[pure-silver] Re: my dog ate my film.... A toxicology consult

  • From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:17:40 +0000 (GMT)



On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:15 AM, "babaphoto@xxxxxxxx" <babaphoto@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Silver is an inert metal.  It's used in jewelry and dental work. I have silver in my teeth.  I also have 3 silver pins holding part of my skull in place.  Upon personal experience/observations, your dog will get short, fat, bald,near sighted, and flat feet.  If over exposed to silver he may need to walk with a stick and hang around retired academics moaning about u.s. govt. policy

was my former boss (the supreme being and dear fearless leader ) your science teacher? 

If so that would explain the genesis of your concern,

He was the one who killed our photo enrichment class claiming the distilled water was a fire hazard and silver, being  heavy metal, was a toxic element.

He also shared with me that he was smarter because he had a higher rank.  My students needed to increase their reading and math scores.

Half of my students were unable to use a stand up urinal or lactate.  All my fault too.

We graduated 30%, pretty good?

Your friend, and recently retired contentious teacher, baba

 

 
Hi Baba,
As ever I sympathize with your plight. I am hoping to use the prospect of being taught how to develop film as a reward in my maths class. My students are early school leavers in a program of second chance education
http://wwwyouthreach.ie/aatopmenu/AboutYR/about.html#Introducing Youthreach 
In the maths context, with photography, we get measurement, weights, volumes, timing, ratios...  A lot of very applied numeracy. I have been toying with the idea of using the task "develop a film" as an assessment tool for all of these SLO's.
We are still in the very early stages of this as we tried to develop our first roll of 120 just before Christmas.  Having shown my student how to load the roll into the tank in a changing bag, we trundled all the relevant solutions through, and to my great surprise when we came to washing the film discovered that we had developed and fixed the backing paper.
Bizarrely when I checked the changing bag I found a second backing paper, and the tightly curled roll of film.  We still have to develop this.
All the best
Laurence Cuffe

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