Links for May 18th
- Science Experiments for the kitchen
Some great ideas for making science fun. How to put a candle under a balloon and make sure it doesn’t pop, explaining global warming at the same time … that sort of thing
Tags: science education teaching experiments - How Technology Has Begun to Change Teaching and Learning at North Shore
What’s great about this is the non-technical aspect. It’s not “we’ve got, blogs, wikis etc”, but “we’re now doing this sort of project which helps children like so”
Tags: Learning social_computing practical - Disappearing networks
Interesting research “This network is transient; we only know about it because we were able to look at this early period”
Tags: networks research transience - 7 tips for building a community
Good solid tips, especially on the metrics. The 7 are: Take emotion out of decisions; Talk like a human, not a robot; Give people something they can be proud of; Bring users in during community decisions; Moderation is a full-time job; Metrics spread the
Tags: community guidelines - Integrating Beast within another application
Beast is a great little Rails forum app, but I’ve been struggling to work out how best to integrate it with existing code. This looks like it could help
Tags: ruby code forum integration
