Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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My favourite course this month is GCSE Spanish Vocabulary by Nick Verney at Standish Community High School, for the marvellous variety of question styles and excellent use of sound. Try this quiz on adjectives to get a flavour. A selection of the newest courses below. If setting any of these for your students, please remember…
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The author of some excellent Yacapaca assessments (who has asked me not to name him, for the moment) recently asked to pass my eye over a very complete set of offline teaching materials he had also created. He said: …over the last few years I have sweated blood on producing a whole set of these…
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How do you get the same flexibility that a red biro gives you, when marking text-based assessments online? That red pen really is a fantastic teaching tool, but it falls down when you want the student also to be able to edit the work afterwards. Fortunately, there is a way to have the best of…
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Dawn Cox from Orwell High School has been a user and good friend of Yacapaca for some time now. She’s one of those people who pushes us to raise our game by demanding (albeit politely) new features. Today, Dawn has been pushing me for a way to organise students into all their classes without duplicating…
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Google launched their own web browser, Chrome yesterday. It is likely to prove popular because it is faster and safer than Internet Explorer. Every website owner meets the launch of a new browser with a mixture of excitement and dread. They each have their foibles (whilst staunchly maintaining that they are ‘standards compliant’ and everyone…
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