physicsmrh.bsky.social
Physics teacher 🦄 and second in science. Staff governor. Former electronic engineer and chef. Graduate of UMIST and NTU.
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Once again, HMHB leading me down interesting paths. Brilliant stuff.
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Julia's husband was initially wrongly convicted of her murder - but she was probably killed by someone else who had lured William Herbert Wallace away from home for a meeting with a Mr R M Qualtrough - a fictitious man at what turned out to be a fake address. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
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But when I looked up details of the album, I found that it is released on the band's own label "R M Qualtrough". Strange name - so you do a search and find it's a reference to the unsolved murder of Julia Wallace in Anfield, Liverpool in 1931.
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and the mental breakdown of a man who loses his job at Falmouth Electrics and instead of working at Morrisons, has a bad relationship with a ventriloquist's dummy (called Barry, not Gary).
Also a wonderfully cynical take on "Record Store Day" (Oh I do like to re-release my B-sides).
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I will never understand *all* the references in Nigel Blackwell's lyrics ... but so many of them bring back memories of growing up or are cleverly poignant. In this album we have a reference to "Trophy Bitter" (The pint that thinks it's a quart) youtu.be/6n1hQdCdCP8 in "The Bliss of the Hereafter"
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I agree with @adamboxereducation.bsky.social about *most* things. Not this.
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Needed a clue but got it in par after staring at it for ages.
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"Can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble." That was then but this is now, ABC.
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www.acoustics.org.nz/sites/www.ac... wind direction, air temperature, gradients in temperature, humidity etc all contribute. Waves can change speed and direction for a multitude of reasons - but the wind direction is certainly a factor!
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Even if your main lesson content is generic, you have to adapt it for the class that you are about to teach ... expectations of prior & pre-requisite knowledge, for example.
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Physics is always last :-(
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this one? martinworster.com/2017/03/17/r...
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Went to Knebworth in 2003 :-)
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Thank you!
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It's funny how we all read/interpret things differently - for once, I went straight to the right place for this one!
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Love it. One thing my previous 2 careers have in common is that people who had been to a pub/restaurant felt qualified to tell me how to run mine - and it's the same now in teaching! Never happened when I was in electronic engineering - funny that! P.s. you've misspelled "restaurateur" :-)
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Wouldn't "All shook up Elvis covers" have been better ?
:-)
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Me too, it's almost as if practising works :-)
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Intuitively, I assume it would be better to ask in lots of ways ... but is there any evidence that this is worth the effort? Is there a significant gain in retrieval success if we don't encode specificity in the question? #SciTeachUK #ITeachPhysics #UKEd
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so that students have more cues to trigger retrieval of the same information.
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Coincidentally I was just discussing the potential negative impact of encoding specificity if we always ask our retrieval questions in the same way. Would students recognise the question asked in reverse? Is it better to vary encoding e.g. as mentioned here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Used to love him on TV when I was a kid. The only one whose lips really didn't move.
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Got this one straight away :-)