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10ticks Newsletter June 2006
Welcome to the June Newsletter 2006
New Look 10ticks Website
On Wednesday (22nd June) between 9.00 am and 10.00 am you will have had
problems accessing our website. During this time we were uploading our
fantastic new look website. (The site was down that evening and early Thursday
due to our hosting company having technical problems). If you haven’t been to
the website this week you will notice a lot of changes. The whole website has
been redeveloped over the last four months by our designers and programmers. We
hope you like it. It is better looking and should load faster! It is still
split into three distinct areas, Students, Teachers and Parents and all the
functionality remains. During next week you may find that as we upload small
updates to the website, the service drops in and out. This should settle down
by the middle of the week. If you find any problems with the website, such as
broken links, please e-mail us (errors@10ticks.co.uk) straight away so we can
rectify them. The website is over 10 000 pages in size and although we have
taken care to ensure everything works, there may be minor links that have been
missed.
Space Shapes
Watch out for a new game in the Games Station 1 called Space Shapes. This
targets recognition of basic shapes to their mathematical names, approx level 3
and 4. This will be up in the next week. You will notice the Games Station 1
page has changed – all games can be accessed quickly from the drop down box.
How to skim for a world record
At present the world record for skimming a stone is set at 38 bounces. French
scientists from the Institute de Recherche sur les Phenomenes hors Equilibre
have studied the art of skimming. A throw involves four factors- the
translational and spin velocities, the angle at which the stone heads for the
water and the angle at which it hits the water surface. To get near the world
record, Christophe Clanet, the head of the team recommends the angle to
approach the water is about 20 degrees, spinning at 14 times per second and
with a starting speed of 25 mph. Jerdone Coleman-McGhee is the world record
holder and passes on these tips: Triangular stones skip best, circular stones
are less stable. The lower your hand at release the better. Strength is not the
key, quickness is. The faster the stone is spinning the better it will skip.
The surface of the stone should be parallel to the water when it hits to
achieve maximum bounce. The very finest skipping stones are flat black slate.
Free websites to help raise school funds
In our last newsletter we offered you the chance to have a free website to
raise funds for your school. Well we were under-whelmed by the response, so we
will repeat the offer. We will offer your school a free personal WebsiteBoffin
WB40 website for a year to offer in raffles/auctions during the summer term. We
have developed parental controls and secret pages for WebsiteBoffin to keep
children safe. The price of the website, which includes domain name and our
easy to use PageBuilder system, is £63.45pa. This offer will be for the first 40
UK schools that write to us on official school letterheads,
countersigned by the Head Teacher. One website per school. Send it to: 10ticks
Free Website for Schools, Bolton Enterprise Centre, Washington Street, Bolton,
BL3 5EY. Copy and paste: Dear 10ticks, Can we have a free WebsiteBoffin WB40
website to offer in raffle/auction to raise funds for our school? Yours
Sincerely….. We will not reply to any letters, but will post the names of the
successful schools in the next newsletter.
http://www.websiteboffin.co.uk/index.aspx
Reduced Rate to 10ticks customers Special offer for 10ticks registered users.
The cost of the WB40 website including domain name is normally just £63.45 per
year, as a registered 10ticks visitor use this promotional code to buy for just
£54.05 (less than 15p a day!). The code DE25876226 is valid up to, and
including 30/08/06.
Have an excellent summer term,
10ticks Webmathster
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