Teaching Techniques Online: Assessment Of Student Competency, How To Translate Face To Face Activities

Happy Carl Sagan Day!

My favorite links about Carl:

Carl Sagan’s last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview) Carl Sagan Tribute Series (working my way through list) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Carl Sagan Experience LOVE THIS Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan

via my weebly page

 For more great Carl Sagan content, visit the Carl Sagan Wakelet

It's Pi Day!

What New Power Looks Like

What New Power Looks Like

Now it feels like Christmas is coming

Fermi Paradox and Elon

http://singularityhub.com/2014/10/05/elon-musk-is-right-colonizing-the-solar-system-is-humankinds-insurance-policy-against-extinction/

http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nyes-answer-to-the-fermi-paradox

Digital Literacy

SSSC Digital Literacy workshop

TEDxWarwick - Doug Belshaw - The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies

Christmas is the season of giving

If you're on Amazon, check out Amazon smile where you can support your favorite charity everytime you shop.   

Foodies, turn your pictures into donations with this app: We the Feedies 

A couple of other great links to check out:

Giving What We Can

What is the Greatest Good?

Holiday Giving:  7 Children’s Charities You Should Know About

Image used under Creative Commons license (BY) by John-Morgan

This Sleek Spiderman Spacesuit Could Take Astronauts To Mars

When humans go to live on Mars those 300-pound space suits are going to get old fast. The Biosuit with its tight-fitting Spiderman look could make...

Fermi

I’ve been meaning to post these links together for a while now, fascinating stuff!  

Where are all the aliens via Quartz

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky) The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky)

This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic via io9 (George Dvorsky)

Where Are All The Aliens? This Short Video Offers Some Solutions via io9 (George Dvorsky) this is part two to the previous link

Side note...  George’s posts on io9 are awesome, if you like science, I definitely recommend you check them out!

update: The Surprisingly Obvious Way We Could Hunt for Alien Life

another update:

The Fermi Paradox