http://www.monkeymagic.net thoughts on thinking Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:33:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Becta Schools - Extending opportunities - Online reporting - Introduction to online reportingFrom September 2008 all maintained schools will be expected to start the move towards online reportingTags: schools policy reporting parents engagement MapMSG.com - Statetris-UKMix of Tetris and geography. Instead of positioning blocks, you position states/countries at their ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/21/links-for-july-20th/ Intridea - SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The SubdomainSubdomainFu aims to provide a simple, generic toolset for dealing with subdomains in Rails applications. Rather than tie the functionality to something specific like an account, it provides a foundation upon which any subdomain-keyed system can be built.Tags: rails ruby code ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/20/links-for-july-19th/ SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL"14. Apply all regulations to the last letter" [via Euan]Tags: management army sabotage manual organisations http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/18/links-for-july-17th/ From the Seven Pillars of Wisdom: "The public often gave credit to Generals because it had seen only the orders and the result: even Foch said (before he commanded troops) that Generals won battles: but no General ever truly thought so. The Syrian campaign of September 1918 was perhaps the ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/16/two-views-of-strategy/ Neighbourhoods: Community engagement 'may be delusory'Is perfromance management antithetical to community engagement? "A practitioner ...said he understood community engagement when he realised he didn't need to feel he'd failed because a box wasn't ticked"Tags: community engagement performance management two kinds of training (3 July, 2008, Interconnected)The most powerful ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/14/links-for-july-13th-2/ Mind Hacks points to some interesting research on language and psychosis. Mr Z illustrates the marked change in phenomenology that can be observed in such patients. He was a 30-year-old patient diagnosed as hypomanic with a history of bipolar illnesses. His mother tongue was English, and he had learnt Spanish after ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/13/the-language-of-sanity/ The seductive allure of neuroscience explanation[via idiolect]Tags: neuroscience psychology belief persuasion gullibility The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans SocialMirror neurons are activated both when we perform a certain action—such as smiling or reaching for a cup—and when we observe someone else performing that same action. In other words, ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/12/links-for-july-11th-2/ From Times Higher Education [via idiolect] "If we don't put ourselves under pressure, nothing interesting or exciting is going to happen. How could it? In fact, what we've done is spent three hours the previous night making sure that it doesn't happen. "Then we have the gall to offer these hours of ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/being-caught-out/ From Seven Pillars of Wisdom: ... it had seemed to me that discipline, or at least formal discipline, was a virtue of peace: a character or stamp by which to mark off soldiers from complete men, and obliterate the humanity of the individual. It resolved itself easiest into the restrictive, ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/telawrence-on-discipline/ What video game offences parents most fearSigh ... 26% - A graphically severed human head 27% - Two men kissing 37% - A man and a woman having sex Tags: games parents fear Is Google Making Us Stupid?"The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." ... http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/links-for-july-10th/