The objects on display have been maded using discarded plastic containers and illuninated with electric light. Green art you might say
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http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/illusions.htm
IWB= Interactive white board
Another light sculpture from Assefa (ethiopian sculture)
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London Metropolitan University recently opened its new £30m Science Centre – the largest ever single UK investment in university science education. The Centre, next door to the new Arsenal Emirates Stadium in north London, boasts state-of-the-art facilities, including the 8,000m2 Super Lab, equipped with the most advanced interactive teaching equipment in Europe. All the lighting for the Lab, which includes 280 individual student work-stations and extensive audio-visual equipment, was supplied by Concord:marlin.
The space has an open-grid ceiling, so the Concord:marlin team had to co-ordinate closely with the designers and contractors, in order to integrate the lighting within various exposed service ducts and other equipment. The main lighting in Lab is provided by 32 suspended linear rows of Concord:marlin’s Ovation 65 system. Each unit has 2×35W HE T5 lamps offering direct-indirect lighting distribution.
Energy-efficiency was a key component of the lighting brief, so the lighting is fitted with both daylight-linking and occupancy sensors, to avoid unnecessary burning when not required. However, individual control was important too, so each workstation includes a manual over-ride for the adjacent lighting, allowing students to raise and lower the lighting levels, depending on the visual task. Elsewhere in the new Science Centre, Concord;marlin Brio wall-fittings are used on the stairs and in the circulation areas — again these were equipped with presence detectors to ensure maximum energy efficiency.
This new £30 million facility and innovative Super Lab, equipped with its modern, interactive, energy-saving lighting, underlines the University’s commitment to delivering the highest standard of science education and to supporting British industry with first class science graduates.
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williams Serena, originally uploaded by lloyd_forster.
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My suggestion is that the Black boys achievement programme book seats at next months silverstone grand prix and see an example of achievement minus all the excuse for why it is not possible to suceed.
Lewis Hamilton, originally uploaded by lloyd_forster.
The Hertfordshire speed king!
May he continue to inspire us all for many years to come.
Salute to his dad for being an exemplar dad and an example.
I wonder what would have happened if his dad decided not to support his son, not take on three jobs to support his karting career, not to be around?
what would he be doing today?
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This is a presentation I prepared for the National College of School Leadership as part of the Black Boys Achievement Programme (BBAP).
Please note images and the work is copyright.
AC (NCSL_Improving_the_attainment_of_black_pu.ppt)
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EbonyCityOverview, originally uploaded by lloyd_forster.
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This year marks 200 years since transatlantic slavery was abolished. It seems to be a quite programme. I suspect that this year’s Black History month is going to feature Slavery quite heavily.
For my part i will be preparing material that features the science and history behind the production of sugar, iron and cotton.
Mathew Henson struggled all his life against the legacy of the slave trade and overcame.
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Today I participated in a learning walk. A learning walk is a technique for judging teaching and learning. It involves a number of people (about 4) each with a specific focus. They visit a number of lessons, spending about 10 minutes in each. The walk is concluded with a discussion in which the areas of focus are discussed with a view to arriving at a picture of teaching and learning across a department or among a number of teachers. This part of the process is called triangulation.
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On Tuesday 100 year 9/10 pupils from our schools are going to the science summer school at Metropolitan University. Out of the 5 topics the most popular is the DNA profiling. so here is an article from Wikopedia
‘Genetic fingerprinting, DNA testing, DNA typing, and DNA profiling are techniques used to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. Two humans will have the vast majority of their DNA sequence in common. Genetic fingerprinting exploits highly variable repeating sequences called minisatellites. Two unrelated humans will be unlikely to have the same numbers of minisatellites at a given locus. In STR profiling, which is distinct from DNA fingerprinting, PCR is. used to obtain enough DNA to then detect the number of repeats at several loci. It is possible to establish a match that is extremely unlikely to have arisen by coincidence, except in the case of identical twins, who will have identical genetic profiles.
Genetic fingerprinting is used in forensic science, to match suspects to samples of blood, hair, saliva or semen. It has also led to several exonerations of formerly convicted suspects. It is also used in such applications as identifying human remains, paternity testing, matching organ donors, studying populations of wild animals, and establishing the province or composition of foods. It has also been used to generate hypotheses on the pattern of the human diaspora in prehistoric times.
Testing is subject to the legal code of the jurisdiction in which it is performed. Usually the testing is voluntary, but it can be made compulsory by such instruments as a search warrant or court order. Several jurisdictions have also begun to assemble databases containing DNA information of convicts.
The United Kingdom currently has the most extensive DNA database in the world, with well over 7 million records as of 2007: The National DNA Database (NDNAD). The size of this database,and its rate of growth, is giving concern to civil liberties groups in the UK, where police have wide-ranging powers to take samples and retain them even in the event of acquittal.’
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