I've just read this great article By Denise D. Knight and Noralyn Masselink, State University of New York College at Cortland in the eLearn Magazine.
Wonderful examples of students' inappropriate email to their professors, from simply ungrammatical to petulant to downright abusive. I'm sure all readers will recognise similar emails they have received over the years.
The article ends with a set of guidelines. Very useful to outline with students at the beginning of semester.
ASIMO the Honda Motor Company designed robot, recently conducted the Detroit Symphony and did a great job.
I don't think the resident conductor has anything to worry about, but it was impressive non the less.
See for yourself...
Now here's one to try at your next conference. Cover It Live is a free live blogging tool that enables you to stream live blogging to your blog and receive questions and comments from readers.
I have just got to try this one at the DEANZ 2008 conference in Wellington.
Thanks to iLibrarian for the info.
 The cars are called by pressing a button along the route |
Daventry is investigating ways to increase the use of public transport and reduce reliance on cars.
The town council believes the Cybercars, which are called by pressing a button on the route and go direct to their destination, could be the answer.The vehicles can be seen on a test track at the town's Eastern Way."Technology that translates spoken or written words into British Sign Language (BSL) has been developed by researchers at IBM. The system, called SiSi (Say It Sign It) was created by a group of students in the UK."
Via BBC NEWS
I love it when technology makes real gains for people.
Here is a UTube video of how it works.
