Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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If you are a Yacapaca author you will know about this already; if not, you are in for a treat. After procrastinating for a full year, I have finally done the decent thing and allowed any teacher to make their own Yacapaca content public. The result is that we now have an astonishing 554 courses…
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Everyone seems to think their country has fallen behind. I’ve had the same conversation with teachers in Brazil, Hong Kong, Qatar, USA… everywhere. I think it results from a sampling error. The teachers you meet in your own country are probably a representative spectrum, but those from other countries you meet typically through elearning events/websites,…
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Patricia Donaghy has been kind enough to add me to the International Edubloggers Directory. I feel all growed up.
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Yesterday we hit a long-awaited milestone; 25,000 teachers are now Yacapaca members. Thanks everyone who has invested time and energy into our project and helped it grow over the last three years. For interest, the 30:1 student:teacher ratio we had when we started has remained remarkably constant; we now have just over 780,000 registered students.
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Ebay just announced that they are banning sellers from providing negative feedback on buyers. This solves the problem of ‘revenge feedback’, or the threat of it being used to bully buyers into accepting a bad deal. But it also breaks the symmetry of the system and denies essential protection to sellers. Out of the frying…
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