Month: June 2007

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If I was a Superhero

Since my Year 7 students will be doing a unit of work next semester on Superheros, I was doing a little surfing around the web to find some resources. (Or should that be “silver surfing“?)

In the process I stumbled across this little quiz that asks you to select a bunch of your personality traits so it can tell you which famous superhero you are most like. Apparently, I would make a good Iron Man… Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man
75%
Spider-Man
75%
The Flash
70%
Supergirl
60%
Robin
55%
Hulk
55%
Superman
55%
Wonder Woman
50%
Green Lantern
50%
Catwoman
45%
Batman
45%
Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Not being a huge comic book fan, I’ve never actually heard of Iron Man. However, according to Wikipedia he was a Marvel Comic books character based loosely on the rich and eccentric Howard Hughes. “Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-millionaire, a ladies man and finally a nutcase.” Hmmm, well, I’m not really a multi-millionaire yet and I don’t quite have the superhero six-pack happening, but most of the rest of it could work.

Of course, if you need some more inspiration for becoming a whole new breed of superhero, you might like to try out Lee’s Useless Superhero Generator… it helps you create a whole new class of superhero, such as VibroYak with his powers of Pyrokinesis and secret weapon of Vibro Needles! Yeah! Take that Spiderman!

So, which Super are you? Leave a comment!

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Three Missing Things

After I posted the Eight Factors for Effective PD, I got an email from Bryn Jones reminding me that age does terrible things to one’s memory. (Well ok, he didn’t actually SAY that, but I can read between the lines) The point is that Bryn and I actually talked about 10 factors, not 8. On top of that, he has since come up with an extra one, so now there are 11 Factors for Effective PD.

The missing ones are…

  • Links to School from Home
  • Leadership
  • Flexible Learning Spaces

Rather than expand upon them here, I have uploaded a PDF file that Bryn shared with me called “11things.pdf” and put it into my Box.net account. You can get a copy by clicking on the link in the Box.net widget on the left side of this page and downloading a copy.

Thanks again to Bryn for sharing these insights!

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Rumour. Open your ears;

You may have noticed that I changed the tagline at the top of my blog to the rather cryptic phrase “Rumour. Open your ears; “. You may be asking what that’s all about…

I was looking through that recent post about monkeys and typewriters and discovered that there actually have been experiments where they have done exactly that … set a bunch of simulated chimpanzees loose on a simulated typewriters to see what happens. Interestingly, so far they have not managed to recreate the entire works of William Shakespeare.

However, apparenty the 24 character string of “Rumour. Open your ears; ” is so far the longest coherent phrase typed by a sim chimp randomly pressing keys on a typewriter. I don’t know why I thought that was so funny, but I did.

And it seemed a perfect tagline for a blog.

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