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« Reply #4546 on: 20:24:24, 05-06-2008 » |
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Do others of you know that feeling of elation when in the midst of other stuff that is generally just mediocre, you come across something that really makes clear what the best students can make of our courses?
Very much so, though often tempered by the thought that perhaps they would have had just as good results at that without my help. ... I wonder if you can make these outstanding works part of the required reading for other courses, so that students learn to identify themselves with excellence. Some students don't make the connection that people who do outstanding research once were students just like themselves, and that everyone can do their very best work and be concomitantly rewarded. I always have my Form& Analysis students read (anonymized) essays from previous semesters, with the message implicit: "This could have just as well been you." |
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« Reply #4547 on: 22:16:36, 05-06-2008 » |
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I wonder if you can make these outstanding works part of the required reading for other courses, so that students learn to identify themselves with excellence. Indeed, Turfley. This is recommended as 'good practice' as far as one can do it. I regularly make successful PhD portfolios and dissertations available to current students, although of course these are theoretically available to anyone in the university library. For undergrad work it's more complicated since most of it is not electronically submitted* - but that's likely to change, and hurrah to that. * The university buries submitted work in a deep and dank vault, utterly unavailable until five years have elapsed, after which time it is carted away by dark-clothed henchmen to an unknown location. |
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« Reply #4548 on: 01:40:33, 06-06-2008 » |
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I wonder if you can make these outstanding works part of the required reading for other courses, so that students learn to identify themselves with excellence. Some students don't make the connection that people who do outstanding research once were students just like themselves, and that everyone can do their very best work and be concomitantly rewarded. Very good idea, if practical. Something else worth bearing in mind is that not only were these people students once, but also they did not necessarily produce work of the same quality when they were. There's a lot people can learn and develop simply by perseverance and application. |
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« Reply #4549 on: 22:42:49, 06-06-2008 » |
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Hurrah! I know now that I'm definitely off to Anty-land for a week in July, walking this (not the most informative website, sadly). I have some spiritual roots in that area, female parent being born in Pwllheli. It will be all on my own two feet; a new experience is none too far away. Fits nicely into just over a week, too.  |
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« Reply #4550 on: 08:07:46, 07-06-2008 » |
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Hurrah! I know now that I'm definitely off to Anty-land for a week in July, walking this (not the most informative website, sadly). Hurrah! I'm quite envious, I love the Llyn. You must go to Porth Oer (Whistling Sands), one of only 2 places in Europe where the sand is perfectly shaped so that it whistles and squeaks when you walk on it.  |
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« Reply #4551 on: 13:55:45, 07-06-2008 » |
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Has anybody considered that the beach may be composed of sentient sand? and walking on it actually causes distress, which causes the individual grains to give expression in the only way they can?
It's no good sending me back to the institution: last time I talked to Patrick (the big orderly), he had hysterics and Dr.Gachet said if I ever showed my face there again he would resign and move to South America to run boat trips.
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« Reply #4552 on: 14:03:59, 07-06-2008 » |
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No doubt walking boots present a particularly painful experience for them? (and the wearer, for that matter, walking on sand is not easy unless it's wet).  |
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Hurrah! I'm quite envious, I love the Llyn. You must go to Porth Oer (Whistling Sands), one of only 2 places in Europe where the sand is perfectly shaped so that it whistles and squeaks when you walk on it. And here's the other place where the sand whistles - the singing sands at Gorten, in Ardnamurchan, on the west coast of Scotland, with the islands of Eigg (left) and Rhum in the background.  |
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« Reply #4554 on: 14:27:04, 07-06-2008 » |
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"Squeaking or whistling sand is found where quartz sand is very well rounded and highly spherical. The frequency of the sound is related to the mean grain size and the amplitude is controlled by the surface texture of the grains. The loudest squeaking observed by researchers was produced in the middle of the day by hot dry sand in the tidal zone, although they observed that completely water-saturated sand could be induced to squeak as water was receding."
Oh course if you've got your iPod you won't hear a thing .......
Didn't know about that place Ron pw, I thought Porth Oer was unique. (I wrote Ron because it was somewhere in Scotland .... sorry)
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« Reply #4555 on: 14:51:14, 07-06-2008 » |
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Dear Ms Briton On behalf of the Institute I would like to say how deeply, hysterically relieved pleased we are that you no longer feel the need to avail yourself of our services. Dr Gachet sends his regards. We received a delightful postcard from him the other day and he assures us that he has found his true vocation in 'messing about in boats'. He is, of course, much missed. The Fish Folding therapy class will never be the same. I know that you benefited greatly from his Double Haddock Twist with Pollock Attachment. Patrick has now found fulfillment as a member of the Latter Day Fruitarians and is hoping to achieve Banana status soon. In passing, could I ask you to please return the egg timer that you took with you on your discharge? I would like to assure you that Mrs Crumpleforth, who you know to be our excellent cook, was absolutely not holding the sand to ransom or in any way contravening The Sand Rights Act (1485). I enclose a photograph of the many who support my request.  Yours most sincerely Hermione Cods-Wallop |
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« Reply #4556 on: 15:06:11, 07-06-2008 » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:  Squeaky Beach, Wilson's Promontory. |
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« Reply #4557 on: 17:37:40, 07-06-2008 » |
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The isle of Eigg has its own Singing Sands. Bit like at Gorten, but then that's not very far away really. Had a marvellous trip there about 5-6 years ago. You went over to Eigg from Arisaig (no ferry from Mallaig then) and transferred to a rusty old minibus which took you along a stone age track hardly describable as a road. Then you were dumped at the end where the track peters out, with instructions to walk 'that way' (whatever that meant) till you get to the beach which squeaks. But when you do it's fantastic, and it's a sound unlike anything else. Wonderful.
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« Reply #4559 on: 23:51:26, 07-06-2008 » |
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