Monday, October 27, 2008

SMARTboard Pwnage

Early in October, a new piece of technology arrived in Mrs. Rousseau's classroom. It... is... a... SMARTboard! This is board is better than the average board. It connects to a computer and a projector to create the images on the board. Since it has special programming, you can touch it and it will also change on the computer! It is very fun to use in class, and it is a helpful learning tool. But if it isn't used properly, it can break and then we wont have it. So, it needs to be taken care of and used in a nice manner.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Comets Double-Header

Earlier this year, comet Tuttle passed Earth. However, this comet is different from any comet we have ever seen. This comet has two chunks instead of one, and are held together by what seems to be a very thin material. Scientists are unsure at this time how this structure was formed, but they believe it is a form of contact binary. Tuttle could have broken apart before, and somehow the pieces reconnected to each other. I think that could be highly possible due to the fact that one portion is 5.4 km, and the other is 2.4 km.