هذا الفلم يبين مملكة النمل ويقول المعلق هذه التجربة لمشاهدة شكل مملكة النمل فتم صب كمية هائلة من الإسمنت في جحر النمل استغرقت العملية ثلاثة أيام متواصلة وكمية الإسمنت المسكوب وصلت إلى عشرة أطنان ثم استغرقت عملية الحفر أسابيع للكشف عن شكل هذه المملكة وبمساعدة الآلات تم استخراج أطنان من الرمل وأخيرا وصلوا إلى هيكل المملكة فوجودا طرقا رئيسية وأخرى فرعية تربط بين مزارع النمل من الفطر وحيوانتهم الأليفة وهناك أنفاق للتهوية وطرق قصيرة للنقل  وكأنها من تصميم مهندس معماري وتعبر مملكة النمل منظمة خارقة وهذا البناء يغطي 50 كم بعمق 8 أمتار لبناء هذه المملكة تم نقل 40 طن من التراب والجهد المبذول لذلك يوازي الجهد المبذول لبناء سور الصين سبحان الله

Une ville entièrement souterraine a été construite dans la plus totale illégalité pour probablement résister aux bombardements ennemis. Ce sont les fourmis qui construisent ce genre d’infrastructure sans l’accord et l’agrément des organismes nationaux responsables ! Les scientifiques ont coulé jusqu’à 10 tonnes de béton  dans une de ces villes souterraines probablement déserté. On se doute bien que cette initiative louable mais isolée ne pourra dissuader à elle seule ces fourmis de continuer de construire  ces villes souterraines à travers le monde. Il faut que l’état réagisse d’urgence pour imposer que ces galeries souterraines respectent les normes de sécurité et soient sous la responsabilité d’architectes certifiés.  Impressionnant !Posted in Humour, Sciences

“It’s not about the technology. It’s about the community and shared learning.” — Clif Mims.I was talking to a fellow teacher today about students going into teacher courses at university. She spoke about a student buying exercise books for each of her different subject, not about the student using wikis, blogs or nings. The student did not seem to have any idea about any Web2.0 aspects in her course. I hope she will find that there is a shift to using web2.0 and social media tools in her course. In the past 12 months I have found an amazing world on-line, that offers me so much for my own professional learning, making me a better teacher and I hope that some of my posts/links have assisted others as well. Students, who are intending to become teachers ,need to be looking at educational uses of the tools that many of them are familiar with. They should be able to come into schools with a lot of ideas and expertise that older teachers, like me, can learn from. It should not be the case that they do not see a place for these web2.0 tools in the classroom, or, if they do, only in a limited way. So many courses in the US have information available on-line. They offer there studentws, and others, a wealth of information. For instance, from  Clif Nim’s blog  I found the amazing video below. From this blog I found a lot of ideas for classroom activities, that lead me to think about other adaptations of the ideas, links to other educational media and the comments that others had added to the posts offered other perspectives.  Clif Mims is an Assistant Professor at The University of Memphis and an Educational Consultant, Educational Technologist, Instructional Designer at Clif Mims Consulting. “I’m interested in the effective integration of technology with teaching and learning.” The video below is a presentation about some research about ant life. This video shows what one of the subterranean ant structures looks like. A post on Clif’s blog talked ...