he had to run it out.
PPG thermal flight – using thermic lift to get high
” powerthermalled ” – thermalling while using a paramotor
“Got very lucky and caught some evening lift from some towering cumulus. Powerthermaled up to 7300 ft and then spiraled down when I was too cold to continue.”
PPG Thermalling
nice example of making use of thermals while paramotoring.
Digital textbooks that adapt to you and your learning?
An interesting article on the development of interactive and ” learning” textbooks – that adapt to you and your learning.
Digital textbooks adapt to your level as you learnnewscientist.com
Struggling with chapter 3? Adaptive textbooks will give you extra, personalised help when you need…
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There’s not a lot of detail in the article – but it does open the conversation on how static content no longer has to be static.
But there are a few issues that would have to be overcome before “ intelligent textbooks “ become a reality.
There is a huge industry built around the idea that (US) professors select a textbook, base their teaching around that text book and students are expected to pay for that text.
O’reilly was one of the first publishers that allowed teachers to select sections out of their library of texts and then allow the teacher to specify the customized text as a required text. ( on demand printing )
The open source advocates have tried to make text open and free using such sites as Wikiversity and Wikibooks – but this has met with limited success.
In the 90’s , quite a few learning institutions invested in Computer Based Training (CBT) using authoring packages such as Authorware. But didn’t seem to survive the transition to E-Learning. Indeed, many of the things that were being done with Authorware can now be done using Moodle’s “ Lesson” block ( ie decision trees )
We have yet to see an implementation of an artificial intelligence program to deliver content in a learning environment.
But also teachers, facilitators etc usually prefer to be able to choose the content, the sequence, the methodology and supplementary materials – without an open type model for this content – how is this going to happen?
Many teachers “value-add” to textbook content by providing guidance and context – sometimes even a narrative. How will that happen without knowing what the AI textbook will provide?
Dealing with SCORM and IMS is too much of a headache – what AI textbooks also need is a “SIRI” type user interface so that teachers don’t have to become programmers to work with the textbook material.
Faux car alarm
A colleague had his old car broken into – and wanted to put one of those car alarm flashing lights on his dash.
I did a bit of Googling and found the following resources for him : –
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=LA5082&
http://www.instructables.com/id/Faux-Car-Alarm-with-Flashing-LED/
Racing with Parachutes and Fans: Gotta-See Video – Discovery News
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Racing with Parachutes and Fans: Gotta-See VideoDiscovery NewsWatch a race between three flying paragliders, as they motor through the countryside around the French Alps. Paragliding has been around since the early 90s.
See on news.discovery.com
The Perfect Day – Mass top landing on Mont-Blanc summit on August 19th, 2012
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On 19th August 2012, the weather was perfect, and for the first time in paragliding history, about 50 pilots landed on top of the Mont-Blanc after taking off over……
See on vimeo.com
Arduino Persello claims 280km out-and-return paragliding world record – Cross Country magazine
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Arduino Persello claims 280km out-and-return paragliding world recordCross Country magazineArduino Persello has filed a claim with the FAI for a world record out-and-return. He flew 280km out and return on 27 June 2012 from Sorica in Slovenia.
See on www.xcmag.com
The art of paragliding Photography – Jody MacDonald Photography
Via Scoop.it – Paragliding
Jody MacDonald is a professional documentary and action sports photographer. She travels the world in search of engaging images and is the resident photographer on The Best Odyssey.
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