At school, my ITA computer lab is located opposite the college kitchen. The squeals of delight that ring out from the corners of my classroom are often quickly silenced by the smells of mouth watering cooking that come drifting back. It is an ugly battle and unfair competition. Not only do they get more dangerous toys to play with, their standard issue funny white cooking hats are cooler to walk about in than wearing
<a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/3500-goldplated-usb-key-158050.php">USB-key executive jewellery</a>. Time to call a truce.<br><br>Here is a bit of light holiday fun I stumbled across by accident. It explains in considerable detail how to use freezers, spreadsheets, and Gantt charts to optimize your time and resources. Why bother with the fast food spaghetti tossed out by MS Project (use
<a href="http://ganttproject.biz/">GanttProject</a> instead ;-) when you can savour the delicacies dished up with this complicated looking but elegantly built spreadsheet solution? At a single stroke, this real world problem might interest all genders, solve your holiday
planning problems and become a great introduction to project management!<br> <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/E7YI0IFN8XEV2Z4ZPX/?ALLSTEPS">http://www.instructables.com/id/E7YI0IFN8XEV2Z4ZPX/?ALLSTEPS</a><br clear="all">
<br>Due credit to the <a href="http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/is1t.html">CSIRO science by e-mail</a> service for pointing out the Instructables Website at <a href="http://www.instructables.com">http://www.instructables.com
</a> the only place on the web where you can teach students how to build their very own <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/EVE2DG1FJFES9J4LYE/">USB monster</a>, a six-legged creature with the ability to hook up to USB devices through any and all of its highly adjustable limbs.
<br><br>From the crumpled paper depths of my computer, I wish you all the best for 2007 (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35945984@N00/76557857/">wearing my funny hat too</a>). :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead