'Amused by the World' is a compilation of 2009's top stories from Newsarse.com - the UK's fastest growing satirical news website. It casts an irreverent eye over the major events of the year, such as the MPs expenses scandal, the swine flu pandemic and the nation's bizarre fascination with Susan Boyle. Headlines you will find inside include: "Successful Earth Hour delays inevitable global catastrophe, by an hour" "World pig population shows signs of man-flu pandemic" "New MPs Code of Conduct to include every possible definition of the word 'thievery'" "Ryanair to charge customers for...

How does the effective teacher assess and report their classroom curriculum program?
Building on the success of their previous book--- Designing the Classroom Curriculum in the Knowledge Age --- David Lynch and Richard Smith seek to answer this question by focusing their "teaching design" idea on classroom assessment and reporting. At the heart of their teaching design idea is the formulation of teaching strategies that enable all students to make the required learning gains.
At its core, the book encourages the teacher to work towards becoming a different kind of teacher, a teacher who has...

This book is based on selected papers presented at the 2012 Teacher Education Dialogue staged in Coffs Harbour, Australia. The theme was "Innovation and New Ideas in Teaching and Teacher Education." With this theme in mind, chapter authors present various innovations and new ideas in teaching, teacher education and schooling related matters.

Major Chad Baker and Professor Howard Long were the last two crew members selected to make a very important and historic journey - a journey of over 280 million miles lasting 15 months - an epic journey to the fourth planet from the sun - a journey to Mars.



The question of life on another planet would all too soon be answered, and quickly become a horrifying reality.