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My new software arrived in the mail on the Friday before Christmas. I decided to buy MacSpeech Dictate because my typing skills are not that good and I read some good posts about the latest in speech recognition.
Last month, I read an article on Pro-blogger by Jon about how speech recognition software is much better [...]
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This past week I had the opportunity to go inside a large plastic bag and have the air sucked out. Why would I do this? I did it because this demonstration was about air pressure. When the air is sucked out of the bag, one feels the combined air pressure of 14.7 psi. It [...]
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My eighth grade classes launched their water rockets last month. I took video of the students and their rockets and now have it posted to our school’s website. I made an iMovie from all the video clips. I originally had it as a twenty minute video, but I edited it down to about four minutes [...]
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After lunch in Penaplata, we headed south looking for a place to stay. I wanted to go down south as far as possible on the east coast, but, as I said the last time, the road curves inland towards the center of the island. So I decided to head south on the west coast to [...]
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I bought the EyeClops video microscope last week and it arrived yesterday. I took it to school and my students had it up and running in no time. I was interested to see the quality of the images and video and to see if this would be something I could use in the classroom. The [...]
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Any teacher will tell you that teaching is a demanding job and that it’s easy to get burned out. The key is to recognize the warning signs and to take action. Elaine Plybon over at Cruel Shoes has a good post dealing with this topic. This post caught my attention because I was just thinking [...]
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Today I start the 31 day challenge given by ProBlogger on how to improve one’s blog. This will be quite the challenge for me as I work all day and I am tired when I arrive home. Still, I want to improve Siyensya and focus in on where I want this site to go.
The first [...]
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Welcome to the new Siyensya using the Thesis theme. I was looking for something more polished and flexible and I have found it with this theme. Thesis requires WordPress 2.7 so I had to upgrade this past weekend. My web host uses Fantastico, but they are only up to WP 2.6.5. So last Sunday I [...]
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Today, President-elect Barack Obama selected John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco as science advisers. Obama said “It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology.” Also joining Obama’s science team is Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus and professor [...]
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