http://www.sqa.org.uk/files/HNCmanagement/Organisational_leadership_development/movie/old/old_oc.swf

More on http://perisic.com/pm/CharlesHandy

Scottish Election Fiasco:

“In considering the circumstances surrounding the planning, organising and implementation of the 3 May 2007 elections in Scotland, we have observed an unfortunate pattern. Almost without exception, the voter was treated as an afterthought by virtually all the other stakeholders. Numerous factors – such as combining the ballot papers for the Scottish parliamentary elections, introducing a new voting system with different ballot paper marking requirements, the failure to conduct adequate research and testing on the impact this new system would have on the electorate, the insistence on conducting an overnight count – all indicate to us that voters were overlooked as the most important stakeholders to be considered at every stage of the election. We obviously recommend that all those with a role in organising future elections consider the voters’ interests above all other considerations.”

From:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/electoral_commission_pdf_file/0013/16042/Scot-Elections-Report-Media-Summary-FINAL_27623-20337__E__N__S__W__.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0165rbh

Sara Mohr-Pietsch set herself the challenge of learning 8 notes on the cello in 7 days! You can hear the result in The Comic Canon, a mega mash-up of Pachelbel’s Canon, which she’s made with the support of some outstandingly musical friends.

• “Anatomy of a “feature” – what happens if a website grabs all your disk space?” http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/03/what-happens-if-a-website-grabs-all-your-disk-space/
• My own clocks: http://perisic.com/canvasclock/

http://www.datapointed.net/2012/10/animated-factorization-diagrams

“UPON FIRST SIGHT OF BRENT YORGEY’S brilliant Factorization Diagrams, I knew that I should take his lovely little dots and make them dance.”

http://stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/25153960313/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict

“Kishōtenketsu contains four acts: introduction, development, twist and reconciliation. The basics of the story—characters, setting, etc.—are established in the first act and developed in the second. No major changes occur until the third act, in which a new, often surprising element is introduced. The third act is the core of the plot, and it may be thought of as a kind of structural non sequitur. The fourth act draws a conclusion from the contrast between the first two “straight” acts and the disconnected third, thereby reconciling them into a coherent whole. Kishōtenketsu is probably best known to Westerners as the structure of Japanese yonkoma(four-panel) manga;”

http://ftrass.blogspot.co.uk/

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11618-012-0316-6

“Am Beispiel der zur Pariser Observanz gehörenden Ursulinenkonvente in Erfurt und Würzburg wird nach Lernzielen, Methodik, Lernmaterialien und Unterrichtsinhalten der Ursulinenschulen gefragt. In den normativen Quellen werden Schulbücher und Lektüre als selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, aber nur sehr selten mit Titeln genannt. Ein anderer Zugang zur Lektürepraxis bietet sich mit dem Blick auf den Bibliotheksbestand der Klöster. Dabei nimmt zwar religiöse Literatur den größten Raum ein, doch es finden sich auch Ansatzpunkte für weitergehende, eher „säkulare“ Interessen (Geschichte, Geographie, Naturkunde).”

“Using the example of the Ursuline convents belonging to the Parisian Observance at Erfurt and Würzburg the article analyses educational objectives, methods, learning material and teaching content of Ursuline schools. Normative sources take schoolbooks and reading for granted, but seldom mention special titles. Another access to what was read in praxis is possible through a cloister’s book stock. Here religious literature is prevalent, but there are also found rudiments of further, rather “secular” interests (History, Geography, Natural History).”

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/cs2013-ironman-draft-available

“The Ironman v0.8 draft contains the complete CS2013 Body of Knowledge, fully revised based on comments from the previously released CS2013 Strawman draft. We are now calling on the computing community to submit exemplars of courses and curricula to better connect the CS2013 Body of Knowledge to real, existing approaches representing diverse and innovative ways to teach computer science.”

Also see here: http://cs2013.org

“In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station’s modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doN4t5NKW-k#!