Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Back in January we got a mauling from a couple of local authority ICT advisers who felt that our KS3 ICT Assessment didn’t cover the full range of processes at the higher levels. “Never mind” said I, “it’s all online so we can change it in a trice”. Ahem. The ‘trice’ turned out to be…
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To celebrate Summer, Chalkface has a new skin on the website. Thanks to my international team: Design: Hakan (Turkey) Visualisation: Max (Ukraine) Coding: Nataly (Ukraine) New Contents pages: Barnali (India)
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James Miller doen’t think in half measures. He proposes to move teaching jobs to India, having Indian teachers interacting with students in the West by by video connection (via Stephen). First question: how do you feel about this? Incredulous? Threatened? Or inspired by the socialist vision of global redistribution of wealth? Personally, I’m intrigued. How…
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The full BECTA report into open source software has been out for a few days now, long enough to digest. As I (and others) predicted, its tone is pro-open source, but by no means evangelical. What I failed to predict was that the report would come out more in favour of open-source operating systems than…
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Yacapaca! Help is organised in blog format, with a search field at the top right, and also in the expandable navigation bar on the left.. <!–more–> <h3>In a nutshell</h3> Great schools use Yacapaca to automate their marking. They free up as much as <a href=”https://blog.yacapaca.com/2017/04/23/this-one-small-change-could-save-every-teacher-8-hours-per-week/”>8 hours/week per teacher</a> for higher-value activities, and they save as…
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