Good day, everyone. On this page you will find several resources that I hope will prove useful. Our purpose, of course, is for you to become a bit familiar with Prezi, which is an interesting alternative to PowerPoint when doing presentations.

Some examples ...

YouTube videos

As you will know from class, you and your group members will be conducting a research project this term. Here is the basic outline of the group research project from class.

Levels 1 & 2 (M1, M2, W2, F5)

Riddles, Mysteries, and More

Treverton (2007) Risks and riddles

As you'll know from our class discussion, riddles at times give rise to conspiracy theories, some of which have remarkable longevity. Click here for quite a list of conspiracies (with photos), courtesy of the good people at The Telegraph.

Immediately below is a video clip of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (with his dog, Paddy) speaking about both Sherlock Holmes and his belief in spiritualism.

Writing

As you know from class, I require polite email. Recall, too, that if you send me a file, the filename has a certain form.

Here's an example of the report style that you should use.

Class maps

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Date last updated: April 27, 2013 * Copyright 2013 by Midas, Cyrus, and all the other lunatics.