A cheap USB microscope for home, the class or the laboratory

Dr Brian Thistleton is an entomologist who I had the pleasure of working with while at the department that is responsible for small things that crawl, fly, bite and cause problems with crops. He is also an avid photographer and collector of technical gadgets that make work easier (or are just too much fun to pass up).

An entomologist is a zoologist who focuses on insects...

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Blood on the page

Or that is what it seems our NAPLAN results look like. Don't expect any blame or excuses from this article. What can we do to change blood red to verdant green? I went to our son's School Welcome for years 1 - 3 last night and was impressed again by what was being done to the infrastructure, but what was being done in the classroom. Joe (my son) is fortunately at a school where the results were good and this year he is going to sit the first NAPLAN test (year three).

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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Tools for the eLearning web2.0 world

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=97-1

Oh and there are some extremely cool links for parents of senior high school students as well. All the good buzzwords like wacom, latex, jing and more. STEM is yet another acronym which in this context means Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. This link provides links and tools for teachers in the STEM disciplines to learn about and latch onto.