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Paris was fantastic! It was Fergus’s first time, so we did all the tourist stuff – the Louvre, the Eiffel tower, La Defence, La Villette science museum, a bateau mouche, Sacre Coeur  and Montmartre, Palais de Tokyo modern art gallery, Quai d’Orsay for the impressionists, Beauborg, l’Arc de Triomphe, the Latin Quarter, the Musee des Arts et Metiers etc etc.

In the Musee des Arts et Metiers, they have hung Foucault’s Pendulum:

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As the pendulum slowly appears to rotate (actually we are rotating, not the pendulum!) it knocks over the wee metal cylinders. I was dragged away before I could film the next one tumbling.

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Did I invent this game, or do other people already play it?

• Pick a link from your blogroll
• Follow one of the bogroll links from that blog
• Repeat at least 10 times – no stopping along the way!

I ended up here and read a post from a Texan teacher about how pointless in-service days can be. Different continent, same stuff!

And BTW, I don’t suppose that our American friends realise how close blogroll sounds in the UK to toilet paper

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Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the biggest blog in history.

‘One Day in History’ is a one off opportunity for you to join in a mass blog for the national record. We want as many people as possible to record a ‘blog’ diary which will be stored by the British Library as a historical record of our national life.

This looks great – shame I’m going to be away in France.

History Matters Site 

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We (I, wife and son) are off to Paris on Monday for the October half-term break, so I don’t expect I’ll be posting until I get back. Expect some badly taken photos!

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Mathematical Visualisation toolkit – another function plotter, plus lots lots more

MERLOT – a great directory of maths elearning resources.

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