HubbleSite – NewsCenter – Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit (05/04/2012) – Release Images

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Pittsburgh’s Trib Inadvertently Advises Readers to Sh*t Themselves

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Hap Aziz and Colonial Williamsburg | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling

Hap Aziz, who’s running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an interactive fiction exploration of colonial Williamsburg, was interviewed by Emily Short. One of the fascinating things to me about the events surrounding American independence is that there was so much disagreement and debate regarding whether or not the colonies should dissolve their bonds with England.…

The Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative by Hap Aziz — Kickstarter

Backed. The Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative allows you meet the people and experience the circumstances that lead to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The setting is Williamsburg, Virginia, in colonial times, and game is pure Interactive Fiction: engaging prose will take your imagination back nearly 250 years into the history of…

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos – YouTube

Interesting implications for the flipped classroom.  If students think they already understand something, they’ll tune out of a video lecture. Students watched a science video they frequently described as “clear,” but in a post-test it turns out the video had actually confirmed their incorrect assumptions. When students watched a second video that first presented and…