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Entries from August 2008

Directions to LaserTAG at Open Day on Sunday

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This Sunday (Aug 17) is Open Day at the University of Adelaide and I will be involved in some LaserTAG goodness in the Bragg Lecture theatre most of the morning. Here is a little video with rough directions, starting from the Pultney street entrance on North Terrace:

Come along, have a go [...]

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Tags: education · science

National Science Week

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

National Science Week 2008 officially runs from Saturday 16th August to Sunday 24th.
This year I thought I would get organised and load my diary up with cool things to see before science week begins. I just found this handy state based list of events for my home state of South Austraila – to my horror [...]

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Tags: education

Speaking of Science

August 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have been tinkering away at a little side project that is almost ready for you good folk to take a peek – it’s called sciencegeekspeak and it might just develop into something very tidy indeed. The idea is to provide a platform for people interested in science to talk about their passion – the [...]

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Tags: education

when Two out of Seven is grand

August 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

According to this article in the local newspaper, seven educators from The University of Adelaide have been recognised by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. I have had the good fortune to enjoy stimulating conversation with two of them (Simon Pyke and Karin Barovich) at the legendary faculty of sciences morning tea. Congrats to all [...]

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Tags: education

Get Scientific at OpenDay – Sun Aug 17

August 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Only two weeks to go until Open Day at the University of Adelaide – that’s Sun August 17. If you can come along, make sure you check out what’s happening in the world of sciences. If you can’t, do me a favor and tell someone who can!

Be sure to drop by the sciences marquee near [...]

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Tags: university · university of adelaide