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Cycling home

I got a couple of Flip video cameras, so thought I'd test them out by cycling home & filming it. They're nice and simple, and work well!

How much energy can you produce on your bike?

For 12 hours?

The BBC's Bang Goes the Theory programme investigated (and demonstrated) what it would be like to try to power a single household by pedal power. Sure, it's not a practical idea but it gives the viewer some real energy awareness. Well, if the viewer has ever ridden a bike anyway.

I won't be powering the microwave when I'm on the turbo then.

See the whole thing on iPlayer if you're in the UK (probably until the 10th December) here.

Learning Lab podcast

I feature in the current Learning Lab podcast! Chris Hall interviewed and filmed me (yes, its a video podcast) a little while ago about using TurningPoint clickers in embryology lectures, something that Jo and I will also be speaking about at tomorrow's opening of the Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching (SALT).

Links:

Swansea Learning Lab Podcast
Tomorrow's SALT presentations

Media, information, access

How do you access most of your information? As a learner? As a teacher? (Unfortunately this is a question you'll have to think about, as I still haven't fixed my comment system).

Tim Don - Advice for beginners

There are a bunch of new first years on the course getting into (and a few very much already into) triathlon. If you new guys & girls are looking for advice there's nowhere better than to start than with words from the Don.

Have a look at some of the other Oakley Armchair Sessions on Youtube too.

Real cyclists can't be put back together

Via Gizmodo.

AR Toys

Via AugmentedPlanet

Video podcast

Rhi and I are adding video podcasts to the embryology stream on iTunes. They're teaching core bits of anatomy, instead of embryology, and we start off going over some of the anatomical triangles of the neck in paint.

They're in .m4v format at the moment (MPEG4). I haven't decided how to put them on this website yet, but I will do.

Jack flying his first kite

When we visited Legoland we bought Jack a kite (as he pretty much already had every piece of lego in the shop). So last weekend we went kite flying.

Legoland rollercoaster

Here's a video from my phone of Jack's very first rollercoaster ride, at Legoland. It looks as though he's going to be a bit of a thrill seeker.

Swing comparisons

My golf swing is always changing - as a beginner I'm trying to learn the good habits before I get too many bad habits settled in. Here are two videos taken about 6 weeks apart. In the video from today I can see that I'm getting more weight onto my back leg (which the pro that teaches me keeps telling me to work on), my knees are no longer knocked in, there's less dip and lead with my left shoulder on the downswing, and for some reason it looks a lot more fluid. That might be because my legs are looser and move more naturally. The tempo is quite different too, probably for similar reasons. Today's video shows me swinging a 6 iron, and I didn't realise I got it so far around my body. The results of these changes are more consistent ball striking, straighter ball flight (if anything it goes to the right if not straight), and a longer carry of the ball in the air. There's much more to do, but I'm in no hurry.

Today. (A bit stiff from the cold and from running).

A month or so ago.

Montyfootball.com

Bloody students.

Get warmed up for the World Cup with this video from students at Manchester Met Uni. Speakers or headphones recommended. Top!

180 degrees of rain

It rained like this for hours. The ducks didn't seem to mind.

P.M.

(Video taken after playing on Caswell beach - Jack's wellies were filled with seawater as usual).

Bouncing down

I have evidence here, that spring has arrived. This mini-video (best with sound) shows heavy, heavy rain bouncing off my fishing brolly, and yet I was quite warm. So we must have jumped from cold winter winds to April showers in just the last 7 days. I was happy too, because I had a nice net-full of at least 6 different species of fish :)