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Hang on a sec, sunray, you have a spare laptop around to use them on? You're lucky! In my day (which is actually today) we had to sit there typing on a desktop from the stone age (without administrator privileges, so i couldn't install anything if I wanted to), looking at all the pretty toys we had ...

As a fellow Victorian, I agree. I would love to be added to your ever growing email list. It looks like a fantastic way to display things that have been locked away in my store room for donkey's years! And they just look great.

rho, rho, rho your boat, gently down the stream! So my amused confusion leads me to wonder: if all the components in one equation are defined as Latin words, how come the symbols in other are Greek? Seems like a clash of the Titans to me. Or an ancient battle trickling down through the ages into the...

I don't know. One good guillotining would keep the others in line! I'd like to see that on a warning sign. "Teachers who don't listen to the Lab Tech will be laminated, guillotined and used as a dartboard!" :cheesy: As for the cat and mouse, maybe you could bring in a wind up mouse and a c...

according to the great and powerful wikipedia the "s" is derived from the Latin "spatium" meaning path or space. I don't know how reliable the source is but it sounds plausible enough to be possible. Should placate your HOD, though. You're not the first one to ponder this becuase...

Congratulations Labbie . I will have a word with Mother Nature and pray for a lovely day for you and your son . Hopefully those possible showers turn out to be impossible for you, and the emergency brollies are not needed.

Good luck

THe Head of Science here keeps trying to convince me that I should become a science teacher. :yuck: Her goal is to have me do my DipEd then work under her so she can train me to take over her position and then retire. I keep telling her that the whole reason I became a scientist was to avoid working...

There is a thing called Teach for Australia. Here is their website address: http://www.teachforaustralia.org/ What it does is takes graduates from degrees and puts them through an intense training program for a couple of months and then places them in the most disadvantaged schools for 2 years. Chec...

We inherited most of our rock sample kits from RMIT? I think. Each sample is about the size of a 20c piece and fits (theoretically) into its own slot. They have different combinations of dots and lines and background colours painted on them and you either find that or use its location to find it on ...

Okay so now I'm totally jealous because I'm stuck at work.

Hope you all are having wonderful and safe holidays and enjoy some well deserved time off.

so i have stuff all over the place. I have a very small prep room & storeroom so it is all organised by categories depending on where everything fits. eg. All the specialised chemistry glassware goes in one cupboard. Most physics stuff is stored in the physics lab and most chemistry & biolog...

oh dear the tax man nixed it? I just found out I get paid to wash lab coats. I have to work the holidays (so at the moment it is very lonely and quiet around hereand still 50 minutes till I can go home) and when HOD asked me my plans were I listed "washing lab coats". She turned around and...

Hey Jen We have interactive whiteboards in all 3 of our labs but I must say they do not get used very often. Our physics teacher found it incredibly useful, used it every lesson, recorded his lectures on it (don't ask me how) and sung its praises regularly but he resigned last month so it hasn't had...

I was just curious as to how many of you are required to work through the school holidays. I started here in February and was told that I am required to. However, it is a very small school (of about 450 students P-12) and once students leave I get things done quite quickly and do not require two wee...

How tragic... here I am on a Saturday afternoon getting my fix of Chemtalk!! :crazy: Anyway, I take all ours home & wash them at the end of each semester or as they need. The school pays for the washing powder. I hate doing it, the lugging to the car, the lugging out of the car & up my step...

I don't know what award I am on (and its like pulling teeth trying to get that information. It took 6 months and a run in with the principal before I even got a job description), I haven't worked it out per hour, but I'm pretty sure it would be in the order of $19 an hour. The most depressing thing ...

There is a year 12 prac for calorimetry that we did just recently that tested exothermic reactions. The three reactions were: 0.2g of magnesium in 100mL 1.0M HCl 50mL 0.1M HCl and 50mL 0.1M NaOH 100mL water and 3g KNO 3 . All three gave a pretty good temperature increases in the insulated calorimete...

I know exactly how you feel. I have a BSc/BA and can't find work anywhere. All I can suggest is the same as everyone else: drop your resume in and keep looking. There are often alot of Lab Technician jobs advertised on places such as SEEK , if you haven't already looked. Keep your plugging away out ...