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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Last week students completed over 30,000 Yacapaca quizzes per day. I think that’s worth celebrating, don’t you? Image credit Bryan Peters
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This weekend we completed a major update to Yacapaca. Most of it is “under the hood” stuff to help us cope with Yacapaca’s increasing popularity, but there are eight changes to the interface that you may need to know about. Here they are: Within each course, you can no longer select ‘standard’ or ‘extended’ timing.…
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I’m not in complete agreement with the definitions here, but I do broadly agree with the sentiments expressed. Look out for the lovely juxtaposition of the Socrates quote and the “Fire extinguisher inside building” sign. [Update: I found one source that attributes that quote to Plutarch, and another that says it was Plato. So it…
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Thanks Krystie for pointing me to this fantastic 4-minute video from Yr 2 teacher Stacey Hibberson at Mount Beauty Primary School. If only I could explain Yacapaca that succinctly.
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Last month, I used swine flu as a test-case for Wolfram|Alpha. This month, with my next-door neighbour’s school already closed due to the ‘flu, I’m getting more concerned about the pandemic itself. Here are the charts. You can see from the shape that the previous straight line has now become an exponential. Notice how the…
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