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