Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Two weeks away and only 295 emails in my in-box; last year I know it would have been twice that. Clearly email has passed its peak as a communication medium. Still’n’all, it’ll take me a few days to clear them. Lots of interesting stuff waiting in my newsfeeds, though; more posts soon.
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I’m on holiday for the next two weeks, and I intend to actually be on holiday, so no blogging from internet cafes just to prove I can. That’s a bit passé these days anyway.
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My colleagues Vahagn Mikaelian and Stephen Thomas have just delivered an animated explanation of our new server Yacapaca. It’s a lightweight VLE with some really useful results-analysis tools for teachers – take a look and let me know what you think. So far the most popular content on it is the ICT KS3 level Assessment;…
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If you do nothing else online this evening, put aside 8 minutes to watch the Flash movie EPIC. It’s the most concise exposition I’ve yet seen of what the web is really going to be about (good and bad) for the young people you teach. Thanks John Battelle for the link.
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We’ve had enormous help over the past two years from the team at Halogen-DG in Kharkov, Ukraine. As well as programming and maintaining this site, they have programmed our online ICT encyclopedia, Yacapaca (our new assessment engine) and for me personally the lovely NLP Conference website. They’ve done all this with immense patience and courtesy,…
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