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  • Tickled Pink

    At least I was for about 5 seconds until I realised this is just as robot working on Senator Obama’s behalf. Still, a nice souvenir for the grandkids, don’t you think?

  • Best assessment review ever

    We have had user reviews in Yacapaca for a few months now. They are generally positive, and often useful, but they are probably not the most exciting feature. Over the weekend, though, Jenny Heath from Hobart High School in Norfolk left one that really made my heart sing. Here it is: (in context here) These…

  • Well done Mum!

    This is my mother abseiling off the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge this morning, just 3 weeks short of her 76th birthday.

  • Flickr's Donuts campaign as Citizenship education

    I see in the news that the We Demand Donuts campaign on Flickr has already won. If only ending global warming were so easy. It set me thinking. Which is a better introduction for young people to becoming politically-aware citizens: a school mock-poll on the EU Constitution, or a daft (but successful) campaign on a…

  • Gifted & Talented Challenge

    I actually wrote this a week ago whilst I was in Ukraine, and then discovered I’d failed to bring my password file. Sadly, the promise of worldwide access isn’t completely idiot-proof. Geography author Paul Laird invited Alex (our CTO) me up to Huntcliff School last week to help launch the Redcar & Cleveland Gifted and…