Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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September’s competition was held over three days this week, and was open to all experienced Yacapaca users. There were three prizes (see below) of subscription upgrades. We had a better-than-expected field: 107 signups 66 entries 553 comparisons with comments 159 votes The question I posed was: “Please explain the main problem that Yacapaca solves for…
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Some of my favourite courses, organised by subject. Business & Economics Year 11 Business Communications Revision: Does what it says on the tin, and does it with very high quality. The feedback is truly formative, i.e. it does not just spoon-feed the right answer. Design & Technology Dawlish Community College Resistant Materials: A simple pictorial…
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The idea behind ‘flipping the classroom’ is to video your didactic presentations and have the students watch them at home via YouTube or similar. It’s a great idea: research has shown that video leads to greater recall because students can pause, rewind, etc over bits they did not get the first time. What can be…
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Just a heads-up that Yacapaca will be down for summer maintenance all next weekend. We have a huge performance upgrade to install. Don’t expect new features: hopefully, all you will ever notice is that Yacapaca continues not to suck.
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We have just finished beta-testing the Prizes! Personal Learning Account (PLA). It went so well that we soft-launched immediately. I will post more about just how it works later (becos I’m proud as punch of what the team has achieved) but basically it throws all the clever software we’ve got at the problem of crafting…
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