learning curve, what took time to start with but speeded up considerably by the end…

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