Students fined for being late for class
We might be changing out named to five dollar bills if the trend in Salt Lake City continues... A school will be allowing students to choose between a $5 fine or 30 minutes of detention for being late to class. The fees will go to pay the teachers who need to watch the kids in detention.The idea itself seems interesting -- but how about a dual policy that fines boring / ineffective teachers and reimburses the students for wasting their time.Pros: students learn early that money will buy you out of most any trouble.Cons: less advantaged students end up serving detention and the wealthier peers simply pay the fine.STORY: Students at East High School will be charged $5 for being late to class
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Students fined for being late for class
We might be changing out named to five dollar bills if the trend in Salt Lake City continues... A school will be allowing students to choose between a $5 fine or 30 minutes of detention for being late to class. The fees will go to pay the teachers who need to watch the kids in detention.The idea itself seems interesting -- but how about a dual policy that fines boring / ineffective teachers and reimburses the students for wasting their time.Pros: students learn early that money will buy you out of most any trouble.Cons: less advantaged students end up serving detention and the wealthier peers simply pay the fine.STORY: Students at East High School will be charged $5 for being late to class
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Roombots: autonomous, mobile, evolutionary self-assembling furniture

Roombots are autonomous, roving furniture segments that cruise around your house, looking for each other and spontaneously organizing themselves into furnishings that evolve based on how you use them. It's a project from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. This project intends to design and control modular robots, called Roombots, to be used as building blocks for furniture that moves, self-assembles, self-reconfigures, and self-repairs. Modular robots are robots made of multiple simple robotic modules that can attach and detach (Wikipedia: Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics).

Connectors between units allow the creation of arbitrary and changing structures depending on the task to be solved. Compared to "monolithic" robots, modular robots offer higher versatility and robustness against failure, as well as the possibility of self-reconfiguration. The type of scenario that we envision for the Rolex Learning Center is a group of Roombots that autonomously connect to each other to form different types of furniture, e.g. stools, chairs, sofas and tables, depending on user requirements. This furniture will change shape over time (e.g. a stool becoming a chair, a set of chairs becoming a sofa) as well as move using actuated joints to different locations depending on the users needs. When not needed, the group of modules can create a static structure such as a wall or a box.

Roombots: Modular robotics for adaptive and self-organizing furniture (via Beyond the Beyond)

Long-exposure photo of Roomba coverage
Concept for swarming "display blocks"
What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8bYK2xityP4/roombots-autonomous.html

Roombots: autonomous, mobile, evolutionary self-assembling furniture

Roombots are autonomous, roving furniture segments that cruise around your house, looking for each other and spontaneously organizing themselves into furnishings that evolve based on how you use them. It's a project from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. This project intends to design and control modular robots, called Roombots, to be used as building blocks for furniture that moves, self-assembles, self-reconfigures, and self-repairs. Modular robots are robots made of multiple simple robotic modules that can attach and detach (Wikipedia: Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics).

Connectors between units allow the creation of arbitrary and changing structures depending on the task to be solved. Compared to "monolithic" robots, modular robots offer higher versatility and robustness against failure, as well as the possibility of self-reconfiguration. The type of scenario that we envision for the Rolex Learning Center is a group of Roombots that autonomously connect to each other to form different types of furniture, e.g. stools, chairs, sofas and tables, depending on user requirements. This furniture will change shape over time (e.g. a stool becoming a chair, a set of chairs becoming a sofa) as well as move using actuated joints to different locations depending on the users needs. When not needed, the group of modules can create a static structure such as a wall or a box.

Roombots: Modular robotics for adaptive and self-organizing furniture (via Beyond the Beyond)

Long-exposure photo of Roomba coverage
Concept for swarming "display blocks"
What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8bYK2xityP4/roombots-autonomous.html

FontPark Is a Searchable, Sortable Database of Over 70,000 Free Fonts [Fonts]

FontPark is a great big database of free fonts.

Fonts are available for personal and/or commercial use, and will work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

FontPark Is a Searchable, Sortable Database of Over 70,000 Free Fonts [Fonts]

FontPark is a great big database of free fonts.

Fonts are available for personal and/or commercial use, and will work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

ADVICE FOR TEACHERS...

After countless discussions with some of the newer teachers about some general concepts, someone has collected a list of a few of the suggestions (for life?) to pass along.

Click the image above for 50 tips, alright?

ADVICE FOR TEACHERS...

After countless discussions with some of the newer teachers about some general concepts, someone has collected a list of a few of the suggestions (for life?) to pass along.

Click the image above for 50 tips, alright?

Exciting Economics!

This effort explored applied microeconomics...

 

Our participants were able to raise HUNDREDS of dollars for both

the Alberta Children's Hospital

and the Calgary Humane Society.

 

All this success, in the midst of a macroeconomic challenge, eh?

AMAZING EFFORT, EVERYONE!

Mmm good...

It's a challenge to raise hundreds of dollars in this economy!

P&P preparation...

A lot of effort, team work, and creativity went into this project for Economics!

Demand and Suppy were assessed, for products including the following:

• pens
• pop
• snacks
• custom made jewellery

The Good people of BAM Goodies...

Raising money for the Alberta Children's Hospital can be a lot of work...

and a lot of fun!

 

P&P in action...

"Demand & Supply" stations were set-up on both

the classroom level

and the main floor of our office building.

 

Over the course of the exciting week, this ensured a lively lunch hour, eh?!

Delicious BAM Goodies...

Thank you to Ivona, Lulla, Moise, Ramandeep, Ruxandra, Sara, and Zachary for their wonderful results!

Participants in this Economics group were able to "Supply" some high quality treats, eh?

Thank you!

The P&P Sale group, within the Economics class of CDI, were able to generate hundreds of dollars for the Calgary Humane Society.

Way to go, Natalie, Anna, Alex, Christine, Claris, Jennifer, Paul, and Trey!