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I’m more than a bit late with my NAIS annual conference round up but then …excuses, excuses…what with returning to…
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Click for an UPDATED version of this experiment and with a great new video. It’s always great when a student…
The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…
It was Dean Kamen - the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart - who established…
By now you have probably been sent a link to, or have even read, Playing to Learn – Susan Engel’s…