Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Inspired by Tim O’Reilly’s dictum “Take the intelligence of all your users and put it in the interface“, I’ve asked my colleague Nataly to adapt Amazon’s “Customers who bought” feature for the Chalkface site as “Teachers who bought…” This is what’s known as an ‘implicit recommendation engine’. The theory is that by looking at what…
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News that Empire High School in Tuscon, Arizona will become a truly paperless school next year has already done the rounds. It’s the first of a trickle of such news items that will become a flood by next year and cease to be news by the year after. What astonishes me is that this is…
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Nick, who architected Paperless School, is experimenting with screencasting I bought a copy of Macromedia Captivate the other day. It’s a great tool for creating demos, or tutorials on how to use a program/web interface, but also claims to integrate with SCORM-compliant LMS somehow… I haven’t got that far yet. Here’s my first amateurish production:…
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Received from a Paperless School user who I won’t name to spare the blushes of his technical department… We are about to run into problem with technicians again! They turned off flash player because some pupils were playing games in other classes, promptly losing the online encyclopedia*, how nice to be consulted! …and the reply…
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Chalkface publishes some 23 resources on bullying, or with bullying-related content. Over the years, we’ve covered every aspect of bullying as it affects young people….or so I thought. Stop Text Bullying is a new site aimed at raising awareness of bullying via new technologies. It is structured around a list of seven ways of using…
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