The Tinderbox ‘explode’ command on the note menu allows you to copy/paste a list of headings into a note and then ‘explode’ the note, specifying \r as the delimiter. Result: a new note for each line in the list of headings, all arranged as children of the ‘explode’ command output under the original note. Magic! Headings on my PDA. Notes on the iBook.
I owe this one to Hugh Nicoll who is using Tinderbox to organise some neat stuff with a ‘class’ of 150.
“On the Friday evening of April 25, 1986, the reactor crew at Chernobyl-4, prepared to run a test the next day to see how long the turbines would keep spinning and producing power if the electrical power supply went off line. This was a dangerous test, but it had been done before. As a part of the preparation, they disabled some critical control systems – including the automatic shutdown safety mechanisms.”
Filatova Elena Vladimirovna’s story about Chernobyl is a striking reminder of what happens when a nuclear reactor leaks. The younger students find this page interesting, especially the 19 year olds with a birthday in late April. It rained in Birmingham that weekend.
Zeldman has this link to a Web designer called Joe Clark. Ten Questions for Joe Clark is a thought provoking piece in the style of a pop mag interview. Should get Web design students at least thinking about the issues. Mr Clark links to Techniques for Accessible HTML Tables
And I definitely need a haircut – No 1 this time.
I’m doing some numeracy sessions for HND Chemistry students. I needed lots of specific examples and exercises within the area of Chemistry.
Dmitri Baltermans was an ‘official’ Soviet photographer. His war photographs are bleak and direct. Mark Bernstein quotes Lilia Efimova about the media coverage of the war memorial on May 9th in Moscow.
“And the irony is that level 3 is what employers are looking for,” she says. “If we are seriously trying to support our local community through economic regeneration, then we have to kit them out with the best qualifications – which, in London, is level 3 and upwards.”-Barbara Field, Principal of Harrow College, quoted in Education Guardian article
I think its Level 3 vocational qualifications employers are after elsewhere as well – at least it was when I was last involved in labour market surveys. How do we pay for training older people? Citizens bear the cost as in US, or state provision, or employers? What balance? Who are the stakeholders? Likely to be ‘interesting times’ ahead.